Black is a lovely everyday scotch and great value here as scotches go at 40-45e.
Occasionally tesco would have it at 35.
I picked a 1l bottle in faro airport this summer for 33e i think.
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Are all whiskys not about 45%?
Most are 40%
Proof or volume?
The % is a dead giveaway. Proof is twice the percentage of alcohol by volume, so 80 proof is 40%.
Intriguing article:
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All aboard the next Waterford bandwagon.
The redbreast cask strength is 56%.
You’d know you were drinking it
We will just have to live until at least the mid 2030s…
Fantastic whiskey… Tight in the glass, like the 21yo. Both skelps need time to unwind.
They are talking about putting some of it on the market by 2022.
Did you ever do the tour of the distillery
What, exactly, does “tight in the glass” mean?
Not yet. But certainly will – especially after reading that piece.
What about yourself?
Started distilling in 2015. So 2022 would be a nice entrée.
No I was thinking about it alright.
More or less what I am trying to get at by the metaphor… Not many whiskies are ‘tight’ – save some cask strength ones. If you drink an example straight away, you sense – or at least I do (but have seen the comment elsewhere) – a power in the whiskey that is at a remove. Put it this way: Redbreast 21yo is a second half hurler.
I basically mean you need to give Redbreast Cask Strength and Redbreast 21yo a lot of time in the glass, breathing, before its best facets emerge. More pronounced a feature with the 21yo. Lot of power there. They seemingly use quite a lot of 27yo and 28yo in the 21yo.
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Sounds great… Will do it some day after the intercounty hurling is over.
I’m at a wedding, pissed. Ordered a Redbreast 12 and was charged less than 5 euro for it.
It’s ruined on me tonight but fuck it, hon the lads. Up Wexford. Fuck Tipp
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Iv a bottle of red drank and am moving into some whiskey now.
Im having a large JW black and ill have another after that.
Tonight is purely a night for quantity over quality though. Youd misd aul @Brimmer_Bradley on nights like this. Hed sit there in the box room and join you with a bottle of powers.
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I know we hate each other, but God knows we loved him like a brother.
An intriguing prospect: