I had a taste of Glenlivet over the weekend in a pub in Hendersonville NC . Been a long time since I've any . When I drink scotch it's usually Dewars mostly due to price. There certainly is a difference. Glenlivet and Glenfiddich are the only single malt scotches I've tried. Anyone else like scotch?
Scotch Whiskey
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zzzippper
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Sorry, bourbon and rye whiskey for me.
cttechguy
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One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer, Well maybe pass on the beer and go for two Bourbon's As long as it shared with friends.
Model29Lover
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Ya, I like Scotch. The best I have ever had is Bowmore Islay Scotch 25 year aged. I had two glasses at a scottish restaurant/barcalled Nicholson's in Cincinnatti; I took my wife there on our anniversary. Man that was good Scotch!
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I can't stand the smell of Scotch Whiskey to this day it makes me sick to my stomach. When I was about 12 years old my friend and I would clean out garages, rake leaves and mow lawns. One Saturday we worked for a single guy in his forties that acted like Ted Knight in Caddy Shack. When we had finished working after 4 hours of being berated by this guy we put the tools away in his detached garage. Inside the garage he had an opened case of Glemore Scotch Whiskey and we took a bottle, 1/5th, and hid it in the woods behind his garage to be retrieved later that night after dark.
We went back and took the bottle to an area by some nearby railroad tracks to partake. I drank about half of the bottle and was feeling pretty good. The next day my dad who had moved out of our house a year earlier returned with what he said was good news. He had arranged for my younger brother and I to take a flight in a small plane at an airport near our house. Neither of us had ever flown before The pilot thought it would be fun to dive like the Stuka's in WW2. I wasn't feeling good to start with but this only added to my misery. My brother who didn't drink with me the previous evening had to use the stomach distress bag I didn't but sure felt like it a couple of times. I did however had to lay down in the back of the station wagon on the way home. We never went back for the rest of the bottle.
I have nothing against Whiskey or any other spirits but I don't think I will ever get over that smell without my stomach doing flip flops.
We went back and took the bottle to an area by some nearby railroad tracks to partake. I drank about half of the bottle and was feeling pretty good. The next day my dad who had moved out of our house a year earlier returned with what he said was good news. He had arranged for my younger brother and I to take a flight in a small plane at an airport near our house. Neither of us had ever flown before The pilot thought it would be fun to dive like the Stuka's in WW2. I wasn't feeling good to start with but this only added to my misery. My brother who didn't drink with me the previous evening had to use the stomach distress bag I didn't but sure felt like it a couple of times. I did however had to lay down in the back of the station wagon on the way home. We never went back for the rest of the bottle.
I have nothing against Whiskey or any other spirits but I don't think I will ever get over that smell without my stomach doing flip flops.
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Triathloncoach
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I drank lots of Jack Daniels on November 9th 2007. That was my last drink. One day at a time.
I used to really love Lagavulin.
I used to really love Lagavulin.
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italiansport
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I like single malt Scotch Whiskeys. To me they are in the same category as fine Cognac a pleasurable drink to be slowly sipped and enjoyed. I don't drink a lot so this works for me.
Jim
Jim
Deja Vu Yorkie.
While in DaNang, I got violently ill drinking Vat 69.
To this day, if I get a whiff of Jiff, I get queezy.
While in DaNang, I got violently ill drinking Vat 69.
To this day, if I get a whiff of Jiff, I get queezy.
Arik
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Love it but I get massive headaches from it and I don't mean because of drinking a lot, like a hangover headache. Even a quarter of a shot glass will give me a bad bad migraine the next day. Glenlevet 25 year old is great! Anything peatty like Islay scotch! Japanese and Indians make some great scotch too.
When it comes to food and alcohol the one thing I can't do is buy cheap. If I'm drinking it's going to be something I enjoy and not for the sake of drinking.
When it comes to food and alcohol the one thing I can't do is buy cheap. If I'm drinking it's going to be something I enjoy and not for the sake of drinking.
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BigBill
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The Kennedy family made there fortune being bootleggers. They get a royalty on every bottle of scotch that's imported here.
I must agree.
Now if you want one of the more unusual single malts (and there are no worthwhile blends in my book), try Edradour. Smallest distillery in Scotland, about 3 miles NNE from the Bells Distillery in Pitlochry, well worth the trek on a one and a half lane wide "Scottish Main Road!!". You can find it in the House of Whiskies in terminal 5 at Heathrow and very occasionally in the USA.
As far as the Japanese and Indians making Scotch, the only comment I can make is that the taste buds must have atrophied in anyone who claims that!! There is a Welsh single malt that is not bad, and in Ireland, there is a single malt sold in Dublin Airport that is "tolerable".
There used to be a pub alongside the Cutty Sark in Greenwich just below the Zero Meridian that in my "youthful days at the University of London" had 160 plus different scotch whiskies available. I finished my degrees in London before being able to afford to drink beyond number 55. Dave_n
kozmic
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"I was drrrrrrrrrrrrinkin' scotch when you werrrrrrrrrrrre at your mothers teat!!!!"
haha, do I like scotch??? Single malt, double wood and hold the heavy peat...I cant take Laphraiog and such. Other than the ones you mentioned...The Balvenie is fantastic...especially the Double Wood one finished in a sherry cask. Now whiskey wise it would be hard to beat 16 year old Bushmills single malt.
haha, do I like scotch??? Single malt, double wood and hold the heavy peat...I cant take Laphraiog and such. Other than the ones you mentioned...The Balvenie is fantastic...especially the Double Wood one finished in a sherry cask. Now whiskey wise it would be hard to beat 16 year old Bushmills single malt.
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gregintenn
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Perhaps I wasn't lucky enough to find the right variety, but all the scotch I've sampled seemed greasy and tasted similar to diesel fuel.
I'll stick with bourbon.
I'll stick with bourbon.
Ogandydancer
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Glenlivet and Glenfiddich are great however I mostly stick to Bushmills (Irish) and Wild Turkey when I can afford it I will go for a good Rye. Can't do JD at all nor Jim Beam.
scooter123
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I see no problems at all with a good Blended Scotch and my current favorite is Johnnie Walker Double Black. It's an excellent sippin Whisky best drunk neat after flushing the mouth with some good ice water. Some day I may try some of the Blue but at the prices per bottle for the Blue it will likely have to be a gift.
As for the single malts, that can be a real Mares Nest with folks arguing about which barrel in which Distillery. Personally I would rather place my trust on a real expert producing a good consistent blend rather than whether Hamish had consumed an optimum quantity of spirits before taking a torch to barrel xxyy and didn't rush it because he needed to pee.
As for the single malts, that can be a real Mares Nest with folks arguing about which barrel in which Distillery. Personally I would rather place my trust on a real expert producing a good consistent blend rather than whether Hamish had consumed an optimum quantity of spirits before taking a torch to barrel xxyy and didn't rush it because he needed to pee.
Rogue Wizard
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Bourbon here. Just received a bottle of Gentlemen Jack from a friend for helping out. Rebel Reserve is a good bourbon for the price. Anybody have "whiskey balls". (keep your mind out of the gutter lads). Those are the big round ice balls that you put into a glass of bourbon so it keeps the bourbon cold without the dilution of the water from the ice.
ChuckS1
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Single malt Scotches are my favorite, but there are so many varieties that you really can't generalize. Speyside, Islay, Highland, Lowland, Island, the list goes on. My current favorite is Talisker.
Go figure. 
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