Tastes
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Jameson Caskmates Stout Edition
Blended — Ireland
Reviewed September 9, 2021 (edited October 5, 2021)"This is almost a black Barrel lite. It’s got notes of what seems like pot still doused in caramel, char and a hint of roast coffee. A worthy experiment and priced adequately. If only Jameson wasn’t so college bro-ish I would drink it more often. But it is and I don’t. Not sure how to fix that. And really why would they want to fix that? There are far more college bros than there are me. For consumer power I guess they win but they don’t want to see me on this warfare side. I’ve got way more guns, tact, and old man strength. So you college bros reading this get the f#% off my back 40! -
"This is an excellent bourbon for the price point. A little corn a little rye a little vanilla a little caramel a little wood and a little dent in your wallet. I say that like I have a wallet. I don’t. I die free. wallet-free that is. I don’t know why i don’t have a wallet. It’s for this reason I lost my credit and debit cards recently. I think my dog ate it. For real. He suffers from pica, a condition where he constantly seeks out and eats little bits of metal. But the wallet wasn’t metal. So I guess I don’t know why he ate it. But he did.! And so…even without a wallet to slightly dent, If you have a small amount of cash you can drink and enjoy this as I have and am doing.
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Wow. This gets 4 stars for being a vodka that actually...tastes good. Yeah I know, its weird. The usual rubbing alcohol nose, and rubbing alcohol finish, but the middle part...on the tongue....theres a hint of minerality like only a great copper pot still can convey. A hint of something clean, bright and balanced before it disappears back into the stripped-down clinically clean devoid of all character world that vodka resides in. And this is indeed a rare feat. I will sing this vodkas praises for accomplishing that which seems un-accomplishable. Making Vodka Great FInally. MVGF. Hard to say. Not really a good hat or slogan but still...
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Its not really fair for me to be reviewing this since Im not a flavored tequila drinker. As in I would never purchase it for home use. As in I have never in my life had it before now outside of tequila rose in high school. I take my spirits neat or on the rocks if I must. So I cant say if this is hits the spot for the target audience. I will say it is very sweet, and tastes very much like pineapple juice infused with jalapeno. Im sure it makes for a great pineapple jalapeno flavored margarita. It doesnt make for a great sipper taken neat. And really what maniac would ever even try that? So, if you are looking for a pineapple jalapeno tequila to make tropical cocktails and get wastey on the patio, I know of no better option. As far as Im aware this is the best of its class and priced very fairly. What i do know of Dulce Vida is they at least went about producing this line of products in a very expensive and all out balls to the wall fashion. They purchased farmland and oversaw the growth of the agave. They age their line of straight tequilas for more than adequate amounts of time, and their website features a user-submitted photograph of a woman in a bikini top sitting spread eagle on a picnic blanket in some grass somewhere and I do strongly believe that by providing this libation in certain settings with certain individuals, you will greatly increase the chance of being able to personally have a similar experience as what is depicted in the photograph.25.0 USD per Bottle
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Redbreast Lustau Edition
Single Pot Still — Ireland
Reviewed August 15, 2021 (edited April 28, 2022)Full of warm apricot and almond champagne and whipped butter cream and all sorts of other things I haven’t had. I would add “bad sex” to that list of things I haven’t had just so I can look like a Rico Suave for both of the ladies that are in this community but I don’t know what that tastes like but it can’t be this whiskey because this is excellent . -
Pendleton Original Canadian Whisky
Canadian — Canada
Reviewed August 7, 2021 (edited November 25, 2021)like a candy corn creme brulee that I spilled a caramel macchiato on. And before you hipsters can bup bup me about what a true macchiato is, Im already aware. This isnt like THAT macchiato. Its about the super sweet over fluffed trash version. Which is what this tastes like. Super sweet overfluffed trash. The experience can be compared to the a night with a girl that possesses the same characteristics. The very first instance is met with delight as the light and sugary fairy prances through the door and you think "aw hell yeah this is going to be fun!", but then after a few moments, her true nature comes through and its disappointingly empty and bereft of anything relatively interesting and you sadly just wish she would go away because someone elese will be h appy with her, but it cant be you. You wold grow so bored and so resentful so quick. So if you like Pendletons, Im glad for you, sincerely. You take that girl and you hold her and you indulge yourself and you dont let go, dammit, because if you do, someone else will gladly step in and swoop her away and she will forget about you in no time. But that someone wont be me. Because I don’t like that girl. And I don’t like Pendleton. -
Empress 1908 Indigo Gin
Distilled Gin — British Columbia, Canada
Reviewed July 31, 2021 (edited September 9, 2021)Won the blind tasting. Great. Floral, bizarre earthy tannins and bright botanicals. Rich and lovely. Plus the purple color makes it fun. And yeah I pretty much mailed this review in and Im embarrassed i dont have more to offer you. Um....how about the fun tidbit that in Hopi Indian lore, the Hopi people were brought underground by Ant People and saved as a firestorm and cataclysmic event destroyed the earths surface and then brought back up years later and re-settled in the area in which they still reside. Does that make up for it? -
Again I have absolutely zero frame of reference for this sort of drink but I can say with absolute zero authority and zero merit and zero reason for anyone to believe anything I say about this brand of gin, or gin in general. But it tasted like fresh grapefruit and it’s mildly sweet and makes a terrific cocktail. Plus the frosted bottle is cool. So yeah now that you’ve learned nothing from reading this I’ll be leaving now.
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