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Post by Pistol Pete on Sept 13, 2014 6:23:07 GMT -5
For me it's coffee, beer or whisky, but I was wondering what everyone else likes to drink? Wormella & I visited the distillery in Oban a couple of summers back and that has shot to the top of my things-I-like-but-can't-afford list!  |
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Post by Wormella on Sept 13, 2014 6:34:35 GMT -5
I like Rum - Dark or spiced, or Bourbon. I have less expensive tastes then Pistol Pete  |
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Post by Pistol Pete on Sept 13, 2014 7:19:05 GMT -5
Stella Artois or Strongbow on a night out with the lads. I don't drink at home much. Shouting " lager lager lager lager"? |
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Post by dadfad on Sept 13, 2014 8:21:34 GMT -5
When I'm drinking beer I prefer Chimay Grand Reserve (Blue). With distilled spirits I prefer high-quality moonshine, or depending on where I'm at and who I'm with (and how much cash I have with me!), Laphroig 10 or 18.
However I've found in a pinch pretty much any old swill will do!
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Post by JamesP on Sept 13, 2014 11:06:19 GMT -5
I'm with dadfad on this one. My favorite if I could find "good" corn whiskey that wasn't filled with lead derivatives, is moonshine. But when I can't find the real stuff, and I don't mean the watered down junk they sell in ABC stores, then I just go for a great Kentucky Bourbon like Maker's Mark or Lynchburg TN corn whiskey - Jack Daniels Black.   |
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Post by geezer on Sept 13, 2014 21:20:26 GMT -5
Well, on a Friday evening I like a nice cold beer followed by three fingers of Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey whil I'm grilling dinner.
When the weather gets too chilly to cook outside, I'll make do with a nice single malt Scotch while I prepare dinner indoors.
Speyside and Glenfiddich are my go to cool weather drinks.
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Post by Pistol Pete on Sept 14, 2014 9:12:34 GMT -5
Speyside and Glenfiddich are my go to cool weather drinks. Is Glenfiddich not on Speyside? Edit: Wikipedia say it is... |
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Post by Wormella on Sept 14, 2014 14:16:28 GMT -5
Has anyone else (apart from Pistol Pete) Visited the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg TN - we went because it was free but it turned out to be a great day trip - especially if you stroll around the town square - we also visited the Moore County Old Jail Museum - the perfect setting for a blues song... Also amusing that it's in a dry county - but then I found US drinking & alcohol purchasing laws very bizarre. |
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Post by geezer on Sept 14, 2014 17:24:40 GMT -5
Speyside and Glenfiddich are my go to cool weather drinks. Is Glenfiddich not on Speyside? Edit: Wikipedia say it is...Yes, it is, but so are quite a few other smaller distilleries. |
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Post by jmuscara on Sept 15, 2014 6:28:41 GMT -5
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Post by JamesP on Sept 15, 2014 7:41:05 GMT -5
Has anyone else (apart from Pistol Pete) Visited the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg TN Been a few times. They have a great BBQ championship annually. That's a great time to visit Lynchburg. There is a story that is told around Lynchburg. Back in the early years of the 20th century, a wagon of whiskey was making it's way up Rockwood Mountain loaded with Jack Daniels. An axle broke on the wagon, spilling several cases of Jack Daniels down the mountainside. The town of Rockwood which was dry was the recepient of all that good stuff. No one in town sobered up for a week. [laughing] Also amusing that it's in a dry county - but then I found US drinking & alcohol purchasing laws very bizarre. Back in the 40's, it was the "bootleggers" that managed to keep most of Tennessee "dry". Only the large cities of Memphis, Nashville, and Chattanooga were able to sell anything except beer. It gave rise to the "beer Joints" that were where most of us country musicians cut our teeth. Of course, you could always get a pint or two from the local blackmarket "bootlegger". Most cases, it was easier to just make your own or buy from a local moonshiner. |
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Post by dadfad on Sept 15, 2014 10:20:54 GMT -5
I'm with dadfad on this one. My favorite if I could find "good" corn whiskey that wasn't filled with lead derivatives, is moonshine. But when I can't find the real stuff, and I don't mean the watered down junk they sell in ABC stores, then I just go for a great Kentucky Bourbon like Maker's Mark or Lynchburg TN corn whiskey - Jack Daniels Black. Jim, I've made my own 'shine for going on twenty years I guess when it got kind of iffy being able to get it when I wanted it. Took a bit of learning at first, but I got so that I could make some pretty high-quality double-distilled "connoiseur grade" corn liquor. Kind of tedious, I usually made about a gallon or less a year. I distilled it in the kitchen (while my wife was in Florida for the month!). A pain in the butt, but the results were really excellent. Last year I was in a liquor store buying a bottle of Laphroig and I saw some "store-bought" 'shine on the shelf. I'd never seen corn-liquor for sale legally before. (I think they called it "Georgia Moon" or something.) So I bought a jar to try. You were right, it tasted like watered down junk. (Actually it was closer to the left-over watery crap I put down the sink after my second distilation!) Then I got an idea... I was about ready to put up my mash for my next run. Then I thought "I wonder what I'd get if I used this crappola for my mash? It's already got a pretty fair amount of corn alcohol in it, if I can just get the water out of it." So I went back to the liquor-store and bought eight more quarts of that junk. Next time my wife was gone for the day with my daughter I got my "still" out of the garage and set it up in the kitchen. (First time I'd ever tried distilling some 'shine my wife nagged me incessantly that I was going to blow the house up so I "went with the flow" and only did it while she was out of the way!) Anyhoo, I took that crap and ran it through my still. (Keeping the temperature at about a steady 178° and only saving the first half of the distilate coming through.) What I got was some amazingly good 'shine! About as smooth as I'd ever made it from my old process and with at least double or more the corn alcohol content of the original store-bought swill. It saved me all the b.s.-ing around putting up the mash and having to wait. (I'd gotten to where I always sprouted and "bronzed" the corn I used, which was a pain in the butt, as well as having to wait while it fermented, the filtering, etc, etc.) A pretty darn good product, which was also confirmed by my "shine-savy" friends. So I guess I spent about seventy-five bucks for eight quarts of that watery stuff to make maybe a gallon of pretty decent 'shine. Which is pretty expensive 'shine, but if you're a 'shine-drinker it's worth it! That's how I'll probably do it again this year. The original "Old Dadfad Distilery." Attachments:
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Post by Pistol Pete on Sept 17, 2014 14:15:20 GMT -5
Yes, it is, but so are quite a few other smaller distilleries. True, but I don't think many of them qualify as 'small' in the grand scheme of things. Most of the Speyside distilleries are on the millions-of-litres scale, whereas lots of the highland & island ones are only in thousands-of-litres territory. |
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Post by JamesP on Sept 18, 2014 7:57:38 GMT -5
Dadfad (John), I loved your post. Reminds me of the old days when a lot of us had our own "recipe".
I remember making some great blackberry brandy. Just ferment the blackberry juice into a fairly good wine and then distill the spirits. Smooth and with a great little kick.
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Post by geezer on Sept 18, 2014 20:26:41 GMT -5
Can't really comment on that, Pete. I've never been there myself. All I know for sure is that the distillery rep who was here in the USA about 5 years ago told me that they were"small" in the bigger scale of things.
The three bottles he gave me to give to my friends was well received, too...especially when he said "Here's to for you, sir!"
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