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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by pvg on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:18PM (#17525863)
You are getting a lot of far too convoluted answers. The simple one is the Ardbeg Corryvreckan. It checks the value box easily - at nigh-60% alcohol, you can practically make two bottles of booze out of it by adding water. Taste and smell? On consumption, it removes your ability to taste and smell anything else making it incomparable and thus, the best whisky by default. Free bonus - The Corryvreckan sounds a character from a bad TV adaptation of a bad Neil Gaiman novel.

Also it will get you way drunk.

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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by davidgould on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:35PM (#17527466)
I like all the Ardbegs, particularly An Oa which is creamy, the 10 year which is refreshing (if any Islay can be called refreshing), and Uigeadail which is more caramel sweet than the others. These are all big peaty whisky.

Corryvreckan ... is more so. Tasting notes: refinery, bed fire, shipwreck. The distiller must have been out for a pint or five with the other distillers on the island ragging him about "too much, over the top" and decided to show them what "over the top" really was. Worth a try and good in its own way, but not for everyday.

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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by pvg on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:10PM (#17527636)
decided to show them what "over the top" really was.

That is exactly what happened. "Did you say Glugglugvulin? Cory is IN. THE. HOUSE."

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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:27PM (#17525939)
Corryvreckan, fwiw.

£100/l on Amazon. Blimey.

(https://amzn.to/2uvAaJr, aff.)

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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by pvg on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:32PM (#17525979)
Fixed it, thanks. That only improves the character name. It's $70 around here.
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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by crikli on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:06PM (#17527612)
I wholeheartedly endorse this. For the money Corry is the best bottle coming off the island.
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