Favourite whisky
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- Peter0
Suntorys Hibiki is a personal favorite. A go-to whisky. Lotsa flavour, not too smokey. And about half the price here compared to everywhere else.
Anyways. I have gone through some more Scottish islands.
The isle of Jura may not be that famous but some of their whiskies are fantastic.Got their pricier 16 year old. Peated. Hard to drink. But their cheaper, 10 year old hits all the right notes imho.
Pairs well with mid-heavy cigars. Hoyo-ish.
- +1 Picked this up on a whim, totally blown away by how tasty it is, especially for the price.noneck
- sem-1
- teh0
- Lloyd?Peter
- that jameson was overpriced i thoughtsublocked
- All 3 are worth their price to me.teh
- when one of us got married, the boys would chip in and buy a bottle of blue labelexador1
- which could only be opened upon the birth of our first child.
has been a very nice tradition :)exador1 - Nice exidor! Blue Label is my happy hour shot on Fridays!teh
- MrT0
- citysurgical0
Just got a bottle of George Dickel's Finest Sippin' Whisky AND a bottle of Oban. Half a bottle of Laphroaig still in the cabinet. It's cold in NYC all of a sudden so all the better.
- ItTango0
this thread has changed all plans for the rest of my day.
*switches from rambling Joni Mitchell epic (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter) to Coltrane (A Love Supreme)...- Good. Joni Mitchell sounds like dogshit hitting a window.cannonball1978
- gramme0
There's one I tried once, and I swear it was like drinking a 17th century leather-bound book. Or chewing on Cerberus's collar. Terrible, imho. Can't recall the name—begins with a B, I think...
- Peter0
I like the bacony hint in Laphroaig.
Other than that Glenrothes is all right.
- jaylarson0
SURVIVAL: LOST WITH...ONLY A BOTTLE OF WHISKEY
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- ESKEMA0
Damn those botttles look tasty. I'm not in a whisky country, so everything is imported and probably not the best stuff you're used to (probably just the bad ones), but I enjoy Jack Daniel's very much (Bourbon, not whisky, I know...)
- gramme0
@Miguex
Whisky (or the Americanized "whiskey") can come from anywhere in the world. It can be made from barley (e.g. all scotch and most American whiskies), wheat, or corn. It uses spring water in the distillation process. The grains are cooked by either peat moss (Scotland, Ireland) or coal in most other cases.
In order for a whisky to be called scotch whisky, it must:
1. be made in Scotland using Scottish barley and spring water, and
2. be cooked over peat moss fire.