bloke wrote:...and - for the very last time, the oft-heard statement, 'I only drink single-malt' is a b.s. statement without NAMING (at least) one, as - again - there's no predictable relationship from one to the next in flavor.
Who cares? Drinking only single malt is not about being attached to a specific flavor, it's about drinking for self-improvement, as opposed to drinking to get drunk as one does with blends.
We have a Scotch distiller here in Seattle. They aren't allowed to call it that, of course, but everyone knows. It's quite good, if you like Scotch.
Scotch is supposed to be made in Scotland but Japan has been marketing several highly rated products for years. Within Scotland, there are 5 regions each having a distinctive character, think taste profile, from the others. Within each region are several distillers each having a slightly different profile. Then there is aging which generally mellows the taste and adds other flavor elements. All this makes single malt Scotch very complicated. It's a lot like wine or microbrewery beer. Blends like Johnny Walker are less expensive and can be very good. (I like black label) with all this, Cutty Shark is bad whiskey and should not be gifted regifted or drunk (unless you are already quite drunk and don't care.)
bloke wrote:
Try it in Diet Dr. Pepper.
Twelve years ago or so, that's what our daughter (and one of her girlfriends) did with some very expensive scotch. We arrived home to find them crawling around on the floor in their underwear, because they were too drunk to stand up, and had thrown up all over their clothes.
A diet soda mixed with hard liquor will get you drunk faster than mixing with anything else, especially women. There's some scientific explanation that I am too lazy to look up to quote. (Diet 7&7)
I've made it a mission to find whiskey that I like. It's hit and miss all over the world. I don't like it too smoky. I've like a peaty scotch and hated an expensive peaty scotch. All I really know is that if I can't drink it neat, I don't need to drink it.
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basslizard wrote:I've made it a mission to find whiskey that I like. It's hit and miss all over the world. I don't like it too smoky. I've like a peaty scotch and hated an expensive peaty scotch. All I really know is that if I can't drink it neat, I don't need to drink it.
Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed.
Don't neglect to try some rye at some point. (American - not Canadian whiskey, which isn't required to even have any rye at all in it.) Old Oberholt is quite economical and not terrible, and there are lots of fancier brands these days. I see Pikesville is back in a well received 110 proof version, after they discontinued the cheap white label version I liked, and there are a lot of small distilleries giving rye a shot. There are also some sort of poser brands, bottling someone else's whiskey - I mean, not that there's a Pikesville distillery any more, it's a Heaven Hills line, but these guys seem to be just cashing in a recent interest in rye where people don't know the brands.
BrooklynBass wrote:The best solution for bad whiskey is good pickle brine.
Yes: a shot of cheap whisky chased with a shot of pickle brine. I prefer a good dill kosher brine, not the nothing-but-salt-and-vinegar hamburger pickles brine. And leave the olive brine to a dirty martini with cheap gin.
