From a thread I've been following, it appears there may be interest in discussing all things whisky (or whiskey for American and Irish variations). What's your favourite, how do you take it, where and when, why even? Excursions into other liquors are tolerated.
I looked up Edinburgh cut crystal glasses and found there are a variety of shapes.
https://www.replacements.com/crysta...e3WHhTnYWEuXsGma5SsaKjYBncVJJevXshVcNpmtWDsfM
I assume you mean the classic tumbler shape, described as ED122 in link above? I'm always happy with the classic Glencairn glass as shown in the first post. but my preference is a small glass with a slight chimney and a stem. I have several that look like a Glencairn on a stem. I also really like a small port glass or sherry copita.
Yes, please! 😋
Better ask mods to move to the Lounge.
Everything Else is still meant to be audio everything else. At least thats what i see in other threads.
Everything Else is still meant to be audio everything else. At least thats what i see in other threads.
I did indeed mean EDI22. I have a Glencairn glass etched "Glenmorangie" that I like for sherry (keeps the nose in), and now I know what the glass shape is called. For preference, I put 15-year-old Glenmorangie in the EDI22, but 10-year-old Balvennie, and 12-year-old Glenfiddich are good too - I prefer the softer flavours. Like a French lady who told me she drank a bottle of (her own) champagne a day "for her health", I have whisky if I think a cold is coming on, but it takes a winter to get through a bottle; one should enjoy one's medicine. I read today that Sly Stone got through 3-4 bottles of bourbon a day. Either he regularly had really bad colds, or someone is telling porkies.
(squints, holds hand over eyes to block the glaring forum sun) "The Lounge looks pretty far away... we'd better pack provisions"
The Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg (the Ettrick Sheepherd & friend of Sir Walter Scott) wrote in 1827 of Glenlivet whisky: "If a body could just find oot the exac proper proportion o'quantity that ought to be drank every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he micht leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would go out of fashion."
That is a special whisky, a favourite of mine. I have kept this one continuously for the past 20 years. Too bad it's increased in price by 50% in Ontario, as have most single malts.
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1. Whisky is the correct spelling. Extra letters not required.
2. Drinking environment can make it taste very good, or just whisky.
3. Anything beyond that pales.
4. If you also like wine then be careful not to overlap the two or you will **** off a lot of whisky drinkers when you should have stayed home.
5. If you would like a demonstration, the first opening I have is for July 25th. Get your tickets here folks. It's gonna be a real hootenanny. Someone said they might bring a banjo.
2. Drinking environment can make it taste very good, or just whisky.
3. Anything beyond that pales.
4. If you also like wine then be careful not to overlap the two or you will **** off a lot of whisky drinkers when you should have stayed home.
5. If you would like a demonstration, the first opening I have is for July 25th. Get your tickets here folks. It's gonna be a real hootenanny. Someone said they might bring a banjo.
I don't know if you can find these, but I believe they would suit your taste. They are very good, and not mild or mellow. In no particular order:
Alberta Premium Cask Strength
Alberta Premium Batch 10 Legacy Reserve
Lot No. 40 Dark Oak
Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye
Which do you like? I have three right now that I enjoy a great deal;
The new Jim Beam Black, bottled at 7 years and 90-proof is much better than the original.
I've kept Bulleit Bourbon 10 Year Old in stock for several years now.
Sometimes I like to mix things to get exactly what I want. I mix Old Turkey 86 with an equal measure of Old Turkey 101, and get something that suits me much better than either. I prefer this mix to many of more expensive bourbons I've tasted.
Ah yes, a peated Irish. I had a bottle about 15 years ago, not since, and it is no longer available at the LCBO, which is the only source for liquor in Ontario.
I haven't tried West Cork, but Red Spot and Green Spot are very good. I've pretty much stopped buying Irish whiskies, because they are as expensive as single-malt scotch and not generally as big in flavour. I have a bottle of Tullamore Dew in the cabinet, just to remind me of that unique Irish pot still flavour.
Thanks for the reminder. I just ordered six bottles of Wiser's Wendel Clark 100% Rye. I bought three bottles a couple of years ago and really liked it. I didn't realize it was still available.
Thanks for your Canadian whisky recommendations! Checking with my local liquor stores, these are the ones they carry and I can purchase today (SF Bay Area, USA):
- Caribou Crossing
- Ellington reserve
- J.P. Wiser
- Pendleton
- 8 seconds
- Alberta Premium
- Bearface
- CEO
- Entrapment
- Forty Creek
- Gibson's Finest
- Gooderham & Worts
- Hunt & Gather
- Lock Stock & Barrel
- Lot 40
- Obtanium
- Pike Creek
- Red Bank
- Sortilege
- Two Brewers