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Cardon Man
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Ahh...the scotch drinkers have arrived! Talk of whiskey usually brings them out.
You know...I probably need to give scotch a chance. It's not that I don't enjoy it when I have it. But the flavor of Bourbon always calls my
attention. In fact...I think I hear it calling right now. Is it 5 yet? 3 o'clock in Baja is green light for a drink, no?
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Cypress
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 Remove the label and all you taste experts wouldn't be able to tell
ditch water from spring water.
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Cardon Man
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Actually Cypress...there's some truth to that in my case. I recently failed miserably in a blind taste test. However, I don't think the experiment was
conducted properly.
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cessna821
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Scotch
Yes, we are around, just not many Scotch drinkers in Mexico.
Replying to Cypress, you can tell one scotch from another, it's just that distilleries close to each other do taste somewhat similar, although the
climate of the year that the barley was grown and malted plays a significant part in it.
I've been drinking the good stuff for over 50 years now and I've won money on tastings, so it's an age thing, you just have to keep drinking it!
Tough life, but somebody has to do it.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Remove the label and all you taste experts wouldn't be able to tell
ditch water from spring water. |
I mostly agree------------but I sure can tell "non-Canadian as opposed to Canadian"!!! It's always been Canadian for me for the last 50 years, or so,
as no headaches, and it tastes so good. 
-------and Black Velvet is just fine.  so why waste the moola on VO or CC.
Barry
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wessongroup
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"so it's an age thing, you just have to keep drinking it!"
Good one ....
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Mexitron
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Didn't drink Bourbon til I moved to Texas---something about the south made me understand the flavor better...still drinking it after I moved back to
CA---love it! Knob Creek, Maker's Mark when I have the dough---HH Weller, Ancient Age, or Walker will do otherwise.....good mixers anyway. 
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
and.....what makes a whisky a "bourbon"? i don't think i have been schooled on that fact.
i think i like the Irish whiskies best, Tullamer Dew for one, and also another one who's name escapes me - not bushmills which is everyday stuff but
another large vol seller. - Jameson, that's it. |
http://www.whiskychat.com/2009/09/whats-the-difference-betwe...
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wessongroup
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Cool link .... Yep .. Those old boys take drinking seriously .....
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Ateo
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I'll drink whatever is in front of me......right now that happens to be a vodka martini.
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Cardon Man
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Didn't drink Bourbon til I moved to Texas---something about the south made me understand the flavor better...still drinking it after I moved back to
CA---love it! Knob Creek, Maker's Mark when I have the dough---HH Weller, Ancient Age, or Walker will do otherwise.....good mixers anyway. |
I hear that...when I'm feeling "rich" I buy Woodford Reserve or Maker's. But now that we have Bulleit in Mexico and at under 300 pesos...it's my #1
spirit.
I used to buy Evan Williams in Los Cabos...but they don't carry it anymore at La Eurpea. Tragedy. That was my "affordable" bottle.
Now there's this "Kentucky Supreme" stuff and I haven't found much info about it on line. $112 pesos? I thought it would be terrible. But it's pretty
much ok. Better than a stick in the eye.
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AmoPescar
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Ahhhh Bourbon Whiskey......
I have tried and enjoyed most of the fine elixirs mentioned here. Very few of them that I have sipped and didn't enjoy!
When price was an issue, I always thought 'Rebel Yell' wasn't too bad for the money. I've seen it on the 'TOP' shelf of several fine establisments
that specialize in serving fine bourbons.
When you are crossing into Baja, be sure to check out the 'Duty Free' stores. They all carry a good selection of the better products and the prices
are excellent! I've always taken several bottles with me when I crossed and have never had any problems doing it. Always just had it sitting on the
back seat or floor in plain view.
Miguelamo 
Nomad Amigos...Here\'s hoping you all have safe Baja travels, amazing sunrises, sunny days, comforting breezes, beautiful sunsets, tasty tacos,
cold cervezas and frosty margaritas!!
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MitchMan
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In my youth when I used to manage c-cktail lounges and restaurants, all us coctail lounge managers were alcoholics or near alcoholics. What I found
interesting was the common evolution from non-drinkers or casual drinkers to becoming "experienced" frequent drinkers.
Everyone started out drinking mixed drinks, usually weak rum based tropical dinks. After drinking alot of that stuff, everyone graduated to asking
for and wanting more rum in the drink. The next level was when you got tired of the sweetness in the drinks, then you graduated to bourbon and 7-Up
or rum and coke and an occasional boiler maker when the evening got going. Next was gin or vodka and tonic. Finally, the sweetness of even those
drinks was too much, that's when everbody went to bourbon or scotch and soda water. Now the drinker had arrived. But, when you start drinking alot,
which everybody eventually did, everyone inevitably graduated to the occasional bourbon or scotch rocks with a water or soda back (plain small glass
of soda water or plain water with some ice in it). You had completely arrived if you abandoned the bourbon or scotch and soda mixed drink altogether.
By that time, all of us managers were functioning alcoholics in fact or nearly so.
Finally, I noticed that virtually all of us were exclusively scotch drinkers and only a few remained bourbon drinkers, very few. And, all were into
the heavy smokey scotches like Pinch and Johnny Walker Black. You never drank beer, too weak. You only drank wine if there was no scotch around.
Several tell tale signs of alcoholism was that bill boards with those beautiful pictures of the crystal clear icy moist glasses of booze were all
looked at while driving and that they were sooo beautiful, in movies everytime you would hear the "chunky" of ice in a glass my interest would perk
up, and finally, straight scotch had a "sweet" sugar water taste to it and no "burn" going down. Man, that was trouble.
Those days are past, mostly because the body can't take that kind of abuse any more. Now, my wife and I have a full bar at home and have a glass of
cream sherry before dinner occasionally, and from time to time we'll enjoy a Manhattan up with good bourbon and a good sweet vermouth.
It is only lately that I have been turned on to beer. I keep stocked on Negra Modelo in Baja and Miller Genuine Draft in bottles in USA. Dos Equis
is not bad at all, and kinda like Pacifico Clara. Keep a couple of 6 oz empties of Pacifico clara in the truck box in Baja, turn it in at a Mexican
liquor store and pay only $6 pesos for quick shot to head behind the corner in my truck on those hot La Paz summer days in town. Once an alcoholic,
always an alcoholic, just drink less so that I don't die.
[Edited on 2-21-2012 by MitchMan]
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DavidE
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"Heem Beem!"
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by AmoPescar
I've always taken several bottles with me when I crossed and have never had any problems doing it. Always just had it sitting on the back seat or
floor in plain view.
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Surprised they didn't make you "Pay the Piper," Mike. Rules going in are about the same as going out and I think it's one liter allowed.
You must have been wearing your Santa Claus ensemble.
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bigzaggin
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Just got a bottle of Black Maple Hill from a friend for a gift. Even as a sworn Irish Whiskey guy (Bushmills 10yr, Tyrconnell and - if $$$ allows -
Midleton) I was blown away by how good this stuff is.
http://www.thebeerandbourbonreview.com/wp-content/uploads/ca...
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Mexitron
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MitchMan
In my youth when I used to manage c-cktail lounges and restaurants, all us coctail lounge managers were alcoholics or near alcoholics. What I found
interesting was the common evolution from non-drinkers or casual drinkers to becoming "experienced" frequent drinkers.
Everyone started out drinking mixed drinks, usually weak rum based tropical dinks. After drinking alot of that stuff, everyone graduated to asking
for and wanting more rum in the drink. The next level was when you got tired of the sweetness in the drinks, then you graduated to bourbon and 7-Up
or rum and coke and an occasional boiler maker when the evening got going. Next was gin or vodka and tonic. Finally, the sweetness of even those
drinks was too much, that's when everbody went to bourbon or scotch and soda water. Now the drinker had arrived. But, when you start drinking alot,
which everybody eventually did, everyone inevitably graduated to the occasional bourbon or scotch rocks with a water or soda back (plain small glass
of soda water or plain water with some ice in it). You had completely arrived if you abandoned the bourbon or scotch and soda mixed drink altogether.
By that time, all of us managers were functioning alcoholics in fact or nearly so.
Finally, I noticed that virtually all of us were exclusively scotch drinkers and only a few remained bourbon drinkers, very few. And, all were into
the heavy smokey scotches like Pinch and Johnny Walker Black. You never drank beer, too weak. You only drank wine if there was no scotch around.
Several tell tale signs of alcoholism was that bill boards with those beautiful pictures of the crystal clear icy moist glasses of booze were all
looked at while driving and that they were sooo beautiful, in movies everytime you would hear the "chunky" of ice in a glass my interest would perk
up, and finally, straight scotch had a "sweet" sugar water taste to it and no "burn" going down. Man, that was trouble.
Those days are past, mostly because the body can't take that kind of abuse any more. Now, my wife and I have a full bar at home and have a glass of
cream sherry before dinner occasionally, and from time to time we'll enjoy a Manhattan up with good bourbon and a good sweet vermouth.
It is only lately that I have been turned on to beer. I keep stocked on Negra Modelo in Baja and Miller Genuine Draft in bottles in USA. Dos Equis
is not bad at all, and kinda like Pacifico Clara. Keep a couple of 6 oz empties of Pacifico clara in the truck box in Baja, turn it in at a Mexican
liquor store and pay only $6 pesos for quick shot to head behind the corner in my truck on those hot La Paz summer days in town. Once an alcoholic,
always an alcoholic, just drink less so that I don't die.
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To quote an old friend of mine "I don't drink nearly as much as I'd like to". 
But yeah, that Bourbon goes down nice. 
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MitchMan
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How about, "when I'm by myself, I drink alone".
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J.P.
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When I drank Black Jack was the drink of choice,
Since I stopped drinking I can relate to the saying, It's Hell to wake up in the morning knowing thats the best you are going to feel all day.
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DavidE
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Location: Baja California México
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The best drink in all Mexico. 22-year old tequila out of my 20 liter wine cask monkey that I hauled down to the mainland and filled in 1989. Arrandera
tequila from Jalisco. A tiny producer who uses oak to fire his 2 stills. The cask came from Heitz Cellers and was used to age cabernet sauvignon.
The liquid is beyond smooth. Rich mahogany tint. The flavor starts out soft ("what's this?") and slowly grows in the mouth. The closest thing to
compare to would be five star Remey Martin reserve.
I have slightly less than half a cask left. I give half-liter gifts of it for birthday gifts to old mexican friends. The cask is in michoacan.
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