I Need Some Whiskey Advice

[dahmer13]

Wild Turkey 101 with a splash of Dr. Pepper

[redfish76]

As for the topic at hand, if I am drinking a nice whiskey or scotch it is never mixed with anything except ice.

I will sometimes mix Jim Beam, Weller, Jack Daniels, etc. with Coke Zero (1/2 and 1/2) or ginger ale (same).

You might try a manhatten for a bit of a change up. Shake 2 shots whiskey, 1 shot sweet vermouth, 4-6 shakes of bitters, and a splash of cherry juice with ice. Pour in a chilled stemless martini glass and add a maraschino cherry.

[unclefish]

Bourbon's - Maker's & Knob Creek are really good mid level Bourbons. Woodford Reserve and Blanton's are freakin' awesome but pricey. Also you might try Eagle Rare - 10 year. Occasionally I'll drink a Makers' with a little coke and a lime twist....good on hot days! Other than that they are all good on the rocks, neat, or with splash of water.

Tennessee Whiskeys - I love me some Gentleman Jack and the single barrel version.

Canadian - Forty Creek is slightly better than Crown IMO but its all good. Seagrams VO is good and won't break the bank.

[txsteele]

Wild Turkey Rare Breed straight up on the rocks.

Just a note for y'all that mix with diet sodas...that's worse than mixing with regular soda when it comes to blood alcohol levels. Diet sodas will cause the blood to get in to your blood stream faster and thereby making your BAC level higher than if you were to use a soda with sugar in it. Or so says Dr. OZ.

thanks for the tip

[bullhead44]

I had some of the best whiskey I've ever tried last weekend. Stopped by whiskey hollow distillery in valley view and had some Texas Gold. Awesome stuff. Would never spend what they are asking for a fifth however. $150 a bottle is way above my pay grade

[hooligan]

if you're mixing it doesn't matter, but whatever's on sale. I like Makers or Bulleit for a mixer.

also tough to be a 7 and 7

[BrianL]

What I normally have on hand and rank in order of preference. I do drink mine straight or sometimes with ice.

1. Pendleton Directors Reverve
2 & 3 tie between TX Ranger and Pendleton
4. Whistle Pig(with ice as it is 117 proof)-Rye
5. Pendleton 1910-Rye
6. Jameson- I like the regular better than the Gold-Irish

[dphillips62]

Jameson & 7 up or with water
Woodford
Mcallen
Knob Creek
Neat

[meltingfeather]

Jameson or Jack and ginger is great.

[solocam_aggie]

Trying mixing with Fresca. My go to mix

[wloftis]

Bringing back an old thread...I'll play.

Try HM Whiskey (Herman Marshall Whiskey)? I believe it is brewed in Garland and is pretty dang good and not the most expensive bottle on the shelf either.

[BrianL]

not the most expensive bottle on the shelf either.

This reminded me of a debate I had the other day over cost. My buddy thinks nothing of buying a $25-35 bottle of wine, and thinks that it is a good price, but I'm nuts for spending $100 on a bottle of whiskey. I get 8 to 9 times as many drinks out of my bottle as he does, yet he says mine is way too high. To me his cost 8x35=$280 if you compare to the actual # of drinks per bottle.

[Ryan C]

Pendleton 1910 Rye is awfully smooth. Knob Creek Rye or most any rye whiskey is smoother to me but I'm still learning. Picked up a couple bottles of Jameson last week that I haven't popped yet.

[Gbird]

Single Barrel Jack is where it’s at.


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[1369]

Had some of this last night while out for dinner

The Emerald 1865

Straight American Whiskey
Thanks to colorful folklore passed down through the generations, we know that the whiskies made in Ireland today little resemble their 19th century predecessors. Trouble was, there was none of the traditional whiskey left to taste in our quest to recreate the long lost gems of the Emerald Isle. Fortune gave us two good turns; a British excise agent who recorded an Irish mash bill in 1865, and our friend David Wondrich, who found said recipe poring over the microfiche annals of history and passed it along to us. With this mash bill as our guide, we set out to create our own interpretation of a traditional whiskey of Ireland. To call our version modern might be a stretch— We grow a percentage of the barley organically on our farm, our grains are milled, mashed and fermented in small batches at our distillery and farm in the emerald hills of Sheridan, Oregon, and we distill according to our senses in our handmade, direct-*‐fired alembic pot still. The Emerald matures in a mix of French and American oak for three years, and is hand bottled, capsuled, and labeled. The result is a highly aromatic spirit with the weight, richness, and complexity of its forebears.

Double Gold - 2014 San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Gold Medal, Best in Category - 8th Annual American Distilling Institute Judging

90 Points - The Whiskey Wash

I'll be hunting for a bottle shortly.