Fine Liquor

[Tony]

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.

Thank you sir....no offense to anyone else, but this is the response I was waiting for.

[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.

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.

I haven't, Slak - in fact, I'd never even heard of it.  I've just looked it up, though, and now I'm hard for it.   Glenmorangie (little tip for you statesiders : it's pronounced Glen-MORR-un-gie) with a Sauternes finish?  I'm in.

It's not a huge leap from finishing with a port, madeira or sherry cask to finishing with a dessert wine cask, so I can't believe that nobody's thought of it before.  What a fucking good idea.

[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.

I haven't, Slak - in fact, I'd never even heard of it.  I've just looked it up, though, and now I'm hard for it.   Glenmorangie (little tip for you statesiders : it's pronounced Glen-MORR-un-gie) with a Sauternes finish?  I'm in.

It's not a huge leap from finishing with a port, madeira or sherry cask to finishing with a dessert wine cask, so I can't believe that nobody's thought of it before.  What a fucking good idea.

Be interested to know what you think.

[SKO]

I went ahead and gave this a shot. It only cost me 22 dollars and Glenfidditch or Glenlivet or any of your run of the mill quality single malts is usually at least 45 a bottle, so I didn't have all of that high of expectations considering. I was pleasantly surprised. I got the Islay and it had a nice, earthy taste to it. Smooth but hearty. I added only a few drops of water (thank ye' all) and it made for a very pleasant evening on a budget. Certainly better than spending the same amount of money on a bottle of Jameson or any of the other stock brands that I tend to rely on until I'm out of school and more gainfully employed.

[Oleg]

Since I like my spirits like I like my women, clear and flavorless, I don't know shit abut whiskey.  But, perhaps you brown liquor snobs may enjoy this.

[SKO]

November, in my mind, is Bourbon Month:














Mmmmm. Turkey and bourbon. Why Jesus invented Thanksgiving as America's sacred holiday.

[Fork]

[Bort]

Mmm...

[PANK!]

Mmm...

*gags*

[Bort]

Mmm...

*gags*

You wouldn't get it, Huey. It's a LOCAL thing, like the Bundy Fountain.

[SKO]

Challenge accepted.

[theoneandonlyjim]

Anyone checked out/ordered from this place? My dad and I picked some bourbon samples to try over New Year's.  Shipping is all screwed up in the UK, though, and it could take a while to get here.

[powen01]

Anyone checked out/ordered from this place? My dad and I picked some bourbon samples to try over New Year's.  Shipping is all screwed up in the UK, though, and it could take a while to get here.

Are you trying to bankrupt me, you limey bastard?

Off I go to buy a bottle of Clynelish for a mate...   The cheaper stuff, not this nectar of the Gods.

[Shooter]

I went ahead and gave this a shot. It only cost me 22 dollars and Glenfidditch or Glenlivet or any of your run of the mill quality single malts is usually at least 45 a bottle, so I didn't have all of that high of expectations considering. I was pleasantly surprised. I got the Islay and it had a nice, earthy taste to it. Smooth but hearty. I added only a few drops of water (thank ye' all) and it made for a very pleasant evening on a budget. Certainly better than spending the same amount of money on a bottle of Jameson or any of the other stock brands that I tend to rely on until I'm out of school and more gainfully employed.

$22 was about two weeks' worth of drinking for me in college. A couple of cases if $4.99/case Old Milwaukee returnables and a few $2-for-a-cup parties (also likely Old Mil, possibly Milwaukee's Best).

Kudos to you for not having to drink copious amounts of shitty beer.

[flannj]

$22 was about two weeks' worth of drinking for me in college. A couple of cases if $4.99/case Old Milwaukee returnables and a few $2-for-a-cup parties (also likely Old Mil, possibly Milwaukee's Best).

Kudos to you for not having to drink copious amounts of shitty beer.

We drank this.



$4.99 for a case of 16oz. returnables. Christ, what swill.

It's remarkable that I have any digestive system left.