Beer, Wine and Spirits Review Thread
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nonconformist
Miserable
Jaegermeister
A quite refreshing German drink made from some forms of herbs.
Price: ** Around £15 for 75cl, so it'll set you back a bit, but it's worth it.
Flavour: *** if warm, ***** if chilled. Like aniseed. Pretty strong. Not for the faint of heart.
Strength: *** Around 35% ABV, i.e 70 proof. Not bad. Could get you rat arsed.
Image: ***. Nothing like looking like a Teutonic warrior. RARGH!
Bushmills 10 year old single malt whiskey
Wonderful whiskey
Price:*. I managed to get a bottle for the cheap in France for £12, and it was worth it. You're looking at about £25 on this side of the Channel, though.
Flavour:**** Very nice, when a dasdh of water is present. It's definitely a whiskey, but you can taste the maturity, and there's a definite flavour of honey.
Strength:**** 40%ABV, 80 proof.
Image:***** With this one, you can look either like an Irishman, or a whiskey conoisseur, both good things.
Strongbow
Price: ***** Can't get cheaper. A bottle for less than £2.
Flavour:*. Tastes like someone took an apple, infused it with diesel, then drowned it in sugar to mask the taste of pure Kuwaiti oil. IT'll rot your teeth.
Strength: *** Around 6%, so enough will getm you drunk.
Image: *. If you wan an image as a granny-robbing, policeman-thumping, cat-eating, homeless yob, then this one's for you.
A quite refreshing German drink made from some forms of herbs.
Price: ** Around £15 for 75cl, so it'll set you back a bit, but it's worth it.
Flavour: *** if warm, ***** if chilled. Like aniseed. Pretty strong. Not for the faint of heart.
Strength: *** Around 35% ABV, i.e 70 proof. Not bad. Could get you rat arsed.
Image: ***. Nothing like looking like a Teutonic warrior. RARGH!
Bushmills 10 year old single malt whiskey
Wonderful whiskey
Price:*. I managed to get a bottle for the cheap in France for £12, and it was worth it. You're looking at about £25 on this side of the Channel, though.
Flavour:**** Very nice, when a dasdh of water is present. It's definitely a whiskey, but you can taste the maturity, and there's a definite flavour of honey.
Strength:**** 40%ABV, 80 proof.
Image:***** With this one, you can look either like an Irishman, or a whiskey conoisseur, both good things.
Strongbow
Price: ***** Can't get cheaper. A bottle for less than £2.
Flavour:*. Tastes like someone took an apple, infused it with diesel, then drowned it in sugar to mask the taste of pure Kuwaiti oil. IT'll rot your teeth.
Strength: *** Around 6%, so enough will getm you drunk.
Image: *. If you wan an image as a granny-robbing, policeman-thumping, cat-eating, homeless yob, then this one's for you.
Xanikk999
History junkie
I have a question for you wine enthusiasts. Are some of those really really expensive wines really worth it?
Im talking about the $10,000 per bottle wine thats supposed to be the wine of the century.
Im talking about the $10,000 per bottle wine thats supposed to be the wine of the century.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I had a drink called a "Third Reich" the other day. It was really neat, it was Goldschlager, Peppermint Schnapps, and Jaegermeister, it tasted like a breathmint, and acted like mouthwash. Very good!
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
After extensive field testing in the days of my impetuous youth, I eventually settled on Anchor's Liberty Ale. Their Steam is really good too. Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale was really good, but they changed it somehow and now it just tastes harsh. Guinness is good, but only the extra stout out of the bottle. It loses something on tap or in the "draft in a bottle/can" versions.
I also like Sweetwater's 420 a lot more than I expected to, but I'm embarrassed to admit it so I won't.
I also like Sweetwater's 420 a lot more than I expected to, but I'm embarrassed to admit it so I won't.
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
The inclusion of any one of those three ingredients would've been enough to dissuade me . . .
RedWolf
Deity
Few of us have ever had a $10,000 bottle of wine.
I can honestly say that on average a $15 bottle is better then an $8 bottle. But there are always exceptions to the rule since price is often dictated by demand/popularity and wineries often release a new wine that's great but so far "un-discovered". So eventually your "under $10 gem" rises in price and your search begins all over again. There's also some personal preference involved of course. So it's possibly to like a cheaper wine better then a more expensive wine.
But $10,000 - nothing I can consume in less then a half hour is worth $10,000 TO ME. So my answer is no.
No that's just collectors, to be frank you find a good wine in your price range and drink it, if you have obscene amounts of money you may collect them and probably never drink them, but IMO that defeats the object.
RedWolf
Deity
I actually just saw a show on Food network about one of the big casinos in Las Vagas - The Bellagio.
They have the biggest wine cellar in the world. The priciest bottle they have in stock sells for $17,000 per bottle - and he admitted that they sell probably 6 - 10 per month.
Really, just goes to show some people are idiots, wealthy but idiots, why not donate $16,585 dollars to some worthy cause and buy a decent but cheaper bottle of wine, instead of feeding the rich with more money and being an asshat
Makes you sick doesn't it?Thankfully not all rich people are that selfish, or stupid.
RedWolf
Deity
Really, just goes to show some people are idiots, wealthy but idiots, why not donate $16,585 dollars to some worthy cause and buy a decent but cheaper bottle of wine, instead of feeding the rich with more money and being an asshat
Thankfully not all rich people are that selfish, or stupid.
I've always thought that ridiculously expensive food is obscene because I don't understand how it can be justified.
Let's consider a car for example - sure a Porsche is "worth" $100,000 (or whatever) because you can't get a Porsche for less. Thats the ticket price. It's just a matter of whether you want it bad enough. You either have a regular car for $30,000 or you have a super car for $100,000.
But let's consider wine - a $30 bottle is a pretty good bottle of wine. So how much better can it get? Yeah ok a $60 bottle might be twice as good. And a $90 bottle might be 3 times as good. Fair enough. But can a $17,000 bottle actually be 566 times as good? It's impossible.
RedWolf
Deity
I bought a wine rack with the intent of collecting - unfortunately having more wine in the house just increased my concumption - so in the end I still never had any in the rack. Now I buy it as I want it. Disourages my potential alcoholism.
Veritass
Emperor
I heard about a winery called Cameron Hughes Wines on a radio talk show where they were interviewing the president. They are at http://www.chwines.com.
They are a moderate-to-high-end winery that buys up surplus of "good juice" from wineries and blends it themselves. Each lot is simply numbered, e.g. "#23", and when they use it up, it's gone. We have tried several different lots, typically at $11-14 per bottle, and have been very pleased with the quality of the product: they taste like they are much more than the cost.
They are a moderate-to-high-end winery that buys up surplus of "good juice" from wineries and blends it themselves. Each lot is simply numbered, e.g. "#23", and when they use it up, it's gone. We have tried several different lots, typically at $11-14 per bottle, and have been very pleased with the quality of the product: they taste like they are much more than the cost.
Drewcifer
Agent of Karma
I am inclined to say no but with a couple of caveats.
First of all I have never had a $10,000 bottle of wine but I have had a number of $100 - $500 bottles of wine (all on other people's dime, it is a perk of being a chef). Most of those are only 5-10% better than a well chosen $35 bottle, some are worse. So whether it is worth it is mostly a factor of how much money you have and how much you like wine, if you are Bill Gates or the Duke of York it probably matters less than to you or I. Those are the people those wines are marketed to.
For pretty much any style or variety of wine out there you can find a really fantastic bottle for between $20 -$40 - there is no reason to spend more. There are two exceptions to this - Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo (Italy's best grape). Both grapes have very specific climatic requirements and have very small areas of cultivation, because the supply is so limited demand bids up the cost of good ones. If you want to drink them you have to pay because there are almost no good cheap versions. Loving good Pinot Noir is a horrible affliction but at it's best it is the best wine in the world.
mrlaze
Chieftain
Regional micro brewerys are the best IMO. Anything from North Coast Brewery in CA is good, my favorite being Red Seal Ale. Out and about I like Stella if I can find it. Newcastle is a good standard beer that you can find almost anywhere these days. I like Seirra Nevadas Brown Ale on those rare occasions I happen to find it(Only seen it twice). I like Sapporo when at Asian resturants, goes great with sushi IMO. Free, cold beer is also very good.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
For expensive wines, the high prices are a feature unto themselves - they show how rich, classy, and generally uppercrust you are.
Myself, I generally avoid the very cheapest wines, because they tend to taste like #¤$%&, but only a few price classes above them prices start to rise indefensibly faster than quality.
Myself, I generally avoid the very cheapest wines, because they tend to taste like #¤$%&, but only a few price classes above them prices start to rise indefensibly faster than quality.
Jawz II
Oh Dear
What is it with drinks and really ridiculous names?
I never had a meal called an "orgasm" (never had the drink either) or "crazy Ivan" or "plowing anna" so why drinks?
My theory is, the people that name race horses (jockeys?) are the same people that name drinks, that jockying gig probably dosent pay too well, so they all have to work evenings as bartenders.
I never had a meal called an "orgasm" (never had the drink either) or "crazy Ivan" or "plowing anna" so why drinks?
My theory is, the people that name race horses (jockeys?) are the same people that name drinks, that jockying gig probably dosent pay too well, so they all have to work evenings as bartenders.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Simple: Those who name them are thoroughly drunk.
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