re: Whiskey/Bourbon/Scotch Volume III

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For $50 it's a great buy. I haven't had the Lag 8 yet, but he was saying he prefers this to that one

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Yeah the Lag 8 took some time to grow on me. It definitely tastes young and is not on the same level as the 12,16 or DE. I did not care for the first glass I had from the bottle at all.

But it has grown in me. It’s one of those that gets better the deeper you get into the bottle. It won’t blow you away but if you are looking for a good Islay whisky for a relatively low price, it’s a good one to pick.


ETA: if you really like Islay whisky and ever want to treat yourself, check out one of the Octomore bottles. Produced by the Bruichladdich distillery, it is the most heavily peated whisky available.

I’ve got the 11.1 and it’s phenol content is I think 139.6.
For reference, other heavily peated Islay whiskies like Laphroig and Ardbeg etc coke in around 50-70 ppm.

And the bottle of Octomore I have is surprisingly smooth and gentle for such a high phenol concentration

I love those scotch’s. It’s been a while since I had some.

I drank about half the dram neat, and then added water to see what it would do to it.

Very smooth without the water, but I thought when the alcohol was toned down just a bit, it boomed. I got a lot of the dark fruits from the sherry cask.

I always go half neat and half with water on my first pour of a new bottle just to see how it affects it.

I haven't tried an Octomore yet. Those 200+ PPM levels are crazy. I'm surprised it's not all smoke.

Brunchladdich (they make Octomore) somehow can bring heavy peat without having those iodine notes like you get from Laphroaig.

Here is a 3 year old post of mine.

My buddies and I spent a long weekend in Louisville and Friday one day was spent on hunting down bourbon. LSUcdro recommended Mint Julep Tours and John was recommended as our driver if he was available. I talked with Jeannie who books the tours and she was able to put together a custom package for the day. It was explained that we wanted something unique. We knew good pours were not something commonly handed out for tastings so we worked with that we were delt.

We started the day at Buffalo Trace, had about an hour tour of basic bourbon stuff and the history of the distillery. We wanted the hard hat tour, but it had sold out prior to us even picking the date of our trip. The tastings was Eagle Rare and Buffalo trace with some white dog thrown in for good measure. John was able to walk us around a little of the property that the tour did visit. It was a good tour to start the day.

Second stop was 4 Rose for just a tasting and to hit the gift shop. All they had was OBSK at the gift shop, it was nothing special and the tasting wasn't much better. The tour guide was not good and John agreed that it was lacking the day we visited.

The next stop was 3 Boys Farm Distillery. They are laying up around 60-80 barrels a year. We didn't make it in the gift shop, only the barn with the operation. The owner is orignally from Lousiana, but he was not in when we visited. They have been around 4-5 years and everything they have is young but pretty tasty. We sampled 4 barrels, some bourbon, some whiskey, all were 119-121 proof and all of them were pretty good. More for the experience I bought a bottle straight from the barrel. It isn't manicured lawns the tasting was great like some of the large distilleries, this place isn't winning any beauty pageants, but I would take this stop over 4 rose.

The last bourbon stop was Jeptha Creed. This is a very new operation, with a lot of attention to detail. Everything here is young juice. They are using an heirloom red butchers corn grown onsite. The owners are a husband/ wife daughter and they were all there. We had a private tasting in the rickhouse. They are laying up 500 barrels a year and making a bunch of vodkas and moonshine to cover expenses till the bourbon has enough time to age. They pulled a corn/rye batch from the barrel. This stuff is young and around 122 proof, drank pretty damn well. We had a blast here and it was a great experience.

I remember that post. I want to go so bad just haven’t had a chance yet.

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I want to go so bad just haven’t had a chance yet

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Wife and I are discussing doing a Kentucky vacation soon. Want to do the Derby and then some bourbon tours. It will require some coin, so "soon" may be a relative term. It shall happen though


ETA: Just realized we are already at 27 pages in 6 days. Yall a bunch of alcoholics

A 1/3 of the pages is about the blantons

Hey Midget.


Ardbeg just released a limited edition 25 year old if you really want to go crazy. Only $900 a bottle.

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Only $900 a bottle.

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