Malt whisky drinkers: Did you start with blends and has anybody gone back to them?

[Magicpole]

My first foray into the world of whisky started with blends and lemonade. I decided Grouse was the best and carried on with that until I was 22 and working in a school with a couple if old fellas.

A bottle of whisky was handed in and as we sat in the bothy I mentioned I took lemonade in mine.

You would have thought I took a shit on the table, such was their disgust.

"Lemonade in your fucking whisky? What are you a poof?"

I had to drink it with water and I have to admit I didn't inmediately fall in love with this.

But, after a few, I git it and never took lemonade again.

I carried on with Grouse and one ice cube up until a girlfriend got me a bottle of Glenmorangie. pronounced not Glen Mor Angie, but Glen Moran jay. A malt snob pointed this out to me when I said it and I wouldn't want you to fall into the same trap. Told the **** to fuck off so all was well, but I never forgot it.

But the firs sip. Ah the first sip.

It was like entering a new world. It tasted unbelievably good.

I now have about 50 different bottles of different but brilliant malts.

I have never had a blend since that first mouthful and I probably never will.

You just can't go back in my view.

Anybody else the same?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Blends are wank.

 

[Magicpole]

Blends are wank.

I can see the poster now.

 

[aguero93:20]

You can fuck right off with that scotch shite.

 

[Barcon]

I used to drink Ballantines, then I moved to Chivas, then to Jamesons.
Now I've had a bottle of Jamesons in the cupboard for about three years.
I'm a beer man.

 

[Magicpole]

You can fuck right off with that scotch shite.

There are plenty of my pals who think the same.

When I say pals.....

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Blended whisky is the stuff of the devil, I always hated whisky as I thought they all tasted like Bells or some such devil's spunk. Then I was introduced to single malts, not even in the same league, hardly even the same sport, the fact that single malts are even equated to blends is a scandal. I'd never go back.

 

[Magicpole]

Blended whisky is the stuff of the devil, I always hated whisky as I thought they all tasted like Bells or some such devil's spunk. Then I was introduced to single malts, not even in the same league, hardly even the same sport, the fact that single malts are even equated to blends is a scandal. I'd never go back.

Cannot be done.

Re Bells. As a 14 year old at a Hogmany party in our house, I decided when everyone was arguing like fuck to have a swig out of the bottle

I nearly died as I coughed mid gulp and inhaled the vile shite. It came down my nose and that smell stayed with me until the spring.

I also got grabbed by my dad and marched to my room with a tirade of sweary words. Miserable old ****. Everybody else was pissing themselves.

Apart from me obviously.

 

[BimboBob]

Blended is good if you want scotch and coke.

Chivas Regal is blended and drinkable on its own. Same with Grants.

Single malts though...oooh single malts how I love thee...

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

I'd never turn my nose up at a sniff of a Monkeys Shoulder. A very nice drop indeed.