So, what are you drinking now?

Bunnahabhain 12yr from Duncan Taylor.... So close to gone now....

Caol Ila 18 :) We just hád to celebrate the start of the weekend, so we went from Clynelish 14 to Talisker 10, Caol Ila 12 and then my friend had to go he said... He could´nt have timed it worse because I was about to pour some liquid gold. I thought I was gonna leave it to that as well till I read my mail; an invitation to a job at a bar where they serve lots of good beers and whiskies! Couldnt be better! So I decided to pour the CI 18 anyway and compared to the others its like a divine intervention, amen.

Just kicked off my Saturday night with a little HP 12. Happy Saturday night to all!

Spent Friday Night with the A'bunadh (Batch 40). Tonight, I am going with some Glanfarclas 105. Yeah, I am in a sherry phase, for sure. Now, if I could just find a bottle of Sonnalta PX!

I'm taking my time with the wonderful Glenmorangie Artein. It's the first time I've ever had a distinct raspberry smell and peach flavor in a whisky. I like my peaty drams all right but this is really a nice change of pace.

Glenmorangie gets a lot of flak for their more commercial image but between this and the Astar, man they can make a good whisky. I need to find a Quinta Ruban soon, I've almost only heard good things about it.

attended a great glendronach masterclass recently. just got me notes together now, tasted the 12, 15, then 4 single casks whiskies, from 1992, 1991, 1990 and 1978. Outstanding stuff, too bad i had a bloody cold at the time!

Crack open a bottle of Benriach Arumaticus Fumosus 12 single peated malt,i`m having so much smoke in my glencairn that my wife call the 911!!!Outstanding scotch,with the dark rum finish that gives a nice sweeteness at the end with a lot of peat and smoke up front,a well made speysider!

Picked up a mini of the standard Jameson today and used it to start the night with something light. Very smooth. Am I alone in preferring this to the Jameson 18 yo in my cabinet?

Then I thought I'd support the folks at Diageo because, Lord knows, they need the money, eh? Cragganmore 12, Talisker 10, and I'm finishing up the night with Lagavulin 16.

Light, sweet, sweet-and-peaty, and peaty. Logical enough for Mr. Spock's approval.

Aberlour 16 before dinner. Now, I'm having a side-by-side tasting of Kilchoman Machir Bay and a 5 year cask strength, single cask Kilchoman from SMWS (129.1 - “A Smoky, Peachy, Yoghurt of Loveliness”). The Machir Bay is very nice, but not as nice as the SMWS bottling. Probably not a fair comparison, but it sure was fun "research".

Coffee, LOL it's time change weekend early in the A.M., will have to wait a while for a dram. :)

Jameson 12 yo Special Reserve. Love it.

Four Roses-Royal Club Ginger Ale

Its a marriage :)

Glenmorangie Original. So much complexity for so little dough. Love this stuff.

@teebone673 Great stuff is right, I always have Glenmorangie Original in my cabinet for family and friends who don't drink a lot of whisky. Plus it keeps them away from my Peated ones. LOL. :)

Kale, spinach, carrot, celery, ginger, apple, blueberry juice. Slow juiced in a masticating juicer. Call me gramps. I need the super healthy stuff by day to allow be the fortitude to drink the good stuff at night.

Springbank 10, very nice

CR Limited edition !

Aberfeldy 12....this dram is delicious, and unique. Don't pull this one out to often but whenever I do it seems to always surprise to the upside. Always hard to believe $37 scotch can deliver so much. Had this one for about a year and I think it's actually getting better.

Last night it was my custom 50/50 blend of Old Forester Signature 100 and Wild Turkey 81, which I call Old Wild Turkey 90.5...

Settling in for the night with my good friend, Springbank 10. Have a good night, guys.

Recently opened up Compass Box Oak Cross based on recommendation from David Driscoll at K&L. He was right, great stuff.

@msudukie - I've got a bottle of this squirrelled away for the future (intended to replace my Glenlivet 15 French Oak Reserve), so it is good to see positive feedback...I bought it just based on my love of Spice Tree and Peat Monster...so far Compass Box hasn't let me down!

Last night a 90's vintage Old Taylor 86 pf bourbon. Great little 375ml bottle....now I have to focus on the '81 vintage handle that needs killing off.

@indynoir Aberfeldy is one of my favorites. I'll always have a bottle in the house.

@Bourbondork, You are bringing a new dimension here to connosr, with your references to your collection of decades-old American whiskeys. If I had your collection, I would do it myself. I do not. So it is good to see you doing it. Bravo!

@YakLord - What would be a comparison to the Spice Tree? It seems to be a popular whisky on connosr.

@msudukie - from what I've read, Spice Tree is supposed to be spicier than Oak Cross (I think there is more of the French Oak present in the Spice Tree. Josh Feldman, over at 'The Coopered Tot' has fairly comprehensive reviews of both whiskies (the Oak Cross review is here: cooperedtot.com/2012/03/…).

If you were meaning, is there another whisky I'd compare Spice Tree to, then yes, I'd call the Spice Tree the more mature, sweeter, and spicer version of the Glenlivet 15, which feels very restrained in comparison.

@Victor finding and drinking vintage bourbon is really a niche whiskey exercise. I've done my fair share of hunting, mostly early on in my bourbon adventure done primarily for QPR reasons. Many older bottles I've found have been significantly under-priced displaying prices that are decades old. I've picked up many bottles in the $10 range for a 750ml that contained exceptional whiskey. Now that the weather is warming up, I'm planning to revisit the dusty hunt and hopefully find some stuff worth putting down.

@bourbondork @victor - at the Bonham's whisky auction last October, I had the rare opportunity to taste this:

bonhams.com/auctions/20459/…

A Prohibition era bourbon, distilled 1917, bottled 1932! The bottles on sale sold at incredibly high prices. The whisky itself? Very rich but also vegetal, in an off way, kind of like rotting wet leaves. Not so bad as to be undrinkable, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. I'm not qualified to say whether those off-notes were the style of bourbon back then, or if it was caused by old bottle effect. Glad I had the opportunity though!

@YakLord, about Spice Tree, John Glaser says, same whisky, different oak.