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What's the best bottle of alcohol for under $20?

post #1 of 61
1/22/10 at 4:57am
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What's the best bottle of alcohol for under $20? Here are my votes. No flaming, I just graduated college.... Vodka: Svedka Whiskey: Jack Rum: Bacardi
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post #2 of 61
1/22/10 at 10:00am
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Originally Posted by Skip87 View Post
What's the best bottle of alcohol for under $20? Here are my votes. No flaming, I just graduated college....

Vodka: Svedka
Whiskey: Jack
Rum: Bacardi

on the rum you are wrong.
betting on the whiskey as well.
on the vodka who cares.
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post #3 of 61
1/22/10 at 10:03am
really wrong on everything
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post #4 of 61
1/22/10 at 10:08am
+1 on Svedka Mount Gay rum is the best for under $20 Whiskey: there's nothing drinkable under $20, but bump it up a few bucks and you have some decent choices, like Jameson.
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post #5 of 61
1/22/10 at 11:48am
Vodka: Tito's
Rum: Myers or Mount Gay
Bourbon: Beam Black
Scotch: ...don't bother, but if you must, maybe McClellands
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post #6 of 61
1/22/10 at 11:51am
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Originally Posted by Thomas View Post
Vodka: Tito's
Rum: Myers or Mount Gay
Bourbon: Beam Black
Scotch: ...don't bother, but if you must, maybe McClellands

+1 on Tito's but it has become ever more expensive
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post #7 of 61
1/22/10 at 1:30pm
Vodka: Titos
Whiskey: Speyburn or Tomatin ($20 here, could be higher were you are though)
Rum: Mt. Gay Eclipse
Bourbon: Buffalo Trace (by far the best bottle on this list)
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post #8 of 61
1/22/10 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by scarphe View Post
on the rum you are wrong.
betting on the whiskey as well.
on the vodka who cares.

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Originally Posted by Flambeur View Post
really wrong on everything

Thanks for your suggestions....
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post #9 of 61
1/22/10 at 3:44pm
In NY everything is more than $20...at list for the liter, maybe 750ml is less. What does Dewars go for nowadays? +1 on Titos if it is less than $20...I think its closer to $30.
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post #10 of 61
1/22/10 at 4:40pm
Scotch: Finlaggan - $19 @ Trader Joe's

Finlaggan is a bottler of Islay single malts. They scour the island looking for overflow inventory at the distilleries, bottle it up, and sell it for a very reasonable price. Last bottle I had contained a young Laphroaig.
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post #11 of 61
1/22/10 at 4:58pm
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Originally Posted by samblau View Post
In NY everything is more than $20...at list for the liter, maybe 750ml is less. What does Dewars go for nowadays? +1 on Titos if it is less than $20...I think its closer to $30.

not the case with rum, diplomatico, pampero, barbancourt ED all can be foudn for less than 20 usd in new york.
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post #12 of 61
1/22/10 at 4:59pm
Rum: Bacardi 8 Anos ($18 in SoCal)
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post #13 of 61
1/22/10 at 5:10pm
A dram of Lagavulin.
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post #14 of 61
1/22/10 at 5:14pm
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+1 on Tito's but it has become ever more expensive

I saw it last week at Trader Joe's for $18.00
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post #15 of 61
1/22/10 at 5:18pm
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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn View Post
+1 on Svedka
Mount Gay rum is the best for under $20

Mount gay is by far the best in that price range...hell sometimes I see a fifth of mount gay going for less than bacardi. Also mount gay is the only rum I have found to be suitable for the rum and tonic (as available at any sailing regatta sponsored by mount gay...so..basically all of them). I've been to their distillery and all that jazz...the white rum is only mediocre and I don't see anything special about the sugar cane brandy. The Mount Gay Extra Old is pretty good. Great in a glass by itself with maybe a squeeze of lime--it is not rum-like at all though (compared to the eclipse or a bacardi), it is much more like an aged whiskey or something in terms of how it feels. Of course that doesn't matter because you won't find it for $20 unless you are actually in barbados.

Svedka also wins in that price range...should be able to get a handle for 20 as it is always on sale somewhere...
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