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Re: Show off your collection

Postby IainB » Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:52 pm

See I have an Arran sherry cask I do like. Maybe there should be a system for swapping open bottles. I feel I'm not the only one here with this problem!
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby JohnM » Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:21 pm

I have lots of open bottles I'm probably not going to get around to drinking.
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby jcskinner » Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:28 pm

varizoltan wrote:but as i always say; your s..t could be someone else's happiness


Big time.
Although I never found anyone wanted the Edradour tokaji finish. God, it was horrible!
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:27 pm

IainB wrote: In a room full of nothing but whiskey, cd's and guitars! And a couple of chairs.

Don't particularly divide them up - I've a few that I intend to keep but sometimes they do get opened - I see no point in buying whiskey for someone else to enjoy in the future!


Sounds loke the perfect room ... nearly.

Just add a nice sound system to play the CD's and an antique valve amp (maybe an AC30) to play the guitar and hey presto ;)

Too un organised to list my open bottles but here is the next best thinh

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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:51 pm

here is my bar at home, about 70 bottles open
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby IainB » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:53 am

IrishWhiskeyChaser wrote:
IainB wrote: In a room full of nothing but whiskey, cd's and guitars! And a couple of chairs.

Don't particularly divide them up - I've a few that I intend to keep but sometimes they do get opened - I see no point in buying whiskey for someone else to enjoy in the future!


Sounds loke the perfect room ... nearly.

Just add a nice sound system to play the CD's and an antique valve amp (maybe an AC30) to play the guitar and hey presto ;)

Too un organised to list my open bottles but here is the next best thinh

Cabinette



Sideboard


Well there's a reasonable sound system. And a 100w Marshall amp with it's own cubby hole in the whiskey shelves. Not an vintage one though. Only one electric guitar in the room, which I haven't played in years. Oh and equally important for the winter - a fireplace. I never put the heat on in that room - I reckon it's bad for the whiskey and the guitars, so I just light a small peat fire when I'm in there and it's cold.
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:01 am

IainB wrote:Well there's a reasonable sound system. And a 100w Marshall amp with it's own cubby hole in the whiskey shelves. Not an vintage one though. Only one electric guitar in the room, which I haven't played in years. Oh and equally important for the winter - a fireplace. I never put the heat on in that room - I reckon it's bad for the whiskey and the guitars, so I just light a small peat fire when I'm in there and it's cold.



Can I come live in your house ... I promise to put the kids to sleep with some tuneful guitar crunching :P


varizoltan wrote:here is my bar at home, about 70 bottles open



Or maybe Z will have me ... lovely bar area Z :thumbsup:
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby Ace » Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:14 pm

My small (but growing) collection doesn't hold much of a candle to what has been posted so far, but I thought I'd chime in with my roster. :mrgreen:

- Bushmills 10 yr
- Bushmills 16 yr
- Connemara 80 proof
- Connemara 12 yr
- Finnegan 8 yr single malt
- The Irishman (70?)
- Irish Manor
- Jameson 12 yr
- Jameson Gold
- Jameson 18 yr
- Michael Collins single malt
- Powers Gold Label
- Redbreast 12 yr
- Tullamore Dew 12 yr
- Tullamore Dew Distillery Reserve (70cl)
- Tyrconnell
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:58 am

That is a lovely selection and nothing to be trifled at ... you have a grand collection there. The Finnegan 8yo single is unfamiliar to us over here and is probably a US only release.

ANy further detail on the label to say where it is from ... probably Cooley but you never know.
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby Ace » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:44 pm

IrishWhiskeyChaser wrote:That is a lovely selection and nothing to be trifled at ... you have a grand collection there. The Finnegan 8yo single is unfamiliar to us over here and is probably a US only release.

ANy further detail on the label to say where it is from ... probably Cooley but you never know.


Thanks, I know the collection is small but I intend to keep it growing. :thumbsup:

You are correct about Finnegan. My best guess is that this is the rebranded "Avoca" whiskey that was available in Dunne's (sp?) stores in Ireland, circa mid to late 1990s. According to Jim Murray's "Classic Irish Whiskey", Avoca was discontinued in Ireland but then rebranded to "Finnegan" and then exported to the Czech Republic and to the Netherlands. My guess is that Cooley then decided to export it to the United States. It showed up in my local liquor store about six months ago.

Edit: upon further research, it appears that you also have Avoca on your shelves now, in Aldi stores.

There are three varieties of Finnegan available here. There is a single malt (no age statement), blend (no age statement) and the 8 yr old single malt. There might be a fourth -- a 8 yr blend -- as well, but my memory is hazy.

Interestingly enough I have never seen Finnegan elsewhere in the United States, even in hardcore whiskey shops. Cask, in San Francisco, did not have it. Even Park Avenue Liquors, in Manhattan (New York City) does not list Finnegan in its online price sheet. Yet my local shop has quite a bit of it; last time I was there (3 weeks ago) they had an entire island stocked with Finnegan. (Just how does Claymont, Delaware get a hold of whiskey that New York City and San Francisco do not have? Wonders never cease.)

It has been a while since I tasted it. I can post more information on it if you like. I was going to make a trip back to my local shop in two weeks so I may pick up the other 8 yr appellation and maybe a bottle of the blend as well. Unfortunately my tasting notes will not be helpful but perhaps I can post some pictures for people to view. There seems to be a dearth of information on Finnegan whiskey on the internet; even Cooley's website does not list it!
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:13 pm

is this the bottle yous on about?
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:14 pm

i have an idea wher is this was made ;)
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby IainB » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:05 pm

varizoltan wrote:i have an idea wher is this was made ;)


In Zoltan's shed?
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby Ace » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:19 pm

Zoltan, that's it! You must have a very large shed. :mrgreen:

I'll see if I can find the other 8 yr appellation when I go back to the store in two weeks or so.
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:25 pm

i hope this picture help to identify who makes this Finnegan whiskey
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby DavidH » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:13 pm

Is that your bathroom, Zoltan?
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:49 pm

DavidH wrote:Is that your bathroom, Zoltan?

yepp
this is where i blend the whiskeys :lol:
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby John » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:01 pm

Ok, and this is important now Zoltan, what EXACTLY are you using to blend these bathroom whiskeys? :lol:
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:21 pm

John wrote:Ok, and this is important now Zoltan, what EXACTLY are you using to blend these bathroom whiskeys? :lol:

everything from poitin and cheap vodka to toothpaste and shoe polish 8-)
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby DavidH » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:49 pm

Just don't ask what he mixes them in.
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby TheWhiskeyBro » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:59 pm

Hi Zoltan,

what is the whiskey on the left in your picture "**ack Louth Irish Whiskey?"
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:54 am

TheWhiskeyBro wrote:Hi Zoltan,

what is the whiskey on the left in your picture "**ack Louth Irish Whiskey?"


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Re: Show off your collection

Postby TheWhiskeyBro » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:16 am

Can you provide some more details of Black Louth Irish Whiskey please.... I haven't seen it before, want to add the information to my list.... cheers
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby varizoltan » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:00 pm

TheWhiskeyBro wrote:Can you provide some more details of Black Louth Irish Whiskey please.... I haven't seen it before, want to add the information to my list.... cheers


it is an import 750ml bottle so as Slieve Foy, both 8 years old single malt, do not know importers
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Re: Show off your collection

Postby Ace » Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:33 pm

varizoltan wrote:
TheWhiskeyBro wrote:Can you provide some more details of Black Louth Irish Whiskey please.... I haven't seen it before, want to add the information to my list.... cheers


it is an import 750ml bottle so as Slieve Foy, both 8 years old single malt, do not know importers


Zoltan, looks like Black Louth is making it over here to the States as well. Just picked up a bottle of the 8 yr single malt today, $30 USD. Importer is listed only as "Wine is Fine, Inc., San Diego CA".

No idea where this was distilled; no mention of double/triple distillation nor county of distillation. If I had to guess, it would be another Cooley based on the label's claim that "Black Louth hails from the foothills of Louth County".
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