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Just to prove I don’t always post on the "heavier" issues.
Now as I know there are plenty of Scots and Irish using the forum, I’d like to know which whisk(e)y they rate most highly. (English posters views are welcome too!)
I’m no connoisseur and would enjoy almost any whisk(e)y, but, of those I’ve drunk over the last few decades, I’d say my favourite was:-
POWER’S GOLD LABEL Irish Whiskey. Sadly, it’s almost impossible to buy this in the UK now: can’t buy it anywhere in my home city. <!– s:( –>
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Now I can hear all you Scots (and some Irish too) slagging off my choice. I’d be the first to agree that there may well be a better one out there, but whichever it is, I’ve not tried it yet. So come on guys (and girls), which whisk(e)y tops your charts?Whisky – the drink of the devil
Many years ago when I was a student I was fortunate to have a job in a pub. For a student it was a great job …. plenty of free booze, good company and plenty of girls to chat to and you even got paid for it.
It was so long ago it was when pubs used to shut in the afternoons.
This particular Saturday we had a private function so we had an afternoon licence. I was working in the bar from 10:00 in the morning, through the afternoon until closing time at 11:00.
At the time my spirit of choice was whisky. I had my first pint was when we opened and by 2:00 when the pub closed for the public the landlord and I had both maxed out on the beer. So he put a bottle of scotch under the counter for us. By the time we “re-opened” at 6:00 we had almost finished a second bottle and frankly anything after mid-evening was just a blur. Although by all accounts the customers had a good evening and there were lots of free drinks being dispensed.
To cut a long story short – I have never been so ill in my life. I wanted to die next day.
The upshot was it was over a quarter of a century before I could even look at a glass of whisky again.
It was only about eight years ago that I finally tried the stuff again and that was only because we were staying in this hotel in Scotland where they had something like 60 odd single malts behind the bar.
I do like the very occasional glass of 12 year old Glenmorangie, although the bottle I have is now 6 years old and I haven’t even drunk ¼ of it.
I have had similar whisky moments
I try to drink spirits in moderation,
but often fail
so try not to have any indoors.The famous grouse is the most imbibed
brand in Scotland I believeI tend to go for Bells but do like Chivas
To cut a long story short – I have never been so ill in my life. I wanted to die next day.
The upshot was it was over a quarter of a century before I could even look at a glass of whisky again.
Well it’s over thirty years since I touched Southern Comfort, for similar reasons. Didn’t much care for it then either but after a skinful of best bitter meths tastes sweet, so the bottle was sunk by circa 3.00am.
Ill, so ill and the taste of the herbal muck seemed to linger for weeks afterwards.
I make a point of only drinking whisky when in Scotland and when wearing Harris Tweed
Cragganmore, Macallan and Laphroaig my favourite Malts
…. and the taste …… seemed to linger for weeks afterwards.
Oh sh*t yes – I had almost forgotten that part of it, it’s all coming back to me again now.
I also recall my head became the best amplifier known to mankind – virtually every noise the next day physically hurt and my heartbeat sounded like a bass drum in my skull.
Not whiskey, of course, but has anyone ever had a ‘barley wine’ hangover…actually, it wasn’t even a hangover; just remember feeling that someone was hitting me over the head with a hammer…and don’t get me started on scrumpy…..I mean, real scrumpy…..
Not whiskey, of course, but has anyone ever had a ‘barley wine’ hangover…actually, it wasn’t even a hangover; just remember feeling that someone was hitting me over the head with a hammer…and don’t get me started on scrumpy…..I mean, real scrumpy…..
You’ve hit the nail on the head there,Moe.
Seems like I have only just got rid of a barley wine headache from thirty or more years ago.Awful stuff,and don’t get me started on the evils of pernod mixed with other booze.I can still smell the stench of the sick to this day.
Dont know about scrumpy
but has anyone got stuck
in a really large bottle ?That’s just silly
Why is it that the mind is very good at forgetting pain once that pain has gone..but we never forget our hangovers? I suppose it’s nature’s way of telling us not to do it again, because it’s bad for us..so we just get drunk on something else instead! When I pretty well stopped drinking alcohol I drank orange juice instead. It was years before I realised that orange juice gives me migraines [even worse than hangovers]. Couldn’t understand why the morning after the night before I was always more sick than everyone else. Life just isn’t fair…
A hangover is a prolonged pain.
I was incpacitated for a day
and a half once after a huge
amount of whiskyI needed a large bottle to
hide in.The Macallan, Fine or Sherry Oak, an absolute pleasure. Redbreast, the best Irish whiskey I’ve tried.
I prefer my whisky wet
Talisker is also my fav but I do not have the pallet to distinguish them by age.
There is a really nice and underrated whisky from just outside Glasgow called Auchentoshan I would recommend. Very smooth and nothing like the island malts but I enjoy it.
Quite revolting stuff that has been the ruin of so many people.
Fit only for putting in a cake for which it serves a more worthy purpose.
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