Single malt

[Pat "5mph"]

Just what kind of a savage are you?! 😲

Yes, @ebikeerwidnes post reads like he's telling the bar staff to add loads of ice in whisky
but I think he meant it the other way around!

 

[mistyoptic]

We still need to know what the OP’s whisky is.

I’m drinking a fine 16yo Jura as we speak

 

[Webbo2]

We ran out of wine. Well we didn’t but I didn’t won’t to open another bottle so I had a tot of the mouthwash soap stuff and I might not make tomorrows club run.🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃😜

 

[MichaelW2]

My very first taste was a decent single malt. I love the occasional dram. Keep and enjoy.

 

[katiewlx]

A long time ago I read that a small splash of water breaks the surface and allows the fumes to do their thing.
I tried it, it seemed to work, so I have done it ever since.
A true story.
When I was 17ish I read that Mick Jaggers favourite drink was whisky and coke so being an avid Stones fan that became my drink.
My boss used take me home from work and he was a whisky drinker (as his face showed) and occasionally he would call in at a pub. 1st time, he asked if I liked whisky. I said yes and asked for coke with it. I remember his facial expression as he said "i thought you said you liked whisky".

Ive always felt thats just the way people who put ice in their whisky, or whiskey... justify their choices.

if you let it breath abit, you get the same effect imo. whilst acknowledging that yes taste buds in your mouth can be reset after pounding them with alcohol for a bit, with a dash of water, but it doesnt actually have to be in the drink itself, you are just diluting it that way.

as for whisky and coke, bourbon yes, and ice is a valid accompaniment then, southern comfort & lemonade yes, jamesons and ginger ale, also very nice.

but dont go adding mixers to a classic malt whisky.

 

[katiewlx]

We still need to know what the OP’s whisky is.

I’m drinking a fine 16yo Jura as we speak

I had a nice Adnams distillers choice last night 🥃 I did not get up early or go ride my bike today 😄

 

[Pblakeney]

My very first taste was a decent single malt. I love the occasional dram. Keep and enjoy.

You can be spoiled. I was once in a bar having a half price sale on some of their most expensive whiskies while on a massive pay rise celebration. We all sampled a 1938 Macallan. I will never taste a whisky as nice again. Google today's price and you'll see why.
We each paid £40 for a 35ml measure. (Not between us, for clarification)

 

[richardfm]

Islay kinds.
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My daughter and her boyfriend brought back a bottle of the middle one from a visit to Scotland, as a birthday present for me.
It's very good.

 

[richardfm]

I was gifted a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label waaaay back in the 80s (i know its not a malt).......but it cost over £100 back then.
I must check today's price.

Have you still got it?

 

[slowmotion]

Being one of those souls who think that most single malts smell of cat piss (and not being a cat lover), I really can't suggest anything.

 

[Dave7]

Have you still got it?

I kept it erhh aahh hmm 2 weeks

 

[cyberknight]

Ive always felt thats just the way people who put ice in their whisky, or whiskey... justify their choices.

if you let it breath abit, you get the same effect imo. whilst acknowledging that yes taste buds in your mouth can be reset after pounding them with alcohol for a bit, with a dash of water, but it doesnt actually have to be in the drink itself, you are just diluting it that way.

as for whisky and coke, bourbon yes, and ice is a valid accompaniment then, southern comfort & lemonade yes, jamesons and ginger ale, also very nice.

but dont go adding mixers to a classic malt whisky.

As I'm currently working through a very cheap blended whisky that mrck bought it needs the coke to make it drinkable.

 

[Dave7]

As I'm currently working through a very cheap blended whisky that mrck bought it needs the coke to make it drinkable.

We regularly bought 2 bottles. One was bog standard Aldi stuff for mixers ie coke or lemonade and one was a malt. We could then choose depending on our taste buds that day.

 

[postman]

Two affordable blended,Whyte and Mackay and Monkey Shoulder,Sainsbugs with a Nectar card 70cl £15-50 i think then 1ltr just over £17-00,i am buying the 70cl for Christmas.

 

[cyberknight]

Two affordable blended,Whyte and Mackay and Monkey Shoulder,Sainsbugs with a Nectar card 70cl £15-50 i think then 1ltr just over £17-00,i am buying the 70cl for Christmas.

i wasnt keen on whyte and mackay . i quite like the lidl islay single malt as an affordable option .