INFI snow shovel anyone?

here is a tip. Buy as much of this as you can find. It is no longer being made and it is the only true vatted malt JW made. It is a blend of pure single malt scotches. My Favorite JW by far and worth every penny.

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The honest truth is that once you get to 18 years, the improvement in taste is incremental in scotch. If it is a good scotch brand to begin with. With American whiskey, not sure. But I am amazed at how good my local Stanahans diamond peak is for only being aged 4 years.
 
INFI snow shovel? That sounds all well and good until you accidentally destroy your sidewalk and driveway.
 
I got about 23" at my house over the last few days. No pics yet because I'm the only one on my street with a snow blower and I have been playing the part of the good neighbor.

I also have a taste for some of the fancy booze, but I am much more into Bourbon than scotch. I'll never mix the good stuff with cigars though, although I am very into cigars; I find mixing the best liquor with the best cigars muddles the taste of both. It's all personal preference though of course. Regardless, sharing a great bottle and a great cigar with friends is a fantastic way to spend an evening!
 
zmbhntr said:
I got about 23" at my house over the last few days. No pics yet because I'm the only one on my street with a snow blower and I have been playing the part of the good neighbor.

I also have a taste for some of the fancy booze, but I am much more into Bourbon than scotch. I'll never mix the good stuff with cigars though, although I am very into cigars; I find mixing the best liquor with the best cigars muddles the taste of both. It's all personal preference though of course. Regardless, sharing a great bottle and a great cigar with friends is a fantastic way to spend an evening!
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I hope you don't mix it with water or ice as that really messes it up.

I think cigars actually bring out the flavor in a good liquor. But you are right about Bourbon, I can't mix that with cigars it does not feel right. I can do Scotch and cognac with cigars.

I use to live in Haymarket, how much snow hit that area, do you know?
 
Got lucky here even though I'm along the coast, only got about 13" of snow. Not a scotch drinker but I'll have my share of some tequila today for sure. Helps the pain of having to start my snowblower and getting shovel out lol.
 
Cobalt said:
I hope you don't mix it with water or ice as that really messes it up.

I think cigars actually bring out the flavor in a good liquor. But you are right about Bourbon, I can't mix that with cigars it does not feel right. I can do Scotch and cognac with cigars.

I use to live in Haymarket, how much snow hit that area, do you know?
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I'm not sure exactly how much they got in Haymarket, but most likely 6" or so more than I did. I have property in the mountains 2 hours west of Washington DC and my neighbor told me that he got 46" of snow (at a little over 2000' elevation)! That is a crazy amount of snow in a single storm!

I don't add ice or water to my Bourbon. The one exception to that rule is that sometimes I'll add a drop or two of water if I'm drinking something like the limited edition George T. Stagg that is bottled 143 proof, because with that high of an alochol content a drop or two can really bring out the flaver, at least for me. I should drink more scotch, because I enjoy it when I do. When I drink scotch though I tend to like the stuff from Islay with a lot of peat.
 
Cobalt said:
here is a tip. Buy as much of this as you can find. It is no longer being made and it is the only true vatted malt JW made. It is a blend of pure single malt scotches. My Favorite JW by far and worth every penny.

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Agreed--that's my favorite JW; didn't know they discontinued it! Thanks for the head's up... Dad? Brother... Who is this skunk you speak of, and when are we moving in???
 
Aias said:
Agreed--that's my favorite JW; didn't know they discontinued it! Thanks for the head's up... Dad? Brother... Who is this skunk you speak of, and when are we moving in???
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Rotflmao. Skunk is also known as grandpa
 
I'm a bit jealous of all the snow you HOGS are getting out east. I'm a snow plow driver in Alaska and have made less than $500 in plowing overtime so far this winter. Sitting here drinking my morning coffee and listening to it rain outside. How's a guy supposed to buy more INFI when he can't get any overtime?!?
 
360joules said:
i'll second the Johnnie Walker green. I once compared the Basic 8 LE to it and I think it's still appropriate.
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And so you did. Very cool. I agree with you. The one thing people have to know is that green is actually a vatted malt. It is a mix of pure single malt scotches. The term is also blended malt, but since blended malt is so close to blended scotch, it is easier to call it a vatted malt. Other blended scotches have barley along with other grain whiskeys. Here is your post, I included it here because lets face it that thread is to long.

360joules said:
It just struck me that the basic 8 LE may be the Johnnie Walker Green Label of the knife world. :confused:

I'm sure that makes sense to everybody.

Bear with me for a second... I've been drinking and feel eloquent...


Johnnie Walker Green is a blended scotch that is touted by many to be the best tasting Johnnie Walker out there, yet it was discontinued in the US in 2011 due to low sales. It is a malt blend that is made up of single malt whiskies - Talisker, Linkwood, Cragganmore and Caol Ila. It's medium bodied and the finish is pretty smooth.

Anyhow, here's the rub...Johnnie Walker Green is a blended scotch that was designed to gain the interest of single malt drinkers. However, single malt drinkers aren't really looking to drink blends, so they don't really even notice. Likewise, within the blended scotch drinking community, if a person wants to simply get their drink on, maybe get a bottle of JW to drink with friends, they grab the Black or Red at $30 per bottle. If a person wants to be extravagant, they splurge and spend the $225 on the Blue. The Green ($65) sits right in the middle. It tastes fantastic and is a great sipper. As a single-malt drinker myself, I find this among my top four scotches at the moment. It isn't necessarily among the affordable blends, yet it isn't expensive enough to be considered an extravagance; and it isn't your typical blended scotch, yet isn't drawing the attention of single malt drinkers...it is somewhat of an oddity. (BTW, there is currently a limited re-release in the US so you may be able to find some now, but as I understand it, they'll be gone again soon.)


Back to the Basic 8:
Satin finish and resiprene, priced at $330. [resiprene and not drawing the interests of the aficionados, but satin finished and more expensive than many would pay]


It's among my top four knives at the moment.
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I got 32 inches in Point of Rocks, Maryland. Here was my drink for the ten metric tons of snow I shoveled...

A snowball in a tumbler with Jager poured over it topped with Coke Zero. Twas very delicious.



Here is a sample of the drifing we had... Buried my wife's minivan.



And in between my truck and her van...

 
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