Other than Omega and watches ... Whisky?

Foo2rama · Mar 9, 2022

BAJJ
Couldn't agree more, it's for drinking not investing👍

most is for drinking. But if you know what your doing…I made some smart buys for example about 10 years ago that turned 80 dollar bottles to 2800 dollars…. Some are signed first editions, some are low volumn special editions that I know are not good but I have access to and sell a year later or so.

. Normally I’d buy 2 bottles one to drink and one to store…. If it went up then sell it and keep drinking for for free lol, otherwise I drink the second bottle.

BAJJ · Mar 9, 2022

For sure there's money to be made in whiskey, as there is with watches😀, and many other things. I perfer to stay out of that though, I'm not sure I like the way everything has become an investment opportunity these days. I'm sure the original distillers never ment for whiskey to be anything other than something to be drunk and enjoyed. Probably why I'll never be a millionaire🙄

Paedipod · Mar 9, 2022

Foo2rama
most is for drinking. But if you know what your doing…I made some smart buys for example about 10 years ago that turned 80 dollar bottles to 2800 dollars…. Some are signed first editions, some are low volumn special editions that I know are not good but I have access to and sell a year later or so.

. Normally I’d buy 2 bottles one to drink and one to store…. If it went up then sell it and keep drinking for for free lol, otherwise I drink the second bottle.

wish that I had the same approach with some of the watches/cars that I have bought/used til done/sold.....both bottles now gone😬

RW1513 · Mar 9, 2022

Capt Cave Man
Whisk(e)y as in Tribe you MB?

You weren't asking me but I follow the Whiskey Tribe channel and will probably visit their distillery this year when I'm in Austin for work. Watching their reviews gave me a new appreciation for the nectar of the gods...

RW1513 · Mar 9, 2022

Pianotuna
You’ve got a few of my favourites in there. Big fan of the Aberlour, the Quinta Ruban is delicious and the JW Green 15 is an easy go-to. Front of shelf ‘house’ whiskey is Monkey Shoulder, some of the best priced quality drinking going around and if I’m looking for something lighter in a bourbon then I’ll reach for Buffalo Trace.

I've never had Monkey Shoulder... it seems to be a well-loved blend.

Foo2rama · Mar 9, 2022

RW1513
I've never had Monkey Shoulder... it seems to be a well-loved blend.

It’s solid decently priced and consistent.

golfindoc · Mar 9, 2022

A big fan of scotch.

Currently have
Octomore 11.1
Lagavulin 16
Ardbeg uigeadail

and just got Rampur Asava. It’s a single malt from India finished in Cabernet casks. It’s very nice.
Tom

Neeb · Mar 9, 2022

I'm Scottish, and while I drink French wine most days I do like my single malts. I'm relatively unadventurous though and mostly just drink the bog-standard usual suspects (pun intended). I like Ardbeg 10 yo, and Talisker 10 yo if I feel like something a little less intense. Normal supermarket fare where I am... I currently have a bottle of Ardbeg Kelpie (OK, but I prefer the 10 yo), and another of Smokehead, a contemporary-branded malt from one of the Islay distilleries (they don't say which). It's pretty good in fact!

Watch my Whisky · Mar 9, 2022

Does anyone else here buy casks?

Jayrock26v2 · Mar 9, 2022

what is the age

Foo2rama

So that’s me at a Scotch event. That’s the Scotch cabinet. I know there is a Charbay R5 whisky and a single cask Belize rum on the bottom row next to an Amrut…

there is another cabinet that is everything but Scotch, and then there is the investment storage….

I have a problem, as well as a book in the works. I also make my own gin, and as a hobby design seasonal cocktails for local high-end restaurants including one Michelin review restaurant.

But, back to the whisky.. what's in there... Oh man, what's not...If it's for sale in the US odds are I've had it.

I am an Islay fan and was blessed to be a part of Jim McEwans final tasting where he unveiled the casks he had hidden away for personal use brought tears to my eyes but for the end of an era and the sublime whiskies that had been chosen as the swan song for the master.... but as as much as I love the Laddie, I have to give at least the base expression nods to Ardbeg Uiegedel. Laphroaig has its place of course, Kilchoman is amazing, I will never turn down Caol Ila, some Bunna is always a YES PLEASE.... oh man Bowmore has been on a nice roll lately with some of their experiments... Yeah, I can go on and on and on and on the liquid gold of Islay.

While, Islay makes some fine spirits, the Highlands, the Lowlands, the islands... all have amazing histories and amazing and more subtle spirits...

The US market is oversaturated with junk whisky right now, except for Woodinville if you can source from them... Otherwise check out Amrut from India, or some of the greats coming out of New Zealand and Austrailia..

Ok I need a drink.

this is just a proper flex. how does one choose

Foo2rama · Mar 9, 2022

Jayrock26v2
what is the age

this is just a proper flex. how does one choose

Carefully and put the expensive stuff in back so you do not grab it late in a session. 😉

dlukask · Mar 9, 2022

Foo2rama

So that’s me at a Scotch event. That’s the Scotch cabinet. I know there is a Charbay R5 whisky and a single cask Belize rum on the bottom row next to an Amrut…

there is another cabinet that is everything but Scotch, and then there is the investment storage….

I have a problem, as well as a book in the works. I also make my own gin, and as a hobby design seasonal cocktails for local high-end restaurants including one Michelin review restaurant.

But, back to the whisky.. what's in there... Oh man, what's not...If it's for sale in the US odds are I've had it.

I am an Islay fan and was blessed to be a part of Jim McEwans final tasting where he unveiled the casks he had hidden away for personal use brought tears to my eyes but for the end of an era and the sublime whiskies that had been chosen as the swan song for the master.... but as as much as I love the Laddie, I have to give at least the base expression nods to Ardbeg Uiegedel. Laphroaig has its place of course, Kilchoman is amazing, I will never turn down Caol Ila, some Bunna is always a YES PLEASE.... oh man Bowmore has been on a nice roll lately with some of their experiments... Yeah, I can go on and on and on and on the liquid gold of Islay.

While, Islay makes some fine spirits, the Highlands, the Lowlands, the islands... all have amazing histories and amazing and more subtle spirits...

The US market is oversaturated with junk whisky right now, except for Woodinville if you can source from them... Otherwise check out Amrut from India, or some of the greats coming out of New Zealand and Austrailia..

Ok I need a drink.

I have the same IKEA apothecary cabinet that I keep all of my Glencairn glasses in and a little Islay Airport-style shelf of Islay keepsakes.

I've been to Islay a few times over the last few years, I may have mentioned. It's my favorite place on earth. Bruichladdich is my favorite distillery, those people treat you like family (though I agree with you about Ardbeg. There's something to that whisky that anything they make is absolutely delicious. I know the distillery manager Collin.)

I went over for a week last October (having had to previously cancel the trip 3 times cause of Covid), and I had an amazingly special experience.

During the 2020 Virtual Feis Ile, I bought my 2nd bottle of Jim McEwan's "A Final Act of Creation," the bottling of his favorite personal cask of Bruichladdich he called "Princess Diana" (because nothing else was as beautiful). I had my friends in the Laddie crew hold the bottle for me in their archive until I could come back to get it (partially due to the 25% tarrif at the time, as the bottle worked out to be just north of ~$2400, for charity after all). Anyway, the time came this past Oct. to go to Islay. I knew Jim still lives adjacent to the distillery - he's an Illeach after all. So I made arrangments through his daughter who still works for the distillery to have him walk over and meet me. We talked for about 20 minutes in the still house (which at the time was a very VIP exception to get to be in (again Covid life). He was just an absolute gentleman and gregarious and grateful I had brought him - thanks to a tip from his daughter - his favorite Swiss cigars that he usually orders from Switzerland. He loved that. I also brought him a bottle of Weller Special Reserve (not expensive, but def hard to come by on Islay). So he signed my bottle of his "Diana" Cask, and then he insisted that I sign the bottle of Weller for him! It was just an amazing afternoon.

below: In the Bruichladdich still house, Jim signing my "Final Act of Creation Bottle"

Me signing his Weller (Jim hamming it up a bit, LOL)

Giving Jim his surprise cigars (different camera)

The one bottle in my house that will likely never be opened, along with Jim's biography and his personal card he gave me ("The Cask Whisperer")

Bonus shot, overlooking my other love:

dlukask · Mar 9, 2022

Foo2rama

So that’s me at a Scotch event. That’s the Scotch cabinet. I know there is a Charbay R5 whisky and a single cask Belize rum on the bottom row next to an Amrut…

there is another cabinet that is everything but Scotch, and then there is the investment storage….

I have a problem, as well as a book in the works. I also make my own gin, and as a hobby design seasonal cocktails for local high-end restaurants including one Michelin review restaurant.

But, back to the whisky.. what's in there... Oh man, what's not...If it's for sale in the US odds are I've had it.

I am an Islay fan and was blessed to be a part of Jim McEwans final tasting where he unveiled the casks he had hidden away for personal use brought tears to my eyes but for the end of an era and the sublime whiskies that had been chosen as the swan song for the master.... but as as much as I love the Laddie, I have to give at least the base expression nods to Ardbeg Uiegedel. Laphroaig has its place of course, Kilchoman is amazing, I will never turn down Caol Ila, some Bunna is always a YES PLEASE.... oh man Bowmore has been on a nice roll lately with some of their experiments... Yeah, I can go on and on and on and on the liquid gold of Islay.

While, Islay makes some fine spirits, the Highlands, the Lowlands, the islands... all have amazing histories and amazing and more subtle spirits...

The US market is oversaturated with junk whisky right now, except for Woodinville if you can source from them... Otherwise check out Amrut from India, or some of the greats coming out of New Zealand and Austrailia..

Ok I need a drink.

Also - Ardbeg Grooves is one of my all-favorites. Dark Cove though - that might be my favorite Ardbeg ever.

dlukask · Mar 9, 2022

Watch my Whisky
Does anyone else here buy casks?

I tried to get 10 people together to go in on a cask of Ardnahoe when they were launching, but I couldn't convince 9 friends to split the £8,000 needed to buy one, plus the VAT, bottling and delivery, but that was a 10-years-later problem ... would have been an amazing excuse to all go to Islay together a few times to check in.

Watch my Whisky · Mar 10, 2022

dlukask
I tried to get 10 people together to go in on a cask of Ardnahoe when they were launching, but I couldn't convince 9 friends to split the £8,000 needed to buy one, plus the VAT, bottling and delivery, but that was a 10-years-later problem ... would have been an amazing excuse to all go to Islay together a few times to check in.

I’ve been buying casks for a while now. As long as you’re happy to wait, you can see 12-15 percent returns. Insurance and storage might knock that down a percent or two.

I’ve never bottled anything to avoid tax, but if you’re sitting on an 18 year old Tamdhu then you don’t have to worry about finding a buyer.

Wasting assets don’t get taxed. Sell the cask. Get paid.

Meantime I’m partial to Japanese single malts and sherried Speysides.

Foo2rama · Mar 10, 2022

dlukask
I have the same IKEA apothecary cabinet that I keep all of my Glencairn glasses in and a little Islay Airport-style shelf of Islay keepsakes.

I've been to Islay a few times over the last few years, I may have mentioned. It's my favorite place on earth. Bruichladdich is my favorite distillery, those people treat you like family (though I agree with you about Ardbeg. There's something to that whisky that anything they make is absolutely delicious. I know the distillery manager Collin.)

I went over for a week last October (having had to previously cancel the trip 3 times cause of Covid), and I had an amazingly special experience.

During the 2020 Virtual Feis Ile, I bought my 2nd bottle of Jim McEwan's "A Final Act of Creation," the bottling of his favorite personal cask of Bruichladdich he called "Princess Diana" (because nothing else was as beautiful). I had my friends in the Laddie crew hold the bottle for me in their archive until I could come back to get it (partially due to the 25% tarrif at the time, as the bottle worked out to be just north of ~$2400, for charity after all). Anyway, the time came this past Oct. to go to Islay. I knew Jim still lives adjacent to the distillery - he's an Illeach after all. So I made arrangments through his daughter who still works for the distillery to have him walk over and meet me. We talked for about 20 minutes in the still house (which at the time was a very VIP exception to get to be in (again Covid life). He was just an absolute gentleman and gregarious and grateful I had brought him - thanks to a tip from his daughter - his favorite Swiss cigars that he usually orders from Switzerland. He loved that. I also brought him a bottle of Weller Special Reserve (not expensive, but def hard to come by on Islay). So he signed my bottle of his "Diana" Cask, and then he insisted that I sign the bottle of Weller for him! It was just an amazing afternoon.

below: In the Bruichladdich still house, Jim signing my "Final Act of Creation Bottle"

Me signing his Weller (Jim hamming it up a bit, LOL)

Giving Jim his surprise cigars (different camera)

The one bottle in my house that will likely never be opened, along with Jim's biography and his personal card he gave me ("The Cask Whisperer")

Bonus shot, overlooking my other love:

Those Apothecary cabinets are just awesome...

Jim is amazingly kind and generous. Stories like yours abound its amazing he has time for anything. When I was at a tasting he was doing in CA, he overheard that my buddy was about to get married, and gave my friend his card and said come Honeymoon in Islay I will get you the Bruichladdie guest house for a few nights for you...

The "Diana" cask was amazing I was lucky enough to have a small sample of it!

RW1513 · Mar 10, 2022

dlukask
I have the same IKEA apothecary cabinet that I keep all of my Glencairn glasses in and a little Islay Airport-style shelf of Islay keepsakes.

I've been to Islay a few times over the last few years, I may have mentioned. It's my favorite place on earth. Bruichladdich is my favorite distillery, those people treat you like family (though I agree with you about Ardbeg. There's something to that whisky that anything they make is absolutely delicious. I know the distillery manager Collin.)

I went over for a week last October (having had to previously cancel the trip 3 times cause of Covid), and I had an amazingly special experience.

During the 2020 Virtual Feis Ile, I bought my 2nd bottle of Jim McEwan's "A Final Act of Creation," the bottling of his favorite personal cask of Bruichladdich he called "Princess Diana" (because nothing else was as beautiful). I had my friends in the Laddie crew hold the bottle for me in their archive until I could come back to get it (partially due to the 25% tarrif at the time, as the bottle worked out to be just north of ~$2400, for charity after all). Anyway, the time came this past Oct. to go to Islay. I knew Jim still lives adjacent to the distillery - he's an Illeach after all. So I made arrangments through his daughter who still works for the distillery to have him walk over and meet me. We talked for about 20 minutes in the still house (which at the time was a very VIP exception to get to be in (again Covid life). He was just an absolute gentleman and gregarious and grateful I had brought him - thanks to a tip from his daughter - his favorite Swiss cigars that he usually orders from Switzerland. He loved that. I also brought him a bottle of Weller Special Reserve (not expensive, but def hard to come by on Islay). So he signed my bottle of his "Diana" Cask, and then he insisted that I sign the bottle of Weller for him! It was just an amazing afternoon.

below: In the Bruichladdich still house, Jim signing my "Final Act of Creation Bottle"

Me signing his Weller (Jim hamming it up a bit, LOL)

Giving Jim his surprise cigars (different camera)

The one bottle in my house that will likely never be opened, along with Jim's biography and his personal card he gave me ("The Cask Whisperer")

Bonus shot, overlooking my other love:

Amazing. What a treat that must have been meeting Mr. McEwan and sharing those moments. Bruichladdich is my favorite distillery as well. I've probably watched Scotch a Golden dream about five times... I don't watch it too early because I always end up pouring a dram!

ChiefMark · Mar 10, 2022

dlukask
...
I went over for a week last October (having had to previously cancel the trip 3 times cause of Covid), and I had an amazingly special experience.

...I knew Jim still lives adjacent to the distillery - he's an Illeach after all. So I made arrangements through his daughter who still works for the distillery to have him walk over and meet me. We talked for about 20 minutes in the still house (which at the time was a very VIP exception to get to be in (again Covid life). He was just an absolute gentleman and gregarious and grateful I had brought him - thanks to a tip from his daughter - his favorite Swiss cigars that he usually orders from Switzerland. He loved that. I also brought him a bottle of Weller Special Reserve (not expensive, but def hard to come by on Islay). So he signed my bottle of his "Diana" Cask, and then he insisted that I sign the bottle of Weller for him! It was just an amazing afternoon.

ChiefMark · Mar 10, 2022

I'd post a list of what's on my whiskey shelf, but it would take too long. I have a strong preference for peaty (generally Islay) single malts, but more generally for Scotch and other Whiskies from the US and Japan.

Buster · Mar 13, 2022

Jack Daniels. Old Number 7