Here’s my go-to choices, highly recommended
tequila = tears of llorona. Over the past decade this has become one of my favorites and also aptly named. Plus it’s been a tequila kind of week and it’s only Tuesday I think.
Honorable mention = Avión 44 is also good, and mellow for those who like it like that.
bourbon = Blantons straight from the barrel I keep the original around because it’s easier to find, but prefer the former
Honorable mention: it’s bourbon, there’s so many …
scotch = Macallan 18 (if you can find the one that says “Exclusively matured in select sherry oak casks from Jerez Spain” don’t hesitate. Macallan has several versions of the 18, this one is tops and getting harder to find.
honorable mention = in the JW line give the King George V a try.
Sometimes I’ll just start drinking around the bar until they all start to taste the same and I wake up in the yard with pissed off neighbors, which is really hard to do since the nearest one is over 1/2 mile away.