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If you could sample any drink in a liquor store, what would it be?
Asked at On The Rocks Liquor, 1818 Mass. on January 16, 2012
“A really fantastic wine.”
“A top-shelf whiskey or tequila. Like more top-shelf than Patron.”
“A top-shelf whiskey. I’m a whiskey guy.”
“Probably a vodka or wine.”
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Comments
GUMnNUTS 1 year, 4 months ago
Anybody card those kids?
GUMnNUTS 1 year, 4 months ago
Something with alcohol.
vertigo 1 year, 4 months ago
Macallan 30 year single malt scotch
riverdrifter 1 year, 4 months ago
The Balvenie 30 single year is superior to the Macallan 30 in every way, laddie. "The coopers were better to keep clear of the drams because they disnae last any time. The manager, the first thing he asked me was if I was teetotal. Like I say, as far as whisky's concerned, it disnae worry me - I take it if I need it." -Davey, a Bowmore cooperer
TopJayhawk 1 year, 4 months ago
Correct you are drifter.
Balvenie is the stuff. Is the thirty yr the same as the Port Wood? Yum Yum.
Got a bottle at home. Give me a call.....No wait, I have the extra strength viagra in a botle at home. You know, the Balvenie double wood....Ha . Good stuff too.
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
Them ALL !!!
oh . . . wait . .
jimjones 1 year, 4 months ago
Absinthe. Doesn't seem to be something I'd purchase, but I'd try a free sample.
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 4 months ago
I've often wondered about that stuff!
Newell_Post 1 year, 4 months ago
It tastes like a cocktail of of creme-de-menthe and Listerine. Charming stuff.
Newell_Post 1 year, 4 months ago
...and Ouzo. It tastes like a cocktail of creme-de-menthe, Listerine, and ouzo.
coolmom 1 year, 4 months ago
was fun at a party once...
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 4 months ago
Churpi. It is the cheese that lasts.
Easy_Does_It 1 year, 4 months ago
Read the warning label, "May cause you to spend night in jail! "
jehovah_bob 1 year, 4 months ago
It's smooth, tastes like scotch. I got a JW sampler for xmas with the red, black, gold, and blue. Nothing I'd go spend $200 a bottle for.
coolmom 1 year, 4 months ago
it is pretty good stuff. i like the double black as well but its almost to hard to find.
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
i gots th besht margrit reshippee but 7 aM ish to dam erly forit
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
Whoever got layed off that was responsible for the online picture posting, bring 'em back. The double pics of Tyshawn is giving me a migraine. or it's the margaritis . . .
rockchalker52 1 year, 4 months ago
Wavin' the Wheat State, baby!
Bock, Schnapp Way to cop Free Booze.....Woo!
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
Monday Night Raw pre-empted by B-ball again . . Next time she gets to record the game
Wooo
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
beat me to it . .;-)
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
OTS question for tomorrow . . .
"How does Wikipedia being shut down for 24 hours affect you?"
Ron and I will be at a loss for words . . .
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 4 months ago
No kidding! I wanted to look up absinthe for my comment above but without wiki, I can't quickly and easily look up its exact history. It was illegal for a very long time in some countries, and I think it still is in some.
labmonkey 1 year, 4 months ago
Right now, I would like to try some Kracken. I do not want to buy a fifth (which is kind of a two year commitment) before I try it.
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
Do they still make Bali-Hai?
That cr@p packed a Hawaiin punch . . .
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 4 months ago
Yes, they still make Bali-Hai. But you might have to go to Asia to buy it, since it's made in Indonesia and apparently not exported to the United States.
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 4 months ago
A violation? I thought of a fantastic answer to the question posed for this OTS, but I think very quickly it would read like this:
"This comment has been removed for violation of the Terms Of Service."
RoeDapple 1 year, 4 months ago
methinks the wine had already been poured . . .
rockchalker52 1 year, 4 months ago
Anyone that ever got drunk on Boone's Farm deserved the fate that befell them, like the scar on the bridge of my nose. Don't pass out on a bunk bed & then get up to go pee in the middle of the night. Note to self: you're on the TOP bunk, you idiot.
JayCat_67 1 year, 4 months ago
If I knew what I wanted, I wouldn't need samples now, would I? But since they're handing them out... :-P
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 4 months ago
Haiti swore a pact to the devil to get free from the French and ever since, they have been cursed.
Agnostick 1 year, 4 months ago
One of these might be interesting... assuming there's a bartender around.
http://www.drinknation.com/ingredient/aftershock-8
Andini 1 year, 4 months ago
Either Boones Farm or Mad Dog 20/20...flip a coin.
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 4 months ago
I miss Ripple.
Blessed4x 1 year, 4 months ago
Ouzo. Ever since my wife forced me to go see "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" I've wanted to try it. The movie was good, now for the alcohol.
Katara 1 year, 4 months ago
You'll like it if you like black licorice.
CWGOKU 1 year, 4 months ago
One of each. Well, except no wine, thank you. Not a wine drinker.
beatrice 1 year, 4 months ago
Life is too short to drink cheap alcohol. I'd love to have a go at a 1868 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild.
"Like more top-shelf than Patron."
Oh, good god. Why do I think he spelled it "then" in his head?
Alceste 1 year, 4 months ago
Sterno: Good for what ails ya....a bit pricey, granted.....buy the best and weep once.....
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 4 months ago
Rara, Take it easy on the nutmeg.
Agnostick 1 year, 4 months ago
Talkin' 'bout booze, gotta bring this up...
Ajax Liquor Store Video Mix by Jim Abbett
CreatureComforts 1 year, 4 months ago
Only a student would think Patron is truly top-shelf. It's only "top-shelf" because they spend more on advertising than on making a quality product
bad_dog 1 year, 4 months ago
A liquor store has got to love a customer named "Bender". Talk about potential...
LadyJ 1 year, 4 months ago
Well, I don't drink, but if I did, I wouldn't waste my time with the stuff on the top shelf. I would want to sample the special stuff they keep in the back room. Now I do know how to make a recipe for a drink that was handed down in the family that involves grain alcohol. That drink will knock your socks (and underwear) off.
looza 1 year, 4 months ago
purple drank
Newell_Post 1 year, 4 months ago
For the scotch drinkers, you need to try 18-year Highland Park. It was voted the best scotch and the best distilled spirit in the world three years in a row. It's about $100 a bottle, so it's not cheap. But $100 is not really very expensive at all considering what they get for some wines.
booyalab 1 year, 4 months ago
scotch or a unique wine I just had a thought.... a store could really sell decanters (and wine) by offering samples of decanted cab sav. I suspect that is an untapped market in Lawrence where most wine drinkers are relatively new to the intricacies of wine.
Also, I think it would be a good idea for the liquor store to ask for 25 cents for samples. That should be enough to dissuade the ones who would take advantage of it. I'd pay a quarter for a sample, why not?
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 4 months ago
Some friends of mine took me on a driving tour along a really beautiful rocky creek, and showed me the Jack Daniels distillery in Kentucky. Or at least, I'm pretty sure it was the Jack Daniels distillery.
There are many whiskey distilleries there, and there had been even more in the past.
I wasn't really all that impressed with the Jack Daniels distillery, all it appeared to be was a few big buildings with a lot of semi trucks coming and going. But there were two things that really did impress me.
One of them was an old abandoned distillery that looked like an old fashioned stone castle. And sure enough, in great big letters at the entrance, it read "Stone Castle". I was sure I remembered an old whiskey called Stone Castle that you could buy years ago!
And the other thing that really impressed me was the shells of really big burned out buildings. There were a few of them, and all that was left was the outer brick walls.
To age the whiskey, it is stored in large wooden casks in really big warehouses. And sometimes there are warehouse fires at the distilleries.
I was told that the fire department there has a standing policy: Let the whiskey warehouse fires just burn themselves out, don't even try to extinguish them.
I suppose that's why all of the warehouses were spaced so far apart.
Newell_Post 1 year, 4 months ago
Uh.... Dude, the Jack Daniels distillery is in Lynchburg, Tennessee. It's south of Nashville.
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