Whisky

[ianjmcd]

Chapter Nine is worth investigating. A peaty single malt made in England.

Sacrilegious

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Sacrilegious

I know! Next they will be saying that Scotland has a Cricket team!!


... Oh.... Wait...

 

[Norm]

Japanese whiskeys are rather good, and Suntory, probably the most famous, sponsored golf tournaments a couple of decades ago to get their name out there.

Highland Park is nice, I've just about demolished (I've got a cold, it's for medicinal purposes) a Bushmills 10 year old in the last week, then I'll move on to Canadian Club or Gentleman Jack... I have a fairly broad palate for whiskey / whiskey.

 

[byegad]

Highland Park is my choice too.

I hate the people who offer you one then try to adulterate it with water, lemonade, ice or some other pollutant. The big whisky makers spend hours getting the balance of water and distillate just right. Why do people spoil it?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Tastes worse than meths.

 

[Peteaud]

JD for me although JB is as good.

 

[Norm]

I hate the people who offer you one then try to adulterate it with water, lemonade, ice or some other pollutant. The big whisky makers spend hours getting the balance of water and distillate just right. Why do people spoil it?

Whilst I completely agree about water and lemonade, I do think that a cheap scotch and dry ginger makes a rather pleasant aperitif. Only a cheap scotch, though, certainly not one that anyone has spent hours perfecting.

I'm not sure whether I should confess to being rather partial to a good slug of decent whiskey in strong black sweet coffee, then. But I am.

 

[vernon]

Highland Park is my choice too.

I hate the people who offer you one then try to adulterate it with water, lemonade, ice or some other pollutant. The big whisky makers spend hours getting the a balance of water and distillate just right. They then spend a small fortune to persuade the gullible through carefully scripted copy that the product is unique, superior and should be drunk in a preferred manner.

Fixed that for you

Why do people spoil it?

They don't. More often than not they improve it.

 

[subaqua]

The Indian whisky is excellent. I was given a bottle of Amrut a couple of years ago and in a blind taste test of various well-respected malts among friends it came second. It's a belter. Also worth trying is the Welsh malt Penderyn.


GC

the penderyn stuff is stunningly good. the GrandSlam special was brilliantly smooth.

 

[subaqua]

They don't. More often than not they improve it.

any whisky shouild have a small amount of cool water added to it. all the distilleries advise this . helps release the aromas and flavours

 

[tonyhalsall]

Rum - yum
Whisky - yuk

 

[snorri]

whisky is fecking awful. And that's a fact.

It's awful for you since you blew your taste buds after accepting sweeties when on that cycle run with your mate from America.

 

[snorri]

I've recently found a taste for it and currently enjoying a wee dram of highland park 12. Little sweet and quite smoky

mmmm Highland Park...... I can feel the salty breeze blown across Scapa Flow and smell the sweet tangles on the sandy shore.
Wunderbar.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

mmmm Highland Park...... I can feel the salty breeze blown across Scapa Flow and smell the sweet tangles on the sandy shore.
Wunderbar.

That's strange, my olfactory senses only detect the refinery at Grangemouth.

 

[vernon]

I have a soft spot for Highland Park. I had a dram to celebrate the completion of my LEJOG ride.