Friday Night Drinking Thread
Which release of ECBP? I'm still trying to get my hands on the A120 but I've not seen it in Georgia yet.
Currently drinking a blend of a whistlepig 10 year store pick @119.8 proof with their standard 12 year old world.
B519. I am going to an in home whiskey tasting "class" that a friend won at a fundraiser auction and Whistlepig 12 year is going to be there. I've never had Whistlepig, so I am looking forward to seeing if it lives up to everything I've heard about it.
I can get it at Costco here in the $80 range and since I like wine finished ryes, I find myself going back to it a lot. I compare it a lot to High West's MWND (just lower proof). Plus, it keeps me from killing off too many of my fancier ryes too quickly.
I'm not opened the B519 yet. Still nursing an A119. It's really opened up well over time.
Admittedly not well versed in barrel proof bourbons, but I really am really enjoying B519. I received it as a Christmas gift and have not let myself have more than a glass per weekend to make it last, as I usually don't buy whiskey for myself in that price range unless it's a special occasion
You need to start a follow up thread tomorrow am.
Picked up my first bottle of ECBP last week. C919 release @ 136.8 proof. Really like it. How does your Whistlepig compare to ECBP?
Different animals for me. The ECBP is so rich in classic bourbon notes. Like I'm drinking one of those chocolate chip cookies baked in a cast iron skillet.
The whistlepig is lighter, spicy, refreshing and fruity sweet. Much less oily than the ECBP so I find myself drinking it earlier in the evening.
Whistlepig is a rye, correct? Thought I saw it at the store here in MI when I got the ECBP. Love your chocolate chip cookie description ?
we're uncultured, even compared to hillbilly, but i can't imagine anything named 'whistlepig' being anything other than moonshine. bad moonshine at that.
It's fancy stuff out of Vermont. Honestly, having talked to a guy who did a barrel pick up there, I'd imagine their distillery probably resembles your homestead.
Google whistlepig farm for pics. I'd post some but I can't seem to do it from my phone.
googled it. that is one heck of a barn. we have a big barn relative to up north, but its nothing compared to that. we're maybe slightly less hilly, but with way more trees on the margins and no giant bankruptcy tube. we farm organically. check a guy called joel salatin and that is really the blue print for how we run our gig.
Had no idea a chicken tractor existed until just now.
we have built a bunch of chicken tractors. we raise hundreds of 'meat birds' every year. they are pastured poultry, and they get bigger and eat what they're supposed to eat when we pasture them.
ours look a lot like this:
Of all the things I never expected to see on mgoblog, it would be someone following Polyface farming practices. I don't have a farm so I just read his stuff, but really enjoy Joel Salatin.
Yes, it's a rye. If you aren't big into rye but like high proof, then I'd suggest Pikesville to try. Just barely a rye but oh so good.
Thanks for the advice, always enjoy your expertise ??.
You can have a well spent Saturday skiing in Stowe, then heading to Whistlepig, then heading ten minutes down the road to The Alchemist brewery to pick up some Heady Topper or Focal Banger.
Starting with Elysian, space dust.
Aldi has these $3 wines that are pretty damn good. Follow up with some Wellers bourbon and some smoked pork chops and waiting to watch Giannis vs Lebron at 10:30. Probably be passed out by halftime,
just took our burgers off the bbq. red pop in an old coffee cup. absolutely crystal clear night up north. oldest daughter home for spring break. and we are apparently up 3-0 on sparty in the 3rd. that's a pretty decent line-up.
You guys ever bust out a telescope out there XM? Before the baby came we would head over to the Dartmouth Observatory on clear Friday nights to look through their telescope and it never disappointed. The only downside was that the clearest nights were also the most bone chilling ones.
we have one that is never used, kept up in our chicken brooder collecting dust. heaping shame on my head for that one. i have taught the kids about basic astronomy and navigation though, simple stuff like finding the north star, orion's belt, the planets.
one of our neighbors is part of some astronomy society though and a couple of summers ago had some monster, i mean monster telescope in his driveway and invited us over to see the planets. it was wild. this scope was like a 10' long/tall oil barrel with lenses. very cool and the kids loved it.
I read recently that the brightest star on Orion’s Belt is blowing up. Super nova or something. The sky won’t be the same without it.
Where can us city folk find your wares to support your existence? I apologize if I've missed details elsewhere about what you produce (or if it's even for more than just your fam), but we're all about small and local (e.g., we're huge fans of Pond Hill and other 'Up North') and even grow as much of our own as we can (Read: not much).
Enjoy having the big one home.
we do supply more than just our family. people order from us in the spring and we raise the amount of cattle, sheep, chickens, turkeys, etc that they request. we custom butcher the animals at their respective harvest times - chickens are mid-summer usually; cattle and sheep are typically finished right before rifle season.
Do your usual customers take up your capacity or do you have room for others? I'm working my neighbor to going halves on a sheep. We've talked about doing this for a while but haven't made the leap.
we are not at capacity. i could sell more but i/we are just too busy doing the other things of life. that said, its no big deal to add a sheep to the herd, so to speak, and if you are serious about it we can connect through back channels. one thing about sheep though is that although we have had what i consider exceptionally good meat from them, they do have the widest variance in terms of finished size ranging from barely over 50lbs (live weight) to close to 150. i have not figured out the 'why' of that variance.
If I can get my wife and neighbor on board, we're serious. We've talked about it before and looked into John Henry, but I like doing business with personal connections (and this blog is personal for me).
I'll keep you posted.
High West Whiskey Double Rye out of Utah.
I was on a Basil Hayden run for a few weeks and this is as good or better.
cran raspberry seltzer water.
How's my favorite MGoPooch Merlin? Hope both of you are doing well ?.
Watched a Scotch documentary on a Delta flight last week. It was about the Island of Islay whisky history and one dude’s journey from high school drop out to the most renowned whisky maker in the world.
I had Bruichladdich 2011 (Islay Barley) in my glass. Delish!
Too much.
A little wine, a little bourbon tasting. And this work and internet surfing isn't gonna finish itself.
New Glarus Cabin Fever.
New Glarus, one of Wisconsin's finest breweries. Wish they would distribute here in Michigan.....
America's*