Favourite whisky
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- Melanie0
Melanie's Whisky Tips
1. Whiskey with an "e" is Irish. The Scots spell it Whisky.
2. NEVER drink whisky with ice unless you want want me to smack you.
3. A touch of room temperature water opens the whisky up beautifully and gives it a whole new taste. Worth a try if you've only ever had it straight.
4. Whisky means "Water of Life" in Gaelic. (uisge beatha)
- Melanie0
Used to be a single malt snob and only drink Laphroaig, but I'm telling you - I've converted to blends. Whyte & Mackay Glasgow Special. Try it. Damned good for $37
- danthon0
"I see, can you tell the difference in taste? as in.. would you be able to identify them?"
– MiguexI wish I had the tasting experience! Personally I think I have sampled enough to pick out what region of scotland a bottle was from if I was tasting scotch exclusively. I'm not sure I could identify whiskey globally other than what may be canadian or not.
- Miguex0
isn't it a requirement for it to be called whiskey to come from a specific region in scotland?
I'm asking cause
a) I dont know shit about alcoholic beverages in gral.
b) I would like to know- scotch whiskeydanthon
- I see, can you tell the difference in taste? as in.. would you be able to identify them?Miguex
- scotch whiskey uses local peat as part of the processscarabin
- which imparts a characteristic flavorscarabin
- or some does, that's my understandingscarabin
- If you want peat the Islay region of scotland produces the most smoky, peaty variaties. Lagavulin is like drinking campfire!danthon
- ..campfire!danthon
- soundsinsilence0
- <--- hallucinated with this stuff once.harlequino
- Cask strength, eh? I think I need to try this.gramme
- I've been turned off by some of their uber-peaty whiskys in the past.gramme
- duckseason0
Even older :p
http://www.qbn.com/topics/576522…But as stated, friends can change (in this case, two years)
- digdre0
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 helped bring about the demise of the aristocratic Federalist Government in favor of the democratic Republican Government, concerned with the needs of all of its citizens.The new country of the United States of America suffered many growing pains in trying to balance its commitment to liberty with the need for order. How much control is enough and what will be too much? After the Revolutionary War, the country purposely did not have a strong central government (that's what we fought against with the British). The states did as they pleased because the Articles of Confederation in 1781 gave them every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the Continental Congress. Congress had no power to tax, regulate commerce, draft troops, or enforce foreign treaties. It was mainly a friendly overseer: thus the expression "the Do-Nothing Congress." Each state considered itself sovereign, free and independent, and easterners and westerners were separated by geography as well as their own concerns.
The whiskey tax was collected at the source instead of the point of sale. If the whiskey was sold in the west, it was taxed 28%, but if it was sold in the east, it was taxed 14%. Collecting tax on the output of the still meant the farmers had to pay tax on whiskey they consumed themselves, which was not sold. Stills had to be registered, but not every county had a tax office, so most westerners ignored the law. Trials of excise tax cases were not permitted in local courts, so offenders had to travel to federal court in Philadelphia. The time to travel to Philadelphia, the cost of the travel, lawyers and witnesses made the westerners feel they were being deliberately picked on. In July of 1792 the farmers began their resistance by tarring and feathering an excise officer who tried to open a tax office in their county. Bloodshed between the rebels and local militia followed over the next two years.
e Great Lakes; Spain, who held New Orleans, closed the Mississippi River to American shipping below Nachez and actively encouraged American settlers to break away from the Union and establish relations with them; Westerners in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Pennsylvania were subjected to attacks by marauding Indians (often instigated by the Spanish and British). Congress did not have the power to send troops for defense or protection, and the easterners in these states were too busy with politics to worry about their western frontiersmen. Consequently, the westerners did as they pleased with no regard to the laws the easterners made.
Funding and assumption of states' debts required new revenue for the federal government. Aside from issuing bonds, Hamilton recommended two kinds of taxes, which the federal government now had the power to impose. One was a tariff on imports, which Hamilton saw as a way to raise money as well as to protect domestic industries from foreign competition.
- CygnusZero4-1
Ive never tried goat piss before, but whiskey is probably the closest thing ive ever had to it, except goat piss is probably better for you.
- http://en.wikipedia.…Pixter
- he's very emphatic on this point http://www.qbn.com/t…scarabin
- we should pool our resources and ship cygnus a bottle of goat piss for him to tryscarabin
- or some wine coolersscarabin
- Dont get me wrong, if Im out I can handle it, but its really not something I can just sit around and drink at home.CygnusZero4
- kscarabin
- randommail0
- i've tried oban, which is a little smoky for my tastes but good nonethelessscarabin
- I ordered a bottle of this for a friend's birthday this week. Heard it's very goodFax_Benson
- Oban is Scottish, not Japanese.gramme
- Generally speaking - Japanese whisky isn't smokey.Peter
- e-pill0
- Balvenie, I have thisvitamins
- default house scotch at my placescarabin
- good valuescarabin
- Ah..also a good oneTheBlueOne
- not bad, i remember getting this stuff at trade joesmoldero
- the balvenie that ismoldero
- AMAZINGclearThoughts
- 'tis good.gramme
- Try the 15, worth the extra (OK double)comicsans
- randommail0
- I've got a bottle of that at home. Absolutely glorious stuff.soundsinsilence
- haven't tried this stuff either looks awesome...qwasazzygreyrezebby
- brandelec0
- nice, Don Draper stylerandommail
- This or Wisers are my go to weekday Whiskeys.moniker