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So my best friend from high school is getting married. He is in the Navy and became a scotch drinker. So me and the old lady are getting them a bar set and a great bottle of Scotch. There inlays the problem, I don't know anything about scotch. So which are the great ones, anything helps. Would probably like to stay under 250$.
The Aberlour A Bundah cask strength is surprisingly good for the money, should set you back about $85 at Applejacks
I got my best man a bottle of lagavulin 16 on the recommendation of a mutual friend.
Lagavulin distillers edition - could get this years for sentimental reasons or ardbeg uigeadail are both pretty solid for 100ish
Johnny Walker Blue, Lagavulin, and Taliskar are some of my favorites.
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While not true scotch. Colkegan single malt is made down in Santa fe by santa fe spirits. I swear by it and usually runs about 50 or so a bottle. Seen in a few stores up there. In particular, bubbles in castle rock.
Perfect this the info I need. I'm going to have to figure out how to be a scotch drinker
Scotch flavor widely varies. I've never met a scotch drinker who enjoys the entire spectrum. You may want to figure out what he currently drinks most and find one within that same flavor profile. There are many sites that have "Scotch flavor maps" that will show you what bottles are comparable. Here's just one of many
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I'm an Oban fan, and the more you spend on a bottle within a brand, the better it is. Between brands doesn't matter much if it is a flavor he doesn't prefer - or - the most expensive bottle of flavor A will not compare to a cheap bottle of brand B if he likes brand B.
Not a huge scotch drinker myself, but over the last several years I've been learning more about them. Most who truely appreciate scotch will tell you to stick with a single malt and start with nothing younger an 10 year (ten years in the cask; once it's bottled it stops aging).
Here's a link to a serch for "scotch" in the "Sippin" thread: https://www.ar-15.co/search.php?searchid=951491
Here's another link to the "Six Classic Malts of Scotland" (these are considered exceptional): http://www.awa.dk/whisky/clasmalt.htm
Hope this helped.
The truth is if he is a scotch drinker he likely has a taste for certain brands or types of scotch. I'd suggest a little recon with a few mutual friends or family and try to find out if someone knows what his preference is. The range of suggestions above is very broad and while I'd agree with most of the suggests it might make sense to get a bit closer to his taste.