like cellaring a wine box
Uncle reminds me about my favorite cheap (but good) booze:
Pikesville Rye is a “Maryland” style rye that used to be made in Pikesville, Maryland. Now it’s made in Kentucky by Heaven Hill. It’s absolutely the very best deal in American Rye Whiskey, and I’m not the only one who feels that way, there are positive reviews all over theses tubes of interwebs.
Until today, I’ve only seen it in 750 ml glass bottles in the $11 to $21 dollar range. Let me assure you that the eleven buck stuff tastes the same as the 21 dollar style sold in the upscale shops.
Today I was out and about and found the 1750 ml size for $22. I almost bought out the stock, as I’m having to go in wider and wider circles to find the stuff, but there’s something about a plastic bottle that screams “rot gut”.
I’m sure that plastic packaging doesn’t affect the taste in any way, but I’m gonna decant mine. Spare me the “winebox is a superior package” comments, plastic is cheap (unless it’s “polymer”).
Pictured also is the coffee scoop to make sure that I only pour myself a single instead of a double by mistake, and a repurposed furikake drinking glass.
Liquor taxes vary considerably from state to state but around here, the cheapest stuff in the whiskey isle goes for $8 per 750 ml and $16 per 1750.
