Spirits Drinking Forum

spiritsmith · Post by **spiritsmith** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:04 pm

Does anybody know if there is a large forum that is specifically about commercially made spirits and peoples reviews? They are pretty common for wine and I've seen some whiskey sites but they have almost no one on them. Any help would be great, thanks
Spiritsmith

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:44 pm

start here a new topic?

Post by **Husker** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:58 pm

There is this topic on page 2 of the novice forum:

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5267

There is also this sticky in the flavor/age forum, for store bought essences

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2788

H.

spiritsmith · Post by **spiritsmith** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:26 pm

I was thinking more of a group of people that are analyzing spirits of all types through a multifaceted approach involving; tasting and nosing, cross comparison of similar products, identifying common themes in these products and working together to understand what causes these different elements to manifest in said spirits through their understanding of making spirits themselves.
ie one might think that a whiskey is out of balance due to excessive time in new oak or an over charred bbl.. I don't know I see forums like this about wine that talk about terriour(sp) and percentages of new oak to old oak in the blend as well all sorts of different elements they are trying to quantify in different ways to how it represents itself in the glass.
Thats what I am trying to find but for Spirits.

Post by **HookLine** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:46 pm

This isn't quite what you are looking for (apart from anything else he get virtually no comments at all), but he has a bunch of links (top right of page) that might help you.

http://spiritsnotebook.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

spiritsmith · Post by **spiritsmith** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:11 pm

Not exactly what I'm looking for but I sure I'll be spending a few hours going through his back blogs.
thanks

grainhopper · Post by **grainhopper** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:19 pm

spiritsmith wrote:I was thinking more of a group of people that are analyzing spirits of all types through a multifaceted approach involving; tasting and nosing, cross comparison of similar products, identifying common themes in these products and working together to understand what causes these different elements to manifest in said spirits through their understanding of making spirits themselves.
ie one might think that a whiskey is out of balance due to excessive time in new oak or an over charred bbl.. I don't know I see forums like this about wine that talk about terriour(sp) and percentages of new oak to old oak in the blend as well all sorts of different elements they are trying to quantify in different ways to how it represents itself in the glass.
Thats what I am trying to find but for Spirits.

Hell thought that was what we were doing here.....we just aint doin it in a snooty falootie kinda way.

grainhopper · Post by **grainhopper** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:21 pm

We have guys that use big words and all, some know about kimicals

pintoshine · Post by **pintoshine** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:01 pm

http://www.whiskymag.com/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow is one I read regularly. It covers the aged liquors mostly but there is some discussion of the other spirits.

Bsnapshot · Post by **Bsnapshot** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:10 am

hear is a link on rums

http://scottesrum.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:57 am

I could add a forum for that, but I'm afraid my reviews of some of the products out there would be rather harsh compared to what most whiskey mags will print.

spiritsmith · Post by **spiritsmith** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:19 am

Thats what I'm interested in not the reviews of a critic that is working for a magazine generating all its capital from ads for the spirits he is reviewing(they can't bad mouth anything then), but a group of drinkers and zealots who aren't concerned with what this or that critic gave said 18 year old scotch as a rating.

pintoshine · Post by **pintoshine** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:33 am

The whiskey mag forum is a bunch of drunks and collectors that will honestly tell you what is good and bad and the magazine clearly says that the opinions on the forum are not theres at all. The whiskey mag does use a lot of the comments I've seen. Anonymously of course.

spiritsmith · Post by **spiritsmith** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:20 pm

I'm still not finding exactly what I looking for in these links(although I will continue to read them). I wonder if it exists?

Post by **HookLine** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:37 pm

Maybe not. Might have to start up the forum yourself.

bushido · Post by **bushido** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:10 pm

Good section on eggnogs in dowd's blog site there. Going to have to try some of his recipes this week.

Post by **MudDuck** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:49 pm

http://www.straightbourbon.com/homepage.html
Mostly just for Bourbon but you may be interested anyway.

pintoshine · Post by **pintoshine** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:58 pm

I read that one a lot too. It has sections for non-bourbon spirits. They have some good international conversations about spirits and bourbon. I have posted my collection of master distiller signed bottles on there in one of th collectors topics. These guys are right on most of the time but tend to be a bit biased to price.

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kevin · Post by **kevin** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:02 pm

http://ministryofrum.com/forums/index.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

HERES A GOOD ACTIVE SITE FOR RUM ENTHUSIASTS.

Post by **manu de hanoi** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:19 am

Uncle Jesse wrote:I could add a forum for that, but I'm afraid my reviews of some of the products out there would be rather harsh compared to what most whiskey mags will print.

How is that a problem ?

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your right but thanks just the same

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thanks again for all your help

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