See I am a whiskey Junky, I only have a drink a week {or rather drink once a week} but its always whiskey, summer time will get me to drink beer here and there, but for our saturday night dinner parties Its whiskey, I have 2 small barrels at the house, that we have had a while which is rebrrled from bottles {so it continues to age while we have it} I originally did 5 1/4 gallons each of 2 affordable whiskies {$20 a bottle since you need about 27 bottles to fill each barrrel, it ends up costing around $1200 for the whiskey and the brls}, it has gone down over the years, but still plenty in there, lol....
I am very fond of Irish whiskey, Jameson, Lockes, tyrconnell, and Bushmills all taste great. If you are ever in the liquor store again and in the mood to try a good whiskey that will not hurt you, try the black barrel Jameson Select Reserve, its about $35 a bottle {some places its less some its more} and in my opinion its the best bang for buck available... I don't like the american stuff as much, some knob creeks, makers marks, woodford reserves, and a few others are OK, but Jack, jim, southern comfort, ect I have no taste for... And I don't care for canadian whiskies much either like crown, sec8nds, forty creek, and canadian club, ect are not my taste, I have drank them all, as I do with speakers I like to test and taste, and I like what I like...
My son asked me {this thanksgiving, hes almost 15} if he could taste the whiskey one time and I told him what my father told me "If you taste it now, before you are a man you will never like it" my father told me I would never appreciate it if I tasted it before I was a man... When your a kid and you taste something strong its gross, my wife said maybe we should let him taste it so he never drinks it, but I wouldn't do that to him, lol... He also wants to learn how to shave with my straight edge razor, my wife is so against this, mostly because she doesn't want to admit hes growing up, and I told him when his skin gets a little stronger he can try it. I am good with the razor and once in a while will give myself a cut...
My wife says our sons are going to have a warped sense of what a man is, they are going to think that they have to drink whiskey, shave with a straight edge, use unscented deoderant, sandlewood soap, and know how to dance and play the guitar.... I tell her that is just if they want to be like their dad, which IMO is fine with me and she agrees .... sometimes...
