Bargain booze

[Bryan Williams]

Sainsbury's,£37 down from£47.

 

[daleyd]

Nice, I love ardbeg but it rarely comes up on offer

 

[Bryan Williams]

Gorgeous,like drinking a bonfire..

 

[Pond frog]

It is a bargain I bought one earlier in the week, as daleyd ardbeg is rarely on offer ,maybe I should go back get another, I should of got two in the first place but as I was shopping with Mrs pond frog and I'd already bought bargain Johnny walker and glenmorangie the day before I thought I might be pushing my luck

 

[Wendelspanswick]

How much!!!
Glad I don't drink spirits.

 

[bigegg]

Asda do a passable dark rum for £11 a bottle.

 

[Bryan Williams]

How much!!!
Glad I don't drink spirits.

This is my Christmas present off the kids..it means i get what I want ,they save a tenner between them and they don't spend more than twenty quid each which would annoy me.
And I don't get any ''surprises'.
Just got to leave it alone now..

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Just got to leave it alone now..

Repeat after me "Must resist.....must resist....much resist"

 

[bigegg]

Repeat after me "Must resist.....must resist....much resist"

hide it under the machine mart catalogue.
that distracts me long enough

 

[ukracer]

Asda do a passable dark rum for £11 a bottle.

A litre??

 

[JEZGUZ]

I was bought a bottle of Ardbeg about 15 years ago and I thought it was foul, I only managed to get through a 1/4 of the bottle. I gave it to someone else, they weren't keen either. I do like other malt whiskies but I don't think I'll be trying Ardbeg again.

 

[bigegg]

A litre??

75cl

 

[ukracer]

75cl

 

[Revs1972]

Bargain booze ?
Im in Menorca at the moment and San Miguel and Estrella is cheaper than bottled water !!
Well thats a good enough excuse for me !!

 

[Bryan Williams]

I was bought a bottle of Ardbeg about 15 years ago and I thought it was foul, I only managed to get through a 1/4 of the bottle. I gave it to someone else, they weren't keen either. I do like other malt whiskies but I don't think I'll be trying Ardbeg again.

It does seem to divide opinion,I love the intense peatyness,i had the first bottle given me,my mechanic mate got given it as part payment for a job and he couldn't stand it, I struggled on manfully with my freebie and halfway down started to get a taste for it..
I only go for Bowmores ,laphroaigh or other smelly brews now.. you can tell in a conner sewer.

 

[Bryan Williams]

It does seem to divide opinion,I love the intense peatyness,i had the first bottle given me,my mechanic mate got given it as part payment for a job and he couldn't stand it, I struggled on manfully with my freebie and halfway down started to get a taste for it..
I only go for Bowmores ,laphroaigh or other smelly brews now.. you can tell im a conner sewer.

I sound like I do a bottle a week, a bottle can last me months

 

[daleyd]

I like most types of whisky, I tend to go through phases where sometimes I prefer stronger ones and other times the milder ones, like a speyside. It’s an excuse to keep a couple of bottles on the go

Of the Islay ones I like ardbeg, lagavulen and laphraoig - and though not a true Islay (though it has a very smokey taste) my favourite is probably talisker. Caiol Isla is nice too, in fact there isn’t many I don’t like come to think about it

 

[Bryan Williams]

I like most types of whisky, I tend to go through phases where sometimes I prefer stronger ones and other times the milder ones, like a speyside. It’s an excuse to keep a couple of bottles on the go

Of the Islay ones I like ardbeg, lagavulen and laphraoig - and though not a true Islay (though it has a very smokey taste) my favourite is probably talisker. Caiol Isla is nice too, in fact there isn’t many I don’t like come to think about it

For me it's a proper luxury,we are not exactly flush with money so it's a big expense so its usually Christmas and birthdays so I do savour the experience and try to learn about the whole whiskey thing.
It's not cheap but you know you are in fact getting a little bit of proper quality and when you think what rubbish you can buy for 30/40quid I feel it's money well spent.
One thing I would like to try even though I have never smoked is the whole quality cigar thing.
I turn 60 in April and always joked that I was going to start smoking cigars then as the harm they can do verses the time i would have left on the planet is negligible.
Dunno though,its getting closer now..

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and try to learn about the whole whiskey thing.

Tsk, tsk

 

[daleyd]

Yeah, my post makes me sound more flush then I really am! I generally only ever buy when they are on offer and a bottle lasts me ages (well, sometimes!!)