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Started 11 months ago by BaLardAss
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Seems like all the grocery stores just sell pretty large bottles, mostly fifths and larger. I'm looking for like a pint of Jameson - that sort of thing. What's an Irishman to do?

Posted 11 months ago #
pixlpete

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Just buy a fifth and only drink half of it ;-)

Posted 11 months ago #
teigyr

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pixlpete, an Irishman is not capable of that.

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BaLardAss

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Drinking half is a good idea - so good, actually, that I'm likely to use it twice. Hence the desire to keep just a pint around...:)

Posted 11 months ago #
BaLardAss

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exactly teigyr

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BLA - the "old" liquor store on Market had some 375 ml bottles of Jameson last week. Price was the same as the 750 ml bottles in QFC. The new owner of that store told me that he can get just about anything you want even those really little bottles that the grocery stores will not be selling.

Posted 11 months ago #
phoo

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Buy a 750ml and give me half. :)

Posted 11 months ago #
stopgo

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you can buy jameson in the grocery stores since the beginning of the month. turn on the news dude!

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BaLardAss

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I know you can buy it in the grocery stores, but I'm saying they only sell big bottles and I don't want that much booze.

Sound like the Vegan has my solution though! I just went there actually but was a few minutes after closing. Oh well.

Posted 11 months ago #
stopgo

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just buy the big bottle, and save what you don't drink in one night for later.

Posted 11 months ago #
Oly

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So your willing to spend the same amount for half as much? You are either an alcoholic or bad at math. If you're an alcoholic then you'll just go back for a pint later so buy the fifth and save. If your bad at math then buy the fifth and keep the other half to drink so you can forget that you're bad at math.

It's on sale at QFC or Safeway (can't recall which one) this week.

Posted 11 months ago #
Cate

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Some treatment programs teach a model called "Harm Reduction" instead of or in addition to abstinence. Purchasing a pint instead of a quart could be part of a harm reduction treatment program. (Or then again he may just want only a pint for reasons of his own).

Posted 11 months ago #
stopgo

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I know that back in the day when I smoked I only bought packs. buying a carton was admitting defeat and allowed for all kinds of excess.

I think you guys are too hard on ballardass.

hey dude. buy the big bottle and give me half for free. problem solved.

Posted 11 months ago #
phoo

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ballardass, seriously though, you might find someone to go halfsies with you. You get the booze you want for half the price.

Posted 11 months ago #
Nora Bell

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Safeway has club card sale prices on a lot of their current selection. And it doesn't look like you'll have trouble finding a taker for a trade off of what you don't want. I'd like to toss my hat in the ring, btw. :-)

Posted 11 months ago #
BuddyCianci

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In lieu of pint-sized bottles, you could buy a 1.75 liter bottle and get yourself a flask. It has the benefit of being green. Irish like being green.

Posted 11 months ago #
gracie

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Does Reno still sell cheaper booze? My brother, few years back, asked to borrow my brand new piece of luggage. Turned out it was to bring back booze - only problem - the turnstile for the luggage pickup had failed & the luggage was stacked up - with mine on bottom. He gets it, walking out feeling all smug he got all this cheap booze until he felt something on his leg - and it was wet - looked & trail of booze from luggage pickup. It was a bottle of Crown Royal that broke & that piece of luggage forever had a imprint of the velvet bottle bag. I got rid of the booze smell by leaving out in sunshine for a couple of days.

Posted 11 months ago #
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I'd suggest you buy 1.75 liters, and give the bottle to someone trustworthy to hold it for you.

I'd be willing to part with a pint at a time for you, for slightly less than the current pint cost at the old Market Street liquor store.

You are welcome. ;-)

I'm Irish, so I feel your pain, and am always looking for an easy way to fund my guilty habit. It could be a good match...

Posted 11 months ago #
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Hey, I've known some Irish people with real drinking problems, some who were simply heavy drinkers, and others who are dry as a bone. Can we be a little more sensitive people? Oh, and I'm up for barbeque, anyone know where the blacks go when they want really good ribs in Seattle?

Posted 11 months ago #
phoo

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Heck, if you give me the other half, I'll trade you a shot of 12 year distillery reserve jJameson (available only at the distillery). ;)

Posted 11 months ago #
onederfullone

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Party at phoo's ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=NPkyuJAniuM&NR=1

Posted 11 months ago #
Boris

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Irish whisky is too many times distilled. Potcheen is best Irish drink.

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BaLardAss

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1: Vegan was right. I went down there and got that bottle. Drinking it now. But expensive!!
2: What's this idea that you're paying the same price for half as much? That's not my experience....
3: I agree with Edog's plea for cultural sensitivity. BELCH!
4: What is Potcheen?
5: I've read in a couple places that Bushmills 10 year (not Blackbush) is one of the best Irish whiskeys, but I never see it around, so I don't know.

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pixlpete

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1. The "Old" store on Market sucks, super expensive, go to Safeway.
2. 1der1, that is the funniest thing I have ever seen you type.
3. Borat, I think you mean "Poitin"

Poitín was a source of income for some, while for others it was produced for cheap alcoholic drinking. Poitín was popular at weddings and wakes and a large supply was at hand. Farmers use as a cure for sick calves and other farm animals as well as a method of curing muscle cramp/problems, etc...

Posted 11 months ago #
VeganBiker

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BLA -
1:yep the 750 ml is a better deal, ins't that Jameson a smooth drink!
2: Gotta shop around!
4:Potcheen is Irish moonshine, but now they sell it legally:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poit%C3%ADn
5: Bushmills is good. The new manager at the Market St. store could get it for you, for a price. :)

Posted 11 months ago #
BaLardAss

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You know, I think I had a drink of potcheen in Donegal one summer come to think of it. I used to see Paddy's around there a lot too. It wasn't that great - but it was fruity and enjoyable. Never seen it here.

Posted 11 months ago #
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first time i ever got drunk was on a bottle of paddys we hid in the woods in the east coast summer. 105 degrees for three weeks. we all poured molstons into into our whiskey. we all puked. pretty fun night. everyone dropped acid too.

Posted 11 months ago #
Edog

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LardAss where bouts in Donegal were you?

Posted 11 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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haHa

I just noticed Safeway is advertising selling liquor on MyBallard :) They must have seen all the activity on the threads here pertaining to liquor and considered it a good investment.

Posted 11 months ago #
Alferd Packer

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I think we need to research this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkzFHPkjiI

Who's up for creating a "research" still?

Posted 11 months ago #
pixlpete

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Indeed. It is possible to legally do it now. From my extensive research (watching "Moonshiners"), it looks pretty easy if you follow the playbook and don’t use solder containing lead in you r gear (or get real drunk and fall off a ladder). You definitely don’t want to skip the step where you bleed off the blinding/crippling methanol before bottling up the ethanol, or burn your garage down, but yeah I too am tempted. A friend of a friend just got "Big Gin" off the ground here locally, good stuff too, Copper Gate carries it.

Posted 11 months ago #
iPlod

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Knock it off, pixlpete.

You're getting close to blowing my cover just because I've been purchasing radiators, armchairs, bicycles & uranium.

Posted 11 months ago #
great idea

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I've been watching old M*A*S*H episodes so I can replicate Hawkeye's still.
I think he had some help from Radar.

Posted 11 months ago #
pixlpete

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A fifth of Jameson at QFC today (with club card) $23.99 + tax man = $31.75, $1.75 more than before, big whoop. Our favorite tequila also comes in at about even now, plus I get buy my limes at the same time. Freedom baby, yeah!

Posted 11 months ago #
Ballardemician

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Bushmills is better than Jameson, but Jameson is Catholic and the Bush is Protestant whiskey. So it's Jameson for me ...

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Ballardemician

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On the topic of price bought a fifth of Makers Mark in California last week for $14.59. I'm surprised they aren't drunk all the time down there.

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pixlpete

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Whichever flavor of religion you prefer, if any, Bushmills is not better. Jameson never made me zombie sleepwalk pee on my 6’4” college roommate while he was sleeping, unfortunately I can’t say that about Bushmills, and I have the broken ribs and scars to prove that can happen. The triple distilling of the Jameson helps remove the bath salts.

Posted 11 months ago #
miss julie

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What I want to know is where can I find the "airport" sized bottles. I like to keep those around for emergencies, and have no need for a big bottle of booze.

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pixlpete

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2840 NW Market St

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Oly

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A fifth of Makers for $14 and change? Where did you get that price? I have to call bull shit. Best price I could find a few weeks ago in LA was $23.95.

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Ballardemician

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Ralph's, 30% off all 750ml sale plus 10% for 6 pack. Tanqueray and Bulleit about the same price.

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Oly

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Ralph's on sale, nice. I'll be down that way again in a month I'll check out more stores before I buy.

Posted 11 months ago #
Sunset Hill David

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Ralph's? You mean that grocery store downtown?

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Ballardemician

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Ralph's the huge California grocery store chain. Just a little thread drift.

I didn't account for sales tax Oly.

But to get back to the original subject of booze in WA, is there a black market for liquor in WA? One could probably make 10 bucks profit per on self-imported bottles. Probably not worth the risk And trouble. If you owned a restaurant or bar though you could save thousands ...

Posted 11 months ago #
BuddyCianci

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My wife bought a 1/5 of Jack Daniels at QFC for about $20. Seems like a pretty reasonable price to me.

Posted 11 months ago #
phoo

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Is Bushmills less sweet than Jameson? That's actually what keeps me coming back to the Distillery Reserve - it's less sweet. I just can't handle more than a couple shots of 5 yr Jameson because of the sweetness.

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Bushmills is made by the Protestants & Jameson is made by the Catholics. I always find it funny the amount of people that are Catholic Irish for the day on St Patrick's Day ordering Bushmills ;)

phoo - Red Breast Whiskey is excellent

http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=3604

Redbreast is a very special whiskey within the Irish Distillers fortified as it's the only 12 year old Pure Pot Still available.

It was first launched in 1939 as the brand name given to the pot still whiskey supplied by Jameson to whiskey bonders before bottling at the distillery became the norm in 1968. Stocks of whiskey in bonders' stores petered out, and thus Redbreast all but disappeared until its re-launch by the distillery in the 1990s as a single pot still whiskey.

This pure pot still whiskey is matured for a minimum of 12 years in sherry casks and Bourbon barrels. Like all good pot still whiskeys, it is strongly flavoured and assertive, making it a rare treat for the connoisseur of fine old whiskey.

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In my experience, if you want to keep Saint Patrick's day authentic you put Garth Brooks on the juke box, have Budweiser for the men, cider on ice for the ladies, and red bull and vodka for those who want something stronger. Sounds like hell but let me tell you its good Craic!

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don't forget the green food coloring for the Bud.

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BuffaloHawk

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GI - My parents place in Buffalo is an Irish themed sports bar and they go all out for St Patrick's Day. If there are piles of snow in the parking lot from plowing my dad with mix some green dye in the garden hose and spray the piles of snow..

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they should just use blue dye and let the customers go pee in the lot.

I could probably write "Happy St. Patrick's Day" after a pitcher or two of Molsons.

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BuffaloHawk

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If we ever have snow piles under the Ballard Bridge or at the Ballard Commons on St Patrick's Day I may try your idea with the blue dye.

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Ballardemician

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Phoo when drunk side by side Jameson has more of a vanilla taste when it first hits your tongue (which comes across as sweet) and is harsher and less descript on the finish. Bushmills by comparison is more subtle and scotch-y at first then smoother and longer on the finish. If Jameson seems to sweet to you you'd probably prefer Bushmill. Not that Jameson is bad and probably better with most mixers besides water or soda.

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Edog

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Funny, I always found Jameson to be spicier with Bushmills being the sweeter of the two.

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BH: Yah, I've tasted Red Breast and it's good. I just haven't bought whiskey recently (and don't recall seeing it sold here, though it must be somewhere since it is in the bars. I first noticed it in the Jameson gift shop).

Hrm, and judging by the prices on the website, I won't be affording a bottle of Red Breast anytime soon. But I'll put it on my someday list. :)

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Edog both spice and vanilla are imparted by barrels, while to me Bush seems peatier, which some describe as a sweet flavor. We might be tasting the same things but just describing differently.

Smoother finishes taste sweeter too - if your tongue's not on fire you taste the ethanol, and ethanol is perceived as sweetness.

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Edog

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Now that I think about it, it has been years since I've had either. If I did a side by side today, I'm not sure what I would say. As for peat, your pallet it correct Jameson malts their grain over clay tiles, while Bushmills malts it over peat.

Posted 11 months ago #
Rudy

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If I did a side by side today, I'm not sure what I would say.

You could start with "yum".

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Ballardemician

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Bush made with peat? Now my palate feels ten feet tall! The blind squirrel found a nut today ;)

Posted 11 months ago #
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Went to Bartell's (22nd) for meds - they have hard booze on their shelves along with the wine. I thought a store had to be bigger than Bartells to sell liquor. Ballard continues it's slide into sleaze.

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