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Ol'Dawg
Number of posts: 2094
Age: 67
Location: Northeast Georgia
Registration date: 2008-01-03
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:51 am | |
| For an Irish, I nominate Kilbeggan.
Jim |
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Rob_In_MO
Number of posts: 3547
Age: 39
Location: Park Hills, MO
Tobacco: Mostly Aromatics, Some VA's, Mild English Blends
Pipe: Bjarne, Peterson, Savinellis, Cobs & Basket Briars.
Registration date: 2011-01-19
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:46 am | |
| My personal favorite = Cutty Sark
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lowflyingpenguin
Number of posts: 153
Age: 59
Location: The Wilds of Canada (from Iroquois for 'the village')
Tobacco: 4noggins Britts Balkan, SG Chocolate flake
Pipe: Petersons system, Julius Vesz
Registration date: 2009-04-10
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:37 am | |
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Mikem
The Coordinator
Number of posts: 1494
Age: 57
Location: Glendale, Arizona
Tobacco: Pembroke
Pipe: Mike Brissett Bulldog
Registration date: 2007-12-14
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:36 am | |
| My vote goes for Jamisons Irish Whiskey for an inexpensive brand. |
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Harlock999
Number of posts: 4997
Location: Los Angeles
Tobacco:
English
Pipe:
Italiano
Registration date: 2010-10-22
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:34 pm | |
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Natch
Number of posts: 2042
Age: 62
Location: foothills of the Ozarks
Tobacco: Most Lakeland Flakes, Va. and Va. blends.
Registration date: 2007-12-21
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:58 pm | |
| | lowflyingpenguin wrote: | | Tullamore Dew |
A great and not well known Irish Whiskey. I love their aged stuff, but so smooth and too expensive, you can see $30 disappear much too quickly.
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jader
Number of posts: 34
Registration date: 2011-02-24
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:54 am | |
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Young briar fan
Number of posts: 108
Age: 33
Location: Commerce,GA
Tobacco: Any from a local shop
Pipe: Castello "Old Antiquari" apple
Peterson Shannon 80's bulldog
Buts-Choquin apple
Calabresi rusticated straight and bent Dublin
Cobs
Registration date: 2011-09-21
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:18 pm | |
| Evan "evil" Williams sour mash. If it gets to be a little too much and it's all you have in the cabinet for some strange reason mix it with a little ginger. The local home made is my first choice though. |
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Ol'Dawg
Number of posts: 2094
Age: 67
Location: Northeast Georgia
Registration date: 2008-01-03
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:21 am | |
| Though not what many would consider cheap, Buffalo Trace at about $20 for 750ml is a great bargain. It's won several gold medals in the last 5 or 6 years. A great sipping bourbon that's not widely known.
Jim |
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Dave_In_Philly
Number of posts: 1325
Age: 32
Location: Philly
Registration date: 2011-08-18
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:14 am | |
| Buffalo Trace is good stuff, Bullet is another good one. Eagle Rare is probably my favorite. |
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Zeno Marx
Number of posts: 748
Registration date: 2010-06-26
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:00 pm | |
| Not really fair to compare $10 whiskeys to $20+ whiskeys. Doesn't seem like much of a price jump, but in the non-Scotch world, it's huge. The Old Forester, Old Crow, Evan Williams, etcs of the world are never going to compete with Buffalo Trace, Bulliet, or Eagle Rare, Woodford Reserve, Bernheim, the higher Wild Turkey blends, for example. Those are for an entirely different conversation...unless we're facing different value of the dollar and socio-economic confusion.
I'd like to try that Old Taylor 6. I don't think I've seen that around here. |
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Ol'Dawg
Number of posts: 2094
Age: 67
Location: Northeast Georgia
Registration date: 2008-01-03
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:19 pm | |
| | Zeno Marx wrote: | Not really fair to compare $10 whiskeys to $20+ whiskeys. Doesn't seem like much of a price jump, but in the non-Scotch world, it's huge. The Old Forester, Old Crow, Evan Williams, etcs of the world are never going to compete with Buffalo Trace, Bulliet, or Eagle Rare, Woodford Reserve, Bernheim, the higher Wild Turkey blends, for example. Those are for an entirely different conversation...unless we're facing different value of the dollar and socio-economic confusion.
I'd like to try that Old Taylor 6. I don't think I've seen that around here. |
Just wondering where you can buy Old Forester for $10 a 750ml bottle?
It's about $18 a bottle here.
Also, all the other premium sipping bourbons you listed are start at about $25 and go up from there. (Bernheim is not a bourbon) So in my previous posting, Buffalo Trace is a "cheap" premium sipping bourbon at $20 and probably the "cheapest" gold medal winning sipping bourbon a person can find.
Jim |
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Zeno Marx
Number of posts: 748
Registration date: 2010-06-26
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:26 pm | |
| | Ol'Dawg wrote: | Just wondering where you can buy Old Forester for $10 a 750ml bottle?
It's about $18 a bottle here. |
I haven't shopped around for it because I don't care much for it. My usual joint, Woodman's Foods, sells it for $10.79 or $11.79 per fifth. |
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williamcharles
Number of posts: 713
Age: 61
Tobacco: Dark Birdseye, Brown Bogie, Dark Flake (scented and unscented), Irish Flake, Bracken Flake, Condor, 1792, Irish XX. Stonehaven is dessert.
Pipe: Petersons, Nordings, Falcons
Registration date: 2011-09-17
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:03 pm | |
| Two Kinds of Evan Williams. There is the straight Evan Williams Bourbon and then there is the Even Williams Honey. Both are good. The honey is milder (lower proof) and sweeter. |
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Foxfire
Number of posts: 77
Age: 35
Location: Shrimp & Grits
Tobacco: Lately: Penzance, Longbottom Leaf
Pipe: Lately: straight apples, straight pots, and cobs
Registration date: 2011-01-29
| | Subject: Re: In the category of "best cheap whiskey," I nominate.... Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:34 pm | |
| I agree with Zeno Marx in that it is clear that what is "cheap" to some people really isn't that cheap.
I also will agree that Evan Williams Black Label is the best cheap whiskey. Much tastier than Rebel Yell (to me) or some of the other swill mentioned here. Seems more pure too, as I've encountered fewer hangovers from it than I have from some other cheap whiskeys, or even more expensive whiskeys, to be honest. |
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