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RubyToogood said:
So if I treat myself to a bottle of whisky for Christmas, what shall I get that is readily available?
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you can get laphroiag and glenmoranigie at waitrose, and at oddbins, maybe sainsbury's (not sure about that) both are a welcome addition to any drinks cabinet :cool:
 
RubyToogood said:
So if I treat myself to a bottle of whisky for Christmas, what shall I get that is readily available?
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Lagavulin, Talisker, Laphroaig, or Ardbeg (in that order of preference for me) are all easy to find :)
 
Any of the above or The Macallan - nice and smooth.

Last year my mother, a scot, bought me a litre of Bells :mad:
 
Don't bother with all of that foul sweaty-sock excuse for a drink.

Be a bit patriotic.

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madzone said:
If you live near there you must be a bit pan loafy ;)
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Granny - Cook/Postmistress, Grandad - Joiner. Both fae Torry, as is my ma! House has been in the family since them. ;)

Father - Greenock shipbuilder/army, his lot, pure Red-Clydeside although he eventually got himself sent to Uni because he was an utter liability with a gun! :)

Nothing very pan-loafy about that lot then! :D
 
Glenlivet is crap :(

I liked it the first time I tried it, but it tastes lame compared to royal lochnagar.

Maybe it's OK I suppose. I dunno :confused: I'm probably too pissed to tell.
 
balvenie? i like the sound of the name of that. i'm gonna have a look for it...

definitely not happy with this fucking glenlivet, its horrible, tastes like fucking water :mad:

i cant believe i paid 22 quid for water ffs :mad:
 
Herbsman. said:
balvenie? i like the sound of the name of that. i'm gonna have a look for it...
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Its another Dufftown Malt - subtle, with a fair bit in common with Glenfiddich - Indeed, the distilleries are next door to each other & share the same water supply. If you are finding Glenlivet bland, it probably insn't for you. Cardhu or particularly Knockando are probably a better bet as very distinctive-tasting whisky from that area IMO. If you can get a sherry-cask Macallan, jump at it! :) I had a bottle of portwood Balvenie last year & that was nice tho. :)

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This is the castle that gives Balvenie its name & sits on a small hill overlooking the distilleries - Great place, a pal was the custodian for a while a few years back. :)


Last time I played at the Glenfiddich Distillery, the mash-tuns were out of service because two employees had fallen-in the day before & drowned. The layer of carbon Dioxide that forms above the mash makes survival dependant on very prompt rescue. :(
 
soulman said:
Can't stand whisky, disgusting stuff
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fack off then ya barstard, this is a thread for whisky lovers. :D

The glenlivet, I think I found it bland cos I went out (in the cold) earlier and had a jamesons and a bottle of beer. now that my tastebuds have warmed up and calibrated, i am enjoying it... im tasting quite a fruity taste first. cant really put my finger on the aftertaste but its really nice anyway.

then i can smell my gf's ashtray in the background, the sickly sweet smell of which is completely ruining my whisky experience :mad:
 
personaly i love taliy, laphroaig and oban as i like the stong taste. Me buds dont pick up faint flowery flavours that much. So when i have been down the pub having a few real ales i need the strong whisky to taste it.

tonight ive had a few Green King IPAs, nice and mellow so i can taste the gelnlivet im drinking at the mo

But what i realy want to know, as i have had a few heated chats with beesonthewhatnow, about ice. Do you like a drop if ice in the whisky or not.

Personaly i like it, it cools the drink down and to me it does change the taste slightly, not just meaning watering it down a bit.

what do you think?? :)
 
I tend to have it 50-50 with water, unless I'm fishing/in the hills when it is usually neat, unless there is a suitably flowing burn or spring to water it from.
 
i dont like ice in any drinks. as for it affecting the flavour, well, it mutes certain flavours of course, cos it cools the drink, thus preventing/reducing the evaporation of certain chemicals that are responsible for certain aromas... (as you know, flavour is made up of various chemicals, most of which are actually going up your nose rather than just touching your tongue)

now, i think that a drink should be perfect without ice. it should be perfect in flavour at room temperature. if ice is needed to make it taste 'proper' (or if it tastes better with ice) then that drink aint been made properly, there's summat wrong with it...
 
wait, i aint worded that properly,... what i mean is that when you taste something, that sensatiion is mostly made up of the chemicals that are going up your nose, rather than what's touching your tongue. qq
 
but i do find room warm whisky tasting different to ice whisky,

normaly i have it with out ice, but i hate it when you get loads of ice when you find a good pub with a real whisky, not a bells teachers etc type, i like one or two bits of ice in the whisky.
 
innit, it defo does taste different cos of the effect i mentioned sbove. i hate loads of ice as well! loads of ice just makes it completely pointless, whereas a couple of cubes gives it a more subdued flavour, and makes it a bit more refreshing
 
I was thinking how strong the Glenlivet was :confused: We've got the French Oak Reserve one - definitely not mild.


Pogo - Torry? My word...not that I'm being Torryist or anything.... some of my best friends were from Torry :D
 
It's 40% and it's the bog standard 12 year old one. My tastebuds had been numbed by the cold, and the bottle of holsten pils + dounle Jamesons I had consumed earlier. Once I regained my taste sensation, I realised that this whisky is wonderfully floral and fruity, with a kind of creamy body, maybe a bit of a salty and fruity aftertaste, and a lingering vanilla bitterness... Maybe I'm talking out of my arse but that's what it tastes like to me.

In fact I'm sure there's elderflower in there.
 
now im getting a really nice malty, toasted flavour, like a sort of medium to dark brown flavour, kinda caramelly sort of thing

mmmmmmm!!!
 
im gutted, ive kained half a bottle of my glenlivet in 2 nights, i was keeping this drink to sup not gulp down, must put it on the top shelf and leave alone for a few days.

When i went to glasgow went to the best shop ever, The Whisky Shop.
Soo many whiskys... too much to pick, in the end i got a Arron Malt that was casked in a sherry cask, Sweet.. As it cost 40quid it took a long time to drink. I also got one that was a 26 year old and casked in my month of birth when i was born way back in 197something.

nice:)
 
madzone said:
Last year my mother, a scot, bought me a litre of Bells :mad:
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Someone bought me a bottle of Grants a couple of weeks ago. Mind you his excuse is he's English and doesn't know any better.
 
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