The Son of Scotch Thread

I got a bottle of Macallan 18 as well.  Unfortunately for me I am on call and cannot crack it open until the 5th.  Killing me just looking at the box.  

Haven't tasted it yet. I have to admit I bought it cuz I liked the name and packaging. i gave to my dad for Xmas.

I found a local supermarket (prolly a sort of Trader Joe's for you) with a huge whisky section. Gonna be trying a lot of new stuff.

Admittedly I'm a newb in whisky. I had a beer phase where I was trying tons of different beers but now whisky's taken over. I'm trying to narrow down my tastes between Speysides, isles...etc.

The Jura is excellent. Very smooth with a smidge of peat.

So does anyone ever just chill out and get fucking hammered on a $30 bottle of J&B around here?

You guys must either be fucking loaded or little pussy "sippers" to drink this $100+ a bottle hooch all the time.

Either way, I'm skeptical of your blue collar "hampur" credentials. 

Idk, I know I sound like a dick but I just never understood it.

I've never drank hard liquor (or any alcohol) for the taste. 

If I want something that tastes good, then I'll reach for a Coke or a Dr. Pepper.

Now, I won't drink any kind of god awful, super bottom shelf shit...but I've personally never understood why a lot of snobs act like Budweiser is some kind of undrinkable piss or how some think that Jim Beam, Jack Daniels or J&B is some kind of horrible shit that they wouldn't even an eye at.

Fair enough

I'm not proud of it, but I usually knock back a 12 pack about 4-5 times a week on average.

So running out and buying $30 12 packs of "craft beer" isn't much of an option, unless I want to seriously cut back on the coke & whores budget.

Which isn't happening...

At all

Jcappy and Rex pretty much summed it up for me. I'll add that if I'm "slumming it" my drink of choice is Dewar's. And at 46 years old, I rarely if ever drink to "get hammered"; the buzz from drinking a few scotches while socializing or just chilling is plenty. If that's your thing, so be it, but it really isn't for me.

Far from loaded, but the scotch indulgence is one of my very few. I love watches but haven't bought a new one in years; really getting into cycling, will probably buy a new bike soon, my first in 3+ years. Beyond that, there's really little I spend money on outside the norm. 

That said, the amount you say you drink in beer every week is equivalent to me buying 2 bottles of ~$100 scotch every month, give or take. And not trying to be judgy in the least, but that's a lot of beer consumption per week. Everything I've learned in school and see at work has made me have a new-found respect for my liver and alcohol consumption, so I would ask that you consider tapering off somewhat and maybe drinking for enjoyment in lower quantities instead of in excess so as to get inebriated. Liver failure is one of the top 2 or 3 worst ways I've seen people go, in many ways worse than some cancers. Again, just a friendly PSA, nothing more.

Does anybody know why they discontinued green label. Was it as simple as just sales were that bad ? I always thought for the money it was a pretty smooth drink, have 3 bottles stashed.