Fine Liquor

[Gilgamesh]

In order to toast my recently deceased friend, a friend of ours brought us a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label provided by his very wealthy father. It was the greatest beverage I've ever had. I only wish it came under better circumstances. Also, I met THE Gil Gunderson and he provided me with a bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon, and it's everything he said it would be.

I'm sure Johnny Walker Blue Label is good, but nonetheless I'd balk at paying a couple of hundred bucks for a bottle of blended whisky.  I just can't see how it can be as good as a malt.

Trust me, it's worth it.

Do you drink malts, too, Gil?  Because I really need the opinion of somebody who knows the difference...

I do indeed.  And it's still worth it.

[Tony]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

[Bort]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I drink the good stuff more-or-less neat, but with a few drops of water. It seems to help open up the flavor.

If it's lower down the scotch food chain, I'll have it on the rocks.

[Slaky]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I drink the good stuff more-or-less neat, but with a few drops of water. It seems to help open up the flavor.

If it's lower down the scotch food chain, I'll have it on the rocks.

I'd heard that adding water isn't a bush league move by any means. I'm no connoisseur but I recently had some Nectar D'Or with a cigar and it was fucking oustanding. Splash of water in the scotch. You could really taste the flavors once the water was added.

[Bort]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I drink the good stuff more-or-less neat, but with a few drops of water. It seems to help open up the flavor.

If it's lower down the scotch food chain, I'll have it on the rocks.

I'd heard that adding water isn't a bush league move by any means. I'm no connoisseur but I recently had some Nectar D'Or with a cigar and it was fucking oustanding. Splash of water in the scotch. You could really taste the flavors once the water was added.

A small splash in Laphroig and it becomes ridiculously complex, even more so than without the water.

[Tony]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I drink the good stuff more-or-less neat, but with a few drops of water. It seems to help open up the flavor.

If it's lower down the scotch food chain, I'll have it on the rocks.

I'd heard that adding water isn't a bush league move by any means. I'm no connoisseur but I recently had some Nectar D'Or with a cigar and it was fucking oustanding. Splash of water in the scotch. You could really taste the flavors once the water was added.

A small splash in Laphroig and it becomes ridiculously complex, even more so than without the water.

That's what I thought about adding a little water. I haven't explored single malts nearly as much as I want to yet, but I'll take a different approach depending on what I'm drinking and when I'm drinking it. If it's after dinner and I'm chilled out and relaxing I'll drink it with a splash of water. If I'm at a bar and I'm not in the mood for beer I'll sometimes get it on the rocks, but only with something commonplace like Glenlivet.

[Bort]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I drink the good stuff more-or-less neat, but with a few drops of water. It seems to help open up the flavor.

If it's lower down the scotch food chain, I'll have it on the rocks.

I'd heard that adding water isn't a bush league move by any means. I'm no connoisseur but I recently had some Nectar D'Or with a cigar and it was fucking oustanding. Splash of water in the scotch. You could really taste the flavors once the water was added.

A small splash in Laphroig and it becomes ridiculously complex, even more so than without the water.

That's what I thought about adding a little water. I haven't explored single malts nearly as much as I want to yet, but I'll take a different approach depending on what I'm drinking and when I'm drinking it. If it's after dinner and I'm chilled out and relaxing I'll drink it with a splash of water. If I'm at a bar and I'm not in the mood for beer I'll sometimes get it on the rocks, but only with something commonplace like Glenlivet.

Yeah, that's pretty much my game plan.

[SKO]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I drink the good stuff more-or-less neat, but with a few drops of water. It seems to help open up the flavor.

If it's lower down the scotch food chain, I'll have it on the rocks.

I'd heard that adding water isn't a bush league move by any means. I'm no connoisseur but I recently had some Nectar D'Or with a cigar and it was fucking oustanding. Splash of water in the scotch. You could really taste the flavors once the water was added.

A small splash in Laphroig and it becomes ridiculously complex, even more so than without the water.

That's what I thought about adding a little water. I haven't explored single malts nearly as much as I want to yet, but I'll take a different approach depending on what I'm drinking and when I'm drinking it. If it's after dinner and I'm chilled out and relaxing I'll drink it with a splash of water. If I'm at a bar and I'm not in the mood for beer I'll sometimes get it on the rocks, but only with something commonplace like Glenlivet.

Yeah, that's pretty much my game plan.

Neat:
Any good single malt.
A fine bourbon like Woodford Reserve, 1792, or Knob Creek
Johnny Walker Black or above

On the rocks:
Jameson
Jim Beam

Mixed with something to mask the god awful taste of swill:
Jack Daniels
Evan Williams
Seagrams

[Bort]

I would move Seagrams to the category of "Only use to clean toilets and polish silverware."

[SKO]

I would move Seagrams to the category of "Only use to clean toilets and polish silverware."

I was under 21 once. And also poor. And my friend's parents had a liquor cabinet full of it. O, what one must do to engage in the sweet, mystifying properties of intoxication.

[Gilgamesh]

I would move Seagrams to the category of "Only use to clean toilets and polish silverware."

like Bar Keepers Friend?

[Bort]

I would move Seagrams to the category of "Only use to clean toilets and polish silverware."

like Bar Keepers Friend?

Certainly isn't my friend.

[Kermit IV]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

Sitting down, between the legs.

[Tonker]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I'm with Slak - more often than not, a drop or two of room-temperature water opens up a good malt.  It's really a question of taste, but having said that, if you're drinking cask-strength malt (55-60% ABV) you'd be an idiot not to spread it out a little.  Never ice, though - for the same reasons as you never shake a martini.  It just dilutes the booze too much.

As for cooking whisky, you can do to that what you will.

[Slaky]

How do you guys drink your single malt? Neat? With a little water?

Or maybe on the rocks?

I'm with Slak - more often than not, a drop or two of room-temperature water opens up a good malt.  It's really a question of taste, but having said that, if you're drinking cask-strength malt (55-60% ABV) you'd be an idiot not to spread it out a little.  Never ice, though - for the same reasons as you never shake a martini.  It just dilutes the booze too much.

As for cooking whisky, you can do to that what you will.

Thought I was in way over my head in this thread. That said, you ever had the Nectar d'Or? My father in law brought it to me from Scotland, not that you can't get it in the states. Pretty tasty.