Scotch Strut
Danno3000
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Temperatures are cooling and so I'm getting friendly with my favourite spirit. These are my scotches of the moment:
(The Balvenie is pricey in these parts, but absurdly good.)
(The organic certification may be a gimmick, but it's a lovely scotch).What else are folks feeling?I tried this the other night (when I was three sheets to the wind and maybe not capable of assessing much of anything, but it was like drinking an ashtray:
(The Balvenie is pricey in these parts, but absurdly good.)(The organic certification may be a gimmick, but it's a lovely scotch).What else are folks feeling?I tried this the other night (when I was three sheets to the wind and maybe not capable of assessing much of anything, but it was like drinking an ashtray:
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had this one once...
insanely good.
i like the laphroaig and glenlivet always pleases...
i also dig tyracollenel (i never remember how to spell it), but that stuff is very tasty and affordable...
"It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."
Oh, no doubt! I can't bare to touch the last inch or so in my bottle. Very nearly my gold standard.
the fall in a bottle
Talisker gets my vote as well...
I got a bottle as a tip from a client. I slowly savored it for a couple years. It's what got me started liking scotch.
As an aside, someone got me this tequila for my birthday. It has a lot of the complexities of scotch. I'm all over it right now.
i dunno, it's strong (56%) and pretty good, but the macallan 12 year is just smoother.
a couple days ago my brother had the displeasure of witnessing someone order a macallan 12 and coke.
This is what I'll be using to keep warm while I take a break from the ravages of a Northern Ontario winter. Smooth and silky vanilla goodness.
When I had just turned 21 I went to some fancy bar in DC and order some expensive Scotch with 7up and the bartender refused and politely explained the finer points of Scotch to a yungin'. About 10 min later he was asking me to put out my herbal cigarette because people were complaining it smelled like pot. Yea folks, I just rolled into a bar with a printed box full of machine rolled filtered joints!
not hip to the this one, but (as has been communicated previously), i greatly prefer the 12 to the 18. i'm willing to split the dif.
Northern Ontario? Where are you?
Just like it's a mistake to presume a raer record is a good record, it's a mistake to presume that older scotches are better scotches. What makes them so compelling--velvety smoothness, for example--comes at the expense of some the complexity that may make a younger scotch so great. I recently had a 30 year old Strathisla and was not at all blown away. But that 21 year old port wood Balvenie...oh boy.
None of you guys are down with the peat?
love it mang.
I bought a bottle of this in order to take the plunge into good scotch. Unfortunately, my wife thought it smelled like formaldehyde and wouldn't come within 5 feet of me while I was drinking it.
On the upside, I managed to finish the bottle in the course of about 2 weeks!
I made one last from Christmas to the first day of spring last year, but it took some restraint.
The mcclelland islay is surprisingly cheap, not a bad everyday scotch to savour. The favourites are of course the laphroaig 15 and lagavulin de.
danno you fancy boy w/ the balvenie.
my next purchase will be a talisker 18.
to the dude w/ the cask strength macallan, you really should add a little water to even it out.
Hey Aser, I'm not that fancy; there's nothing to do in Fredericton but drink Scotch. No wine in New Brunswick, but plenty of whiskey.
That photo looks familiar...
My Scottish Co worker copped this for me for xmas last year...
There's a nice one in bmore as well called birds of a feather. prices aren't too steep and it's probably the most chill bar in fell's point (big bar district off the water).
stick to wine
pass
this is so completely where it's at for me. Far superior to the slightly older version that they also have, and DAMN if this seems to be totally gone from the LCBO now. I most definitely do cry.
If you like Ardbeg, you have to try Caol Ila (from the same small island, Islay)
I haven't found anything yet that tops those two