Take a moment today to celebrate by having a glass of something good to drink at a place of your choosing. If you already have this figured out, take a moment and tell is what you’re having and where you’re going to enjoy it.
(It’s 9:00 am, as I am posting this, so I still haven’t decided what I’m drinking. But trust me: I will be drinking something by the time 5:00 pm rolls around.)
I’m going to be pouring great local beer from Otto’s Pub & Brewery at a charity event this evening, having a few for myself along the way, and letting everyone there know why they should be celebrating, too!
Great idea Sam! I don’t think I will be doing something that noble, but my heart will be in the right place.
Will be going to the Brandy Library in NY after work for one or two in honor. Am hoping they have a bottle of the second batch of Springbank 1997, but not holding my breath. Maybe a Laphroaig because it is freezing up here and they kept it coming through prohibition…
Hi John,
I’ll be at home celebrating with a smorgasborg of beverages from around the world, probably in this order;
Sazerac 18YR to start American style
Forty Creek Three Grain or Double Barrel Reserve
RedBreast 12YR
Santa Teresa 1796 Rum
Bakery Hill Cask Strength Peated Malt
Lagavulin 16YR to cap off the evening
Cheers to everybody!!
Tony
CK, you might need to make that a Laphroaig Cask Strength, given how chilly it is outside.
Tony, well, it looks like you will be in fine shape! I really like Forty Creek Three Grain. Too bad John Hall stopped making it.
I’ve got an unrelated party at a bar to go to tonight… you know how that can be. To offset the ‘Fiddich and/or Chivas I’ll be downing there (not that they’re all that bad), I’m gonna pour myself a nice nip of Macallan 1951 beforehand, which obviously only comes out on very special occasions.
To those of you in LA, there’s a Diageo-hosted tasting at The Daily Pint tonight. Wish I could go.
I remember well the 1951 (and the 1961 released around the same time). That’s a lovely way to start off the evening, regardless of what follows afterwards.
Tonight, I’ll be at a Beam tasting with Fred Noe.
Looking forward to trying some Bookers again.
It’s been a while.
Say hi to Fred for me, and have fun.
Me and my friends in the local cigar club are drinking White Horse Whisky from a bottle issued 1935, just right after the repeal. There is a lot of Lagavulin in it. I am also smoking an Arturo Fuento Anejo that matches well with it.
When all of the White Horse is gone we’ll be drinking the Glenmorangie Signet.
Cheers,
Honesto
J. T. S. Brown Bottled-in-bond by the wood stove.
John:
Ancient Ancient Age 10 yr. with a Romeo Y Julietta robusto in my home ofiice while surfing the web. Cheers!
Rob K: Excellent selection. By the wood stove, no less.
Curt, Honesto: I added the cigar component too, finishing off my evening with an Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Robusto and a Very Very Old Fitzgerald.
Hey John.
Fred says Hi.
Bookers was great. I did, however, have to add a little water to the last one of the evening.
126 proof. Wow.
Sam S, I don’t mind drinking my whiskey a little strong, but even 128 proof is a bit too high for me–the alcohol gets in the way. I would probably bring her down to 100 proof or so and would be fine with that.
Hi John,
It got chilly here in the Big Apple, so I broke out the Ardbegs, the 10 year old, Uigeadail (no water needed), and Airigh Nam Beist .
Slainte.
Louis
John, Try both Old Forfester and Jack Daniel that celebrated the event with releases of special edition bottles
Tonight, I started with Four Roses SB and then had a small dram of Yellowstone 86p from 1976.
December 5th is also my wifes birthday…had 2 (i think) wee drams of
Hirsh (read that MICHTERS) 20 year old……..yyyeeeeeeesssssssss…..
Had several drams of the Old Forester Repeal bourbon…very smooth, and I wish they’d bottle this one on a regular basis!
Nice selections everyone on your choices of whisky (whiskey) celebrating this very important anniversary.