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S-Cackalacky wrote: Oh, I think I know what a shitty heads cut taste like, but usually only after the fact. After years of abusing my taste buds and olfactories, the cuts don't come easy. I need to have my daughter around when I do cuts - she has a talent for it.

That's one of the reasons I always leave what I think is the first hearts jar and first tails jar out when I blend, then I come back the next day and try them again and most of the time they go to the feints jar. I agree about the URRV, it's good stuff but tricky to get the cuts right. Yesterday I found a bit of it I did last year. It's good stuff but I honestly believe I liked it better young.

Just finished blending up 2 gallons of Lemoncello and had a little left over. I said self you should drink this and not waste filling a small jar only half full. It was a good thought.

jedneck wrote:

Bigbob wrote:Any sweet feed left Jed?

Yup savin it for a special occasion.

I would be honored sir, if you considered 11/10/15 a special occasion !

Bigbob wrote:

jedneck wrote:

Bigbob wrote:Any sweet feed left Jed?

Yup savin it for a special occasion.

I would be honored sir, if you considered 11/10/15 a special occasion !

That would be a mighty fine special occasion.

Drinking a "raspberry syrup" that for sure isn't what the bottle says it is. Whiskey made by good old HDNB. And cigars. They will have to wait until tomorrow!

Regards, Odin.

The Timehop app on my phone let me know this afternoon that I bottled up a batch of Kriek and a batch of Chocolate Doppelbock one year ago today.

I really hadn't liked the doppel even after 6 months, but today it's a completely different beer. The cocoa has mellowed, and while it used to be almost dry and bitter (which can be good with chocolate), it had sweetened up a little bit and was really tasty.

Tomorrow I'll bust into the Kriek, but what I'm really looking forward to is blending the two into a chocolate-covered cherry.

My malted corn 60%, malted white wheat 15% and rye 15%. Been on heavy char oak for 4.5 months, it just went from good to heavenly.

Sounds good Jed! Drinking some (what else?) SWEET FEED! Pretty fresh and not bad.....

Not home at this time. Up at the kid's place in the PNW so tonight it's a cuppa joe laced with Kahlua and a dose of peppermint vodka in a BIG mug.

tp

who else noticed the BIG was in ALL CAPS ????

Carry On TP

RR

The very last shot n a half tb's year old gen5. Even spanked the bottle trying to get the last drop out... It's a sad day I tell ya'.

ranger_ric wrote:who else noticed the BIG was in ALL CAPS ????

Carry On TP

RR

The doctor said I could only have one drink in the evening. Can I help it if it's a big'un?

tp (obviously gaming the Dr.)

S3 from the barrel. Damn near a year old and quite tasty. The corn has really come forward followed with nose and palate by the barley. Of course the rye and smoke are there but they have both mellowed into a very pleasant finish.
Amazing what time on the wood will do. Sweet followed by spice and the most unique smoke I have ever experienced.
Had my doubts at first about this cottonwood smoke but now WOW!
When I first put this in the barrel I would have said never again with the cottonwood. At 6 months and at the S3 meeting I would have said never again. Now I see barrels in my future. Next to my Bentfinger Bourbon my new favorite.

The anticipation of TB's 5th gen is gettin me to Friday... I saved a bit for Friday night and am sure lookin forward to it...I don't have enough to get me "through" Friday night but I have enough for a fine snort complimented by a cigar.... before I supplement it with some UJSSM.
TB, I thank you for sharing your efforts.....

Carry On
RR

He didn't specify that you couldn't celebrate several evenings in one evening , did he ?

Naw. Where there's a will, there's a justification. Or somethin' like that.

tp

Not sure how "he" is but my evening to celebrate is Friday evening...And having some TB 5th gen with a Fuente 8-5-8 sungrown cigars makes it spectacular...

Come On Friday....

Carry On
RR

woodshed wrote:Had my doubts at first about this cottonwood smoke but now WOW!

Happy to hear that, but not surprised. I remember that cottonwood being a little wild and raw, but I figured that would settle down with some time and become an interesting brew.
Glad to hear it has, I bet it is a very interesting whiskey now. I would also bet something similar has happened with Brutal's dark rye whiskey, I would guess that roasty rye has mellowed a bit into something very nice.
Looking forward to an annual tasting next summer!

SWEETFEEDat 52.5% neat.

Muckalee on ice to help fight a cold.
Ga Flatwoods

Some of the hair of the dog that bite me last night.

jedneck wrote:SWEETFEEDat 52.5% neat.

Be joining ya in an hour or so. Got to walk the dogs first!

Im enjoying a nice pour of Flatwoods Jackass Juice Circa 2012. Very nice, smooth sweet and a bit fruity.

Yuenling lager with a big salad.

S-Cackalacky wrote:Yuenling lager with a big salad.

S-C That's a coincidence. I'm about to go outside and have a Yuengling Lord Chesterfield Ale and a nice cigar. I don't smoke in the house. Enjoy yours buddy!

Laphroaig 10 year cask strength. Peaty, youthful, slap you around intense. House whisky of a cousin's husband we lost after 46 years. I raise my glass to you "Big Brown!".

A salty sour Gose.
Desthil "Here Gose Nothing" on tap, run through a beer Randall stuffed full of rum soaked blueberries.
Actually only half as crazy as it sounds, quite good.

Picked up a bottle of 'Beer Barrel Bourbon' from New Holland in Michigan. Its aged for 'several years' in a new bourbon barrel, and then finished in a barrel that aged their Dragons Milk Stout. Its..... f'in gooood. Very smooth, no heads bite, a little subtle sumthin sumthin from the Stout barrel. High scores for this one, they did it right. Recommend if you see it try it.

+1 just sayin
I do love Laphroig... I always and forever hated scotch UNTIL after a great day at work a fellow salesman pulled out a bottle of Laphroig.... Let's just say that life changed with those first few sips....
SOMEDAY (way down the road) I hope I can replicate such a smokey, peaty, awesome drink (without the heads and headache)..
Laphroig is my FAVORITE Scotch..

Carry On
RR

Jimbo wrote:Picked up a bottle of 'Beer Barrel Bourbon' from New Holland in Michigan. Its aged for 'several years' in a new bourbon barrel, and then finished in a barrel that aged their Dragons Milk Stout. Its..... f'in gooood. Very smooth, no heads bite, a little subtle sumthin sumthin from the Stout barrel. High scores for this one, they did it right. Recommend if you see it try it.

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I've found the same with Jameson that is finished in a stout cask, I find it gives a bit of body and a warmness that's not there is the normal bottle.