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So in a rush to try to get the broken cork out, it instead was pushed in and now it's a floater. It's a bottle Wild Turkey so I'm not too annoyed if it was something more expensive, but aside from avoiding accidentally swallowing pieces of cork, how soon should I just finish the bottle?

It's pretty much ruined.

I guess you could try straining the whiskey if you feel like it's worth the effort.

Eh, I proceeded to clumsily decant it and remove the cork, but along the way it definitely lost its taste for sure. Not drying the glasses I put them in probably was not a good idea. Though to be fair, it didn't seem to taste how I remember from before anyway before this happened. Oh well I'll just buy another bottle next time. Thinking about trying scotch. Even then this bottle can still get me drunk if need be.

Soontir C'boath wrote:Eh, I proceeded to clumsily decant it and remove the cork, but along the way it definitely lost its taste for sure. Not drying the glasses I put them in probably was not a good idea. Though to be fair, it didn't seem to taste how I remember from before anyway before this happened. Oh well I'll just buy another bottle next time. Thinking about trying scotch. Even then this bottle can still get me drunk if need be.

Don't buy shit with corks in it next time.

Haha well that's a given. I only bought Wild Turkey because I had it at a bar and it seem ok. Didn't know they cork the damn thing

Even then. I may just get those pour caps they use so I don't have finagle with that shit.

You should try Larceny - similar price point, cooler name, massively better bourbon. Plus, no corks.

Import something decent from Scotland, flog to local bars for triple the price...profit! or bankruptcy. Probably.

Esquire wrote:You should try Larceny

That's illegal!

I have no further advice, except do not ever drink Jim Beam Devil's Cut.
I was gifted a bottle once and drank some against my better judgement.
It's probably what pine tar dissolved in paint thinner tastes like.

Whistlepig Rye is fantastic if you can stomach the $75 a bottle asking price.

I'm an Islands scotch man, myself. To quote Jerry Seinfeld: "The peat, ahhhh the peat."

muse wrote:

Esquire wrote:You should try Larceny

That's illegal!

I have no further advice, except do not ever drink Jim Beam Devil's Cut.
I was gifted a bottle once and drank some against my better judgement.
It's probably what pine tar dissolved in paint thinner tastes like.

I tried drinking Jim Beam before and it was like drinking distilled water.

I'll try the other suggestions when I run out of this bottle as it still seems to be ok. Maybe my memory is fuzzy but there is a certain taste to it that is kind of weird so I can only assume it's from the cork but it still can make me drunk so I'm not going to pour it down the drain.

If anything I wanted to try a scotch. Judy didn't know what to get before.

Another suggestion, if you can get it, is Lagavulin's 16-year-old Islay Scotch. It's a tad more expensive than Wild Turkey, but hey, if it's good enough for Nick Offerman, it's good enough for me.

I hear Louis XIV is also a good alternative to Wild Turkey

Executor32 wrote:Another suggestion, if you can get it, is Lagavulin's 16-year-old Islay Scotch. It's a tad more expensive than Wild Turkey, but hey, if it's good enough for Nick Offerman, it's good enough for me.

Fair warning though, Islay malts are renowned as absolute peat monsters (Laphroaig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg are all great), they have claws and will hang on on the way down. If you want intense flavour in your whisky then they'll do you right.

Other than that, Highland Park, Jura, Oban, and The Macallan are worth trying. (Macallan is expensive though, defintely a special occasions whisky)

Vendetta wrote:

Executor32 wrote:Another suggestion, if you can get it, is Lagavulin's 16-year-old Islay Scotch. It's a tad more expensive than Wild Turkey, but hey, if it's good enough for Nick Offerman, it's good enough for me.

Fair warning though, Islay malts are renowned as absolute peat monsters (Laphroaig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg are all great), they have claws and will hang on on the way down. If you want intense flavour in your whisky then they'll do you right.

Other than that, Highland Park, Jura, Oban, and The Macallan are worth trying. (Macallan is expensive though, defintely a special occasions whisky)

Well sounds like I'm sold.

Not looking to get a collection going, but I'll probably buy a different bottle a month at this point.

Soontir C'boath wrote:So in a rush to try to get the broken cork out, it instead was pushed in and now it's a floater. It's a bottle Wild Turkey so I'm not too annoyed if it was something more expensive, but aside from avoiding accidentally swallowing pieces of cork, how soon should I just finish the bottle?

Probably too late, but the way to clear cork out of booze is pouring it through a coffee filter. I've done this a couple times to get access to some good brandy my grandparents stored way too long, leading to the corks partly falling apart.

Sea Skimmer wrote:

Soontir C'boath wrote:So in a rush to try to get the broken cork out, it instead was pushed in and now it's a floater. It's a bottle Wild Turkey so I'm not too annoyed if it was something more expensive, but aside from avoiding accidentally swallowing pieces of cork, how soon should I just finish the bottle?

Probably too late, but the way to clear cork out of booze is pouring it through a coffee filter. I've done this a couple times to get access to some good brandy my grandparents stored way too long, leading to the corks partly falling apart.

I'll have to try that. As far as I am concerned this bottle is a write-off so I won't mind experimenting with it.

I'll second the coffee filter thing, regarding the cork bits. Works with wine, too. I'm mostly a bourbon man, myself, though I do get a wild hair for some Laphroaig on special occasions. That was my British ex's poison.

On the subject of Wild Turkey, I have to wonder about the guy who was sitting on his porch in Kentucky one day drinking the 80-proof version out of a jelly jar, who thought to himself, "Hoooo-eee, this Wild Turkey 80 is some mighty fine stuff, but wouldn't it be better if we did 101?" I will probably never know your name, sir, but if we ever meet I will shake your hand, and maybe throw in a friendly head-butt depending on how much Wild Turkey 101 I've had.

General Zod wrote:Whistlepig Rye is fantastic if you can stomach the $75 a bottle asking price.

Rye is a product of Great Depression desperation, and definitely an acquired taste that I haven't acquired.

If you want to throw down some serious coin on an amazing bourbon, I recommend Pappy Van Winkle.

Pappy is good, but nowhere near as good as it should be for its price. You can get equally-tasty things for literally a full order of magnitude less.

Esquire wrote:Pappy is good, but nowhere near as good as it should be for its price. You can get equally-tasty things for literally a full order of magnitude less.

Maybe it's just the rarity. It feels like a holiday every time I get my hands on one (and I've never paid for it anyway, due to the nature of my business, so that's a factor).

My sense of taste is straight up my ass anyway. I can't tell the difference between $10 wine and $100 wine. It was my eyes and ears that were good.

Raw Shark wrote:

Esquire wrote:Pappy is good, but nowhere near as good as it should be for its price. You can get equally-tasty things for literally a full order of magnitude less.

Maybe it's just the rarity. It feels like a holiday every time I get my hands on one (and I've never paid for it anyway, due to the nature of my business, so that's a factor).

My sense of taste is straight up my ass anyway. I can't tell the difference between $10 wine and $100 wine. It was my eyes and ears that were good.

Most people actually can't tell the difference either.

That's because there isn't one. In proper empirical tests, many people can't even tell the difference between res and white; wine was never supposed to be a fancy beverage. The French essentially made up all the wine lore as a way to scam rich Americans in the late 1800s.

On a recommendation from a friend and on a whim, I bought a bottle of Glenfidditch 12 Year and it is certainly smooth as he said in the mouth with a good burn in the gut.

I will certainly eye an Islay Scotch to buy next month for something with more impact for sure though.