The Official Single Malt Thread

[gomezcat]

It's my (shameless plug) birthday on Saturday and I'm thinking Laphroaig...

[shirtsleeve]

Originally Posted by HarpoonIPA

Yup, I just picked up some Moonshine for the first time and it's not bad at all

EDIT This is the brand I bought http://www.juniorsmidnightmoon.com/spirits/

Tim and Tickle are tryin to go legal. I'll buy their product if they ever make it.

[mikiemo83]

Originally Posted by Hawg73

It sounds a little like the bitters that cured me one night. I was in a bar and feeling mighty poorly. I was in a cold sweat with my stomach roiling and I told my friend, the bar-T, that I was going to have to head home and after briefly describing my symptoms he poured me a small glass of what he called "bitters" and something fizzy. I'd never heard of bitters prior to that night.

The effect was almost instantaneous. I was feeling 100% fine within a few minutes. I was amazed.

Never underestimate the genius of a top-notch bartender.

I was in the Village on trip to NYcity and not up to my usual self, talking to the bartender cured all that ailed me with a bit of the bitters.

I also have sipped a little Ginger Brandy for a tummy ache

[(P - shoulder)]

So, went up to my folks in Portland, OR for thanksgiving. My dad is the real Scotch nut - I'm more into the absinthes. We started off with a pleasant Balvenie - don't remember which one. The real treat was the Ardbeg Uigeadail. Very scrumptious. Unlike most of the earthy scotches, this one is aged in sherry casks, but doesn't have the telltale flavors that most sherry cask scotches do. Not only is the malt roasted over peat, but the water is peat-laden, too. I can understand why the flavor might not be palatable to some (peat is, after all, pretty much proto-petroleum) but to me this was exquisite.

[bideau]

So how many of you drink it this way?

[O_P_T]

Originally Posted by bideau

So how many of you drink it this way?

A lot of what he says is the same stuff the guys at the taste testing I went to 20 odd years ago say.

I don't use the glass he shows but the Riedel Single Malt glass.



Similar idea though, let your nose get in the glass and enjoy the bouquet.

I rinse out the glass every time I pour a malt, but I do that with water, not whisky.

His comment about adding the water is pretty much exactly what the guys at the taste testing said.

I don't use ice, but use cool water from my Brita pitcher.

[Patriots-Lifer]

I currently have only two bottles of scotch in my den. My tradition is to have two fingers of one of them at kickoff of each Patriots game when I am home to watch.
This is a real sherried Laphroaig. It is a single hogshead from 1989 and has been bottled after two full decades in the wood.

[Patriots-Lifer]

The other bottle is my prized scotch it is a rare old mid-'90s bottling of cask strength Laproaig 1966 30 year old from Signatory. This is a truly phenomenal scotch. Only 142 bottles of this were ever released. I got this at an auction 12 years ago.

[mikiemo83]

Bid I mistakenly drink the rinse whiskey like a cowboy

[O_P_T]

Picked up a bottle of Glenlivet 18 over the weekend. Amazing difference from the 12 year version.

Makes you wonder why they bother with the 12.

I also noticed this news story.

Whisky saves man's eyesight after being blinded by vodka
By Matthew Theunissen


7:34 PM Friday Nov 30, 2012

Alcohol doesn't tend to make you see more clearly, but in Denis Duthie's case a bottle of whisky literally saved his sight.

The 65-year-old Taranaki man suddenly went blind when vodka he had been drinking reacted with his diabetes medication. He regained his sight only after hospital staff administered expensive whisky.

[(P - shoulder)]

Originally Posted by O_P_T

Picked up a bottle of Glenlivet 18 over the weekend. Amazing difference from the 12 year version.

Makes you wonder why they bother with the 12.

I also noticed this news story.

Had a similar experience with the Highland Park not too long ago. Picked up the 12 because it was reasonably priced. It came with a sample of the 18 as a promo. My God, the difference was astounding. Never a doubter after that.