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[DogManDude]

An excellent malt!

Glass of this tonight.. Not bad. Got sweet honey tones and an orange peel bitterness that you cant miss.




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[DogManDude]

Quick pic of some of the herd while cleaning out the cupboard a few weeks ago

[tommy]

Tonight, a dram (or two) of Auchentoshan American Oak. A non-age-statement single malt so It's probably quite young, but it does have an interesting citrus and vanilla and apple finish. Quite smooth.
It?ll be interesting to see how this bottle develops.
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On offer at Waitrose at the moment.

[TheMonk]

That's pretty impressive! No Islays, though?

[Guinness70]

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Ooo love me a wee dram. Anything Islay works for me. Currently open Islay bottle is Caol Ila Moch
Other currents are
Machrie Moor (Arran) and
BenRiach Maderensis Fumosus (Speyside), this one is sublime with a smoke! Not a big fan of Speyside, but i need another bottle of this one.

[Guinness70]

@psuedonym , i loikes your cupboard :-)
[MENTION=13434145]TheMonk[/MENTION], I do spot an Islay... blue label on the left. Bruichladdich.

[DogManDude]

I'm just going to leave this here... Whisky-flavoured bacon http://www.popularmechanics.com/home...skey-17334283/

[butternutsquashpie]

I'm just going to leave this here... Whisky-flavoured bacon http://www.popularmechanics.com/home...skey-17334283/

Whisky reduced bacon might be a nice addition to something. Especially a chicken breast or so. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

[parnaby]

I was at a whisky festival/taster yesterday. Over 40 different bottles to try.

Highlights for me were:
Glenmorangie Quintas
Nikka Coffee Grain
Glenlivet 18yr

My friend really liked the Ka Va Lan Solist but I thought it was awful. Full flavoured and overpowering, not my kind of tipple.

Also experimented with some Islay as the ones I've tried I didn't like. The best of the ones I tried was Talisker. Also had Laguvulin and Oban but I didn't like those, they smelt like a hospital.

I took a stick with me but it must have been the only place in the whole of Asia where there was no smoking.

It lasted from 12-5 and think we tried pretty much everything on offer. The Glenrothes guys even give us half a bottle of 1998 they had left over the finish.

Rolled in at about 6:30, passed out and woke up at 2am so that's my sleep pattern knackered for the next week. Shitfaced [emoji16]


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[Guinness70]

[MENTION=13432371]parnaby[/MENTION] Not like Islay? Blasphemy! LOL. True, sometimes the smell is a bit off, but the taste more then makes up for it. Never had one smell of ether tho! If it tastes too much of alcohol i add a splash of water.
Talisker (Isle of Skye) and Oban (westcoast mainland) produce some fine malts, that's because they're near Islay :-)

[parnaby]

@parnaby Not like Islay? Blasphemy! LOL. True, sometimes the smell is a bit off, but the taste more then makes up for it. Never had one smell of ether tho! If it tastes too much of alcohol i add a splash of water.
Talisker (Isle of Skye) and Oban (westcoast mainland) produce some fine malts, that's because they're near Islay :-)

Oh really, I thought they were both Islay? I think I was drunk by that point, but they were on the Islay table anyway.
Yea, just don't really like the peatyness and smokey taste. Plus the smell, don't want to drink something that smells like germolene.

[TheMonk]

@psuedonym , i loikes your cupboard :-)
@TheMonk, I do spot an Islay... blue label on the left. Bruichladdich.

You're very right, Sir! Still, not one of the best Islays IMO... Lagavulin is an absolute staple in my whisky bar.

[Pseudonym]

You're very right, Sir! Still, not one of the best Islays IMO... Lagavulin is an absolute staple in my whisky bar.

Indeed. There's a distillers edition PX cask in "the other cupboard"

[TheMonk]

Indeed. There's a distillers edition PX cask in "the other cupboard"

Much better then! I do prefer the traditional Lagavulin, but the PX cask editions do add some sweetness to the peat, and sometimes that's just what you want.

[Joss]

Heres something you might like.. What Im sipping at the moment. Its an equal measure of Scotch (bog standard blended is fine) with equal measure of Amaretto liqueur over ice. Its a lovely sipping cocktail called the Godfather.

Simple and effective!




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