Please declare your candidate for best Scotch Whisky.
Support your statement.
Seamus
Sorry for the mis-spelling in title.
Which Scoth is best?
Please declare your candidate for best Scotch Whisky.
Support your statement.
Seamus
Sorry for the mis-spelling in title.
Last edited by Seamus Fermanagh; 10-03-2005 at 17:29.
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Re: Which Scoth is best?
Although it's one of my favorite liqours, I don't drink scotch very often. When I do, I like Talisker Ten Year quite a bit.
Edit: Oh, support my statement. I like the peppery touch that fills the palate and I think the best way to enjoy it is with a tiny splash of water on top to release the flavor.
Also, it's a Highland Scotch and since that's the region I get my surname from, I have that silly reason to prefer it, too.
Edit 2: Eh, just learned it's actually Island Scotch, not Highland Scotch. Surname bedamned, it still tastes good.
Last edited by Proletariat; 10-03-2005 at 14:51.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
Laphroaig. ("lafroyg") Why? Because all that iodine puts hairs on your chest is why. In the same way that no one could ever challenge you for listening to a girls band when you are listening to Motorhead, you don't have to worry that anyone is going to call your whiskey a poof when you are drinking Laphroaig.
Talisker is also very fine, and I would normally claim that puts hairs on your chest too but as Prole likes it I won't.
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Re: Which Scoth is best?
Islay whiskey and especially Ardbeg. Because? Well, the strength and taste of an aged Ardbeg is unrivalled. It is a most enjoyable experience.
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Excellent choice Dâriûsh, Tobermory comes a close second with its taste and texture
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I'm too poor to afford anything approaching good quality.
I did buy the cheapest Scotch stuff I could find in Prague though. Even drunk it was horrific. *shudder*
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From their website. It may have been a blind tasting but I absolutely guarantee the judges knew when they had come to the Laphroiag, that is, unless there is any other whisky that tastes like a mixture of a hospital corridor and a peat bog. Which there is not.Cask Strength picked as Best of the best all Single Malt Scotch whiskies!
Laphroaig Cask Strength has been voted "The Best of The Best" Single malt by over 100 judges in 5 countries testing malts in a "blind tasting" - all the samples were given to them without knowing which whisky they were testing.
Read the extract from the defining Whisky Magazine (March issue #46) article.
Still, I now claim the support of Whisky magazine for my candidate.
I was stuck on a sailing boat once that had been victualled by someone who thought it was worth saving money by buying Turkish 100% synthetic "gin" at £3 a bottle rather than Gordons at £10 a bottle. I feel your pain.I did buy the cheapest Scotch stuff I could find in Prague though. Even drunk it was horrific. *shudder*
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Re: Which Scotch is best?
My personal favorite was called "The Water of Life" in Scots Gaelic. I was absolutely stunned to learn it was a blend.
Aside from that, the best I've had was a 30-year old Glenmorangie.
Can't say as I fancy Laphroig -- I like a hint of smoke/peat flavor to my Scotch and not the reverse.
Seamus
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Great whiskey is so expensive! I would say that Shivaz is a good deal; not a single malt, but tasty for it's price.
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Lagavulin would be my first choice (I love the peaty flavour and the salty tone of the Islays in general), but other Islays like Laphroaig (I think I will go for the cask strength this evening
Talisker is also a great choice.
Last edited by Ser Clegane; 10-03-2005 at 18:14.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
Hate to say it, but my favorite whiskey is not a scotch, but rather Bushmill's Irish whiskey. Still some of the best stuff around- it has a great whiskey flavor, with just the right amount of spice to it. Also, you cannot taste the alcohol- a major plus in my book.
Last edited by Reverend Joe; 10-03-2005 at 18:15.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
Invalid answer. The query referred to Scotch whisky.Originally Posted by meatwad
(Pssst! Of course Irish is better, but we don't want those skirts to learn of it and cut down the supply.)
Seamus
Last edited by Seamus Fermanagh; 10-03-2005 at 18:24.
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Re: Which Scoth is best?
My favourite changes depending on which mood I'm in. I've not had Laphroaig in a while, nor, in fact, any single malt in a while. I had a nice wee half bottle of High Commissioner the other day, which was not a terribly good whisky, but drinkable. Usually I indulge in a bottle of Famous Grouse -- easy to drink, nice taste, and famous. I once too went for the cheapest -- Claymore whisky. It was so awful I choked on it.
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Re: Which Scoth is best?
Laphroagh is my favourite from smokey ones,on the other end 18 years old Chivas Regal is very smooth.
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I grinned when I read this. All whiskey is called "The water of life" in Gaelic.
Laphroaig is an excellent choice as well, even with the drop of water or ice cubes. Glen Livet (sp? I can never remember if the label's in Gaelic or not) is also delicious, but I don't remember much about it other than that it was good.
Re: Which Scotch is best?
You water down your whiskey?! Blasphemer! Burn him!
(Yes, I know some people like to mix whiskey with water... but not me. I'm [a] hardcore [alcoholic].)
Re: Which Scotch is best?
I don't, but whiskey connaisseurs do. It's how you're supposed to drink it. It brings out the 'full bouquet of flavours'.You water down your whiskey?! Blasphemer! Burn him!
(Yes, I know some people like to mix whiskey with water... but not me. I'm [a] hardcore [alcoholic].
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Well, conniseurs also eat caviar... so I wouldn't be suprised at that.
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Ba-zing. I hear french fry connaisseurs eat their fries with mayonnaise, too.
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No, that's the Dutch- and it's not the conniseurs. They all do it.
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Most Europeans and the connaisseurs, actually. I've looked into it; I just don't understand it.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
You only put a splash of water in. Not enough do dilute it or anything, Monsieur Alcoholic.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
Lagavulin, just in general but I also have some very ltd edition stuff too..
Talisker.
Bowmore Dawn (I think that's what it's called, the one aged in port barrels.
I saw a new 14 year old Talisker on sale at the airport a few months ago, just in case Prole is interested.
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By the time this thread has run it's course I'll have to second mortgage my house. Thanks, though!
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In that case my I sugest that you view the Bruichladdich website:
you can invest in Whisky futures.
Sorely tempted to join people in investing $100s/$1000s in casks, cases and other goodies.
It's an Islay distillery so its booze should be roughly up your street. I know it's up mine.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
You folks should come to Scotland and visit the distilleries. They give you a tour and give a free drink of whisky...
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Re: Which Scoth is best?
An affordable goodie.....Dufftown Glenlivet......very nice thankyou very much.......and it's sacrelidge to dilute a good single malt....I shall have to go and have a lie down in a darkened room now
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A friend of mine and myself actually have the secret plan (secret from our wives that is) to do just that
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I just did a bit of that a few weeks ago.
Good stuff.
Re: Which Scoth is best?
It's not necessarily wrong to add a splash of still mineral water to a single malt. Ideally, the water should be taken from the same burn as supplied the distillery, but that isn't always practical. The water helps release a few of the complex flavours and subtleties of the drink.An affordable goodie.....Dufftown Glenlivet......very nice thankyou very much.......and it's sacrelidge to dilute a good single malt....I shall have to go and have a lie down in a darkened room now
It is wrong to use tap water or any other chlorinated water, though. The stench and taste of chemicals simply drowns out any other flavour and ruins what should be the king of drinks.
Likewise those who add ice to malt whisky (or whiskey, if your taste runs to the Irish) should be pelted with mocking comments until they desist or leave the company of civilized beings.
As to what might tickle your Scotch-thirsty pallete, allow me to recommend the Edradour, a splendid dram from what is supposedly the smallest distillery in Scotland or (and here I advise you to sit down when the demand for payment arrives) the 25-year-old Macallan. Admittedly, I was drinking this in a 5-star hotel in the middle of Brussels, but it was still a little pricey.
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