OT - *REALLY* expensive booze

[LiveMusic]

In the thread where becomingfinal and his band had the promoter who signed the screwball deal, she got stuck with owing the bar $600. Good news is she gets two bottles of Johnny Walker Blue out of the deal.

 

So, I've never heard of Blue. Black, yes, but Blue, no. It costs like $200 a bottle? What the hell is that all about? Does it have gold in it?

 

Got me to thinking about really high-priced booze. Do you know of any that are way over-priced. Well, actually, to me, anything over double the average cost for a bottle of booze or a beer would be way too much for me. But maybe not. Do you know of any that you think... it's worth it?

 

Mind you, this is coming from a guy who regularly drinks the cheapest dollar beer he can find. Or if it's booze, the low end. Hell I bought some rum recently, Bacardi Gold I think it was. Didn't even have a hangover. And it was not expensive at all.

[JasmineTea]

Laphroaig One thing about Laphroaig, no matter what you've had before, you're not ready for it. But after you get started with a glass, you end up loving the stuff. Drink it with plenty of ice. About $45 a bottle.

[Cldplytkmn]

there are some top shelf scotch's (scotchi?) that are way up there in price... i don't get the JW blue thing... granted i've never had it, but i feel like every JW i drink tastes the same basicall... i dunno how i feel about a $200 bottle of blended scotch.

 

i can't remember who it was, but one of the bigger distilleries over yonder in scotland sold some bottles of way aged stuff, we're talking 50+ years... they sold some of it bottled, but they had an event where they sold it by the glass for a few hundred bucks/glass...

[smokiee]

Apparently the Blue Label is at the top of the Johnnie Wlaker line, the rarest blend. Dunno bout the taste though.

 

Want expensive booze, you should try Absinth (or Absinthe). Some call it the green fairy. It retails for just a tad above $200 for a litre bottle. 68% alcohol! They say you can go crazy drinking this emerald green stuff.

 

http://www.absinth.com/ buy it here!!

 

Put you guitar in a safe place b4 drinking.. just a precaution hehehh

[JasmineTea]

Vincent Van Gogh drank absinthe. Hmm..

[smokiee]

 

Originally posted by JasmineTea Vincent Van Gogh drank absinthe. Hmm..

 

 

and look how rich he is... pitty he's dead..

 

i heard its illegal in the states but ok for personal consumption?? wth...

[Frets99]

Expensive guitars! Expensive booze!

 

This place is turning into a snobitorium!!

 

I'm gonna go open me a bottle of Rolling Rock... while it's still from Ol Latrobe! N' Play my $175 Hagstrom!! :thu:

 

Aaaaaahhhh!!! That's the way you do it!!

[Queequeg]

Originally posted by Frets99 Expensive guitars! Expensive booze! This place is turning into a snobitorium!! I'm gonna go open me a bottle of Rolling Rock... while it's still from Ol Latrobe! N' Play my $175 Hagstrom!! :thu: Aaaaaahhhh!!! That's the way you do it!!

hey, Frets99. the voice of reason around here. I like the way you think. thanks for getting our feet back on terra firma, here. (that's a $10 term for "dirt")

[theGOOCH]

 

Originally posted by LiveMusic In the thread where becomingfinal and his band had the promoter who signed the screwball deal, she got stuck with owing the bar $600.

 

 

I didn't see this thread. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is reminded of The Blues Brothers

[SpaceCowboy409]

 

Originally posted by JasmineTea Laphroaig One thing about Laphroaig, no matter what you've had before, you're not ready for it. But after you get started with a glass, you end up loving the stuff. Drink it with plenty of ice. About $45 a bottle.

 

 

Laphroaig is my alltime favorite - but just 1 ice cube for me:)

[tiger roach]

I am happy with scotch in the $20-$40 range. I want to try the Blue someday though. People say that single malts are the way to go for high-dollar scotch, but then others swear by the Blue...

[LiveMusic]

 

Originally posted by theGOOCH I didn't see this thread. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is reminded of The Blues Brothers

 

 

sorry, I posted this on wrong forum -- it was on Backstage With The Band forum. Says something like "Bar wants us to pay."

[Freeman Keller]

I was on a ski trip a couple of years ago and we hiked down under a glacier. We chipped off some ice from the top of the snow cave, and that evening had 15 year old Laphroaig with ten thousand year old ice

 

 

[LiveMusic]

How do you pronounce Laphroaig?

 

NEVER MIND... it's (La-froyg).

[thatsbunk]

the most expensive booze for me was the $10/1.75 liter vodka that ultimately ended me up in rehab (~20K for 28 days... that's a lot of martins)

[Dead Skunk]

I've had Johnny Walker Blue. It was OK, better than the Red for sure. Not worth the $40 per glass on the tab.

[0rbitz9]

I enjoy single malt scotch pretty frequently,

and have tasted some extremely old and

expensive ones.

It's always a privilege to be able to sample

these.

With a lot of the ones I've sampled recently,

I haven't been completely amazed.

When a whisky has been aged in casks

for 25 or 30 years, it's very easy for the

intense flavours imparted by the barrel

aging to overpower the subtleties in the

whisky itself. A lot of times I'm happier

just to drink the more affordable 10 to

15 year old offerings.

 

If you are willing to spend a couple

hundred on an old bottle of scotch, I

would recommend going for the more

powerful offerings from Islay that can

withstand the extended barrel aging.

The 30 year old whisky from Laphroag

is quite a walloping drink.

 

 

 

[Cldplytkmn]

two words- cask strength

[cdp]

Drumroll please.........................................................................

 

Whichever booze you accidentally spill is the most expensive.

 

Thread over.

[Greymuzzle]

I'm a total newbie on guitars, and this forum. But on drink, well I'm Irish.Nuff said.

 

The drink is spelt "whiskEy" The fact that Scottish can't even spell it shows they'll never make the best of it.

 

Seriously though the finest whiskey in the world is very probably one of the top of the range Middletons' an Irish. You need a mortgage for a case of it, but well worth living in a tent.

 

The Scotch Malt Whiskey Club provides cask strength offerings of the finest, and are even releasing a Glenmorangie, the first time that Distillery has done so.

 

It's summer now so that makes it time for Dalwhinnie in my book

 

I'm sorry for those of you who put ice in your whiskey. It will melt very quickly when you go to hell for doing so.

 

Above really

 

Now Guitars. This thread, on this forum, brought back to me the Single Malt Whiskey guitars which Fylde make from reclaimed timber from malt whiskey vats. I'm sure they smell great, but has anybody heard or played one?

 

Genuinely curious...

[Freeman Keller]

 

Originally posted by Greymuzzle The drink is spelt "whiskEy" The fact that Scottish can't even spell it shows they'll never make the best of it.

 

 

So a friend of mine has a personalize license plate that says "WE SKI" . He pulls into a little gas station in Oregon and the proprietor looks at the back of the car and says "I'd never trust anyone who couldn't spell 'Whisky' "

[egtact]

I always thought it was "whisky" in 'Merican.

 

Makers Mark is my personal poison.

 

It's just so much kinder to you the next day than say, Wild Turkey, but the Turkey is a much better fighting whisky as it is rather clean upon regurgitation.

 

[recordingtrack1]

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originally posted by greymuzzle

The Scotch Malt Whiskey Club provides cask strength offerings of the finest, and are even releasing a Glenmorangie, the first time that Distillery has done so.

 

It's summer now so that makes it time for Dalwhinnie in my book

 

I'm sorry for those of you who put ice in your whiskey. It will melt very quickly when you go to hell for doing so.

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I truly used to love single malt Scotch. My favorite, mainly because I couldn't afford more expensive brands was Glenlivet. Excellent stuff. Smooth as silk and all you needed was a glass. My tastes grew over the years from blended Scotches that were really cheap, Cutty, Black and White up through JW Red label to green and Black, among others. Eventually I changed from to single and landed on Glenlevit.

 

I have to agree that it should be against the law to mix Scotch with anything or to put ice or water in the same glass.

 

Of course I no longer drink anything, which is a personal choice I made several years ago, but if I ever had a weakness for any alcoholic beverage it was Scotch.

 

RT1

[Cldplytkmn]

i like glenlivet as well...

 

i agree about the mixing, although i've had times of weakness when i've mixed cutty and coke... but hey, the beatles drank scotch and coke, so can i

[recordingtrack1]

Hey Clyp. I can't lie about it. I've done it too, on a few occassions. I always tried to "class" my way around it by not actually mixing the Scotch. What me and my buddies did sometimes was shot glass the Scotch and chase it with Coke. We usually did this when there were girls around who we, . . well you know . . .

 

Shamefully, RT:eek: