Zzul Mapping Music and Whisk(e)y Thread

[killer5]

It seems there is another forum which is more focused on fun instead of.. whatever the fuck the rest of the community is shilling. So will restart my Doom/whisky journey here and maybe make a map or two while it lasts. Here is hoping indefinitely.

I have had quite a few different whiskies since my last post on DoomerBoards. Will talk about them as I get to them. Some of them are unicorns I have been looking for. Some nice finds that I was surprised with.

Glenglassaugh Sandend 50.5% abv:

I have seen this one in the shops for a while now but never really pulled the trigger because it was rated as the #1 whisky last year here: whiskyadvocate.com/top20

I am very skeptical of these lists because I just feel it is all paid marketing. Some reviewers mentioned it in a few of their videos and confirmed that it was pretty good (I am a fan of www.youtube.com/@curiositypublic and they gave it a gold). So I decided to try it out myself.

I was very unimpressed with the neck pour. I let it open up for about 20 minutes and yet it still seemed kind of closed and hard to get many flavors out of it. After about an hour the whisky changed dramatically and for the better. The whisky has an amazing mouth feel. It coats your mouth giving it a velvety feel around your tongue. I generally love whiskies which give me this feeling because it has a direct correlation with the finish for me. The finish lasts quite a long time with this whisky (for me anyways). After I take a drink I can sort of lap my tongue on the roof of my mouth and get a great sort of.. darker fruit flavor while exhaling which is excellent. I can also still slightly taste the whisky about an hour after finishing a dram.

The whisky is 50% but not harsh at all (although I have been enjoying cask strength whiskies lately so take this with a grain of salt). The extra abv really adds to this whisky. I feel like without the extra abv it wouldn't be close to what it is being presented as now.

Flavors of the whisky are great. I get a lot of fruit notes on this one. For me there is a red apple note I get which is amazing, maybe some grape fruit as well (with a slight bit of sugar added). The marketing mentions sea salt.. I never really got this flavor although you could always just interpret this as a more tannin-y feeling after drinking this whisky. It does dry out my mouth eventually compared to other scotches.

Bottle looks great too.

Easy recommendation. Unfortunately it is a non-age statement. So just keep that in mind. Luckily it isn't crazy money so I can forgive it.. but I really wish the distillery would put an age statement on it.

MYSTERY Looking for Something Else - LIVE 2018

Southern Empire - Goliaths Moon

Buckethead - Nn

[thelokk]

I'm assuming the board needs to be x time old to embed YT links? weak.

Anyway, good to see the whiskey diary resurrected. Still don't drink it and just sell it, but still.

[TimeOfDeath]

I had that 'auto-embed videos' option turned off for some reason, my bad.
Whiskey is the only alcohol I used to like drinking, but haven't had any since 2011. Still have the bottle in a cupboard!

[killer5]

Glendronach Revival 15 46% abv
Whiskies which can be considered sherry bombs can be hit or miss with me. Sometimes I get a sort of.. puke note with them which can really turn me off of the whisky. In the past this has happened with one of the bottles of Balvenie 15 I have had in the past (the Balvenie 15 is a single barrel so some will be better than others and I have had some which were absolutely amazing). Luckily the Glendronach 15 is not a single barrel, apparently tastes very similar to the older version of the 15 which a lot of people love, and is void of the puke note that I sometimes get with whiskies that feature heavy sherry influence.

On the nose tonight I get a very heavy, thick, sweet aroma featuring vanilla extract (currently reminding me of that vanilla you get in that small bottle for baking), maple syrup, chocolate, and nuts. Great nose. Sitting here just smelling the dram instead of drinking it for most of the night whilst drawing lines.

On the palette I get hints of raisins, more chocolate (darker chocolate with higher cocoa %), bit of darker fruits as well (for some reason plum comes to mind), and more nuts (specifically walnut). Not harsh at all. 46% is a great abv for whisky.

The finish is probably my least favorite part of this whisky. It doesn't last too long for me. Very front loaded and then it is sort of just gone (it isn't short, but not too present either).

Apparently the whisky is chill-filtered now which has left a lot of people a bit miffed about the bottle because it used to not be. However like I had mentioned a lot of people have also said that it tastes very similar to how it used to be years ago so many don't really complain (granted that *was* many years ago so take it with a grain of salt). Personally I can go either way. I would prefer my whiskies to not have coloring/chill-filtering but it doesn't ruin the experience for me.

Easy recommendation however. Another whisky which is also This one has been on my list to buy for a while and I am glad I did. Will probably compare it to Macallan 12 Sherry Cask next time I get the chance because they are similarly priced. If you need something a bit cheaper then Glenmorangie 14 would be an easy recommendation. It isn't as intense as this but you still get a lot of chocolate in that whisky's profile. I could get two bottles of Glenmorangie 14 for one of these. As an aside Glenmorangie 10 and 14 are two of the best whiskies to get people into scotch. The 10 is a bit more citrus-y and the 14 is a bit heavier and darker. I prefer the 14 but both are great scotches for the price.

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[pitch-a-sue]

While I can appreciate the (mostly) good taste in music, I simply can't state the same on the drink department. Of all alcoholic distimulants I've ever tasted, whisk(e)y is the worst surpassed only by pure vodka (tho, this one only 'cuz it lacks proper flavour when not fancy-ing cocktails).

And my motives to find the well-known scot-petrol a bad take to hold are quite objectively driven, the glaring, being, that it tastes like cheap french-cologne at best and camel urine at worst (which makes me wonder why muslims don't go for-it as a decent alternative for their holy fluids).

Other of said motives are causalities issues directly associated to it's usage, as, even if low-key, such soars the throat and triggers diarrhea pretty easily (although, tbf, these fx can be quite advantageous when you conveniently need them as alibi to look ill and skip work, funerals, weddings, etc. -an insta party-pooper enabler, if you will-, therefore, putting such bottled solution into the 'somewhat BASED' category as a 'not so expensive, quickly applicable means to achieve rather questionable ends'.

Even if now my booze biz are solely reserved for social meetings, still I'd vehemently suggest a full-on coup d'état to your palate, mr. killah, and replace that liquified britannic muck with good old-fashioned brandy as it's vastly superior in flavour, classier in looks and similar in kick (+ it leaves you with no deleterious side-effect [as longs as you're not driving, of course, duh!]).

[killer5]

I have had a few cognacs in the past and enjoyed them. Still have a Remy Martin XO I should pull out again (it is just one that everyone seems to recognize so i figured it would be a good one to share). Enjoy cognac quite a bit however I haven't had enough of it to determine what I like. I have tried brandy (not cognac) when I used to travel for work a lot (per diem, hotel bar chilling). It was also quite good however I don't remember which one I had as it was a while back.

Stinks you don't like whisky! But everyone's tastes are different.

Happy drinking/listening.

[pitch-a-sue]

No stinker in not-liking grain-liquor in my books but since you have a thing or two for that ethanol-drenched peehole-serum, mr. killah, have you ever consider becoming a mohammedan? Think about it! All things haram (like alcohol consumption) can be totally halal if you just climb the leaderboards high-enough and are not caught on the act. For that matter, you can also:

• larp as godfather as much as you wish with no bad repercussions in the middle-east
• call all your oppositors islamophobes in the west and be backed-up by all sorts of colourful creatures (even courtshiped by them in some cases, which, depending on how you feel 'bout such; you can always lure those into a round of parkour way-up the rooftops when they're no longer useful)
• piss while squatting without a fear of hurting your masculinity in the process
• and, last but not least; have total of four ninja waifus, plus, bear as many sex-slaves as your right hand can hold and that's, like, gold!

Well, at least for some - me (myself and I) not so much.. seems too tiresome for the poor johnson to keep-up with the abuse but sometimes, just sometimes, my mind flews o'er that cuckoo's nest and I think about starting a double-life. I mean, wouldn't be hard at all to go there. My father have had more than a few exchanges with tariqua fellows back in his esoteric years - so I could simply ask him for directions, his contacts and boom! (goes the dynamite World Trade Center).

I remember, in my sweet-sixteens, while accompanying dadda in his overtime breaks at the bank, saying, when we casually meet a few of such exotic folks there or down the sidewalk, that they were quite the cunning type and had already figured-out every single way of dodging their doings from the minutia of the law. Which basically means 'no worries when putting in-motion your own desperate housewives show'.

You know, on that marital front, age isn't a biggie, in fact, there all sorts of crazy things you're allowed-to yet it can be a personal problem to yours truly since I'm not that inclined of interacting with ladies nowhere near outside my aging-group, (but!), while on hypothetical grounds; if I manage to do-so and fetch-me two-pairs of slow-thinking, squirting teenie cum-holes that means that I can be some sorta Master Splinter and have my own TMNT series! (albeit a xxx parody of such). Or! Instead of such lazy, half-hearted feminizing of renaissance painters' names I could, instead, rebrand mine after more contemporary ninjutsu practitioners, like: Jade, Kitana, Mileena and Skarlet (which would make-me Shao Kahn by default, although, that kinda sounds too grand of a delusion of grandeur to have).

Oh boy, I must have misspent much more than 15 minutes staring at this fancy bottle of wine while doing groceries today - trying so hard to pull that 'become the spoon' tech I saw in-the-movies just to cheat my soberness a little and be the glass holding that fine liquid. It worked, somehow, couldn't taste a damn thing but I feel drunk alright. Anyways, if chu's still not convincing.. try-out this redneck pearl o' wisdom:

[killer5]

Tequila: Fortaleza Anejo

So Fortaleza blanco has been my favorite tequila for quite some time. The one I was able to find a while back, because it is basically unobtainable in Texas unless you are insanely lucky, was absolutely stunning. The blanco basically tasted like a margarita but.. just tequila straight. No additives.. nothing. I am seriously planning a trip to Mexico to simply visit the Fortaleza distillery.. it IS that good imo.

So how does the anejo compare to the blanco? Simply put it is very similar, still heavy agave presence, earthy, natural tartness, that the blanco had.. but just a bit more laid back and barrel influenced because of the age. Luckily the barrel is only slightly present, to me, and doesn't mask all of the bright flavors that the blanco originally had. Such an amazing tequila.

Drinking this anejo really makes me appreciate having the blanco first (because an anejo is simply a blanco aged in a barrel). You really do taste the original blanco, but are now able to extract the other flavors from the aging process.

So which one do I like more? Tough to say. Because I had the blanco I knew what to expect from the anejo, it is still incredible but my tastes in tequila really favor blancos and reposados (because repos are still pretty bright in flavor since they aren't aged too long). This anejo is still amazing though. Easily in my top 5 favorite tequilas.. beats out all of Cazcanes imo except for the repo (seriously Cazcanes repo #7 is amazing). I would put this on par with Cazcanes repo #7.. maaaybe just above but I would need to a/b them blind to see which one I like more. The Cazcanes is much easier to find so if you want something on par with this definitely try to find a Cazcanes repo #7.

Anyways amazing tequila.. highly recommended.. if you can find it just buy it. Right after I found this bottle I also saw that Wes Thrailkill released a new album. Definitely check it out! Link: www.westhrailkill.com/

Until next time. Be merry. Happy drinking.


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Definitely check out the instrumental album the song below is from too.

[killer5]

Whiskey: Blue Spot 7y/o 59.1% abv

This is one of those whiskies that has been on my list for quite some time now. Having tried all of the other spots and their different versions - Green Spot Quail's Gate is the one you should be buying if you can find it - I have always wanted to check this one out but just never have because of the exorbitant prices of some Irish whiskies recently. I don't get why Irish whiskey is priced so high now.. it is just like a switch flipped and all of the older/rarer Irish whiskies went through the roof.. so annoying. Redbreast 21 is now around $500.. and this Blue Spot, not on sale, is closer to $300. $300 for this whiskey is just highway robbery.. it isn't even close to being that good. I finally bought one for $220 because a liquor store in Texas called 'Twin Liquors' was having their dollar sale and I was able to get it for $80 off the normal price at the store (but still overpriced imo). Luckily Green Spots, and Yellow Spots are still closer to what they used to be.. Yellow Spot is definitely worth your time and is the best 'Spot' whiskey IMO (barring Green Spot Quail's Gate but that is a limited edition so it isn't readily available).

So anyways is Blue Spot worth the price at $220? No. Is it a good whiskey? Absolutely. It definitely has the 'Spot' character but tastes more like a solid bourbon with a mix of Irish whiskey IMO. Everyone I shared this whiskey with ended up at the same conclusion. So if you have a bourbon you like, especially at around this proof which is easy to find in the bourbon world (at a much lower price too), just stick with that and skip this one imo. Try it out at a whisk(e)y centered bar if the bar has is available.

Not much more to say. Solid whiskey.. and if it was closer to what it used to be.. like low $100s or something.. I might have bought it every now and then. Anything above that and it should be an instant skip unless you aren't buying (and even then you should be telling the person buying to get another whiskey instead of this because there are so many absolutely amazing whiskeys less than $220 or god forbid $300 before the price discount in some stores atm).


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