Recent Decent Sips

So before turkey day I went and picked up two bottles. I wanted a nice bottle but there weren’t many options so I opted for two decent bottles.

One was a Weller 7 year old. It’s good and much different than the stellar 12 year old. Somewhat floral on the nose and packs a nice balance of sweetness and light oak on the palate. It’s a great anytime bourbon because it’s just so damn good and the price of $16.99 it’s damn near impossible to find a better bottle.

The second bottle was an Old Grand Dad 114 proof. Upon first sip (after having a few wellers) it tasted pretty gross. It had a sweet Italian sausage thing going on. I really thought it was pretty foul. I put it all the way in the back of the milk barn.

I gave it a few days and hit it after a hard day of work and it was much better. It still had a little of that sweetness and was a bit musty. I also picked up some fruityness. It really tastes like basement to me but in a good way.

I found it goes great with lemonade. The two just mix into each other and you end up with a sweet treat.

With or without lemonade it is a good sipping bourbon (just not as cheap or as good as the Weller).

old grand dad

weller

So I broke

I totally spent money at the Levi’s website swooped me up two pairs of 514’s for the price of one. Can’t complain. I really do want to make the move into uber expensive denim but I am broke as balls so Levi’s will have to do. I’ve worn levi’s my whole life. I once owned a pair of wranglers that were pretty cool. It’s strange how I change cuts every few years. I used to be strictly 501/505 but then I wanted more straight legs so for a few years I rocked 559/569. Eventually I got rid of the 569 because they are baggy in the thigh area. Now I just scraped the 559 altogether and rock a 514 with a bit more thigh huggage, a lower waist and an overall more fitting look. After all the phases of clothing I went through as a child/teen/young adult I have finally settled down at age 26 into clothes that fit me properly. My mom loves it and so do I.

Black Friday

sucks balls when you’re broke . I want nothing more than to go blow a few hundred dollars on myself right now. In reality I have about $200 and I owe my old lady $125 which leaves me with a whopping $75! Something tells me I should keeo it too rather than spend it. It is really burning a hole in my pocket… or something. If I was a nice person I would probably spend it on some gifts for friends or family.

Holidays are always such a bummer. I hate that I am always broke starting October and then never recoup till around February. You’d think that after three years of this happening one would notice a pattern and begin to prepare for such things. I think next year I will get it right.

The rain is gone and my neck is all fucked up because I slept on it in some horrible position. I dont know what happened but it hurts like a bastard and I’ve been awake since 7:00 am. Lots of bourbon but no money. My brain hurts and I want to listen to Led Zeppelin while sucking on ham bones and turkey necks with my ankles shackled to the sofa while watching a Mork and Mindy marathon wishing it would all just catch fire and get on with itself already.

I will now eat some leftovers and watch a Forensic Files marathon 😛

Last Ludwig

Fall 08 Ludwig flannels are the bomb. I finally found a shop with some still in stock. These things are ruthlessly pimp. The fabric, the cut, the buttons… I mean everything about these flannels is the way it should be. I recently scored the red one. Once I get some more loot I will score the grey one to have the ultimate flannel trifecta. By then Ludwig will probably have new flannels, but I wouldn’t know since there site is outdated andf I have yet to hear about a winter look book (unlike mishka who’s got me all ready to buy to some winter shit ~ awesome winter look book!)

Very Special Old Fitzgerald

More wheat? Yes please! I love wheat, seriously I eat cream of wheat on the weekends. Delicious!

I made a goal to buy a new bottle once a week. The catch is it can’t be from the old Buffalo Trace distillery. I love the stuff but at any given time 85% of my bottles are from BT. It’s good bourbon.

Which brings us to the Very Special Old Fitzgerald, a 12 year old wheater. It’s a nice change. It was a lonely bottle at bevmo so I gave it a chance. It was a bit on the pricey side for a bottle with no cork (again doesn’t matter, it’s good stuff) at $36.

I’ve only sipped on it a few nights now so I’m still feeling it out taste wise. It is definetly sweeter than most the wheaters I sip on. Ha ha I can’t really say more, it is good though and I will buy one for the bunker next time I see one.

Note: I could not pour two glasses and keep the bottle totally full like they did in the photo. Perhaps it was a magic bottle of VSOF.

Very Special Old Fitzgerald

It’s World Toilet Day!

So let’s all take a big poo! Seriously it’s one of those things we ALL do. Although we may not all use actual toilets. Every human must excrete so let’s all come together on this day and drop a mega deuce.

everybody poops

I just bit my tongue

I do it often. Ouch. I feel painting or something coming soon. I always paint and make stuff when I’m broke (usually around fall/winter) in some sad hope that some random person would buy one or something. It’s kind of funny and it makes me laugh at myself. That is really the worst reason to do anything. Reality is nobody buys anything (okay, I sold a few) and it sits in my room taking up space making the place look cluttered. I’m okay with it at, the end I enjoy painting and it would be really weird if I could harvest my paintings and turn them into cash! Continue reading “I just bit my tongue”

My Bon Jovi Friday

Has sucked so far. I walked into the office today at work and it was one of those insane deadline days. I pretty much sat down and worked till noon, took a break and worked till four… right trough lunch and bounced at fo’ thirty.

I was insanely busy the ENTIRE time. I sort of liked it. It made the day go by super fast but now I’m depleted and super hungry. I’m thinking Chipotle, I love that stuff. Then yogurtland booosh!

Food is awesome. What isn’t is logging in to your site to see you have 10 new comments and have than all be spam. They bum rushed my home page. For a split second I was super stoked (10!) but no. Time for akismet… vile spammers.

Well Well…

W.L.Weller is the greatest! I resisted it… I am a doushe. I totally discriminated because it has a twist top (doh!) It’s really good and very nice to the wallet at $23 a bottle. I always thought for that cheap and no cork it must taste like ass. Now I’m thinking a cork maybe totally a cosmetic thing. Because this stuff is smooth and it’s 12 years old! The Van Winkle 12 year old is usually $50 (not anymore though because I now know that bevmo does price matching.)

There are a few other bottles they make that I will soon be making permanent fixtures in my milk dungeon. It’s made with wheat (instead of rye?) and it taste similar to the Van Winkle stuffs (also wheaters… except for the rye, because obviously it’s a rye.) A lot of people say great things about the Weller stuff but I slept. I’m excited.

Go get some now and be impressed.

Weller 12 year old wheater

ER10 vs ER17 – Final Showdown

Okay so I just sat with the two again. Only this time I had one ounce servings of each side by side, two times. The ER17 was noticeably darker than the ER10. Again I really didn’t notice any major differences between the two. There were however enough subtle differences to make the two stand apart from each other a bit.

So really I am no major spirits writer, bourbon just tastes good. As does wine, I just happen to like bourbon a little bit more. I think the majority of spirits writers/reviewers/whatever have these overtly fantastic descriptions of tastes and it always leaves me a bit confused. Like I don’t often taste hints of citrus but have read it in descriptions of bourbons I drink regularly. It could be that I identify what that person identified as citrus differently.

I was talking to this guy at BevMo last Wednesday and he was telling me that reviewing a drink should take three words, two words if it’s really good. Which makes sense to me too. I mean surely we all have different tastes and what I enjoy occasionally my friend may not enjoy ever (Willet.)

With that being said I think that there’s nothing too complicated about this comparison. The ER17 is better. But to say it correctly; the ER10 is better (than the average cheapo bottle) and ER17 is best (as far as Eagle Rare goes.) I found the ER17 to be more of everything I enjoy in the ER10. Sweeter (chocolate covered cherry?), darker, more oak flavor and it is noticeably smoother. It’s good enough to drink straight and it’s 90 proof. I can’t seem to find a proof statement on the ER10, but I think it’s also 90 proof.

The next morning I went over to the empty glasses and took a sniff. They both had some pleasant scent left in the glass but I could tell which one was the ER17 because it smelled almost like cotton candy 🙂 The smell took after the sweet cherry flavor I was tasting.

I’d say if you’re just starting out or don’t see any sense in dishing out sixty something dollars for a bottle to go with ER10. If you’ve had a few bottles or are a purveyor of the finest milks you may want to try the ER17. Will the difference wow you? Maybe. It didn’t wow me all that much but I can appreciate it for what it is. Now to get my hands on some of the other bottles from this years Antique Collection.

Mo Pumpkins

Here are the other pumpkins I made for the Halloween party at my Mom’s house. I got the patterns as well as a really nice carving set from Zombie Pumpkins. Great things going on over there.

pumpkin pimpin

Thank you!!

So I’ve been looking at my stats and I have 42% more visitors than usual… and some kook is still using Internet Explorer 6 to view my site. IE6 is poop as is IE7, go and get yourself a real browser.

Either way it’s cool to see more people peeping the bloggy. I will be trying to conjure up better content as time goes by, and who knows maybe even something that may prove itself useful at some point in time.

Mucho Amor,
El Creature