What WHISKEY have you been drinking?

Black Barney wrote:

wow, I would kill to try that Glenlivet 15

Go to SAQ Signature on St-Catherine (complexe les Ailes), they have a ton of stuff available for sampling and even more to buy. Or you could try the scotch pub L'île noire on Ontario IIRC.

Liquor stores with sampling?!! Fuck the Glenlivet, I'd kill to live in Montreal! Is there anything you guys don't have up there?

jay718 wrote:

Liquor stores with sampling?!! Fuck the Glenlivet, I'd kill to live in Montreal! Is there anything you guys don't have up there?

Every pit stop/touristy place in Scotland also has scotch sampling.

jay718 wrote:

Liquor stores with sampling?!! Fuck the Glenlivet, I'd kill to live in Montreal! Is there anything you guys don't have up there?

we don't have permissive gun laws

I've been digging Red Breast a lot lately. Irish Whiskey. I can actually enjoy it straight which is rare for me (I usually need a splash of water).

Black Barney wrote:

jay718 wrote:

Liquor stores with sampling?!! Fuck the Glenlivet, I'd kill to live in Montreal! Is there anything you guys don't have up there?

we don't have permissive gun laws

You probably don't have rednecks wearing pistols on their hips at their kids soccer games either. Or a bunch of hillbillies with assault rifles showing up at political rallies. Or the million gun march. Or the hightest murder rate of any industrialized naton. Guess you guys don't have it all.

There is Canadian Club though!

What's the alternate way of making juleps? On Kentucky Derby day when we run out of syrup at the bar (we don't have a kitchen in whic to make more) we'll use confectioners sugar and a shaker. I'd love to hear other methods!

Canadian Club is UNDRINKABLE

except when you wanna go to sleep on a long bus ride.


Yeah, I was being tongue in cheek about our gun laws. I'm very happy with them and think they should be even stricter. We don't have one of those constitutions giving everyone the right to bear arms so I'm surprised the gun laws aren't even stricter than they already are. But yeah, I'm happy with our low murder rate.

Are you sure about your high murder rate tho? I know your is super high but i don't think you're the highest. Is South Africa considered industrialized or no? I know Columbia isn't (and is the murder capital of the world), but South Africa is WAY ahead of the States with killing people and I thought they were considered industralized. I'm not sure, I gotta rewatch District 9

You don't really have a million gun march tho, do you? Was that started after the million man march? ugh

the assault rifles at poltiical rallies is hilarious though. I can't believe it.

You're probably right about South Africa. I didn't research my facts before posting. Russia's gotta be up there too. The million gun march was this past April on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Shitload of militia minded rednecks got together in Virginia (closest they could get to DC while remaining armed) to celebrate their constitutional rights. It's getting pretty scary here, and I gotta tell you, there's nothing hilarious about wingnuts with assault rifles anywhere, least of all at a political rally. It's terrifying.

Back on topic, I must have meant to say Canadian Mist. That's the good one, right? Got a new bottle of Jeffersons Reserve from my distributer waiting for me at the bar. Probably break into that tonight at work.

nono, you meant canadian club. It's our rye

So I was in Montréal this weekend and my in-laws came back from Spain and brought me a bottle of the 12 y.o. Cardhu (only 24 euros duty free! It's unavailable in Québec and that same bottle is selling for $165 in Ontario).

Maybe I wasn't in the right mood to enjoy it, but it left me somewhat underwhelmed. Very light tasting and tastes of apples and pears. Still glad I got a bottle though and will try it again soon.