• Neondragon25@piefed.social
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      11 hours ago

      if you are looking for whiskey: Westward, Dickel, Clemens, 6666, Tincup, Heavens door, Westland, Balcones or Bear fight are good options.

      If its Bourbon: Highwest, Redwood empire, smoke wagon, Penelope, Remus, Pursuit, Old forester, Michters, Russell’s, Dancing panda, Lasso, Hirsch,Four roses, Basil Hayden are all good to decent options

      For Scotch: monkey shoulder, Glenfiddich, Drambuie, Aberlour, Brenne, Dewars, Glenlivet and Singleton are good options

      for Irish whiskey: Jameson, Writters tears, Red Breast, Slãint, and Whistler are decent picks.

      For Japanese whisky: Toki (white or black) kikori and Nikka and Sato Hiki are good Japanese picks

      For Canadian Whisky: Pendleton, crown, black velvet, Pike Creek and forty creek are decent options.

      I tried going with options I have not seen in the comments and I tried to make sure very few was MGP or other white label distilleries. Also I was aiming in the 30ish to 60ish USD range.

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        5 hours ago

        Solid reccomendations, thank you! I haven’t tried about 60% of the list, I’ll see what the nearby stores have and get sampling!

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        9 hours ago

        Goddamnit, you reminded me Glenfiddich exists and my bottle ran out ages ago. You monster. <cries while purchasing>

        (not an alcoholic, you’re not a monster, just to be clear, I just love the occasional sip of that one, it was my grandfather’s favourite.)

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        9 hours ago

        Japanese whiskeys are nice. Suntory and Nikka Days make pretty good mixers but if you wanna sip there’s always Hibiki.

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          9 hours ago

          Happy cake day! I thought about including Hibiki but most prices I see on it start around $50+ but I totally agree, good sipping.

          • shads@lemy.lol
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            8 hours ago

            Have you tried any Australians, specifically Tasmanians. I have a half dozen names I could throw out but not sure how far out of Australia they have name recognition. Well besides the Springbay but that’s nowhere near the price range these days.