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Why spend unnecessary money, when you can get a fine beer for 10 bucks.
$10? I pay that for one 750ml bottle.
I hope my brands don't go hipster too.
Why spend unnecessary money, when you can get a fine beer for 10 bucks.
I hope my brands don't go hipster too.
It isn't quite as bad as it used to be. I remember the original like that but recently I tasted it and it was more subdued. You knew it was the Frog but wasn't like licking one. Malt Advocate said that they have dialed it back over the last few years because it was over the top. It is now drinkable to me when it wasn't about five years ago. I will say that it does still smell the same. It nearly knocked out Rue at the QM.
I think it is more a case of your taste changing. I have bottles of single malt that I brought back from Scotland about 25 years ago. Some of the ones that I thought were really harsh then I find quite mellow today. The more whisky you drink, the more your taste for it grows.
I doubt that is the case as I tend to like harsh as opposed to wierd briny, peaty, iodine tasting stuff.
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I didn't get iodine with the Laphroig, but I DID get a little peaty...
Later
That is actually why I said that as you get accustomed to the taste it seems less strong. I am sure you like it more every time you drink it as well.
Yeah, they have dialed it back. It used to be much more seaweedy too.
Then I guess I will need to be real slow in drinking that old bottle I have on the shelf.
Is that a hipster in that picture?
Pretty sure that's a fella who'd feel right at home at the FL.
Then I guess I will need to be real slow in drinking that old bottle I have on the shelf.
Probably because of the taste.
I like the seaweedy peat smoke taste. Reminds me of sitting in an old cot house on the coast with a peat fire in the fireplace.