The annual single malt whiskey thread

[Gromit]

Instead I came home with a bottle of Balvenie Doublewood 12 yr old. Never tried it so hoping for good things

Its gorgeous. You won't be disapointed.

 

[Firky]

I like whisky but I can't drink as it is one of the few drinks which will make me get howling drunk on very little. However I did have a few last night after six or seven pints of Guinness and it was lush! Isle of Jura single malt, £3.20 a go but worth it. Not a whisky buff at all... although a Glaswegian friend has tried to turn me into one by getting me massivley drunk on the stuff. It didn't really work.

Rum... now there's a drink

 

[marty21]

i have 3 bottles of malt in varying stages of emptiness, but still enough to get me through the festive period, some laphroiag, some glen morangie, and some tallisker, i might well treat myself to another bottle of something in the next few weeks

 

[dessiato]

Pendant

shouldn't that be 'pedant'? ( Oh, and 'spelling it wrongly' ?)

 

[crustychick]

shouldn't that be 'pedant'? ( Oh, and 'spelling it wrongly' ?)

*sighs*

just can't get teh staff these days

 

[Herbsman.]

Crustychick, you like fine whisky, ska, mountain biking and geography. I think I love you

 

[crustychick]

Crustychick, you like fine whisky, ska, mountain biking and geography. I think I love you

hehehehe

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Instead I came home with a bottle of Balvenie Doublewood 12 yr old. Never tried it so hoping for good things

Fecking gorgeous. If you ever get the chance, try the 21 year old, it's magic.

 

[Herbsman.]

http://www.petitewines.co.uk/Scotch_whisky_tasting_notes.htm <--- Want

 

[Superape]

mmmmmm

Malt.

Laphroaig is my annual christmas treat to myself. Lagavullin is an occasional pub treat.

I have been round the Talisker distillery & the bottle I bought from there was delicious

 

[subversplat]

Fecking gorgeous. If you ever get the chance, try the 21 year old, it's magic.

Said the actress to the bishop, etc etc, fnar fnar, etc.

 

[Gromit]

I forgot to mention a new and emerging favourite for me:

Penderyn Single Malt Welsh Whisky

At £32 a bottle though it ain't cheap.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Bowmore Dusk: finished in claret casks and bottled at a no-messing 50%. One of the best things there is.

 

[Herbsman.]

50%? I have a feeling that that would mash me up and bruk me down.

 

[Shandril19]

Partial to Macallan due to a lovely visit/tour there, but recently been leaning toward Talisker or Balvenie.

 

[Pie 1]

Talisker or Oban for me.

 

[May Kasahara]

^^^ nice tagline

 

[Herbsman.]

Question two

what are your favourite flavour carachteristics? Peatiness? Seaweediness? Smokiness? Sherry? Sweetness? Dryness? Honey? Vanilla? Fruit? Floral? Maltiness? Nutty? Spicy? Medicinalisation?

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

Laphroaig and Lagavullin for me. I love them both. It's as much the smell as the taste, drinking either is like drinking an episode of Casualty mixed with one of Londons Burning.

 

[Herbsman.]

Laphroaig and Lagavullin for me. I love them both. It's as much the smell as the taste, drinking either is like drinking an episode of Casualty mixed with one of Londons Burning.

So it tastes really mediocre, and unrealistic, but with lots of blood, and like it's on fire?

 

[Balbi]

Caol Ila 12 y/o. Golden Cask. Lovely

 

[Herbsman.]

wtf dude

this thread is really old

 

[Balbi]

I recalled this thread as I tucked into a glass

Peaty and quite dark.

 

[cybertect]

Caol Ila 12 y/o. Golden Cask.

You just inspired me to pour myself a generous snifter of the same

Currently in my whisky cupboard

15 yo Bruichladdich
Bruichladdich Rocks (not a patch on the 15 yo, I won't be buying again)
15 yo Bowmore Darkest (Sherry Cask Finished)
12 yo Waitrose Speyside
Chivas Century (not a single malt, I know)
10 yo Tobermory
10 yo Glenmorangie
12 yo Lochnagar
A bottle of Bells for heathens to drink (misguided gift from someone)

 

[Herbsman.]

I bloody love that Royal Lochnagar

dispose of that bells ffs.... err i mean dash weh dat dutty bells ting nuh bwoy...

wtf is waitrose speyside? does waitrose have their own distillery?

 

[Balbi]

for the Cask - I was visiting the House of Macduff's home base yesterday. Being a relative whisky heathen I probably can't appreciate exactly how much of the stuff was there. But seeing casks filled with Bowmore made me go

 

[cybertect]

Iwtf is waitrose speyside? does waitrose have their own distillery?

It's quite quaffable. Almost certainly they buy it from one of the Speyside distilleries and slap their label on it. I'm not familiar enough with Speysides to be able to guess which one though.

The Bells, well, er, I have had the occasional guest who insists they prefer it, often accompanied by Coke or something - and I'm not going to adulterate one of my malts with that. So it sits at the back of the cupboard waiting for their appearance. No accounting for taste, eh?

 

[Herbsman.]

Well. Some people just dont get it do they. I'm sure someone bought me the equivalent of Bells whiskey once. Politely accepted, of course.

 

[moose]

In my previous job we bought 5 bottles of 40 year old Lagavulin for a very much-loved colleague's future birthdays and christmases. Sadly he died before we could give him the final three, so I inherited them. Truly marvellous whiskey, drunk each time in memory of a lovely man

I also like Talisker and some of the Islays, particularly Bunnahabhain.

 

[chio]

I'm up on Jura next month. It's actually cheaper in Morrisons here than on the island... !