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Whisky

Postby Blackal » Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:06 pm

As several have commented on - there are lots of really good whiskies (but not Welsh stuff :? )

Eventually found the good stuff which had been stashed in the garage........


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I love the stuff, but find it harder on the stomach than Calvados and Pastis (Bloody hell - Maybe my dad wasn't Scottish after-all! :shock: )

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Postby slparry » Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:23 pm

I'll expect my bottle in the post please ;)
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Postby Blackal » Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:48 pm

slparry wrote:I'll expect my bottle in the post please ;)


It'll be going some - but I'll have a good bash at emptying one tonight!

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Re: Whisky

Postby Hay Ewe^ » Tue Apr 18, 2017 8:32 am

Not less than AU$80!
I REALLY like the Glenfiddich Oak range and there are some great New Zealand whiskys as well, so clean and fresh.
I have a few bottles stashed for a rainy day..... and some to share as well

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Re: Whisky

Postby popsky » Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:50 am

I got a bottle of this at Christmas, not yet opened as we're still on dry January :shock: but I am looking forward to a taste just not sure when, and I think there's a litre of Pastis 51 in the cupboard unopened
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Re: Whisky

Postby Herb » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:59 am

I don't know how anyone can drink the stuff?! Someone bought me a bottle of Highland Park, I had one sip and my facial muscles locked up, too a week to go back to normal.

I gave it to my Nan.
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Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:51 pm

A tale of woe.

I really liked Whiskey and drank it neat without ice etc However, at the age of 20 I was leaving a job and tradition was to "go to the pub at lunchtime" where I was plied with probably the best part of a bottle of scotch in the space of two and half hours.

Result I was fine until someone gave me a cup of tea at about 3.15pm I spent from then until 5.30 PM heaving my heart up. That was in December1980.

The last time I tried to drink Whiskey was about 10 years ago when someone bought me a double on Christmas eve. It lasted quite well it was about 30 minutes before I ejected the scotch (but not the beer and not my dinner - just the scotch) I assume my system still looks upon Scotch as a poison to be ejected ASAP.
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Re: Whisky

Postby dave the german » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:53 pm

Received a bottle of Bruichladdich Octomore t'other week in the post - VERY VERY peaty(so I'm told - I will sample some at some point). Not for me - a 50th pressie for my sister
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Re: Whisky

Postby milleplod » Tue Apr 18, 2017 2:41 pm

Some of my little collection -

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I love them all...... :lol:

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Postby Paul » Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:42 pm

For my 50th birthday a couple of years ago, my lovely girlfriend Helen paid for a fancy Whisky tasting afternoon in a hotel in Knightsbridge. Here are the ones we tackled:

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Lots of old stuff, but none of it had gone off ;-) I like the peaty ones, so one of the highlights was the Ardbeg Supernova, which came from a cask that spent some time orbiting the earth on the international space station. Space Whisky!

I have a cask of Ardbeg, purchased with 4 friends almost 23 years ago. Bottling is imminent, and I'll bring one along to the first Boxertrix weekend which takes place after I get my mits on it.

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Postby slparry » Tue Apr 18, 2017 7:16 pm

Blackal wrote:
slparry wrote:I'll expect my bottle in the post please ;)


It'll be going some - but I'll have a good bash at emptying one tonight!

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Al :D



I meant a full one .... and for clarity full of whisky ;)
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Re: Whisky

Postby hobbit » Wed Apr 19, 2017 5:34 pm

50 year old Highland Park £1400 a tot :shock: in Orkney Hotel, Kirkwall

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Postby Humbug » Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:26 pm

Think i'll ask for a bottle of this for the next birthday :shock:
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Postby BoxerCup R » Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:20 am

I never was a whisky drinker, couldn't stand the stuff after trying Bells and other blends when I was younger but I did a motorbike tour of the Highlands and Islands in 2012 with 3 Mates and I finished the last night with a Talisker single malt whisky on the Isle of Skye. I was taught how I should taste whisky in that bar and actually didn't mind it. I tried some more over the following weeks and decided I will only drink Single Malts and that I prefer the non peaty whisky's and I'm now a lover of the bloody stuff :lol: I'm trying different ones as I find them and get the opportunity and my latest try was a Singleton at the weekend, very nice as well. It does help that my Girlfriend is Scottish and lives in Edinburgh and her Brother is Operations Manager at Blair Athol :wink:
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Re: Whisky

Postby Hay Ewe^ » Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:56 pm

i generally avoid blends and drink it straight usually (and often from the bottle too - because travelling its too hard to carry glasses)
I cant sip whisky, I dont gulp it back, but I like a good mouth full, to get the taste and flavours.
Often when I ahve been out cycling on a long one, i will have a mouth full as part of my recovery - cleanses the mouth from all the muslie bars and gels and flies and sweat.

I must sound like a right heathen.....


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