loeman
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I have enjoyed Scotch for many years. However, I refuse to pay the price for the really good ones. It's just not worth it to me. So, I have settled on Dewars. It's not the best but it doesn't cost $75 for a fifth.
Ok, Scotch drinkers
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Fishslayer
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When I was drinking I was a fan of Scoresby's. Dirt cheap & not really all that bad with ice.
Always had a bottle of good stuff for company though...
Single malt was pretty much all over the board. The only real agreement was that if you put ice or water in it you should be immediately deported.
I am part of a couple of groups that do formal tastings a few times a year. One guest, instructed on the way we do things, was invited to not ever come back after he sloshed in several ounces of water before even so much as nosing a $500+ 25 year old single malt. There was total silence around the room. He didn't have a clue why everyone was aghast. There is a process, and everyone uses it so we all compare the same aspects.
Absalom
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To add a note about blends:
There is no need to be too self-deprecating if you like a blended scotch. Only in the US does a blend equal cheap and lower quality. That's a result of US law, which requires a US-made beverage labelled as "blended whiskey" to only contain 20% actual whiskey; the rest can be and usually is neutral spirit, that is, industrially mass-produced vodka.
In other countries like Scotland, Ireland and Canada, where the majority of whisky produced is blended (80% of all scotch sold are blends), blended whisky still contains 100% whisky, with only small amounts of additions allowed. Chivas and JW are making blends that are considerably rarer and pricier than many single malts.
As Samuel Bronfman, the founder of Seagram's, once said, "distilling is just craft and science, blending is the art." In some Scottish distilleries, the master blender supposedly is more respected and better paid than the master distiller.
There is no need to be too self-deprecating if you like a blended scotch. Only in the US does a blend equal cheap and lower quality. That's a result of US law, which requires a US-made beverage labelled as "blended whiskey" to only contain 20% actual whiskey; the rest can be and usually is neutral spirit, that is, industrially mass-produced vodka.
In other countries like Scotland, Ireland and Canada, where the majority of whisky produced is blended (80% of all scotch sold are blends), blended whisky still contains 100% whisky, with only small amounts of additions allowed. Chivas and JW are making blends that are considerably rarer and pricier than many single malts.
As Samuel Bronfman, the founder of Seagram's, once said, "distilling is just craft and science, blending is the art." In some Scottish distilleries, the master blender supposedly is more respected and better paid than the master distiller.
MacCallan Cask Strength, MacCallan 18, Balvennie Doublewood or Portwood (depending on your income) or for a blend I like the Black Grouse...
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Scotch... hmmm. It's what I do to keep my trailer from rollin' off down the hill.
There ain't no likker.... like my Uncle Elwood's Tennessee sour mash No. 4. A certified... double-rectified, pop-skull... aged in a great big tub. I got some right now... dated... June. It was a good month.
Scotch... I use it to tape up stuff.
There ain't no likker.... like my Uncle Elwood's Tennessee sour mash No. 4. A certified... double-rectified, pop-skull... aged in a great big tub. I got some right now... dated... June. It was a good month.
Scotch... I use it to tape up stuff.
Like this? I found it a few weeks back. Run down shopping strip liquor store. Dusty shelf on the back wall.
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Bill Bates
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Oh Yeah, that is a bottle to saved for a very special day. Like the day you find a Registered Magnum in the box at a pawn shop marked as a Model 27 with a price tag of $799. It gets no better, pure heaven in a glass.
For every day the 12 year old bottling will do nicely.
chaparrito
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I have a pal who spends considerable chunks of his wife's considerable fortune on snooty Scotches. I am happy to sample his offerings, then come home and have a wee dram of American Rye.
The House Scotch is McClelland's "big batch" 1.75L bottle......LOL..... with one cube.
Cutty....... with four cubes........
In the winter there's generally a higher end highland single malt..... for sipping with the wife in front of the fire.........
Reminds me.........
About 25 years ago, I was still single and living in Harrisburg.....
Friday night and a January snowstorm......after dinner had a fire in the fireplace, ice bucket,a new bottle of good Scotch..... and a very very good novel........... with my feet up on the raised hearth........
I read till the novel was done......... and so was the better part of that bottle of Scotch........
Got to bed about 3 am....... slept till noon.....got up to 8 or 9 inches of fresh snow......... pot of coffee and some scrambled eggs and ham.
Been flirting with Rye..... aka "Pennsylvania Whiskey" this past year....prior to Prohibition there were dozens of distilleries around western Pa...... one only was 2 miles from the Cabin ...... with mountain spring water.....
In Pa. we still have "State Stores" so selection is limited and prices high..... still have an "emergency liquor tax" to help w/ Johnstown flood relief.....
Cutty....... with four cubes........
In the winter there's generally a higher end highland single malt..... for sipping with the wife in front of the fire.........
Reminds me.........
About 25 years ago, I was still single and living in Harrisburg.....
Friday night and a January snowstorm......after dinner had a fire in the fireplace, ice bucket,a new bottle of good Scotch..... and a very very good novel........... with my feet up on the raised hearth........
I read till the novel was done......... and so was the better part of that bottle of Scotch........
Got to bed about 3 am....... slept till noon.....got up to 8 or 9 inches of fresh snow......... pot of coffee and some scrambled eggs and ham.
Been flirting with Rye..... aka "Pennsylvania Whiskey" this past year....prior to Prohibition there were dozens of distilleries around western Pa...... one only was 2 miles from the Cabin ...... with mountain spring water.....
In Pa. we still have "State Stores" so selection is limited and prices high..... still have an "emergency liquor tax" to help w/ Johnstown flood relief.....
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Ogandydancer
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I always heard that Scotch was an acquired taste, didn't work that way for me. Liked it from the start. As others have said Glenlivet and Glenfiddich are hard to beat. I also like Dewars white label. I have never tried Chivas but think that's going to be my next try or maybe Johnny Black. Guess it is always just a matter of what you prefer as to the likes of others.
I was introduced to Scotch (and only single malts) while I was stationed in Moscow just as things opened up. We could use the embassy stores, but they didn't have much after the big-wigs were served, so off to the Berioska stores. They had Jack Daniel's (my go-to at the time), but over $100 for a fifth. They had Glenfiddich 18 in 1.75L at less than $20 if you paid USD cash.
Guess what I learned to drink?
Guess what I learned to drink?
ParadiseRoad
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...tried to find a six pack of beer in PA on vacation once...couldn't believe what I was hearing...didn't want to buy a whole case...didn't want to look for a bar or restaurant that would sell me just a six pack...so waited until the next State...
...also...if a tax has ever been repealed...I sure haven't heard about it...for anybody that doesn't know...Johnstown flood was in 1889...
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LOL.....that was the second one....... first was 18--..... I think ParadiseRoad is correct...... at least close.
Not surprised you don't remember the first one....... I've only read about it myself!
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ParadiseRoad
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LOL.....that was the second one....... first was 18--..... I think ParadiseRoad is correct...... at least close.
Not surprised you don't remember the first one....... I've only read about it myself!
...just looked it up myself...there have been three...1889...1936...1977...now the question is...when was the tax levied?...I'm still betting on 1889...
italiansport
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I find it hard to believe that in this day and age you PA residents haven't risen up and said enough is enough! I can remember these same inane laws being in effect years ago when I was last there.
I was in CO last week and re-discovered that only ONE of a chain such as Costco can sell liquor and this purportedly is to protect the small liquor stores. That may very well be but it's a PITA for shoppers.
Perhaps they should amend this law so that only one Costco can sell meat to protect the small butchers.
MY understanding is that even Utah has pulled themselves out from under the LDS influence and modernized their liquor laws considerably.
Jim
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Further proof of my son's contention that PA is just AL with more trees and hills.
He lives in AL, so that's a favorable comparison.
Although he did find the trip from the NY state line, through Harrisburg, into MD pretty boring.
AL has state stores for hard liquor, as does NH.
Mostly the people who live near the AL state line go to FL or some other state for better prices.
Just remember BAM-BAM, there is no such thing as a "temporary" tax. In 1963 or so, MA passed a 3% "temporary" sales tax. Here we are all these years later and it's now 6.25%.
I guess the only thing temporary was the 3% part, the tax itself, permanent.
Italy still has a "temporary" tax to pay for WW II reparations to the Bahamas.
He lives in AL, so that's a favorable comparison.
Although he did find the trip from the NY state line, through Harrisburg, into MD pretty boring.
AL has state stores for hard liquor, as does NH.
Mostly the people who live near the AL state line go to FL or some other state for better prices.
Just remember BAM-BAM, there is no such thing as a "temporary" tax. In 1963 or so, MA passed a 3% "temporary" sales tax. Here we are all these years later and it's now 6.25%.
I guess the only thing temporary was the 3% part, the tax itself, permanent.
Italy still has a "temporary" tax to pay for WW II reparations to the Bahamas.
LOL..... forgotten about the "36 flood"....... which also hit Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.........
Had to go look it up....... the tax is from 1936 flood.......... intended to raise $41 million which it raised by 1942........ today it's now an 18% markup on every sale or $300,000,000 a year in "extra" revenue to the State....
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