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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?
 
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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!
 
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.
 
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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
 
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.
 
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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.
 
mtgianni said:
Scotland makes Whisky and Ireland makes Whiskey. Two similar but different products.
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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
 
"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.
 
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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 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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Back in my Scotch drinking days, several decades ago, the one I liked best was good old everyday J&B. :eek: Go figure. :D
 
I have yet to drink a malt from the Isle of Islay I didn't like. Lagavulin is among the very best. But recently I found at at Trader Joe's, "Islay Storm". It is a milder version of Lagavulin, very smooth, but at 1/5 the price of Lagavulin. At just over $21 a bottle I was shocked. My closest Trader Joe's is St Louis, about 100 miles. Luckily I have a friend that makes the trip nearly every month and I have a standing order with him for a couple bottles. There are many other single malts that are excellent and the area of the country of Scotland it is distilled in will have a very definite bearing on the flavor.
 
mtgianni said:
Scotland makes Whisky and Ireland makes Whiskey. Two similar but different products.
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Except that Maker's Mark, George Dickel and Old Forester also make Whisky, not Whiskey, even though they're American. Gotta love the marketing guys.
 
GaryS said:
The first part is true, I also doubt the second part without some sort of documentation.
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Yea I ment the 2nd part. I know they were into whiskey running but Senior made a ton of money in the stock market before the fall. In fact the reason he wasn't effected was because he pulled out before it fell. The stock market spike was partially caused by the the fact that for the first time in history any avg Joe could buy stocks. When his shoe shine boy told Kennedy that he was trying to invest Kennedy pulled his money out. Saying that if any idiot can participate then there is no room for me
 
scooter123 said:
I see no problems at all with a good Blended Scotch ......
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Actually, the saying in Scotland apparently is (according to a friend whose mother hails from Edinburgh) "Single Malts are for tasting, blends are for drinking."
By far the most-sold Scotch in Scotland itself is the Famous Grouse, a pretty decent blend which I like better than Johnnie Walker red label for an everyday Scotch.
 
ChuckS1 said:
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.
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I find Talisker a bit peaty for my taste. Fortunately, there are enough different brands that I'm not forced to drink it. :)

For the most part, I like MaCallan, although it's hard to beat The Balvenie. Double Wood is good, Portwood is much better, but beyond my price range.

The only blend I like is Famous Grouse. It's part MaCallan and part something else.

Earlier tonight I had some Johnie Walker Blue that was given to a friend of mine. I wasn't impressed. It was smooth, but I didn't find the flavor particularly appealing.

I've had the Japanese Yamazaki. They can't call it Scotch because it's not made in Scotland. I found it very tasty.

Fortunately I have a couple of friends who are well off and share my taste in Scotch and cigars. :D

Speaking of MaCallan, the day I retired my partner came over to me with a tall, thin, brown bag. Inside was a bottle of MaCallan 18. He's not a Scotch drinker, so he was going by what the guy at the store told him. He asked me if it was an OK Scotch. I assured him that it was more than OK. He told me that he didn't want me to just put it on a shelf, he wanted me to drink and enjoy it.

I did.
 
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