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It all depends how keen you are. According to what I can find the Redemption website says that high rye is 96 Proof, which for rough calculations is 2x ABV (it's actually closer to 1.8) and therefore 48%, that stuff is special order and not many places here advertise it or price it. With the stuff Dan sells at 84 Proof (about 42%) you can automatically expect it to be over $100 because of our cost of ABV and the 'prestige' label 40%+ comes with.

There is however one place in Australia that will import a Redemption High Rye at 57.2%, its the 10 year old shit, and they'll do it for the bargain basement price of $399.99 a bottle. It's so good you don't even get a discount for bulk orders because the case price will still cost you $400 a bottle.

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12 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

It all depends how keen you are. According to what I can find the Redemption website says that high rye is 96 Proof, which for rough calculations is 2x ABV (it's actually closer to 1.8) and therefore 48%, that stuff is special order and not many places here advertise it or price it. With the stuff Dan sells at 84 Proof (about 42%) you can automatically expect it to be over $100 because of our cost of ABV and the 'prestige' label 40%+ comes with.

There is however one place in Australia that will import a Redemption High Rye at 57.2%, its the 10 year old shit, and they'll do it for the bargain basement price of $399.99 a bottle. It's so good you don't even get a discount for bulk orders because the case price will still cost you $400 a bottle.

It's certainly not worth that. Even at $50 USD, there are better choices.

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59 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

It all depends how keen you are. According to what I can find the Redemption website says that high rye is 96 Proof, which for rough calculations is 2x ABV (it's actually closer to 1.8) and therefore 48%, that stuff is special order and not many places here advertise it or price it. With the stuff Dan sells at 84 Proof (about 42%) you can automatically expect it to be over $100 because of our cost of ABV and the 'prestige' label 40%+ comes with.

There is however one place in Australia that will import a Redemption High Rye at 57.2%, its the 10 year old shit, and they'll do it for the bargain basement price of $399.99 a bottle. It's so good you don't even get a discount for bulk orders because the case price will still cost you $400 a bottle.

I’ve made my Wishlist of whiskeys to try this year now, Redemption ain’t on there. For anyone curious top 5 are Lagavulin 8yr Scotch, Starward Nova Australian whisky finished in ex red wine barrels, Redbreast 12 Irish Whiskey, 1792 Small Batch Bourbon, and Paul John Brilliance Indian whisky.

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I've given up with wish lists. Sure it would be nice to try them but this country has fucked over any chance of making that worthwhile and with the price of booze indexed, and a 120 point rise in 20 years it's not going to get any better. Maybe we have to pay for our 'free' medical system, but I'm sick of paying such a high price for things like booze that really don't add that much to my life. These days I buy a bottle of Cinnamon bourbon and a bottle of Buffalo Trace when I see them below $40 and $50 respectively, they last me 3 or 4 months and I'm fine with that.

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Alcohol has never been a problem for me. It might have been a vice, and probably not good for my health, but it was never a problem. I drank for fun, I drank with mates, I drank at work because no one drank coke in pubs in the 80's and beer was often free on band tabs. But I never considered it a problem even if by definition it obviously was. By the time I stopped working with the bands and spent more time general cartage drinking became a weekend thing because truckies had to be 00BAV. I wasn't long into my 30's before I decided that was no longer fun and that taste was more important so I moved away from the cheaper brands like JD and Beam. Then the stupid government started their tax grab on booze, when a slab of beer, JD and Beam hit $30 I nearly gave up booze completely.

Right, wrong or otherwise, when I think about a bottle of booze priced at $100 and below 40% alc/vol (about 80 proof), I can't help but also think that automatically the government get an alcohol tax of nearly 30%, which increases twice a year, they get the GST from the original purchase and then another slug of GST from the final purchase. For me drinking expensive booze becomes less fun and more just me paying a voluntary tax for the privilege. I'll pay it a few times a year at a price point I'm happy with but I pay enough taxes on shit like diesel, fertiliser, feed, etc without giving the pricks more.

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4 hours ago, markm said:

I've been enjoying Knob Creek Rye small batch.

I'm actually having some right now, it's become my go-to. I buy the 1.75 liter bottles which run about $74 Americanos here because it's more economical. I like that it's distributed by Jim Beam Suntory so you can find it pretty much anywhere.

I've also been drinking a lot of Bulleit Rye lately, which is quite a bit better than their bourbon imo, but just as reasonably priced.

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1.75 Litre? Shit I don't think we have anything other than champagne and speciality stuff like presentation kegs and the like in that size. We can get up to 5 litre kegs of JD and cola occasionally but you need to mortgage the house for one. Stuff like this with a gimmick of some kind.

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Most of our whisky only comes in 700ml (which changed from 750ml in the 90's) and 1 litre but there's not often much discount for buying in bulk.

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