Favourite whisky
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- TheBlueOne0
Since you've already posted my fav, so I have no need to add anything else.
- scarabin0
- Indeed, nicely spotted. But trends can change in a year :)VanDerFull
- agreed, which is why i didn't timeline :)scarabin
- moldero0
- macallan 21 is is exquisitescarabin
- I have a 15 in my kitchen now, these are hard to get in Mexico.moldero
- yeah 21 is great, last time I was in SF i think it was $25 or $30 for a drink.moldero
- i dropped $75 for a double the other dayscarabin
- i think i'll stick to buying bottlesscarabin
- shit man, good stuff though.moldero
- haven't tried macallan, looks REALLY tastyqwasazzygreyrezebby
- jetSkii0
- japanese whiskeyjetSkii
- After Laphroig & Talisker, then I like the Japanese scotchesTheBlueOne
- you know it's not technically scotch anymore once it comes from japan, right?Jordy
- hargbine0
way too tempting to post...
so maybe he should've started thread "...of the week"
- VanDerFull0
Started following Ralfy's whisky reviews, I certainly like the man's style...
- moniker0
Whatever is in reach really.
- brandelec0
- nice, Don Draper stylerandommail
- This or Wisers are my go to weekday Whiskeys.moniker
- randommail0
- I've got a bottle of that at home. Absolutely glorious stuff.soundsinsilence
- haven't tried this stuff either looks awesome...qwasazzygreyrezebby
- e-pill0
- Balvenie, I have thisvitamins
- default house scotch at my placescarabin
- good valuescarabin
- Ah..also a good oneTheBlueOne
- not bad, i remember getting this stuff at trade joesmoldero
- the balvenie that ismoldero
- AMAZINGclearThoughts
- 'tis good.gramme
- Try the 15, worth the extra (OK double)comicsans
- randommail0
- i've tried oban, which is a little smoky for my tastes but good nonethelessscarabin
- I ordered a bottle of this for a friend's birthday this week. Heard it's very goodFax_Benson
- Oban is Scottish, not Japanese.gramme
- Generally speaking - Japanese whisky isn't smokey.Peter
- CygnusZero4-1
Ive never tried goat piss before, but whiskey is probably the closest thing ive ever had to it, except goat piss is probably better for you.
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- he's very emphatic on this point http://www.qbn.com/t…scarabin
- we should pool our resources and ship cygnus a bottle of goat piss for him to tryscarabin
- or some wine coolersscarabin
- Dont get me wrong, if Im out I can handle it, but its really not something I can just sit around and drink at home.CygnusZero4
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- digdre0
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 helped bring about the demise of the aristocratic Federalist Government in favor of the democratic Republican Government, concerned with the needs of all of its citizens.The new country of the United States of America suffered many growing pains in trying to balance its commitment to liberty with the need for order. How much control is enough and what will be too much? After the Revolutionary War, the country purposely did not have a strong central government (that's what we fought against with the British). The states did as they pleased because the Articles of Confederation in 1781 gave them every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the Continental Congress. Congress had no power to tax, regulate commerce, draft troops, or enforce foreign treaties. It was mainly a friendly overseer: thus the expression "the Do-Nothing Congress." Each state considered itself sovereign, free and independent, and easterners and westerners were separated by geography as well as their own concerns.
The whiskey tax was collected at the source instead of the point of sale. If the whiskey was sold in the west, it was taxed 28%, but if it was sold in the east, it was taxed 14%. Collecting tax on the output of the still meant the farmers had to pay tax on whiskey they consumed themselves, which was not sold. Stills had to be registered, but not every county had a tax office, so most westerners ignored the law. Trials of excise tax cases were not permitted in local courts, so offenders had to travel to federal court in Philadelphia. The time to travel to Philadelphia, the cost of the travel, lawyers and witnesses made the westerners feel they were being deliberately picked on. In July of 1792 the farmers began their resistance by tarring and feathering an excise officer who tried to open a tax office in their county. Bloodshed between the rebels and local militia followed over the next two years.
e Great Lakes; Spain, who held New Orleans, closed the Mississippi River to American shipping below Nachez and actively encouraged American settlers to break away from the Union and establish relations with them; Westerners in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Pennsylvania were subjected to attacks by marauding Indians (often instigated by the Spanish and British). Congress did not have the power to send troops for defense or protection, and the easterners in these states were too busy with politics to worry about their western frontiersmen. Consequently, the westerners did as they pleased with no regard to the laws the easterners made.
Funding and assumption of states' debts required new revenue for the federal government. Aside from issuing bonds, Hamilton recommended two kinds of taxes, which the federal government now had the power to impose. One was a tariff on imports, which Hamilton saw as a way to raise money as well as to protect domestic industries from foreign competition.
- duckseason0
Even older :p
http://www.qbn.com/topics/576522…But as stated, friends can change (in this case, two years)