Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Rick, a Scotch question for you

I guess I should keep it to myself that most of my whiskey comes out of a plastic bottle! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I know I've had that kerosene. Ardbeg 1977 is the most I can afford in a decent scotch, but (gasp) I do like Crown Royal. So for my everyday whiskey its Windsor, for camping, hunting and special occasions its Crown Royal, and if I come across a really good cigar out comes the Ardbeg. If you are going to smoke $$$$ might as well drink $$$$.

jackfish,

I never tried Windsor. My "everyday" is R&R. Is Windsor better than R&R?

Live well, in moderation

Windsor Canadian is a cheap Canadian blended whisky. I get it for $13.60 a 1.75 liter. I've never tried R&R, which I take is cheaper than Windsor. I watch for sales on 750 ml of Crown Royal for which I spend from $14 to $19. A 700 ml of Ardbeg is purchased about once a year for about $110 to $125.

I never could get into the Scotch, too much bourbon in the bloodline, I guess.

I found out last week that there is a distillery in Mo. that makes a really good, dry, second use barrel whisky.

Of course, the family would disown me if they knew I was drinking it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

A distinguished Scotsman sits at the bar and orders a glass of 20-year old scotch. The bartender, thinking the old gentleman will never know the difference, pours him a glass of 15-year old scotch for the same price.

The Scotsman spits the offending liquor on the floor and DEMANDS to receive what he asked for. The impressed bartender dutifully complies.

The old drunk that was sitting a few stools away staggers up to the Scotsman and slurs, �Taste this please,� and hands him a glass.

The Scotsman sips, and then spews the drink across the room. �That tastes like PISS!� he screams.

�It IS piss,� says the drunk, �but how old am I?�

My own favorite booze recipe, picked up in Africa...

Go into the forest and find large oil palm tree. Knock it over, allow it to sit for two weeks. Incise tree and collect slowly dripping sap in large clay pot, allow pot to sit all day while fermentation is actively occurring (oddly enough involving bacteria and not yeast).

Distill over open fire in old, rusty 55 gallon drum. Serve in an old soda bottle in a remote, dusty village. Only one glass is needed between every one in the party.

To drink, pretend its water and toss it down (if your body has time to think about it, it ain't gonna happen). Sleep it off lying out in the dust, wake up to chickens and goats looking down at you curiously as they pass you by.

Called "Kill Me Quick" in the local vernacular, admittedly this stuff doesn't bring with it an air of misty Irish hills, banjo-picking Tennesse backwoods or fabled Scottish grouse moors.

On the other hand, ALL hard liquor is rotgut poison, the African variety just being more up-front about it is all.

Birdwatcher

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I'm on that wagon, myself. Don't know who let him on, It wasn't me. Guess he jumped from the paddy wagon when nobody was lookin.

Regards, sse

Suuure Birdwatcher, tempt us with visions of heavenly nectar - knowing full well the shortage of oil plam trees in Minnesota. You're a mean man.

Do you think a pine tree would work? It might add a gin-like snap...

Had a glass of Glennfidditch (sp?) last night before dinner. I liked it. Though I'm not con-a-sewerish enough to know if it was peaty or smokey or crap, it tasted good. Take a sip, and tastes lingers for awhile. Good stuff.

Talisker. Period

Hiya Jog <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />, the way I understand it, if African booze were inftroduced into Minnesota, most folks would die of hypothermia at the close of festivities.

Hiya back.



Hypothermia? Well, at least with the African booze I wouldn't freeze completely solid.



Speaking of barred owls...it's breeding season here. I'm pretty sure I've mention this to you before but it's worth repeating. Of all the sounds I've heard, there is nothing like a bunch of barred owls having a full-scale territorial screechfest on a clear winter's night.



Barred owls aren't big on scheduling such events, but I sure hope you get to hear one someday.

JOG... birds? I think I seen them once on the Discovery Channel.

Bought some Glen Eden last night and will say it is far from the Glenfidditch that I had previously. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />