I thought it might be fun to keep a little running log of the last 10 beers, wines and whiskies I’ve consumed.
So, without editing, or deletion for crappy/embarrassing selections (though I reserve the right to insert explanatory parentheticals) here they are:
Last Ten Beers Consumed: (last updated 12/27/09)
1) Schlafly Dry-hopped APA
2) Schlafly Dry-hopped APA – 30,000th barrel celebratory gravity cask
3) Schlafly Dry-hopped APA – cask
4) Schlafly Dry-hopped APA – cask
5) Schlafly Dry-hopped APA
6) Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
7) Capital Brewing Pilsner
8 ) O’So Brewing Rusty Red
9) Schlafly Dry-hopped APA
10) Schafly Dry-hopped APA
Last Ten Wines Consumed: (last updated 12/27/09)
1) 1996 Phelan-Segur (Berry Bros. & Rudd bottling)
2) 4 value sparkling wines for this week’s Noble Writ
3) 2002 Breton Bourgueil Nuits d’Ivresse
4) 2006 Woodbridge California Merlot (holiday party – this was actually pretty nice)
5) Cameron Hughes Lot 114 Sonoma County Zinfandel
6) 2007 Muga Rioja (white)
7) 2005 Sierra Cantabria Crianza Rioja
8 ) 2005 El Coto Crianza Rioja
9) 2006 Pride Cabernet Franc Sonoma County
10) 2006 Rhys Alesia San Mateo County Pinot Noir
Last Ten Whiskies Consumed: (last updated 12/23/09)
1) Islay Mist
2) Springbank 10 yo
3) Islay Mist
4) Buffalo Trace
5) Islay Mist
6) Black Bottle (this bottle is very flat compared to one my father-in-law toted back from the UK a few years back . . .)
7) Highland Park 12
8 ) Teacher’s
9) Teacher’s
10) Springbank 10 y.o.
Holy cow, Dave — terrific feature! This reminds me: guess what Maduro has on tap right this minute? Mahr’s Pilsner. I passed it over in favor of something else, but I’ll be there soon to get a long, thoughtful taste.
Ooh, I may be springing for another keg of that this summer. Great pilsner there.
So I had one last night, Dave, and it was good — but I decided I prefer Czechvar. Mahr’s was quite lemony, to the point that it was rather like drinking a hefe on a hot summer day. I’m glad I finally had the chance to try it, though.
Glad you got to try it. Sorry you didn’t like it more. It is very different than Budvar, but I came to really enjoy it too. Budvar is still the beer I think I’d choose if I could only have one, so I understand the attraction there.
I will suggest trying it again on a different day, given how one’s palate changes from day to day.
How was the Czech Brou dark?
The Czech Brou dark is decent value for the $5.50 Trader Joe’s charges for it. It’s hoppier than Warsteiner Dunkel, but it’s got a weird spicy hop or yeast flavor that I don’t like very much. It doesn’t seem to be present when drunk alone, but with food, it’s there and not pleasant.
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Damn! I fell out of the top 10!
C
Simple solution there Carl, we just need to get together and drink again!
What did you think of the Bogedal? Had one a month or so ago when Dylan had them at “33″. I really enjoyed it. Very unique.
I thought it was a really nice beer. My friend Zac described it as Alpha Klaus without the hops, which I think captured it well. I thought of it as a pretty estery Porter. No way in hell I’d drop $30 of my hard-earned for it though – that’s more than half the cost of a sixtel of something very nice.
Ok…do I need to have a talk with the boys down at 33 about this Scotch Ale?
That would be the “Dylan, Jake and Mike” in question. Apparently they’ve been brewing for the last few weekends.
I will make the trip this afternoon and grill them on it. Maybe just to mess with them, I’ll walk in with an empty growler!
Too funny, Eric. I would love to see the expression on Dylan’s face.
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i bught on litre of islay mist 8 years old this is th worst whiskey i have try.
i am a whiskey lover and this is the first time i through away half of the bottle ,my father was sitting on the other side of the tabel and he say it was smelling like rubberglue.
i was thincking that a 8 year old whiskey was better than this.
is it something wrong with the bottle i got.
Bjorn, thanks for posting. It’s impossible for me to say whether the bottle you have is not good or not. We don’t see the 8 y.o. version of Islay Mist in the U.S. – only the “Deluxe.”
Islay Mist is very peaty whisky – the nose for me (I just took a smell of the open bottle I have here – which is Deluxe, not 8 y.o.) is peat, smoke, iodine and some tar. It is not a malty smelling whisky at all, though I find a lot of malty/grainy notes on the palate that balance the peat nicely.
The only single malts I have that approach the level of peatiness are Ardbeg and Laphroaig (Islay Mist is owned by Laphroaig and contains a lot of that whisky). So, it may be just peatier whisky than you (and your father) prefer. If you drink things like Ardbeg with pleasure, then something may be wrong with your bottle.