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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 8, 2010 20:52:51 GMT
and why not? ;D don't know enough about either and despite the bloodline I postively have a scunner to whisky (Scotland) whiskey (Ireland) however I like red wine on occasions My mother's side is from the Isle of Islay, a good few islands south of Skye. The island is known for whisky and birds ;D It has the distinction of producing some of the finest malt whisky in Scotland in it's 8 distillerys on the island. i27.images obliterated by tinypic/13zvnrd.jpg[/IMG] Two recent award winners on the whisky circuit i31.images obliterated by tinypic/2s0hbmu.jpg[/IMG] i26.images obliterated by tinypic/286x014.jpg[/IMG] I'd be interested to hear about the Californian wines
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Post by tullist on Jul 8, 2010 21:18:36 GMT
O man, are you trying to drive me insane woman? And your Mom's from Islay, eh? Very interesting. Sure seems an idyllic place, for me at least, to live, nearly any of the Scottish islands of which I am aware, Islay was certainly one. However still not as idyllic for me as Chicago. But great pics.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jul 9, 2010 16:27:49 GMT
In 2nd. place after real ale, I do like a good drop of single malt whiskey and this one is one of my favourites, it comes from the smallest distillery in Scotland and it just has a wonderful smooth taste Go on give it a go
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 9, 2010 18:41:51 GMT
Mrs Maddog loves whisky but I must admit I can't stand the stuff. When it's not beer, I do like something like the liqueur below. I can recommend its value when you've got a heavy cold - shame you can't get it on the NHS. This unique Belgian Chocolate Liqueur has been crafted by our Master Distiller from a combination of high quality cream, smooth malt spirit, exotic bourbon vanilla from Madagascar, aromas of high quality African cocoa beans, hazelnut from Italy and Belgian caramel.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 9, 2010 19:37:44 GMT
Wow...chocolate and liquor in the same gulp...all it needs is caffeine and opium to be a food pyramid superstar.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 15, 2010 7:50:51 GMT
I was watching a repeat of a daytime programme (something about antiques) in the wee small hours during my meal break and they were discussing old whisky bottles which went for some astronomical amount and it revealed that there was one whisky that sells for £620 a shot. It was vintage of course (1926) but who spends that amount of money on a small slurp of of the stuff?
I'm in the wrong job ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 15, 2010 8:04:03 GMT
I think you would need to be a real conniesor expert to know the difference say between a £50 bottle of whisky to say a £650 one. And then even if you did would it not be a waste of your expertise after the third or fourth glass when you wouldn't give a damn
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 15, 2010 8:18:54 GMT
over to wine now ;D ;D Despite being brought up in Glesca my first experience of being drunk (new thread?) was not on a bucket load of Buckfast in the swing park but on holiday with my aunt and uncle in Italy. The setting was stunning, the balcony of an old hotel overlooking the Bay of Naples, the wine glass was the size of a bucket and filled with red wine. One glass and I felt sophisticated yet moroculous at the same time and was sick in the back of a relatives fiat on the way home I didn't give up on wine and went through the ages from cheap and nasty as a youth to a more sophisticated palate something like the same as my curries. " Not too spicy, quite mild please" My favs now are a big robust ( as they say) chilean red i26.images obliterated by tinypic/dvgcok.jpg[/IMG] not expensive but nice and a light Pinot Grigio and both always with food. I would like to know more about wines and any suggestions from Italy/ California or anywhere ;D most welcome.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 20, 2010 10:12:10 GMT
i26.images obliterated by tinypic/152c6tl.jpg[/IMG] Fifteen year old malt in celebration of the Hebridean Celtic Festival www.hebceltfest.com/waay up in the beautiful Outer Hebrides i31.images obliterated by tinypic/2v96ex2.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 22, 2010 18:54:02 GMT
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Post by tullist on Aug 22, 2010 20:16:05 GMT
not so much the canny Scot more the "can do" i38.images obliterated by tinypic/etb4m0.gif [/IMG] www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/17/whisky-biobuel-scotland[/quote]P, will you please say Glenkinchie for me? Please? The rest of this subject I cannot respond to without most usually getting angry. Frankly, as long as the oil, weaponry and high finance lobby's remain as strong as they are, which I assure u will be until the empire crumbles, we haven't got a chance without armed insurrection in vast numbers, (or mandatory psychedelics retraining including forced exposure to music of substance with me as the high minister with psychedelic miter and monocle for full cyclops focus) something I as of yet am not ready to do. Meanwhile, look at the earth, this is just happinstance? The size of those icebergs falling off Greenland and the North Pole, the reduction from overuse of the Gulf that so aided Katrina, what was happening in Russia last week or so, and omg can anyone with a heart even look at Pakistan? 90 per cent of the rainforests gone, 95 per cent of the Florida Everglades,(God knows I can only hope those and other quoted figures I have heard and read are incorrect) this and more to come is the price of silence. Big Mother calling you from underground donchaknow. A couple small addendums to my theorem. The first I am nearly certain I saw on Facebook recently, I hope it was not here, not nice to repeat oneself. Re the guy who climbed the tree to feed the birds, now this is the world I wish to inhabit, thats what I'm talkin bout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rWnQphPdQand the language spoken by its most eloquent practitioners, the Grateful Dead. basically comes down to one word and that word is surrender. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1igVj3w8KE
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 22, 2010 21:24:04 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 22, 2010 21:26:29 GMT
will you please say Glenkinchie for me? Please? I surely will at the Jethro Tull Forum Convention (JTFC??) ;D
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Post by futureshock on Nov 6, 2010 7:15:47 GMT
I'd love to pass along what I learned after taking a scotch tasting course and the brands of single malt I tried since. Before taking the course, I thought scotch was basically good for starting fights and starting lawnmowers, because I had only seen Glenfiddich on the shelf in Ontario and knew nothing about these other brands available in Alberta, where the law provides an open market for variety and independent owners of liquor stores. Since learning about good single malts, the blends are mostly intolerable except for the truly well-done mixes. But blends are meant for mass-market acceptance and tend to get malty/sugary. Not for me.
So, while this is all subjective, no it isn't. I'll mention some great scotches first, and in no particular order, but definately great scotches as proven by my unique taste bud and afterburn tests which seem to be in harmony with international reviews:
Talisker, Cragganmore, Bowmore, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Highland Park, Longmorn, Oban, Dalmore.
Suspected top contenders but haven't tasted them: Ardbeg, Old Pulteney, Glenfarclas, Balvenie.
Lower quality but clearly very good: Glenlivet, Dalwhinnie
Don't buy: Isle of Jura (it's water - almost tasteless, almost without sensual impact, no detectable aftertaste after the very surprising lack of taste), Glenfiddich (this is very popular as it led the international revival of scotch marketing decades ago, but it's very mundane, unexcited, unrefined bog water). Glenlivet is far superior and available everywhere even in restricted markets.
NOTE: women have different tastes in scotch than men, usually, and I've found that they take well to Oban, Bowmore and for the really skittish, Dalwhinnie seems acceptable as it has far less of the smokiness.
Personally, I like a scotch that gives me the impression I'm relaxing by a campfire watching the stars at 2am. Laphroaig, Talisker, Highland Park and Cragganmore are my faves, with Longmorn there as the lower smoke/malty option. Highland Park and Cragganmore are great "all rounders".
That all being said, learning about scotch is best done at taste-testings so you don't break the bank on these brands, since they are expensive. Shop around! I've seen one brand like Talisker sell in my city with a price range of $40 a bottle!
Well stocked bars are OK too but if taste testing scotch, I recommend lots of water between tests, and then don't put the scotch on ice. Once you find your faves, then a dash of water or a single cube of ice are OK, but don't drown the GREAT SPIRIT like lots of people are used to doing with cheap scotch. Cheap, bad scotch is harsh and needs drastic taming, which has ruined many people's impressions of scotch altogether.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 6, 2010 15:30:44 GMT
Like your concise run down of whiskys Futureshock. I've no doubt our members who like a glass of this tipple will comment on your selection. Me - I don't drink the stuff but Ms Rabbit will probably have a word or two to say. Good post.
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 7, 2010 10:14:56 GMT
A couple in your suspected top contenders I have tasted futureshock. Old pulteney is a nice smooth whiskey with a lovely smell of the sea. Ardbeg on the other hand left my mouth tasting of a tar barrel, I love Laphroaig with its peaty taste but Ardbeg has just too much peat for me. My advice try a glass before you buy a bottle. Cheers!
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 8, 2010 14:43:55 GMT
Like your concise run down of whiskys Futureshock. I've no doubt our members who like a glass of this tipple will comment on your selection. Me - I don't drink the stuff but Ms Rabbit will probably have a word or two to say. Good post. very good post however Ms Rabbit (unusually so) has nothing to say on the subject after she got very drunk and sick on Drambuie way back about thirty five years ago and never touched whisky (is Drambuie even whiskey?) again ;D no lager thread? ;D cabin joke ;D ;D
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Post by futureshock on Nov 9, 2010 6:32:46 GMT
[/quote] very good post however Ms Rabbit (unusually so) has nothing to say on the subject after she got very drunk and sick on Drambuie way back about thirty five years ago and never touched whisky (is [/quote] That's mixing biochemistry, distillery wizardry and volcanics together; very dangerous and often colorful. Problem stems in part from the fact Drambuie is quite sweet, as tasty as it is. Drinking too much of it could set off an Icelandic volcano, in time. Definitely not a gulping tonic. Try a relatively dry sipping scotch, like the lower malt/higher peats from Isley. One ice cube, drifting, not stirred. Don't mix with anything. www.tastings.com/spirits/scotch.html
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 17, 2011 9:20:57 GMT
In my mind I've put whiskey tasting into the itinerary of a tour of the Western Highlands complete with luxury hotel and the driest midge free fortnight Scotland has ever seen www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12202880 Shackleton's South Pole whisky returns to ScotlandA case of whisky which spent more than 100 years buried in the Antarctic is being returned to Scotland. The scotch was buried beneath a hut used by the explorer Ernest Shackleton during his unsuccessful 1907 to 1909 expedition to reach the South Pole. Five cases were dug up last year, before being carefully thawed by museum officials in New Zealand. One of these cases - of Mackinlay whisky - is now being flown to Scotland. Distillers Whyte and Mackay, which owns the McKinlay brand, were keen to get hold of a bottle. Now a case is on the personal jet owned by Vijay Mallya, the billionaire owner of the Glasgow-based firm. Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole, which set off from New Zealand in January 1908, was part of the heroic age of exploration. Scott was already preparing for his journey to the pole - an objective he reached just after his rival Amundsen in 1912, but which cost Scott his own life and that of four comrades. Shackleton turned back in time to keep all of his party safe. "A live donkey is better than a dead lion" was how he summed up his attitude. The expedition's ship had left Cape Royds hurriedly in March 1909 as winter ice began forming in the sea, with some equipment and supplies, including the whisky, left behind.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 17, 2011 19:51:32 GMT
In my mind I've put whiskey tasting into the itinerary of a tour of the Western Highlands complete with luxury hotel and the driest midge free fortnight Scotland has ever seen Sounds great! Any room for someone who loves whisky, I could do the tasting for you Now, when is this dry midge free fortnight? ;D
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 25, 2012 9:51:35 GMT
Whilst enjoying a couple of pints at my local watering hole this bottle caught my eye as it wasn't straight on the shelf I just saw the word "Tull" and thought "I'll have some of that" but at £3.00 a shot I politely declined. I leave it to the more wealthy of you out there to try it out and report back. Here's how the company decribes it. About Tullamore Dew One of Ireland's finest whiskeys, Tullamore Dew was first distilled in 1829 in the small town of Tullamore in County Offaly in the heart of Ireland. The name derives from the initials of an early owner, Daniel E Williams - DEW.
"Tullamore Dew is a favourite among Irish whiskeys"
Tullamore Dew is a favourite among Irish whiskeys for its distinctive, accessible taste, enjoyed on its own, over ice or with a little water.
Connoisseurs describe Tullamore Dew as... "Subtle, smooth and with a pleasant maltiness combined with charred wood undertones and the natural flavour of golden barley."
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 5, 2013 8:32:56 GMT
Genuine sign in one of the local hotels. Not however in the hotel that Messrs Obama, Putin etc will be staying in at the G8 Summit this year ......pity i50.images obliterated by tinypic/15xqyw6.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by futureshock on Feb 8, 2013 1:08:54 GMT
I tried Tullamore Dew a few years ago. The description given there in your post is accurate; subtle, very smooth and nice taste. While it doesn't scream out in taste like some nuclear-smoked scotch or something, it's so smooth and balanced you'll be greatly appreciative. A whisky-makers top achievement.
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Post by Teacher on Feb 8, 2013 1:42:20 GMT
Whisky and Wine? This has got to be the place to be! I know very little about either, but I am always willing to expand my horizons.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 8, 2013 8:41:09 GMT
Whisky and Wine? This has got to be the place to be! I know very little about either, but I am always willing to expand my horizons. Yes it's definately a subject that begs an indepth study
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 8, 2013 9:01:30 GMT
Whisky and Wine? This has got to be the place to be! I know very little about either, but I am always willing to expand my horizons. And there's also a beer thread for those who partake of the foaming neck oil. Cheers
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Post by Teacher on Feb 8, 2013 11:04:20 GMT
And there's also a beer thread for those who partake of the foaming neck oil. Cheers Even better! I'm a beer drinking girl. It's much more my speed.
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Post by rredmond on Feb 13, 2013 10:37:43 GMT
My friends and I did a taste test between Jameson's and Midletons Very Rare and could taste a difference. If Midletons weren't so frakking expensive it'd be our go to drink every special occasion.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 13, 2013 13:36:18 GMT
My friends and I did a taste test between Jameson's and Midletons Very Rare and could taste a difference. If Midletons weren't so frakking expensive it'd be our go to drink every special occasion. I googled out of curiousity - bloomin 'eck your right!! www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-5792.aspx
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 13, 2013 0:59:09 GMT
Have a drink on me... Click on this link and type in Jethro Tull Next click on 'What Should I Drink' and turn up the sound Cheers! drinkify.org/
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