dulridge
Enlightened
Someone needs to say "Scotch Whiskey" just so dulridge can have another opportunity to let it rip! :devil:
:nana: Whiskey with an "e" is the stuff that comes from cats isn't it? :nana:
Someone needs to say "Scotch Whiskey" just so dulridge can have another opportunity to let it rip! :devil:
Thanks for the link monkeyboy... appreciate it!I'm not a big drinker but Highland Park is one of my favourites. It's distilled in Orkney. Even the basic 12 year old whisky is very good.
Haha, no worries here. It's much like our beer... how's the joke go? What's "American Beer have in common with sex on a boat?" ......... If you haven't heard it, I'll let you google the answer.Any Scotch whisky is better than the stuff Americans try to pass of as Whisky. (Ducks and runs)
Norm
I'm very excited about this! Here's a link to the American version...Take a look at www.smws.co.uk - they have an offshoot in Florida.
Haha! On the Glenfiddich tour, our guide brought up whether or not water should be added to their Scotch. She said that a few drops of high-quality room-temperature water "opens" up the flavors and scents of the Scotch, and doesn't do it any harm! But she said that ice does the exact opposite... it closes up the Scotch.
This is making me very thirsty!
:nana: Whiskey with an "e" is the stuff that comes from cats isn't it? :nana:
Glenlivet 15 year old french oak reserve or their 18 and 21 year old single malts are always on rotation. I go through about a bottle a month or so. I either have them on the rocks or mixed 1:1 with coke.
Seriously I'd like to check out some good whiskey too. Is there anywhere to get the stuff online?
Caol Ila 12 y/o, a bit of an aquired taste, but this is one of my favorites, I can't wait to get my mitts on some of the older versions like the 18 or 23 y/o.
If you like that, you owe it to yourself to try Port Ellen. However, the price does go against it - the distillery was demolished in the 80's.
This thread is depressing me. Since I got my leg wound last year in May, I've basically been on some sort of narcotic pain killer every day. Needless to say, Scotch and narcotics do NOT mix. And I have some really nice stuff sitting in the cabinet
that better be the white lines coke, as mixing a single malt with that brown bubbly stuff and/or ice should be punished in a really nasty way :nana:
Anyway, another couple of nice single malts:
The Balvenie Portwood, a bit on the sweet side so very suitable for beginners
Ochone! Japanese whisky is voted the best in world
Like English wine, it has suffered from the taint of inauthenticity and has been the butt of condescending jokes. Now Japanese whisky has finally scotched all criticism by being voted the best in the world, ahead of its Highland rivals.
Yoichi 20 years old, distilled on the shores of the Sea of Japan, has become the first variety produced outside Scotland to win the coveted single malt award in an international competition run by Whisky Magazine, the main industry publication.
The whisky, distilled near the city of Sapporo on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, beat dozens of other varieties, including last year's winner, Talisker 18 years old, produced on the Isle of Skye.
Suntory Hibiki, the brand advertised by the washed-up actor played by Bill Murray in the film Lost in Translation, scooped the award for the world's best blended whisky. The historic double for Japanese whiskies has provoked consternation in Scotland, where whisky is as integral to a certain strand of national identity as bagpipes, haggis and the kilt.