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
Just got back from my local BevMo and swooped a bottle, this bottle is from the 2008 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. Nasal passages detecting a mustiness and hints of tobacco… old as balls, bitter tobacco. It’s really dark colored too.
I’m currently sipping about an ounce in my sniffy glass straight. It’s been sitting for a few minutes. The smell hasn’t died down so I’m going to give it a cap full of water. Okay, two caps of water. I think it’s good to go.
Wow. Well my first instinct was “shit, I like the 10 year old better.” I gave it a few sippers and realized it’s a completely different taste. I need to try some with a little ice.
Once I poured me a glass with some ice it turned a nice gold color. It’s really good because it so different. At first it smells and tastes like regular old Buffalo Trace with earthy/leathery notes, but it’s got that sweetness that regular ER10 packs.
Even then, it’s a different kind of sweet. A bolder, thicker sweet along the lines of cherries and vanilla. I usually find the ER10 to be on the cinnamon side of the sweet, kind of a side effect rather than one of two major taste elements.
Either way it is a nice change from the Eagle Rare I’ve come to know and love. I will probably enjoy the bottle more as I have few pours. Some bottles take a little time to appreciate.
Edit: I got a bottle of the ER10 and they in fact do taste very similar. I think last time I was drinking the ER10 I was in a festive mood and had a few drinks. The 17 year old is good though.
Awesome video from the homies over at NoThresholdRecords.com. Snappy bassline, great raps and cool animations! You really can’t go wrong with this (or any of the NTR videos they are all top notch, this is the first animated one though).
I swooped up a Maker’s Mark Rock the Vote edition bottle. It’s solely for the purpose of getting lit on election night. When Barack Obama is announced president I will peel off three layers of wax and get my Maker’s Mark on. I won’t even get into the other option. I can promise it will require a visit to the ER.
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Boy, so where to begin? I really love this stuff. I use it to erase a bad day at work or a fight with the old lady. It’s unfiltered and there’s charcoal sediment floating at the bottom of the bottle. The perticular bottle I have is from 2006 (Hazmat III – read more about this here) it’s a whopping 140.6 proof/70.3% ABV! (NOT the one pictured below.) It is rugged to say the least.
When I first tried it I poured a tiny bit in my sniffy glass and let it sit for a few. I came by to swig it and the smell was crazy, had me coughing and stuff. It really is warming, and it’s sort of sweet/cinnamon-ish tasting before I was bombarded with oaky oakness (YUM!). The whole experience is very syrupy. It’s very dark and I’d like to believe it’s thicker, I dunno it’s just very darth vader “don’t play around” drink.
My brother came over and I showed him the bottle and he wanted to take a shot, cuz he likes to believe he’s a bad ass. I was like “ohhhhh-kay,” and I figured fuggit, no need to let the boy suffer on his own and I went ahead and poured myself one. I knew I shouldn’t have but I went ahead and did anyway.
We shot them back and instantly lost our breath after drinking it because you couldn’t inhale!!! Once I got my breath back, I tried to regain my eyesight which was blurry because my eyes had begun to water. I sort of hobbled over to the kitchen and got us some water because we were both about to die. Once we were breathing normal and could speak in full sentences again (like ten minutes after initial brutal shot) we spent the next twenty minutes clearing our throats. I felt like I drank sandpaper, I know I have said that before but this trumps that raspy batch if single barrel JD by far. I knew it was retarded but I didn’t want the lil bro to have to get throat raped by whiskey all by himself really.
But yeah it’s great with a little water to take that edge off. Really tastes good and forgets them worries for you. This is the type of liquor you drink if you have a broken foot and need to walk three miles on it, you wont feel shit.
I’ve added gravatar support as well as the old share this button at the bottom of every post. I added little icons to the sidebar links and cleaned a ton of poorly written css from the theme, there is still a bunch of bad code tho. Funny how much changes over the course of a year.
I carved up a Creature pumpkin, it took a few hours to do and I did it with a shitty steak knife. Unfortunately it died a shriveled, moldy death just a few days later. I purchased some proper carving utensils so I’m going to give it another go in a few days. I am also doing a Frankie and Drac so yeah.
Oh yeah and just for you Conor, comments are open.
So I recently purchased a nice flannel from the unsteady shop here in downtown.
It’s been hot as balls but I still wear it in the mornings. I cannot wait for winter.
“It’s so good! Once it hits your lips, it’s so good!” – Frank the Tank
Seriously I always love the first sip of a glass of bourbon. I can feel an instantaneous change, like my body just says “ooooooooh yeeeeeeah.” Then it’s like oh yeah still got a glass to pour down the hatch.
Four Roses Single Barrel made me do it.
Seriously this nation is in a sad state of affairs. Palin is pretty much the dumbest person I have ever had to endure for a two hour debate. I honestly don’t even think she’s real.
I mean she approaches circus levels of sillyness and the fact that nobody booed her ass the fuck off that stage only goes to show what docile sheepish creatures the majority of Americans have become. The last eight years have set the bar so low that really… that they would love to believe Sarah Palin don’t look so bad. She does look that bad though.
We as a nation should have learned the lesson that you don’t want the guy who sounds like your perverted uncle to run/represent the usa. Palin gets no love either. How can you take this bitch seriously. I mean what minute part of your brain has removed all logic and allowed to even humor a republican ticket chalk full of such wild jack assery.
Hopefully everybody watched last night and realized it was funnier than the SNL skits because it is sadly TRUE!!!?!
My last point will be that she can’t even answer the questions asked of her. She instead chose to point out facts that in some situations even helped out Biden. Joe is a bad ass and he played very fair… almost too fair.
People are too retarded and will not vote for something because it is right. The boys in blue need to dirty it up a little and go for the throat.
This was my first Bounty Hunter piece and I am pretty bummed I didn’t start earlier. It’s very much and old school feel to the toy, it’s matte texture and it came in just a plastic bag with a BxH sticker stapled to it. Which of course means I now also have a BxH sticker Yeeeeeeee! This guy is also quite bulky, but I heard he is bigger than the other figs which sort of bummed me out but it doesn’t really matter because this BxH shit is way over priced and I probably wont be getting any of the ones that I want for quite some time. Alas that is one of the joys of toy collecting: The Hunt. It would not be nearly as satisfying if I got every toy I wanted with great ease.
