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[Sebdullah]

http://www.gooddrop.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/8/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/a/captain-morgan-private-stock-fine-rum-1000ml_1.jpg

just had this turn up at work anybody tried it before?

[Fozzy]

Like the look of the bottle

[VRX]

Crystal Head $55 at Liquor Land,get on it!

[XsQuiZiT]

$75 at mine, same price as Dan Murphy's normally

[heavyduty1340]

Small bot?

Been necking this for a while now on fresh lime and soda - shits good!

[Buckets]

Crystal Head $55 at Liquor Land,get on it!

God this threads gone down hill.

[peter_piper]

http://www.rumbustioustimes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/zacapa.jpg

[YOUR MATE]

You can get Gentleman Jack & Cola in premixes. Is there a shelf ABOVE the top shelf?!

[Bomber]

Crystal Head $55 at Liquor Land,get on it!
I only bought that for the bottle. Now has bourbon in it and looks sweet

[scottiedoesntn0]

Was in Tasmania a few weeks back for a friends wedding staying at the grand chancellor,
which had a bar downstairs with all the local goodies that got rather abused by us hahahah

Tried:

Lark Distillers selection single malt,
neat - which was alright, I wasn't overly impressed for the price

Nant french oak single malt
neat - of which I was really not impressed, pretty sure laphroaig 1/4 cask leaves less of a burn.
with ice- same as above, with ice to cool it....still burnt hard

Sullivans cove american oak
neat- which I found rather good vs everything else Tasmania had to offer

[peter_piper]

Don't let the "owner" of this fine vodka put you off.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ef/Cîroc_vodka.jpg/220px-Cîroc_vodka.jpg


It is the champagne of vodkas. Ridiculously smooth. BRILLIANT martinis!!!!!!!!!!



I LOVE my job.

[Poktrokt]

Image isn't working but going by your comment I'm going to guess Crystal Head?

[S133LTR]

Was in Tasmania a few weeks back for a friends wedding staying at the grand chancellor,
which had a bar downstairs with all the local goodies that got rather abused by us hahahah

Tried:

Lark Distillers selection single malt,
neat - which was alright, I wasn't overly impressed for the price

Nant french oak single malt
neat - of which I was really not impressed, pretty sure laphroaig 1/4 cask leaves less of a burn.
with ice- same as above, with ice to cool it....still burnt hard

Sullivans cove american oak
neat- which I found rather good vs everything else Tasmania had to offer

Those pingpingpingpings charged me $12 for a corona..

[peter_piper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qiLF7OCycM


that is all.


Zacapa XO in my humble opinion is the best spirit this planet has to offer. I did this myself tasting the 23 over the XO and I have to concur. I previously hated rum because of bundy.



If when you think of rum, you automatically go to the dark barrels of Bundaberg thinking it is prestige, and you like it, try Zacapa instead. IMHO Bundaberg make a liqueur from molasses and it is not true rum, especially when you consider the regulations in Australia to keep the bundy name alive and consider it a "rum."


23 got me off single malts. For $80 a bottle, you'd have to spend at least $300 on a single malt to get this kind of purity and smoothness. I now can no longer pallette single malts.


The XO is even more incredible.

[peter_piper]

Image isn't working but going by your comment I'm going to guess Crystal Head?

Crystal head? lol. This is ciroc. Crystal head is a gimmick. Smooth though. Nothing compared to Ciroc though. Blind taste the thing up against belvedere and grey goose (which are ridiculously over rated imho).

[Autopilot]

Little bit of a side step but recently I decided to give distilling a go myself. I bought an air still against the advice of some mates with distilling experience (Reflux is the way to go apparently). Anyway rather than make a wash with refined sugars and nasty clearing agents and what not I thought I'd give it a go like the Appalachian moonshiners.
Being a all grain beer brewer the massive step of making a mash with malted grain doesn't phase me in the slightest. So off I went, I created a wort/wash out of some highly modified (high diastatic) German pilsner malt and did a three step decoction mash to try convert all the starches to sugar.
After the lautering I decided that I has a pretty good uphopped unfermented Pilsner so I split the concoction into two batched, one for the still and one for some Bohemian Pilsner( that would come later). I fermented the still portion with some very high attenuating, high gravity Belgium trappist beer yeast. I was going to use some lager yeast as it ferments cleaner but I thought better of it as lager produces a lot of Phenols that take a lot of time cold conditioning to eliminate the off flavours that might make it into my spirits. After a week in my fermentation chamber I calculated the Alcohol to be about 12% good enough to distill. So into the still it went, being an air still I can only do 4 liter runs which after discarding the heads (methanol and what not) I collect about 600ml of the good stuff. All in all I got 3.6l of 60% moonshine.
I put it all back in the still and this time collected 1.7l of 90% double distilled moonshine. I added the same amount of purified water to get almost 3.5l of about 40% alcohol. I then spent the next two days filtering it through 3 charcoal disks. The end result was some ridiculously smooth neutral liquor. I got a bit lazy next and added bourbon essence from my home brew shop because I couldn't be arsed sitting it on woodchips for a few weeks.
I reckon if I went for the third distillation my product would have been on par with just about any top shelf brand of spirit out there. For $30 (not including the out lay for the still) I got 5 bottles of high quality bourbon and 19 liters of Pilsner.
I wrote this while sampling my bourbon, I drank it with Pepsi max cause I'm soft. In conclusion I think people pay too much for their fancy bottled booze.

[heavyduty1340]

Don't let the "owner" of this fine vodka put you off.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ef/Cîroc_vodka.jpg/220px-Cîroc_vodka.jpg


It is the champagne of vodkas. Ridiculously smooth. BRILLIANT martinis!!!!!!!!!!



I LOVE my job.

Got a bottle duty free recently, but haven't tasted it yet - It may well bet a belting tonight then!!

[DRKWRX]

^^ that is good and all if you want to spend the time doing it all! Id rather pay twice as much and get something I know will be good.

[TJ]

Ciroc owner makes me want it more

[thrtytwo]

http://www.rumbustioustimes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/zacapa.jpg

will grab a bottle of the 23 to try next time i'm at dan murphys!

[peter_piper]

^^ that is good and all if you want to spend the time doing it all! Id rather pay twice as much and get something I know will be good.

Diageo rep came in last week and my boss and I had a taste of the two available in Aus, and my boss is a vodka expert. Needless to say he was thoroughly impressed and the taste more than speaks for itself. For $80 it shits on EVERY vodka on the market. NOTHING comes close. If you come into my shop after Wed this week I may actually have a bottle for customers to try if liquid mix can get me the supply. It's just insanely good. AND MADE FROM GRAPES!

EDIT: JUST realised you were talking the the home brew guy from above. My bad :)





will grab a bottle of the 23 to try next time i'm at dan murphys!



If you can afford it, get the XO and taste them back to back. I've been drinking the 23 for a while now and my boss suggested the XO, bought one... thought it ridiculously smooth but not for the price..... then straight away had a glass of 23 and thought "wtf is this shit?!"



I've been selling the 23 with free official Zacapa laser etched glasses recently, they've been the best way to drink it hands down. According to Diageo I am the biggest seller in the state.... and this is in Kingsley ffs!!



Got a bottle duty free recently, but haven't tasted it yet - It may well bet a belting tonight then!!


$40 for 1 litre right? :)

[Dagon]

Crystal head? lol. This is ciroc. Crystal head is a gimmick. Smooth though. Nothing compared to Ciroc though. Blind taste the thing up against belvedere and grey goose (which are ridiculously over rated imho).Definitely agree on belv and GG being overrated, but the comparison to Ciroc is not quite apples to apples, here...
Crystal Head is the 2nd smoothest vodka I've ever tasted, but then again I've never had uber expensive ones (who would spend uber$$$ on a vodka, heh).
Ciroc is *the* smoothest vodka I've ever tasted... but it's made from grapes, so if you want to be technical it's actually a brandy =p

Regarding Zapuca... Currently making my way through a bottle of the 23y/o, sometimes having it neat @ room temp, and sometimes mixing it with a bit of amaretto a throwing in a cinnamon quill. It is *VERY* nice... but I dunno if it's as life-changing as you say it is above... definitely prefer a 20y.o Glenfiddich over it.


I got a bit lazy next and added bourbon essence from my home brew shop because I couldn't be arsed sitting it on woodchips for a few weeks.Don't bother a with a few weeks. Totally not worth it. With the bags of chips you buy, the general rule is use twice as much chips as they tell you and age it a minimum of 10-12 months... the results will be spectacular, I guarantee it.

[huggy_b]

23 got me off single malts. For $80 a bottle, you'd have to spend at least $300 on a single malt to get this kind of purity and smoothness. I now can no longer pallette single malts.



LOL. Tell me more about tastes.

[Buckets]

Peter piper please GTFO out of this thread.

Come back once you've got half a clue what you're on about.

[Simon]

Eta until next cigar night?

Can provide shed party location.

[Buckets]

Eta until next cigar night?

Can provide shed party location.

I've got something in the works with one of the decent liqor merchants cellars in Perth. Will have a tasting night for a range of beverages soonish.

[Gr3mlin]

On the prowl for this for a long time, mate got it for my birthday. Best prezzie in a long time!

http://drinkingmadeeasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Makers-46.jpg

[ZedEx]

Recent additions :)
http://i.imgur.com/IMpnypj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/jX5fPUQ.jpg

[kyle_340]

got to try glenmorangie on my last flight. grabbed a bottle of 12yo at duty free for 90$.

highly recommend, not a strong flavour but very easy to drink

http://www.twinliquors.com/sites/default/files/event_img/glenmorangielasanta.jpg

[Dagon]

Recent additions :)
http://i.imgur.com/IMpnypj.jpg You need some illumination on that thing ;-)

[stumps.]

got to try glenmorangie on my last flight. grabbed a bottle of 12yo at duty free for 90$.

highly recommend, not a strong flavour but very easy to drink

http://www.twinliquors.com/sites/default/files/event_img/glenmorangielasanta.jpg

This is delicious. I got a 1L bottle from Bali duty free for $57USD

[kyle_340]

shit thats cheap. i just realised i paid 90NZD, so closer to 80 in aus

and blue labels totally overrated, had a direct comparison with gold label the other night and much prefer the gold. also tried glenfiddich 10yo that night, and not really a fan

[ReaperSS]

Grabbed a bottle of this over the weekend. Apparently its pretty nice. havnt tryed it yet. Eating the gold would be odd

http://www.wineangels.com.au/heaven-s-hell-vodka-liquid-gold.html

[Torquen]

blue labels totally overrated, had a direct comparison with gold label the other night and much prefer the gold. also tried glenfiddich 10yo that night, and not really a fan

QFT. Blue Label is like Crown Larger, expense and very very overrated.

[Torquen]

Crystal head? lol. This is ciroc. Crystal head is a gimmick. Smooth though. Nothing compared to Ciroc though. Blind taste the thing up against belvedere and grey goose (which are ridiculously over rated imho).

Snow Queen > all. But in saying that Ciroc is a very close second.

[Wrench]

going to bali tomorrow, making duty free my bitch when i come back. will pick up a bottle of Ciroc (1L $55) see how it is. anything else i should look out for?

[Gr3mlin]

Jack Daniels Gold Medal if you like that kind of stuff

[R3N]

Eta until next cigar night?

Can provide shed party location.

Have been thinking about this for a while. Will be in touch.

[schnoods]

got to try glenmorangie on my last flight. grabbed a bottle of 12yo at duty free for 90$.

highly recommend, not a strong flavour but very easy to drink

http://www.twinliquors.com/sites/default/files/event_img/glenmorangielasanta.jpg

Good stuff, the Glenmorangie Quinta Ruben (matured in port casks as opposed to sherry) is my favourite, but both are incredible drops for the dollars. I wouldnt think twice about passing on a blue label Johnnie walker for a glenmorangie.

[91180]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q75/s720x720/1239463_10151629929139786_1716564705_n.jpg

Been chasing a bottle of this for a while now :) excuse my shitty photo.

[Autopilot]

You can get Pump water at any servo*

[magic1]

Good stuff, the Glenmorangie Quinta Ruben (matured in port casks as opposed to sherry) is my favourite, but both are incredible drops for the dollars. I wouldnt think twice about passing on a blue label Johnnie walker for a glenmorangie.

blue label, junk

[Damo 69]

acquired some of this today, had a small amount, tastes fairly deluxe - unsure of how it fits into the "top shelf range"


http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p530/strap69/IMG_0830_zpsdc8f8fa2.jpg (http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/strap69/media/IMG_0830_zpsdc8f8fa2.jpg.html)

[RELEASE]

Recommend me a good single malt bruichladdich....
And where to get it from?

K go

[Buckets]

Recommend me a good single malt bruichladdich....
And where to get it from?

K go

Dan Murphys has some of the basic Bruichladdich releases. Depending on your prefferences with regards the peat content your best bets are Black Art 3 (no peat) or Octomore (lots of peat).

[fuzzmeisterr]

Old girl bought us a bottle of this

http://danmurphys.com.au/media/DM/Product/750x2000/903363_0_9999_v1_m56577569840060279.jpg

recommendations on the best way to drink it? (For someone who's used to drinking Beer/Premix Beam/CC)

[huggy_b]

room temp, neat.

[stumps.]

In a glass straight,

My preference is one ice cube.

Some people like a drop of water to break it up a bit

Some people like those cold cubes that dont dilute your drink.

Play around and see what you like!

[Buckets]

It's a very light whisky but you'll find it will open up a bit with an ice cube. The ice also makes it a bit for refreshing in warmer weather (when it gets here) If you're feeling adventurous you can add some fresh lime wedges to it as well. It's not a super high quality whisky so it's not like you're trashing it buy adding some extra zest to it. The Jap whisky's like this go well with lime.

[thrtytwo]

I'm no whiskey fiend, but a mate who has done me a pretty big favour is and I want to say thanks.

He likes Balvenie and similar non peaty stuff.

Any recommendations on a ~$100-200 bottle that he may enjoy?

[AdN]

That yamakazi has been voted best scotch with a 97.5/100 score. Nothing from scotland comes close and none even made it into the top 5.

It will be the next bottle i buy as i havent tried it yet.

[Damo 69]

which yamazaki?

Yamazaki 12 year has always been a fav of mine

[AdN]

Yamakazi single malt sherry 2013, took the award for 2015 world whisky bible.

Cant wait to try it.

[Fr3d]

I'm no whiskey fiend, but a mate who has done me a pretty big favour is and I want to say thanks.

He likes Balvenie and similar non peaty stuff.

Any recommendations on a ~$100-200 bottle that he may enjoy?

Give one of these a go. Not sure if the big chains stock this, may have to go to a smaller independent.

http://scotchhunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Glendronach_15.jpg
http://www.zigarren-post.eu/WebRoot/Store7/Shops/61424683/4885/94A8/3468/2D96/6DA4/C0A8/28BB/CB15/Last_0020_Roll_0020_-_0020_01_m.jpg

[VZ_V8]

My girlfriend brought me back a bottle of this when she went overseas recently. Anyone tried it? I haven't opened it yet but it looks like it has won a couple of awards? I usually drink single malts like Glenlivet 15yr or Glenfiddich 18yr, but I'm keen to crack this new one open soon.

http://www.svetnapojov.sk/983-thickbox/chivas-regal-21y-royal-salute-emerald-flagon.jpg

[Wrexter]

Got two of these 1.75L Illuminating bad boys in the USA before coming back to Aust

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41q2A6-2e7L._SY300_.jpg

$45 US each from Costco , Retail ~$160 in Aus

[RUSSGT]

I have a few Japanese Whiskys.

One of my favs is this though

https://www.danmurphys.com.au/media/DM/Product/308x385/761617_0_9999_med_v1_m56577569854532454.png

Also have this. Though i preffer the cheaper "from the barrel".

http://www.thejapanesewhiskyreview.com/wp-content/gallery/nikka-blends/nikka-taketsuru-21-year-old-43.jpg

[schnoods]

My favourite 100 dollar range scotch.

http://www.klwines.com/images/skus/1033609x.jpg

Extra matured in Port Casks to give it a colour and flavour like no other.

[stumps.]

Mine favourite

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uoltcdB5U1I/UNOV3-G_4FI/AAAAAAAADjQ/bA9rbOzVOVY/s1600/Glenmorangie+Lasanta+1.png

[Jase]

Just seen on FB a friends unopened Laphoaig 40year (distilled 1960, rel 2000) old single malt managed to leak while in transit. Most upsetting!

[VZ_V8]

This just arrived!

Won the World's Best Single Malt at last years world whiskey awards.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o64/tim6489/2015-09-04%2017.28.40_zpsxkteaooq.jpg

[Sensible]

Is that the one that is all produced onsite as in they grow all the grain and produce their own yeast?

I have heard that it is Tasmanian distiller that is doing that

[RELEASE]

so one of the guys that reports to me has his family coming from Japan for his wedding in a couple weeks.

What Japanese whisky do people recommend?
I've had the standard Hibiki and Yamazaki

[magic1]

This just arrived!

Won the World's Best Single Malt at last years world whiskey awards.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o64/tim6489/2015-09-04%2017.28.40_zpsxkteaooq.jpg

Have you opened it?

im happy to sample it.
:)

[VZ_V8]

Haven't opened it yet!!

Just waiting for a free night on a weekend to sit down and enjoy it! Have been too busy lately.

[thommo]

Looking for some advice on a decent drink 30yr old or similar that's bottled in 1985. Preferably under $500

[thommo]

Did see this but unsure where to buy or if it's any good haha

http://www.theglenrothes.com/userfiles/images/whisky/vintages/vintage1985.jpg

[dmanvan]

Anyone have any thoughts on this... mates birthday coming up , he likes spicy.. he is finding it hard to find as he is in a smaller town.... Dan's will probably have it although it doesn't come up on the web.


http://whiskeyreviewer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Wild_Turkey_Honey_Sting.jpg

[huggy_b]

http://www.kissofire.com.au/

[ED40]

Anyone have any thoughts on this... mates birthday coming up , he likes spicy.. he is finding it hard to find as he is in a smaller town.... Dan's will probably have it although it doesn't come up on the web.


http://whiskeyreviewer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Wild_Turkey_Honey_Sting.jpg

Tasted it at the factory last year loved it so much I bought one home with me. I think you can only get them from Liquor Barons.

https://www.liquorbarons.com.au/Spirits/Product/Detail/wild-turkey-american-honey-sting-S255/

ALSO
LOL @ this fucker.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/WILD-TURKEY-STING-blend-of-honey-ghost-pepper-/321765090831?hash=item4aeab1a60f:g:GQEAAOSwl8NVY-T3

[BLACK HULK]

I'm currently enjoying a bottle of grey goose ducasse, to me it's a lot smoother than regular goose. Once it's done I'll move on to try the grey goose VX. Anyone tried them?

[Lmx]

lol at him? 2 sold fml

[Chris89]

I'm currently enjoying a bottle of grey goose ducasse, to me it's a lot smoother than regular goose. Once it's done I'll move on to try the grey goose VX. Anyone tried them?

Have tried the VX, as far as vodkas go it is one of the most enjoyable ones I have had. The slight amount of cognac really works with the vodka.

[dmanvan]

Tasted it at the factory last year loved it so much I bought one home with me. I think you can only get them from Liquor Barons.

https://www.liquorbarons.com.au/Spirits/Product/Detail/wild-turkey-american-honey-sting-S255/

ALSO
LOL @ this fucker.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/WILD-TURKEY-STING-blend-of-honey-ghost-pepper-/321765090831?hash=item4aeab1a60f:g:GQEAAOSwl8NVY-T3 thanks....

lol.. esp when it is only like $22USD if you got it whilst on hols...

[ReaperSS]

Take a look through this... There will be alot of bagins...
https://www.auctions.com.au/auctions/2016/01/20/online-reclaimed-liquor-auction-beer-wine-mixers-spirits.html

[mys1]

Take a look through this... There will be alot of bagins...
https://www.auctions.com.au/auctions/2016/01/20/online-reclaimed-liquor-auction-beer-wine-mixers-spirits.html

Yeah but all the bids are up near retail all ready....

[The_Senator]

Some appear to be *very* generous bids indeed..

$775 for 1000 cans of Emu Export.. Bargain

[fuzzmeisterr]

$775 for 1000 cans of Emu Export.. Bargain

~40% Cheaper then retail

[dmanvan]

how would these go with some of your top/shelf...... baller cigar cases.......

https://touchofmodern.insnw.net/products/000/310/480/ca5c6afcdfd762610b7db351387884bb_small.jpg?1445361 779

https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales/moncarbone-98a8ddfe-6737-45d1-aacc-1c92f1bf2b7b/carbon-fiber-cigar-case-2-finger

[huggy_b]

Only issue is smaller cigars will move too much and possibly get damaged and larger ones may not fit.

Other than that, they look awesome.

[shifted]

Spice King 12 Year Old (Wemyss Malts)

Anyone know where this can be bought apart from Tuart Hill Liquor (only place I could find alone apart from overseas).

Can't seem to find it at Dan Murphy's.

[thommo]

Spice King 12 Year Old (Wemyss Malts)

Anyone know where this can be bought apart from Tuart Hill Liquor (only place I could find alone apart from overseas).

Can't seem to find it at Dan Murphy's.

www.nicks.com.au have it $69.99

[mys1]

Try Copper and Oak - Not badly priced and big Whisky range. In Tuart hill Also

[confuzion]

Try Copper and Oak - Not badly priced and big Whisky range. In Tuart hill Also

+1 also have awesome rare/craft beers

[Sam Rifici]

...

[shifted]

Try Copper and Oak - Not badly priced and big Whisky range. In Tuart hill Also

$95 there, $70 online from Nicks.

Bought it from Nicks. Keen to try due to recommendation. Ending up getting another bottle also of something else but the name escapes me. $22 for two bottles delivered doesn't seem too bad!

[Sensible]

Fucking amazing spirits that are being produced in Tassie
Have been to two distillery’s so far Overeem and Fanny Bay and they both make amazing whiskey, still got to your Lark and Sullivan’s Cove who do both Whiskey and Gin

[TJ]

Looking for a bottle of whiskey as a gift

$250 limit.

And go

[Bomber]

Looking for a bottle of whiskey as a gift

$250 limit.

And goSuntory Yamazaki

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