Lagavulin. favorite scotch.
russian standard vodka
tanqueray gin
Dirty sprite. Always
[quote]Nards wrote:
I’d bet a bottle of expensive whiskey that many people that speak badly about blended versus single malt wouldn’t know the difference.
People just know that if they want to sound smart and like they have good taste, then act like blended whiskeys offend their refined palate.[/quote]
true, but a cheap bottle of single malt generally tastes better than a cheap bottle of blended.
however, a good blend can easily be better than a bad malt
[quote]orourkei wrote:
Lagavulin. favorite scotch.
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that’s funny my boss has a bottle of this and he said he took one sip and dumped the rest out. $90 a bottle too!
^^^ Your boss has awful taste in booze.
Since Lagavulin is an Islay I can understand how he may have been surprised by it. I didn’t know about Islays when I first tried Laphroaig and I thought something was wrong, like it had gone skunky…I put it away and read up on it and discovered that the weird taste was normal, and soon grew to like it.
Islays are so different from the common whiskey most people know, and that’s the reason I like them is because they’re like one step beyond the typical whiskey.
But yeah, they taste like a peat bog filled with ammonia that someone set on fire…but in a good way.
I heard that during Prohibition they were popular as they’d be shipped in bottles from Canada and the border guards would smell it and believe the label saying it was medicine.
Yea when I explain to some one what it tastes like I often say its like drinking a fire place. A fire place I find to be constantly delicious. Islay Scotch is my go to. I grew up with turf/ peat in the fire place so I guess I just grew to love the smell
It’s not whisky, but I had a delicious Maker’s Mark (neat) with dinner tonight.
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This!
( Laphroaig if the picture aint in the quote )
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
Scotch is whisky from Scotland, just like Champagne can only come from the Champagne region of France.
JW Blue was created out of swag for the Japanese market where they can charge a crazy amount of $$$ as Japanese business man will pay anything. Scotsmen have no problem with blends at all, they just love to sell us single malts. This comes from many Scotsmen I’ve spoken to and drank with in Scotland. Old Pulteney, now that’s the stuff…[/quote]
Funnily enough, whiskey is much cheaper here in Japan than in London. When I go back home to visit my parents, I bring scotch from Japan to London for them.
Whiskey used to be very expensive in Japan, but hasn’t been for a long time.
The Macallan 25 is the best thing I have ever had.
I was in Scotland 2 years ago and I could not make myself buy any whiskey there because of how expensive it was.
Even the cheap Co-Op brand, basically the supermarket’s cheap no-name brand was about $30 US.
I bought my cousin a bottle of Jack Daniels for taking me up to the Highlands one day and that 700ml bottle was about $45 US!
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
I’ve been drinking this lately.[/quote]
I am from Canada and most of us consider this piss
[quote]spiderman739 wrote:
Funnily enough, whiskey is much cheaper here in Japan than in London. When I go back home to visit my parents, I bring scotch from Japan to London for them.
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You’re right. I could not get over the price difference. A bottle of Laphroig 10 ran $24 at Yamaya. The same bottle here in Canada is close to $60.
I found the Japanese single malts pretty expensive though…Nikko and so on were usually over $50.
I can get 70cl of Laphroaig Quarter-Cask here for about $35.00US.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]spiderman739 wrote:
Funnily enough, whiskey is much cheaper here in Japan than in London. When I go back home to visit my parents, I bring scotch from Japan to London for them.
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You’re right. I could not get over the price difference. A bottle of Laphroig 10 ran $24 at Yamaya. The same bottle here in Canada is close to $60.
I found the Japanese single malts pretty expensive though…Nikko and so on were usually over $50.[/quote]
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Quoted for truth! The Japanese whisky is a lot pricier than the imported stuff.
[quote]spiderman739 wrote:
Quoted for truth! The Japanese whisky is a lot pricier than the imported stuff.[/quote]
I did a tour of the Nikka distillery in Tohoku - even there they wanted a ton of cash for any of their good whiskeys.
The Japanese make great single malt though. I believe Yamazaki won single malt of the year a few times, which must have pissed the Scots off something fierce. That said, I still prefer Islays to anything I found in Japan.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]spiderman739 wrote:
Quoted for truth! The Japanese whisky is a lot pricier than the imported stuff.[/quote]
I did a tour of the Nikka distillery in Tohoku - even there they wanted a ton of cash for any of their good whiskeys.
The Japanese make great single malt though. I believe Yamazaki won single malt of the year a few times, which must have pissed the Scots off something fierce. That said, I still prefer Islays to anything I found in Japan.
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I’ve a couple of good bottle but, for what you pay, you can get a scotch that is just as good for a lot less.
I picked up a 25 year old single malt Macallan here for $250. Mental how cheap it is.
Some investment bankers trying to lend me money to expand my new company brought be a bottle of 25 year old Balvenie. Know nothing about it, other than the guy who gave it to me was a tool.
This thread has inspired me to try it.
Tend to drink Laphoaig or JW Gold if I drink (which I try not to, as being a drunk is a family trait).
Just opened up a bottle of Aberlour A’bunadh I got as a wedding gift and it is wonderful.