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The different Chimay's (blue, red and white), most anything by Unibroue, and the Gulden Draak beers (regular and 9000) are good Belgians worth tracking down as well.

If we're talking pick only one beer forever...Orkney Skullsplitter, no question.

 

Also...apparently this is a thing at Founders now and I need to find it! 

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On 10/29/2022 at 6:05 PM, KillaKukumba said:

I was going to crack open the bottle of Buffalo Trace I got given last night but I ended up having to be a designated driver so I guess it might have to be tonight.

 

Decent shit that is a bit hard to come by where I am. My wife's favorite for old fashioneds. She doesn't know it, but I fill the bottle up with Jim Beam most of the time. My personal favorite from that distillery is Eagle Rare. Not sure if you guys get that in Aussieland, but if you see it definitely grab a bottle or 3.

Tonight, my 4th or 5th Oyster City Hooter Brown. Lost count after a few Jameson/Ginger ales during today's golfing activities.

On 10/29/2022 at 4:19 PM, SurgicalBrute said:

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...and it's amazing!

Whoa! I gotta find that.

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I was surprised to find Buffalo Trace at my local, it's not something I've seen often. I was even more surprised to see that it was only $53. There is a tag on the bottle that says "from the makers of Pappy Van Winkle" but it means SFA at my local because they don't sell anything by the name of Pappy Van Winkle.

Eagle Rare (when it's available) is $115 here, I don't think I'll be grabbing 3 bottles :)

 

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1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

I was surprised to find Buffalo Trace at my local, it's not something I've seen often. I was even more surprised to see that it was only $53. There is a tag on the bottle that says "from the makers of Pappy Van Winkle" but it means SFA at my local because they don't sell anything by the name of Pappy Van Winkle.

Eagle Rare (when it's available) is $115 here, I don't think I'll be grabbing 3 bottles :)

 

Last 2 bottles I bought were $55 ea, wouldn't have paid $115 for one. And there's quite a distance between Buffalo Trace and Pappy. Not enough to justify the cost, but enough I wouldn't put them in the same sentence.

44 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Yeah...saw my local guy post a pic of it in the new releases and I was over there the next day. I really liked it.  It's sweet, but they found the right balance so it doesn't become cloying.

How's it stack up to Backwoods Bastard?

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Got to have some McChouffe a couple of days ago. I had forgotten how much I enjoy a real Belgian brown ale. Malty bready goodness that puts the pisswater browns from nearby breweries to shame. 

About to have a Fiddlehead IPA. I got back into the super hoppy ones after my sense of smell got burned by Covid, and this one's become my go-to. Fresh, well balanced, all the things. And it comes in 12 packs.

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17 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Last 2 bottles I bought were $55 ea, wouldn't have paid $115 for one. And there's quite a distance between Buffalo Trace and Pappy. Not enough to justify the cost, but enough I wouldn't put them in the same sentence.

 

Some people here probably consider $115 cheap simply because of our taxes. Taxes on pre-mix are worse I was looking at ridiculous mainstream booze prices the other day and our bottle shops are selling Jack Daniels and Cola in 375ml cans with a slightly higher alcohol content, might be 9%, for $159. It works out at about $6.50 a can, it's cheaper to drink in pubs!

 

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16 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Some people here probably consider $115 cheap simply because of our taxes. Taxes on pre-mix are worse I was looking at ridiculous mainstream booze prices the other day and our bottle shops are selling Jack Daniels and Cola in 375ml cans with a slightly higher alcohol content, might be 9%, for $159. It works out at about $6.50 a can, it's cheaper to drink in pubs!

 

Yeah not worth that for sure.

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11 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Some people here probably consider $115 cheap simply because of our taxes. Taxes on pre-mix are worse I was looking at ridiculous mainstream booze prices the other day and our bottle shops are selling Jack Daniels and Cola in 375ml cans with a slightly higher alcohol content, might be 9%, for $159. It works out at about $6.50 a can, it's cheaper to drink in pubs!

 

$6.50 AU is $4.15 US, that's about what we pay here for most craft beers. A 4-pack runs anywhere from $11 to $25 with most of them coming in around $16 - $18 making them $4 to $4.50 each. I've taken to buying 12-packs of Yeungling Black & Tan's for $15 as my every day drink with dinner beer and saving the crafties for an after dinner treat a few times a week.

$115 works out to $74 US and I'm not paying that for a bottle of whiskey when there are so many reasonable choices on the same shelf for about half of that. 

13 hours ago, navybsn said:

My wife's favorite for old fashioneds. She doesn't know it, but I fill the bottle up with Jim Beam most of the time.

Hahaha I can just picture you slipping out of bed, creeping down the hallway, getting the funnel out and filling up her bottle early in the morning when she's sleeping. Funny thing is Trace is quiite resonably priced for a bourbon, usually around $30 - $35 which can't be much more than the Beam goes for.

Strange that you can't get it, they make it right there in Frankfort Kentucky with all the rest of them. Cross town from Woodford and right down the road from Bulleit.  Buffalo Trace is the oldest continually operating distillery in the country, even staying open during prohibition for "medicinal purposes."

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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Hahaha I can just picture you slipping out of bed, creeping down the hallway, getting the funnel out and filling up her bottle early in the morning when she's sleeping. Funny thing is Trace is quiite resonably priced for a bourbon, usually around $30 - $35 which can't be much more than the Beam goes for.

Strange that you can't get it, they make it right there in Frankfort Kentucky with all the rest of them. Cross town from Woodford and right down the road from Bulleit.  Buffalo Trace is the oldest continually operating distillery in the country, even staying open during prohibition for "medicinal purposes."

Fortunately, she sleeps in rather late on days she's not working. With our conflicting work schedules, I've plenty of free time to get up to these sorts of shenanigans. I've talked to a number of the liquor store owners in the area. It's a distributor problem. Apparently, the guy for this region is down the totem pole a bit or out of favor and therefore only gets a limited amount. Spread that around a good number of stores in the area, and you get artificial scarcity. Not worth the trouble to me when Beam is easily available, and she can't tell the difference unless she sees the bottle.

Our whiskey selection in general around here is pretty pathetic. Or hit or miss I should say. Most of the top-shelf stuff you see in fancy magazines is out of the question, and you have to be on a list to get what we do get. Bottles of Stagg Jr. that msrp'd for $75 were selling here for $250 if you knew about the pre-order and got signed up early. Not fucking worth it. Give me a bottle of Four Roses small batch or Knob Creek single barrel. Easy to find and quite excellent.

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7 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

$115 works out to $74 US and I'm not paying that for a bottle of whiskey when there are so many reasonable choices on the same shelf for about half of that.

$115 here is made up of (roughly) 50% alcohol tax and then 10% GST, so the bottle itself is only worth about $70 the rest is government tax. Our alcohol tax is something like 8 times what it is in America so it's no wonder the prices look expensive.

It's also a reason why we don't have many boozers with a huge range of brands and varieties.

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