Any whisky lovers here?
I do like a wee dram. In fact I like a BIG dram :D
I have a wide range of tastes but if pushed would always go Islay.
Here's what I snagged for "Birthmas" - birthday and christmas combined as my birthday is a few days before Christmas.
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I see you've made a start :grin: :grin: :grin:
there's a bottle of Talisker in the cupboard, along with a bottle of Lagavulin, and as a blend, Bell's. Glenmorangie is another favourite
Love your collection, which includes some of which I hadn't heard
Mike 👍👍👍👍
Where do you live I'll come and help you out :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Can't stand the stuff, but OH and son like a drop or three of malt. Highland Park, Jura, and Auchentoshan are in the cupboard at the moment.
Highland Park is another favourite
Mike
I inherited some and gave it away. I don't drink spirits. Well more accurately I no longer drink spirits.
Hello -oy-
yes i have the occasional dram or tipple, bells, grants ,(Chivas regal one of my favourites ) a lovely smooth velvety taste , and i enjoy the odd glass at times, but not on a daily basis, the same for wine i like white wine and will on occasions drink red ,
so i suppose its horses. for courses.or what ever,
Hi oy I end up with Famous Grouse Christmas and birth days. For some reason never took to malts. I now mainly drink white wines and the odd beer.
There's a lot of rubbish talked about whisky....
1. Blends are rubbish - single malts are the only good stuff. I only drink single malts - but that's MY choice and what I like.
2. You mustn't add water to a single malt. Firstly - MY whisky MY rules. Secondly - I currently have a 61.7% bottle of Islay single malt costing just under £200. Without a bit of water in all there is is fire. What a waste - may as well drink parafin.
3. No mixers allowed. Again - I don't - but - YOUR whisky YOUR rules.
*Steps off soapbox :)
fair 'nuff
Being Burns Night I shall be raising a glass of the afformentioned 61.7% good stuff North towards the land of my Grandfathers :clap:
And here it is....^^^^
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more likely there it was... :smiley:
Quote from: klondike on February 02, 2022, 08:37:16 PM
more likely there it was... :smiley:
Not this one. I'm saving it foir special occasions. You can se how little I've had since I got it in early October last year. It was my retirement prezzie from my work colleagues!
I've only just learned how to drink spirits after a lifetime of lager drinking. It's taken a long time for this old quaffer to learn how to sip. Still can't and that's where the diet lemonade comes in. :grin:
i certainly agree with your whisky your rules...
but what do you think blended whisky is made of?
Is it like tea-bags and Park Drive? :grin:
lol, not quite, it is a blend of the single malts left when they get barrelled up for ageing... so that Famous Grouse might just have a smidgeon of 'the McCallum' in it...
Kinda what I thought but it makes little difference..I don't know what goes into most of what I eat/drink.. :wink:
Possibly just as well. Certainly so where any meats are involved.
Quote from: crabbyob on February 02, 2022, 10:41:44 PM
i certainly agree with your whisky your rules...
but what do you think blended whisky is made of?
More often than not a few small amounts of single malt whiskies made up with cheap grain whisky. There are exeptions though - made with just single malts - and these are usually ok.
Just cracked open this independant bottling of an Edradour Sherry Cask single malt. Look at that natural colour!
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all the good malts were aged in sherry barrels, but the sherry folks got wise and bumped the prices up so now they buy full barrels of a well known American booze that i cant bloody remember, but it is cheaper for them to buy the full barrel of 'Jack Daniels' than an empty sherry barrel. so the malts are now being aged in old Burbon Barrels....
i got all this info from a visit to 'The Famous Grouse' Distillery whose top Label is 'The McCallum' ...
My dad always had a bottle of "Isle of Mist" Malt Whisky stashed in his man cave. :shh:
i never saw my old man drunk...
he didnt need a drink to be a tosser.. [2030]
Never saw mine drunk either, but he did like a wee nip, as he called it.
As a strict 100% teetotaller, not a pretend one who says they don't drink, except & Xmas etc, no alcoholic drink holds any interest for me whatsoever.
I even rejected some Parsley Box ready meals as they apparently had alcohol in them.
However, I do recognise the name Islay, as someone asked me to get him a botttle when I had a holiday in Scotland.
There's a shop in Inveraray that sold nothing but whisky & it was stocked floor to ceiling with all different brands.