Top 10 whiskeys for beginners

[Smyth]

A guy I work with paid £200 for a pour of rum once, poor bastard didn't remember until he found the receipt, doesn't have the slightest idea how it tasted.

I trust he did the right thing and slit his own throat...

[Budgie Smuggler]

We still take the piss out of him now (it was a couple of years ago). In fairness he was celebrating buying his first house, but still...

[kanahan]

I've seen much, like WAY much higher prices for some whiskeys in London bars. Try harder if you want to impress me boys.

[jamesfromphoenix]

Hardly a beginner whiskey. I'm not interested in jumping on that particularly expensive bandwagon.

Let me rephrase. If you did want to spend the money, do you have access to a bottle of the 25 at or near retail price? I was discussing the nature of whiskey hunting with my SS coach, and he seemed to indicate that you have that sort of clout in the whiskey world. I was curious if it was true.

Yes, not a beginner whiskey. I didn't realize we were supposed to be staying on original topic. To tie it all back to topic, I was pleasantly surprised by how great Jack Daniels single barrel Rye was.

[jamesfromphoenix]

This place happens to keep their prices relatively low compared to most establishments. But over one hundred is probably right.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Let me rephrase. If you did want to spend the money, do you have access to a bottle of the 25 at or near retail price? I was discussing the nature of whiskey hunting with my SS coach, and he seemed to indicate that you have that sort of clout in the whiskey world. I was curious if it was true.

Certainly not true, and I'd ber shocked if there was a bottle of PVW25 anywhere in the world at retail. Why would a sane man spend more for a dram of 25 than an overpriced bottle of anything else costs? Does anyone have both that much money and that kind of palate?

[VNV]

...Why would a sane man ...

Sanity has nothing to do with it.

Consider the daring consumption of Fugu fish liver.

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[Goatamon]

My friend is heading to Estonia for Walpurgis Night and is going to take advantage of the cheap alcohol prices there and pick me up a bottle of Four Roses Small Batch. Very much looking forward to it.

Strange though that the mega-liquor store over there in Tallinn doesn't have Buffalo Trace in stock, and my old little next door liquor store does.

[tnumrych]

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