Whiskey
In my drunken state I failed to clarify one thing. When I said drink straight, I meant to exclude shots. I was more referring to pouring yourself a nice tall glass. Well, perhaps not a tall glass, because that seems the wrong glass to drink it out of, regardless.
Anyway, lesson learned. However funny the name, Dickel is not an ideal whiskey to drink straight. It did however do a fine job of intoxicating me. I think part of it was the fact that anything I "borrow" from the dad's liquor cabinet tends to be decades old because he rarely buys liquor and some are even leftover from when we cleaned out my grandparents house.