drinking, smelling and tasting your whisky

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Necuno

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so to acquire my black belt in whisky, i need few tips as to the finer arts of drinking whisky :)
 
Drink it and only drink good quality if and when you can ..... other than that, there's nothing poncy to be done.
 
Two tots of Black and White in a Peroni Draft glass half filled with ice. Top up with water to about two thirds full. Drink and repeat. :D

Tastes and smells great. No need to get all snooty about your whizzos. ;)
 
If it is in a proper whisky tumbler you can twirl the liquid around it carefully, then you hold it up to the light and see how quickly or slowly the liquid streams down the glass, these are called the legs, thin and quick means the whisky is light, thick and slow means it's stronger and possibly smoother. Also in the wise words of a Scotsman I met in a pub in Edinburgh, "The best way to drink Scotch, is any bloody way you want to."
 
Lupus said:
If it is in a proper whisky tumbler you can twirl the liquid around it carefully, then you hold it up to the light and see how quickly or slowly the liquid streams down the glass, these are called the legs, thin and quick means the whisky is light, thick and slow means it's stronger and possibly smoother. Also in the wise words of a Scotsman I met in a pub in Edinburgh, "The best way to drink Scotch, is any bloody way you want to."
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hell yeah!
 
Lupus said:
If it is in a proper whisky tumbler you can twirl the liquid around it carefully, then you hold it up to the light and see how quickly or slowly the liquid streams down the glass, these are called the legs, thin and quick means the whisky is light, thick and slow means it's stronger and possibly smoother. Also in the wise words of a Scotsman I met in a pub in Edinburgh, "The best way to drink Scotch, is any bloody way you want to."
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got very nice tumblers, i'll check next round :). 've briefly read that the colour is also related to barrels/casks in some way.

Nick333 said:
Two tots of Black and White in a Peroni Draft glass half filled with ice. Top up with water to about two thirds full. Drink and repeat. :D

Tastes and smells great. No need to get all snooty about your whizzos. ;)
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:D
 
Yes the colour is related to the cask it is in, as before the cask it whisky is as clear as water and as strong as turps, there is a distillery owned by South Africans in the Highlands of Scotland, myself and some buddies got an exclusive tour of it because we are Saffers and my buddy met the one owner at Whisky festival 2007. We got to taste a lot of the stuff, got nicely roasted.
 
wrathex said:
I like that saying, does that apply to Jack Daniels too?
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People drink Jacks all sorts of ways. I'll have it as a shooter with a beer in a bar or club just because it sounds a bit more badass than ordering a J&B or Bells shooter, but to be honest I think Jack Daniels is seriously overrated.
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
Plus it's a whiskey, not a whisky :sick:
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Both are valid. Whisky - Scottish spelling; Whiskey - Irish spelling. So, if you're drinking scotch ( I assume most do) you're actually drinking whiskey. Technically. :p
 
Lupus said:
"The best way to drink Scotch, is any bloody way you want to."
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Are there any exceptions? Cause I know a few "Jameson and Creme soda/Raspberry" drinkers.

Granted its not Scotch, but am sure you catch my drift...;)
 
Yeah I know a few people like that too, if that is how they like it then that is how they should drink it. Just I wouldn't go for it like that blergh.
 
If you're paying then you can drink it any way you like. If someone is nice enough to buy you an expensive tot then I'd say it's good manners to drink it straight or with just a little water and ice.

On getting to know about drinking whisky, whiskey and bourbon try to get to a few tastings and get a book about it to read a bit. I'd also say try as many as possible. How will you know good vs. bad if you never try them? You mind find something fantastic that other people cant stand. I have a mate who loves a Whelsh Whiskey called Penderyn - to me it tastes just like what I would imagine cow dung to taste like if I ate it.

For me it's all down to personal taste. When I started drinking it I used to favor the big Islay whiskeys like Lagavulin or Laphroaig but later started to prefer the Highland malts like The Macallan. A few years ago I did a tour of the Jamesons Distillery in Dublin and tasted a few of their 'single malts' (Red Breast, Middleton). The are single cast irish whiskys. These are now my favorite but very hard to find in South Africa. If I see a bottle of Mortlach Scotch I'll pay anything up to R2000 for it. I've only ever had 1 bottle, a 16yr old, and it was head and shoulders the best malt I've ever had.

A good book to buy: Malt Whiskey Companion by Michael Jackson. Great overview of 100's of brands.
 
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Waaib said:
If you're paying then you can drink it any way you like. If someone is nice enough to buy you an expensive tot then I'd say it's good manners to drink it straight or with just a little water and ice.

On getting to know about drinking whisky, whiskey and bourbon try to get to a few tastings and get a book about it to read a bit. I'd also say try as many as possible. How will you know good vs. bad if you never try them? You mind find something fantastic that other people cant stand. I have a mate who loves a Whelsh Whiskey called Penderyn - to me it tastes just like what I would imagine cow dung to taste like if I ate it.

For me it's all down to personal taste. When I started drinking it I used to favor the big Islay whiskeys like Lagavulin or Laphroaig but later started to prefer the Highland malts like The Macallan. A few years ago I did a tour of the Jamesons Distillery in Dublin and tasted a few of their 'single malts' (Red Breast, Middleton). The are single cast irish whiskys. These are now my favorite but very hard to find in South Africa. If I see a bottle of Mortlach Scotch I'll pay anything up to R2000 for it. I've only ever had 1 bottle, a 16yr old, and it was head and shoulders the best malt I've ever had.

A good book to buy: Malt Whiskey Companion by Michael Jackson. Great overview of 100's of brands.
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cool, thanx.
 
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