Does whiskey go off after its been open for a bit?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Smark

Back to the 90s I guess then? That’s some going. I’d love to ask the older lads who were older than i was in 1984-85 if Midleton very rare was ever even heard of those years? Looking at you @Fagan_ODowd and @Malarkey and @Boxtyeater ? The 1989 bottles alone were £40 back then but selling for over €20k today. I mean if you’d the foresight back then to identify the range as something special you’d have a nice pot heading into retirement now if you’d bought a good few. I suppose no one had an inkling then.

I wasn’t conscious of it until I got a present of a bottle around the 2000s. I got a few bottles as presents since. I’ve never bought a bottle.

[anon67715551]

My relationship with whiskey is fairly straightforward - that the giving hand may never falter and all that. Procure bottle - open, pour and enjoy.
Whiskey is for enjoyment, not wondering whether the odd bottle at the back of the press is gone up €100 in value since last year.

[Copper_pipe]

@Smark

Back to the 90s I guess then? That’s some going.

Since 94.

[glenshane]

@anon67715551

Whiskey is for enjoyment, not wondering whether the odd bottle at the back of the press is gone up €100 in value since last year.

You can do both though. Drinking away at powers while toasting the fellas willing to pay a grand for an award winning single malt… that you wouldn’t open even if you could tell the difference

[Smark]

I agree. I buy bottles of whisky here roughly 50/50 between drinking and putting away for a rainy day. Of course it’s not all about investment and wondering if your bottle is €50 more valuable than the year before. Any I’ve bought for putting away is for long term and probably to be given to my children in a will and the hope they’ll buy them something nice some day from the proceeds of selling an old bottle their auld fella bought 30 years earlier.

[Ambrose_McNulty]

What’s the most expensive bottle that you’ve bought? You better not be talking about bottles of Clontarf.

[Smark]

I’ve probably a dozen bottles of different things bought over the last five years from anywhere from €100 to probably €250 each. Then I’ve about the same again opened but they aren’t all as expensive, some of them yes. A friend of mine has about five bottles plus each costing north of €500 each I’ve bought no individual bottle of that amount.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

I’ve a colleague with a collection worth five figures.

Now, he’s also constantly drinking expensive whiskeys too. He’s in a whiskey appreciation society () and is constantly buying and selling at whiskey auctions.

Unsurprisingly, the man has no wife or kids so has plenty of time.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Had a feed of redbreast 12 yo last night playing cards. Jaysus it’s savage tack.

[anon67715551]

An incredibly noble drop - without swanning into the top end bottles it’s arguably the King of Whiskies.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@anon67715551

An incredibly noble drop - without swanning into the top end bottles it’s arguably the King of Whiskies.

You’ll get no argument from me on that score.

[habanerocat]

I can’t taste the difference in the Redbreast to a bog standard bottle at all. But I can taste a lovely difference in the Black Barrel.

[Batigol]

I rather Green Spot at that price point.

[glasagusban]

It’s lovely stuff. Definitely the best around that point.

[Smark]

Was it the cask strength 12yr old or normal 12yr old? It’s savage stuff alright the best in the business.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Normal strength. I’d never have got the lads out of the house if I’d opened the cask strength.

[TreatyStones]

What were ye playing?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@TreatyStones

What were ye playing?

45s

[TheUlteriorMotive]

I’d have you more of an album man.

[TreatyStones]

I’d never add the “s” there