It’s a Stout and rather drinkable Stout at that. Don’t drink Stouts.
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Perhaps you’re more of Kilkenny person when it comes to Irish beer. It’s an Irish red ale with the same distinct kind of creamy head you had on the Guinness. It can be hard to find depending on where you live.
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The wait is over!! Tom & Jerry is back!! We can’t go have one till next week, but even just knowing it has returned makes us happy.
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Looks like I’ll be grabbing some more Mendoza Malbecs 
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Recently I tried McCormick Place from Brickstone Brewery. It’s either the most hoppy pale ale or least hoppy IPA I have had. It’s pretty solid and I love the Chicago themed name and imagery.
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I’ve never tried Scotch before, and I’m curious, but I’d like to know if anyone can tell me, which is more bitter: Scotch or Bourbon?
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Neither should be bitter. At least not seriously bitter like Campari. Bourbon is generally sweeter than Scotch. Actually it’s generally sweeter than any other kinds of whiskey.
Scotch is usually lighter in colour than bourbon, Irish, rye, or Canadian whiskey, and the tastes are more intricate and, famously, there is a difference between how it tastes when it first hits your mouth and how it tastes after you swallow it. This “finish” is what adds to the complexity and makes Scotch more fun and interesting and tastier IMO. Japanese whiskey tastes nearly identical to scotch bc that’s what they traditionally liked to drink, so when they started distilling their own they emulated Scotch. << this is slowly changing though with a few Japanese distillers trying to make rye or bourbon.
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If you want to avoid bitterness, avoid the Islay whiskies. The peaty taste to it is literally from the peat moss they use in it. Go for a Highland, like Dalwhinnie.
But if you’re looking for a nice sipping bourbon, you can’t go wrong with Blantons. Like @Yacob said, bourbons tend to be sweeter because they’re made with sweet corn mash. It’s not going to be like a liqueur level of sweet but the higher end stuff doesn’t have the burn that can ruin the taste.
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And you are the best example for this claim 
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Do please excuse my ignorance, but, I don’t know what most of what you said is. 
My knowledge of and experience with alcohol is quite limited. All I know is that Scotch and bourbon are considered different, that bourbon tastes pretty bitter (but still good) to me, and the names of some brands. That’s it.
Okay, so bourbon is an American whisky and whiskies are made with fermented grain mash. In bourbon it’s sweet corn and in Scotch it’s usually barley or wheat. There are 5 main varieties of Scotch whisky: Islay, Speyside, Highland, lowland and Campbeltown, each with their own, usually legally mandated, methods of production. I love alcohol purity laws but that’s because I’m me 
I took a tasting course before the plague and that douchey, wine bro who sips and then smacks his gums stereotype exists for a reason. Again, owning how douchey this makes me sound, you really do get more of the dimensions to the flavour if you slow down and really concentrate on what you’re tasting.
If you’re comparing it to having a mixed drink like a rye and Coke yeah it’s going to taste bitter but tasting them on their own is nice.
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@Bourbon at a mom+pop Italian joint when the chef/owner comes over to see how the meal was “everything was just delicious but I think your wine cellar might just be off by a degree or maybe a degree and a half”
The owner/chef says out loud “well I’m glad the food was to your liking, I will have the temperature checked too, thanks for the heads up”
The owner/chef walks away thinking “we don’t even have a wine cellar, that junk you ordered sits in a closet near the stoves until it goes into the fridge.” 
Edit: Fair is fair, so now I’ll do me too!!
@Yacob at the trendy after hours lounge “we will have a bottle of the the Louis XIII”
Server “we only have one bottle and it’s been opened already, I gotta charge you by the shot”
Yacob “yea whatever”
Server goes and switches the Lxiii with some pure garbage and brings the garbage out in the fancy Lxiii bottle. Yacob doesn’t notice
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Forgive my ignorance, but whatever it is, I’m missing it.
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It’s brewed in his home state.
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Ooooh, yeah, no way I’d ever have gotten that.
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Something I didn’t have today. I settled with a Blue Moon with a orange slice.
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Have you had 312 or ShockTop?
They are both also a Belgian style wheat, although they market 312 as an “urban wheat” whatever that means . It’s best with a lemon slice in it. Shock Top is best with an orange and to me taste more orangey than blue moon. Both are worth a try if you like blue moon.
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I’m a relatively new drinker so I really don’t have a preference. I simply went with a recommendation when I went out yesterday since I’m relatively clueless.
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