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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 28, 2008 - 12:42am PT
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personally i prefer a decent rye content:
bulleit or maybe hayden's.
but i'm not a snob.
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Wes Allen
Boulder climber
KY
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Mar 28, 2008 - 01:13am PT
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I am pretty partial to Woodford or knob creek - not the super premium, but still very solid. And, I usually mix with that other *famous* kentucky brew - Ale 8. Had three tonight, actually!
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Mar 28, 2008 - 01:32am PT
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Wild Turkey!
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Mike from Phoenix
Trad climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Mar 28, 2008 - 01:39am PT
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I have had some super premium, expensive bourbons, but don't believe the hype. I keep going back to Maker's Mark.
Just b/c it's more expensive and trendy doesn't mean it tastes better.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Mar 28, 2008 - 01:47am PT
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And here I thought you were a man of refined taste...
Curt
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2008 - 01:51am PT
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Hey, I never thought I'd bail on Rebel Yell for smartass small batch crap. But Bulleit rules. Not that I would turn down good singlemalt, especially cask. But I really like that smoky rye-corn thing.
And cheers for the Ale 8. And Pearl in the can while we're at it.
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Landgolier
climber
the flatness
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Mar 28, 2008 - 01:54am PT
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Evan Williams on weeknights, Kickin' Chicken (Turkey 101) on weekends. Early Times (even though it's no longer technically bourbon) before noon.
I've had stuff rarer than hens' teeth and more expensive than a divorce, and I say the hell with all of that. Leave the snobbery for Scotch, red whiskey is for drinkin', not talkin' about drinkin'.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2008 - 01:58am PT
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yeah, that was my opinion, but i've really come to love the stuff that's right on the rye/corn edge-- smokier, drier, not so sweet. and really cheap compared to even a mass-produced single-malt.
yum.
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Mike from Phoenix
Trad climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Mar 28, 2008 - 01:58am PT
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Curt wrote: "And here I thought you were a man of refined taste..."
I am. I just don't let others tell me what tastes good, let alone a magazine or an ad campaign.
So then what are your favorites? I bet they are really expensive. Have fun spending your money!
Also FWIW, bourbon often costs less in Arizona than it does in Kentucky.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2008 - 02:08am PT
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MikefromPhoenix-- That's precisely the beauty of decent bourbon. Bulleit is only 22 bux a bottle in my overpriced neighborhood. I shudder to imagine the cost of an equivalent single malt from the cask. God bless America. We still make a few decent products.
Actually, the best liquors I've had in the last two years were both homemade. An obstler from the Tirol last year (a colleague in Innsbruck shared a bottle that one of his students had given him) and some weird local stuff that I can't recall the name of from a friend just outside of Fontainebleau. If my dollars were still worth anything I'd go back just for the food and booze.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Mar 28, 2008 - 03:15am PT
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this thread is an inspiration.
yeah, take THAT to the bank.
you all ROCK.
plain and simple.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 28, 2008 - 03:19am PT
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If drinking Piss got you high, people would develop a taste for it and different methods for influencing good tasting piss would evolve and Piss snobs would argue about the accents and flavor of various urine.
Coffee, Wine, Whiskey and Off-WidthAcquired tastes
Just sayin'
Peace
Karl
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Mar 28, 2008 - 03:26am PT
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RE:
" If drinking Piss got you high, people would develop a taste for it"
wow, I just checked into reality - fukkin' cool G.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Mar 28, 2008 - 05:33am PT
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DID you know that a real bourbon can't be altered in any way from distilling and then aging in oak barrels? That's why Jack Daniels is not a bourbon-- it's charcoal filtered.
Also, the expensive bourbons come from barrels stored at the top of the warehouses, where the extra heat brings out more flavor and color from the barrels.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Mar 28, 2008 - 05:48am PT
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"If drinking piss got you high, people would develop a taste for it."
I can imagine that this would be a popular toast: "I'll drink mine if you drink urine."
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Mar 28, 2008 - 06:00am PT
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By the way, once upon a time, urine was used to clean teeth.
So if piss did get you high, you'd get whiter teeth at the same time.
OF course some would say that you'd have to be high to drink piss.
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FinnMaCoul
Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
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Mar 28, 2008 - 08:12am PT
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My favorite is definitely the one in front of me.
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ha-ha
climber
location
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Mar 28, 2008 - 08:15am PT
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karl baba FTW
"This one is just delightful...just a hint of asparagus"
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 28, 2008 - 10:20am PT
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I wrote
"If drinking piss got you high, people would develop a taste for it."
Truth is stranger than fiction
from
http://tinyurl.com/24jez6
"Reindeer are a kind of deer found in the cold regions of Europe and North America (locally referred to as 'caribou'). They feed on grass and lichens, but also have a taste for the fly agaric toadstool, Amanita muscaria, because of its intoxicating and euphoric effects. Amanita muscaria is found in pine and birch woods of western North America, northern Europe, and Asia.
The Sami have a custom of feeding fly agaric to their deer and collecting the urine to drink. The reindeer's digestive system metabolises the more poisonous components of the toadstool, leaving urine with the hallucinogenic and psychotropic elements of the fungus intact. Drinking the urine gives a 'high' similar to taking LSD. Under the hallucinatory effects of the drink, the Sami thought their reindeer were flying through space, looking down on the world. The reindeers' liking for the toadstool hallucinogens are such that they, in turn, have been known to eat the snow on which intoxicated humans have urinated, creating a reciprocating cycle."
And
"Of course, Fly Agaric is not without side effects. As with other hallucinogens, most users experience nausea when taking large amounts. This negative experience can often be avoided by preparing your stomach with a day or two of light eating or even fasting.
Muscarine, another of the potent ingredients in Amanita, can also cause the unfortunate side effects of sweating, over-production of saliva, and muscle twitches. To avoid this unpleasantness, traditional Muscaria-using cultures had the tribal shaman ingest the drug, and then the other members of the group would drink the shaman's resulting urine, which is still highly psychotropic, but purified of many toxins."
That was from
http://www.salvia.ca/store/amanita-muscaria.html
I don't know what to say! That's how Santa gets his reindeer to fly!
Peace
Karl
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 28, 2008 - 10:59am PT
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Knob Creek, Makers Mark, but when I'm camping it really doesn't matter, just hand me the bottle.
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