Drinking whiskey in the afternoon

[quiet_riot]

Avoid scotch....like cleaning fluid....get yourself a good Irish Whiskey

Jameson
Jameson Caskmates
Red Breast
Black Bush
Teelings

lmao.

You might enjoy this trash:

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

lmao.

You might enjoy this trash:

MMA
Mediocre malt alert.

 

[BimboBob]

Is this another one of those bluemoon threads where nobody buys the top 5 selling brands and only buy the expensive stuff?

Nope. I occasionally like a scotch and coke so the cheap stuff hits the mark.

 

[Magicpole]

I'm trying to knock it on the head as I get older, but I love drinking from mid-morning through to early evening. Almost never have a hangover the next day when I do that, either. Some of my best days out started at 11am and finished at 8pm. Love getting hammered in the afternoon

It will probably be the death of me one day, and so I've got to try and push that date back as far as my predilections will allow, hence me trying to reign it in.

With some people, booze only seems to make them unhappy, or angry. Not me, I love the stuff. Love being pissed. Makes me happy 95% of the time, which is a great ratio.

Spoken like a true Bevvy Merchant, old school. :)

 

[quiet_riot]

MMA
Mediocre malt alert.

Mediocre? Thou givst too much credit.

 

[Magicpole]

Avoid scotch....like cleaning fluid....get yourself a good Irish Whiskey

Jameson
Jameson Caskmates
Red Breast
Black Bush
Teelings

I’m not saying they aren’t good, but they aren’t in the same league as our best. My commiserations for you not being able to see that. It’s like comparing the EL to to CL, a lot of good teams in the EL, but all the best are in the CL.

 

[bluebaja]

Avoid scotch....like cleaning fluid....get yourself a good Irish Whiskey

Jameson
Jameson Caskmates
Red Breast
Black Bush
Teelings

My favourite...Powers gold Label.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Mediocre? Thou givst too much credit.

Mouldy? Manky?.......Miserable maybe?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Like Alex, I'm not a huge fan of the Scotch smokey or peaty taste, unless you want to mix Coke with it.
However I don't think any good whisky or whiskey should be mixed with anything, other than water or ice, if you choose.
I've tasted a couple of single malt scotch that I thought were really nice. Ledaig and some Speyside. I've also had Chivas Regal which is blended and though it was very nice.
I don't have a great knowledge of scotch single malts but I'm sure there must be countless fine whiskies out there.

Still prefer whiskey though.
Have a Midleton very rare at home. It's open and I'm the only one that's tasted it, so far.
Have a Jameson stout caskmate for general Friday night consumption. Really nice.
I have to say currently I am a big fan of the Teelings whiskeys, particularly rum cask. Not overly expensive, but hard to get.
I priced it at €42.95 in the Irish Whiskey Museum.

So I was talking about Malts not blended (not to my taste). There are five different regions producing malt whisky, each region has its own character: lowland, highland, speyside, cambeltown and islay. My preference is for speyside whisky which includes well known distillieries like Balvennie, Glenrothes, Abelour, Cardhu, Linkwood, Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, Glenfarclas. Each of these distilleries produce whisky of different age and commonly matured in different types of oak casks which helps produce the final taste. I find speyside whisky generally smooth and with a touch (a few drops) of water is truly wonderful. of the other Regions, I like Oban (which is a highland malt)- I have a couple of cask strength bottles which I bought a few years ago. Glenkinchie which is a Lowland distilliary just up the road from us and Auchentoshan is very good too (another lowland). I did like Islay whiky when I was younger but went off it after a session with a couple of bottles of Lagavulin on a fishing trip. The very smell of it now makes me feel sick.

Start with a Balvennie mate and see what you think.
I like Irish Whiskey occasionally and enjoy but imo it doesnt really stand up to 'the real thing'.

 

[Saddleworth2]

TBF, its the malts i dont like....im sure there are decent blended...havent really tried enough. Ive been told Jonny Walker is worth trying...?

My favourite whiskies are single malt - not blended at all. A good example is a Balvennie doublewood 17 year old which has been matured in both whisky oak and sherry oak barrels. When you reference Johnny Walker, I think that is a blend of different malt whiskies - not a single malt. To make it even more confusing, the likes of Grouse and Bells is referred to as a blended whisky meaning a blend of grain and single malt whisky.