Johnnie Walker Red Label Old Scotch Whisky

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by mora
I doubt they have a lot of foreign brands available.

What's funny is close to were I lived in Sherman, Texas there was a Shinerbock plant.  Even though the foreign beer was manufactured in Texas by Texans it was still considered an import and thus cost more.

The beer bar I worked at on the weekends charged $1.00 more per bottle for it and I had to put up with alot of pissed off people because of it.  most of them worked at the plant IIRC.

[boxboy28]

i think theres a canadian whiskey 100

Its called "YUKON JACK"  and as label is a canadian Liquor.   nat as a whisky which it really is!~   now thats the good stuff ; )~


Damn them Oklahoma laws -- i was there for a trade show drinking at the hotel bars and that lil down town spot(BRICK TOWN)   no one ever told me (till the last night after a week there) that all the domestic beers were 3.2,   They said if you wanted the real stuff (Normal beer) to drink the imports.

I dont know if its true but ill be dammed if i go back and spend good money at a hotel bar ($5 for a 16 oz draft)   to get fricking 3.2 beer..............

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Best way to figure out if its any good is to open it and pour yourself a glass.

If you wake up the next morning in the same clothes and the bottle is empty you have a winner.

Yesss. We have a motto: "Alcohol is our emeny, so we'll destroy it! Work is our friend, so we'll never touch it!"



Maybe I am a freak, but I don't like cheap Scotch and Bourbon. tastes like a village moonshine made for sale (not for drinking yourself). I'll prefer good old vodka, at least if you drink good brands it doesn't give a hangover like whisky that is sold here (usually made in Poland).

Canadian whisky is the stuff I really like. Wolfala brought me a bottle of Canadian Club last Winter, IMHO it was better then real French Cognac (like Hennessy). The main problem is that I have found it in stores in Moscow, and here it costs 10 times more then good vodka And there is always a chance that it was made in Poland

[faint]

Sorry to hear that about your family member.
Should drink the whole thing and enjoy it, in honor of him/she.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Boroda
Yesss. We have a motto: "Alcohol is our emeny, so we'll destroy it! Work is our friend, so we'll never touch it!"



Maybe I am a freak, but I don't like cheap Scotch and Bourbon. tastes like a village moonshine made for sale (not for drinking yourself). I'll prefer good old vodka, at least if you drink good brands it doesn't give a hangover like whisky that is sold here (usually made in Poland).

Canadian whisky is the stuff I really like. Wolfala brought me a bottle of Canadian Club last Winter, IMHO it was better then real French Cognac (like Hennessy). The main problem is that I have found it in stores in Moscow, and here it costs 10 times more then good vodka And there is always a chance that it was made in Poland

Meh.. Hennessy is wastly overrated. Get a bottle of  Bache Gabrielsen XO and you are set. (not the Polish variant tho )

[lasersailor184]

None finer.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Toad
In Kansas 3.2 beer is sold in the "convenience stores" that don't have a true liquor license.

Standard "strong" beer is sold in any licensed liquor store. By law, these stores display a red and green "liquor" sign, usually neon.

So you can get anything they sell anywhere else here... if you are 21.

Here we have restrictions like this:

1) If you sell stuff stronger then 15% ABV you need a license (everyone gets it) and a "trading hall" bigger then 10 square meters.

2) If your store is closer then 50m (usually it's solved with a bribe, so the distance may be much closer, but not door-to-door) from "public transportation, public health or educational buildings" - you can't sell beer or other low-alcohol stuff.

I don't know about regulations for wine and other stuff below 15% ABV.

Beer here means any beer-ish stuff from 3.2% to 9.6%. There was some imported stuff sold here before 1998 that was 11% and even 13% - but now the strongest local beer I know is 9.6%. "Strong" starts from 6%, but it's still "beer" and noone cares if you sell alcohol-free or "Baltika #9" (9.6%). Canned cocktails are usually 7-9%.

You may be fined for 100 rubles ($1=28rubles) for drinking beer in "public transportation and other public places" but noone cares. Our Militia is a part of the People

In post-Soviet times we had strange laws. Like you couldn't drink any wine or strong liquor in public. So we had to drink from paper cups. It was really funny when me and two friends were drinking at a boulevard in a Center, they got arrested and fined for drinking wine from a bottle while I was drinking beer that was in fact stronger then their wine...

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Meh.. Hennessy is wastly overrated. Get a bottle of  Bache Gabrielsen XO and you are set. (not the Polish variant tho )

Nielsen, here they don't sell Cognac in plain wine bottles like that! It's a reason enough for me not to see it in Moscow stores

People who can afford Cognac here usually care about the shape of a bottle, not about taste. That's why I prefer stuff my Father chooses: he still has 2-3 bottles of 20 years old Georgian "cognac" that he bought as cheap as vodka 10 years ago. It's in ugly wine bottles with xeroxed labels, that's why this Nectar was so cheap.

I have a strange "karma": for the last 12 years I make LANs and other IT stuff for different clients... At least 20% of them are wine-factories and so on. It's great to come into their office stock rooms: if the stuff stood on a shelf (in "room conditions") for more then a week it's not good enough for professional tasting, so they take it away and label as "poison" They are usually really happy when I take a dozen or two because they don't have to waste it themselves

And when their bosses offer us a drink or two... Imagine a 100+ years old Armenian "cognac" or 80 years old sweet wine... Mmmm...

It's funny that the stuff wineyards keep for "internal use" is so much better then what they sell outside.

[beet1e]

Ay-up, Gatso! Long time!

Do you still piss it up at the White Horse? I can remember the good old days c1973 when pints of Ansell's bitter cost 14p, and you could buy 7 pints and still get change out of a quid.

Whisky? blech. I'm not a spirits man.

[Roscoroo]

The true Whiskey...

measured by mpg ,and brain cell loss .

[Lizard3]

Originally posted by Toad
In Kansas 3.2 beer is sold in the "convenience stores" that don't have a true liquor license.

Standard "strong" beer is sold in any licensed liquor store. By law, these stores display a red and green "liquor" sign, usually neon.

So you can get anything they sell anywhere else here... if you are 21.

Oklahoma is the same, I've bought 9% ale's in the liquor stores.

[Staga]

"Red Label" is for whiskies what Budweiser is for beers.: People who don't know any better keep buying it.
From cheap whiskies (blended) I'd take Irish "Jameson" or "Famous Grouse".
Add more money and get a Chivas Regal.

or go straight to the top and buy yourself a bottle of Lagavulin; you won't regret.

'till next morning

[Masherbrum]

This is the MINIMUM that I will buy.   It is better than Black Label.



Karaya

[Seagoon]

Originally posted by lasersailor184


None finer.

Like it, but prefer:



Karaya - I wish I had the kind of budget that made Cragganmore my "minimum standard" as it is my minimums these days are McLelland's Islay (at a little over $19) and Famous Grouse (at a little over $21). When I'm particularly flush or just financially reckless, I add $14 and buy:



 

[rpm]

Originally posted by lasersailor184


None finer.

Why not spend a couple extra bucks and buy the aged version, W.L. Weller? If I'm gonna drink green whiskey, I make sure it hasn't seen a barrel yet.

That's what I'm talkin bout Roo!;)