Since it was a little chilly today, about 10 degrees and I was outside all day I decided to have a little warm me up. I picked up a bottle of Jim Beam Rye on the way home. It is not bad at all. It is different from regular Beam or "corn" liquor but it is not that sweet kind of nasty taste that I would associate with Rock & Rye. They also had a bottle of Pendleton Rye but it was $40.00 which is a little much for me. Anybody else have a little Rye now and again? What is your preference and what is the cost?
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Yep, there is a bottle of Beam Rye in the cabinet at this very moment. I started drinking it after learning it had been an American favorite for many years. Am guilty of splashing in some ginger ale most times. Given I'm mixing it, I'm not one to spend the dollars for the more expensive options.
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There aren't a lot of Rye's out there. Bulleit makes excellent Bourbon, so I'd try their Rye, but haven't as of yet. Beam Rye sucks. The best Rye I've had is High West Rendezvous Rye. It is not cheap. I've got some High West Double Rye in my cabinet now, but haven't tried it yet. It's much less expensive than their other offering.
Bulleit 95 (95% rye mash, 90 proof)is my everyday Rye. Not too expensive but very nice. Low $20s at Total Wine. I've got a bottle of Willet's Single Barrel Reserve (110 proof) for special occasions (High $30s at Total Wine).
There's some other good ones out there I'm not as familiar with, Templetons, several High West products. Total Wine (a huge discount liquor chain) has maybe two dozen types in stock at any one time.
i actually picked up the wheat mash one and its actually decent for what it is.....one of my buddies thought i was nuts when i grabbed it but he likes it aswell
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What I don't like about these white dogs are their prices. They should be markedly cheaper since they don't incur the materiel and speculative costs associated with extended aging, but typically they are as expensive, or even more, than the usual product.
What I don't like about these white dogs are their prices. They should be markedly cheaper since they don't incur the materiel and speculative costs associated with extended aging, but typically they are as expensive, or even more, than the usual product.
for what lil i drink it doesnt matter much.....guessing they are more expensive cause its a shorter run so no matter what you do your bottling/packaging costs are gonna be higher......yeah the "whiskey" itself in the bottle is cheaper but the rest of it is more expensive to do than the regular run which drives up the unit cost.....
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They don't have to make a special run, other than labels. If they pull the usual fresh distillate that would ordinarily go into barrels, guess what? It's white dog.
They don't have to make a special run, other than labels. If they pull the usual fresh distillate that would ordinarily go into barrels, guess what? It's white dog.
im guessing they arent bottling by hand which means it costs money to change over the machines from bottling the regular whiskey....plus being they are smaller runs the set up and getting the labels printed costs more.....all that changing over of the bottling machines takes time and time costs money, and short "novelty" runs wind up costing more money even if the actual product itself costs less....your hoping the novelty off sets the lack of disire for the customer to pay more....
i run a print shop and small lil things that dont mean much to you or that you think in theory should cost less actually wind up driving up the cost because they add time and more time means more money....
i know the "White Dog" is actually itself cheaper cause its coming right out of the distiller and your skipping the aging step so in theory it should cost less and if you show up and ask them to fill up YOUR bottle straight out of the tub coming off the distiller than i agree with you, it should be a cheaper product......but im pretty positive the short novelty run of bottling up a batch actually wound up driving up the price due to the low over all volume of product....
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