Missed #stoutFriday due to other activities, opening #stouturday with a banger that is stout-adjacent enough to qualify 😎
#firestoneWalker 2022 Stickee Pig is a central coast quad ale aged in #whistlePig rye whiskey barrels with BA maple syrup!
I’d roll in this quad mud any day! Rich with caramel and vanilla, full bodied with a whiskey and maple finish.
It’s #Vermont cold where I live, so I’m having some Vermont rye whiskey. It works.
While at Julio's Liquors today for a Macallan Master Class and the Whiskey Roadshow, I picked up a couple of bottles that I'd been waiting on, the WhistlePig The Boss Hog XII and Westland Garryana 10th Edition, which is (coincidentally? Probably not) also their first 10 year old.
Which is lucky, given the massive theft earlier this year. 12,000 bottles stolen, including 3,000 of the 7,500 bottles of Garryana 10th. So it's going to be rarer than usual. https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-articles/the-1-million-westland-whiskey-heist-where-could-it-all-end-up/
I cracked The Boss Hog XII tonight and it's not bad, but I was hoping for more of a cacao hit - I really didn't pick up on it. But it is certainly better than the hideous XI from last year. No one I've poured that for had liked it. It's awful.
This sweet baby posed for me after we got quite close to each other, I've encountered them before and they are much bolder near humans with their house right by a sidewalk than most whitslepigs.
But wait, there's more!
I managed to pick up WhistlePig The Encyclopedia of Rye - Volume 2 for a fantastic price.
Volume 2? What about Volume 1? I had that too, for a similarly fantastic price, until I got sniped. That's how I learned the hard way that Whisky Auctioneer ends their auctions at midnight, even if bids are still being made.
They have sniping protection that is supposed to extend the auction a few minutes every time a new bid comes in, but there is an undocumented hard stop. I got outbid less than a minute to midnight and was in the process of upping my bid when the auction ended. I suspect the winner knew about this loophole, which I've since confirmed.
So now I'm still hunting for vol.1. I've seen it on sale in the US, but for stupid high prices.
Anyway... Then there were some random bottles. Starting off with a couple of different bottlings of the Mortlach 16 Flora & Fauna. Due to a misunderstanding, I picked up a few of these. I now have three, so I'll probably send a couple on to auction myself.
I also picked up several grain whiskies. I love those and they're often overlooked. The North British 1980 Cask Strength was originally only available to employees of the distillery. I'm not sure the age on this one.
Another North British, this one 30 years, a Caidenhead Single Cask 43 year Invergordon and a Forgotten Gems 30 year Invergordon.
#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Rye #WhistlePig #Mortlach #NorthBritish #Caidenhead #Invergordon
Three little WhistlePiggies went to the auction, and cried 'Wee! Wee! Wee!' all the way to my home. 😁
I picked up a few bottles from Julio's Liquors recently. The Russell's Reserve Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society "Buddha-ful" 9-year straight bourbon, celebrating Julio's 50th year. The WhistlePig Whiskey Snout-to-Tail 10-year bourbon. Ardbeg Eureka! Committee Release. Maker's Mark Loch & Key "Second Curtain", the last of that stave combination. And Black Tot Rum 2021 Master Blender's Reserve Rum. I was missing this one (I have 22-24) and was pleasantly surprised to find Julio's still had it.
Go Whiskey Week is coming up fast. Tickets to events are selling out, so jump on those.
#Whiskey #Whisky #Bourbon #Scotch #Rum #RussellsReserve #WhistlePig #Ardbeg #MakersMark #BlackTot
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