The 15 Revival may be more expensive because it is no longer being produced.

It will be interesting to try a side-by-side when they start bottling the 15yo again in a couple of years.

I've been on a big craft beer kick over the last 3 years and have strayed away from whisky until now. I was hoping you guys could recommend a scotch for me. I have had Macallan 12 and Oban both of which I loved. Not looking for a big smoke bomb to start. Budget is under $100. Thanks.

Riddle,

Read a few pages of this thread.

FYP

All good whiskies. Even if I'm not into them as much as before:

the-6-smokiest-scotch-whiskies-you-can-buy/

Glen Scanlan, plastic bottle. Caramel, fruit aroma. A bit of vodka taste. Nice work, blenders. 80/100.

after getting back home after a 21hour trip i decided to treat myself with a sample El_T
send me a while back:
Bunnahabhain 21y fom Battlehill:
Nose:salt crusted fudges,sea breeze and some gummy bears, after a while and some water a hay barn with some cumin and bananas join the party as well
Palate:a lot of power for 46%,peppered roasted bananas with ginger and a shot of salt.
Aftertaste:semilong with spices and salt lingering on

My notes say that it was super grassy, did you get that same impression?

more hay than grass in my eyes
but i see what u mean.
tried it again and
after u put grass in my head, i get it as well

It was something like "wet freshly cut grass" iirc. Not my favorite bottle tbh.

So it looks like facebook cracked down on the secondary market. It was fun for the few weeks that I knew about it. I picked up some stock that I had been lookin for. My wife is happier at least.

Glad to see this thread is still going strong. I'm going to be in Ireland in a couple of weeks and and I'm hoping to do at least one whisky tour. Right now the most likely candidates are the Old Jameson Distillery and the Irish Whiskey Museum but I'm open to any other suggestions from others who've been around there.

@druid visiting the teeling whiskey distillery is the thing to do in Dublin(jameson isn´t really great the museum is better)

i would book the €30 version
https://teelingwhiskey.digitickets.co.uk/tickets

It started to get cold again so i needed a `new` bottle to keep me warm...

Hey, Thanks for the advice. Could you be more specific about why you'd prefer the Teeling tour? Is the place and tour better or the whiskey (or all 3)? I'm pretty into whisky but my wife will be with me and she is much less so. I'm not very knowledgeable of Irish whisky but I've had several different Jamesons/Redbreasts and I've enjoyed them all and think they'd be pretty approachable for her. She is not down w/ too much heat and doesnt like peatiness. Is Teeling similar in style to Jameson or is it more Scotch like? Thanks again for the help.

@ druid
haven´t done the teeling tour yet(will do in June)
but my brother who lives in Dublin it.
it should be a complete distillery tour where u see how whisky is done(from the barley to the beer to the real distilling) and u will get a proper tasting at the end.
Teeling is similar in taste profile to Cooleys(the Telling family were the former owners before they sold it to Jim Beam)almost all are unpeated.
Jameson tour is a bit boring and u only get 1 drink.
the museum tour is a nice tour through the history of irish whiskey and u get more drinks to compare later,guess your wife will like this tour better as well since they tell nice stories of the past and they have multimedia content.

Bell's Original, UK's number one. Cut grass, sherry. A nice whisky, 82-83 / 100

Bell's Original & A nice whisky
are not often in 1 sentence together
i always thought Famous Grouse is the top seller in the UK.

I think Famous Grouse is on top in the holy Scotland itself. The English must drink Bell's. Don't know what they drink in Wales and Nothern Ireland

Edit, the latter: maybe Irish whiskey, not far fetched!

Haven't seen any collections posted in awhile. What do people currently have in their liquor cabinet/bar?

Rye
-Rittenhouse
-Sazerac

Bourbon
-Blantons Single Barrel
-EH Taylor Small Batch
-Noahs Mill
-Old Forester 1897

Scotch
-Ardbeg Uigeadail
-Bowmore 12
-Laphroaig Quarter Cask
-Lagavulin 16
-Oban Distillers Edition

I likely won't be needing to purchase anything new for awhile.

Have too many bottles to post a list. Actually thinking of selling off some of my collection as I now have more booze than me and my friends will ever drink

Yeah, my folks had bells, grouse and Jamesons. Took me a while to learn about single malts!

Best,
Pete

I recently reread this whole thread from the start, and was certainly impressed by some of the pictures you posted of your bar throughout.

Currently in my cabinet:

Full Bottles:
Glenlivet 12
Laphroaig 10
Laphroaig 18
Glenmorangie 10
Glenmorangie 18
Kirkland 18
Kirkland 20
Macallan fine oak 15
Ardbeg 10
Lagavulin 16
Talisker DE
Talisker 18
Balvenie Doublewood 12
Highland Park 18
Old Pulteney 21

2 Oz Samples:
Highland Park 12
Glenmorangie D'Or
Springbank 10
Springbank 15
Glenfiddich 15
Glenfiddich 18
Bunnahabain 12
Bunnahabain 18

I have taken a simplistic stand. I go through one bottle at a time, then I can really build up an opinion. So I have no booze at all at home now! In a couple of days I will go to a well equipped whisky bar for some ozes of good whisky. Thinking about having the most peated of them all: the Octomore.

After that: next bottle. Better start planning which it will be soon. But when you stand among the bottles you sometimes can't hold on to your plans. Maybe should give JW Black another chance? The Whisky Bible says it's good.

I don't get that approach at all, at least not if you're trying to get an appreciation for Scotch. It's like trying to learn how to cook by fixing chicken and rice everyday for a week, then steak and potatoes the next week, then pasta the next week, and so on. So much of enjoying alcohol (and food) is to be able to taste the different flavor variations.

Not to mention that you can get stuck with a bottle you don't like and force yourself to drink it because you want to build an opinion.