Glenfiddich

[James Deuce]

I must be getting old. I used to think just like this. Now I say it's your Whisky, do what you like with it, after all I offered a particularly good single malt to my FIL one time and he ended up polishing off the bottle in one sitting after everyone else had gone to bed. Not to savour it, mind, just to get trolleyed asap.

So if, you want to make baileys with it, or use it as aftershave or even for that final rinse after cleaning the toilet, I say have at it and enjoy.

You're on the list.

[Berries]

You're on the list.

It's only Glenfiddich.

Philistine! Why water whisky down with ice? That's not how God intended it to be, or it would come pre-watered.

There's nothing wrong with a drop of water in it, that's why they have jugs of water on the bar in pubs throughout Scotland. Some say the water should come from the same source as the whisky but that really is getting wanky.

I spent seven years living in the Grampians researching Speyside whisky but still haven't made my mind up as to which is my favourite. Still trying though. If I had a bottle of something I didn't like I would give it to someone who would enjoy it rather than ruin it making something else and then come up with another drink I didn't like.

In this case though I would keep the bottle for another couple of years because a 21 year old whisky is worth much more than an 18 year old of the same type.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Whisky doesn't age in the bottle. It ages in the cask and when the taster gets the notes he's after it is bottled and sold. Don't mix single malt. Don't drink it with ice unless you want to be melvined by the Whiskey Defence League at a socially inappropriate moment. If you must add anything, some say a few mls of water will release a more flavourful initial hit, but it's the multiple after notes that are the most enjoyable. Don't gulp it, sip it and let it glide over your tongue and then experience the aftermath.

the aftermath is violent vomiting, a bit of sharting. a LOT of shouting, bit of the old domestic violence, and, in extreme cases, burning the house down.

The very first time I got shitfaced drunk age 15 was on stolen whisky. NOw, 30+ years later the smell of it still makes me retch. Talk about your pavlovian condtiioning.

[ellipsis]

It's only Glenfiddich.

...this ^...if people are getting precious over a bottle of Glenfiddich then they really have not got the taste for seriously mentionable whiskeys...more palate reseach required...in saying this, tastes vary from tongue to tongue...

[unstuck]

the aftermath is violent vomiting, a bit of sharting. a LOT of shouting, bit of the old domestic violence, and, in extreme cases, burning the house down.

The very first time I got shitfaced drunk age 15 was on stolen whisky. NOw, 30+ years later the smell of it still makes me retch. Talk about your pavlovian condtiioning.

I skulled a 4oz of coruba when I was 14, ended up in hospital. Now just the smell of it makes me hurl. Didnt impress the girl I was trying to impress either.

[BuzzardNZ]

I skulled a 4oz of coruba when I was 14, ended up in hospital. Now just the smell of it makes me hurl. Didnt impress the girl I was trying to impress either.

Was she fat?

[unstuck]

Was she fat?

Not then.

[Murray]

Whisky doesn't age in the bottle. It ages in the cask and when the taster gets the notes he's after it is bottled and sold.

FFS... as the Deuce said, 18yrs in the barrel, stops aging when bottled that bottle of yours was proberly stilled early to mid 90's.

It's only Glenfiddich.
I spent seven years living in the Grampians researching Speyside whisky
In this case though I would keep the bottle for another couple of years because a 21 year old whisky is worth much more than an 18 year old of the same type.

7 years researching and you think keeping an 18 yr old whisky for another couple of years makes it a 21 yr old whisky.

Love to see all the rest of your research!!!!

[Smifffy]

You're on the list.

I'm on lots of lists, but probably less than Akzle. I came to the conclusion it didn't matter a little while after my top shelf expanded slightly past this:

[Maha]

...this ^...if people are getting precious over a bottle of Glenfiddich then they really have not got the taste for seriously mentionable whiskeys...more palate reseach required...in saying this, tastes vary from tongue to tongue...

.....agree, I don't see what all the fuss is about when it comes to this particular plonk (hence it's still in the bottle) More than willing to swap or turn it into something more creamy.

[James Deuce]

I'm on lots of lists, but probably less than Akzle. I came to the conclusion it didn't matter a little while after my top shelf expanded slightly past this:

Use that 12 yo Glenfiddich as a mixer and get some Solera Reserve to replace it. Then you can come off the list.

[Mom]

The very first time I got shitfaced drunk age 15 was on stolen whisky. NOw, 30+ years later the smell of it still makes me retch. Talk about your pavlovian condtiioning.

I skulled a 4oz of coruba when I was 14, ended up in hospital. Now just the smell of it makes me hurl. Didnt impress the girl I was trying to impress either.

Goodness me, how can we have such similar stories. Mine involved wagging school, skulling voddies and rocking out to Uriah Heap
Thought having a swim was a fabby idea, fell down a flight of stairs breaking a toe in the process. Peeled off all my clothes and skinny dipping in the pool. Problem there was I could not manage the swimming motion so sank like a stone. Got rescued and spent god knows how much time bent over hurling pool water/booze and bile over into the neighbours back yard. Did I mention I was also naked Still cant drink a Vodka 40 years later

[HenryDorsetCase]

Goodness me, how can we have such similar stories. Mine involved wagging school, skulling voddies and rocking out to Uriah Heap
Thought having a swim was a fabby idea, fell down a flight of stairs breaking a toe in the process. Peeled off all my clothes and skinny dipping in the pool. Problem there was I could not manage the swimming motion so sank like a stone. Got rescued and spent god knows how much time bent over hurling pool water/booze and bile over into the neighbours back yard. Did I mention I was also naked Still cant drink a Vodka 40 years later

the interestng thing is that in the facebook era, when people do this stuff (or have sex with their much older, married with kids only slightly younger than your partner) it all ends up on farcebook or whatever. Fucking hell some of the shit we did and got away with..... and some of the shit we didnt. I cannot imagine how embarrassing it would be if the photos were still around. and they will be. Oh yes.

[unstuck]

Fucking hell some of the shit we did and got away with..... and some of the shit we didnt. I cannot imagine how embarrassing it would be if the photos were still around. and they will be. Oh yes.

So glad there where no photos of when I woke up completely naked laying in the middle of the Browns Bay bowling club at 9am.
Still no idea what happened to my clothes.
Was an embarrassing walk along beach road back to torbay wrapped in a flag.

[Mom]

. I cannot imagine how embarrassing it would be if the photos were still around. and they will be. Oh yes.

No pics exist of my
We did not have the means to think of pics, plus they had to save me. I took a bit of shames is all.

So glad there where no photos of when I woke up completely naked laying in the middle of the Browns Bay bowling club at 9am.
Still no idea what happened to my clothes.
Was an embarrassing walk along beach road back to torbay wrapped in a flag.

So, how do we "direct" our youff to avoid our stupidity? These days you are fuckt immediately.