Wut are you drinkin?

Opened the last of my stockpiled cases of Octoberfest last night.
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Milk with a wee bit of O'Mara's Irish Cream for St. Paddy's Day. It's a knock off of Baileys. It's been in my liquor cabinet, unopened, for probably three or four years.
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Erm, I wouldn't drink that. Irish Cream goes "bad" even when unopened. I'm not sure it'd be dangerous, but I doubt it tastes or smells right.

 
EbylHusker said:
Erm, I wouldn't drink that. Irish Cream goes "bad" even when unopened. I'm not sure it'd be dangerous, but I doubt it tastes or smells right.
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Too late. Well, too late for a third of the bottle.

I'll let you know tomorrow if it doesn't kill me. "lol:

 
MLB 51 said:
NUance said:
red wine from a box. It's not too bad. (Which may say something about my taste in wines. lol)
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You're scaring me. Get back on the whiskey, now!!!
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After Easter. Gave it up for lent.

I didn't realize how much whiskey I drank. You knock back a couple or three every night and it really adds up over the course of a month. I'm sure the guys down at the liquor store wonder what happened to me.
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Here's the problem with Cut Spike's single malt...it's $50. There's no way around that. In the $50 price range, especially if you're talking sales, you have a huge array of extremely good whiskeys, including some fantastic bourbons, scotches, and irish whiskeys. I haven't had the chance to make it to the distillery for a tasting, which I still intend to do, but it's hard to imagine it's worth $50 (and never goes on sale, at least that I've seen) compared to what's widely available for $50, and often far less.

Their vodka is good and comptetitively priced, though inferior to (and more expensive than) Reyka, but still not a bad choice. But their single malt better be f'ing fantastic at that price, and considering the age and what I've heard from others, it's just not.

 
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EbylHusker said:
Here's the problem with Cut Spike's single malt...it's $50. There's no way around that. In the $50 price range, especially if you're talking sales, you have a huge array of extremely good whiskeys, including some fantastic bourbons, scotches, and irish whiskeys. I haven't had the chance to make it to the distillery for a tasting, which I still intend to do, but it's hard to imagine it's worth $50 (and never goes on sale, at least that I've seen) compared to what's widely available for $50, and often far less.

Their vodka is good and comptetitively priced, though inferior to (and more expensive than) Reyka, but still not a bad choice. But their single malt better be f'ing fantastic at that price, and considering the age and what I've heard from others, it's just not.
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Could be. I wouldn't know . . . thanks to a nasty run in with entirely too much Windsor at a young age. I deeply regret this.

Regarding the vodka. Meh. My limited understanding of vodka is that absence of taste is the mark of quality. If that's accurate it'd be damned hard to beat Kirkland Vodka for the price . . . or maybe at any price.

 
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It's partially accurate.

The general idea and methodology behind vodka is to make it essentially tasteless and to disappear into a mixed drink. However, high quality vodkas will usually be far smoother than their cheap counterparts, and each one will usually contain hints of flavor that can be picked up when drinking it straight. The higher the vodka content you're using in a drink, the more you want to consider using a higher quality vodka. You can get an essentially tasteless uber cheap vodka, but it will be harsh as sh#t and near undrinkable unless masked by a lot of other stuff. So it's more complex than just absence of taste (which isn't always completely desirable anyway).

 
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