Thread: scotch

$200 for a blend... NOPE!

Try some Japanese whiskys. They're certainly my favourite right now.

Smoky stuff isn't for me. Ardberg is horrible!

Never much of a spirits drinker. I do prefer Bushmill's 20 y.o. single malt to any other whiskey. Aalborg aquavit is a real drink. Fuelled Viking raiders across the West Sea in open boats to raid the British Isles and civilise the Irish.

Originally Posted by s7000

Try some Japanese whiskys. They're certainly my favourite right now.

They are definitely growing in popularity quite quickly!

The biggest surprise for me was Ichiro's Malt Chichibu 'The Peated'. Absolutely amazing, very smooth. And only 3 years old!! Blew all the 12's away that I tasted on the same night.

The Tasmanian Whiskeys got a good report on ABC's "Landline" a while back, Sullivans Cove etc.


Cheers, Mick.

Glenlivet is going down a treat at the moment..

I like Irish Whiskey myself, enjoying a very nice Bushmills 10yr old single malt at the moment, but when I do have a Scotch, it has to come from Islay, made in the traditional Irish method, with one exception.

Just a little info;

The whiskies of the distilleries along the southeastern coast of the island, Laghroaig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg, have a smoky character derived from peat considered a central characteristic of the Islay malts, and ascribed both to the water from which the whisky is made and to the peating levels of the barley. Many describe this as a “medicinal” flavour.

Baz.

PS, Brian, I think it would have been the other way around, the Scots and Irish civilized the Vikings, bloody heathens, gave you Whiskey and civilized you