Scotch & Dry

[martybabe]

I agree - much prefer it neat! YES! I like Bushmills (Irish)YES! and Talisker (from the Isle of Skye) - that one is very intense, 45.8% proof and quite an acquired taste YES!. I also like Jamesons - very smooth. I used to like Glenfiddich but find it a bit thin now YES! - it's great for cooking though!

Cripes, there's a girl I'd like to have a tipple with, what extraordinary good taste you have.

My personal favourite is Glen Farchlas cask strength but I've yet to find anyone that will drink the yummy 60%iness with me, you may be the girl I've been looking for all my life.

[Beemer]

Hitcher's not the only one with a 'cupboard' by the sound of it! My mother could never understand where I got my love of fine alcohol from as she didn't drink and my father liked rum. I love champagne (would drink it EVERY day if I were rich enough) and I love cognac and whisky/whiskey. I started on Glenfiddich and thought it was nice, but once I had tried others, I realised it wasn't as good as some of the others. I've got a little book called Classic Malts and I've ticked the ones I've tried and liked - Oban, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Dalwhinnie, Cragganmore, Cardhu - and a few others I have forgotten.

I once went to Manfeild for a riding course and took a bottle of 10 year-old Bushmills. The girl I was sharing a room with ran out of grog so said if I let her drink mine, she'd replace it. No problem, it's not like I'd ever drink a bottle in a night (or even a month!), so I let her. I drank maybe 100-200ml maximum and she polished off the rest of the 700ml or so bottle! And what did she give me the next day? A bottle of Johnnie Walker red label, which I would not drink even if I were dying of thirst! She said they didn't have any Bushmills in Feilding - well, I would have been MORE than happy to wait until we got back to bloody Wellington in that case!

Sorry to sound like the perfect woman (I'm definitely not in reality!) but I'm already taken!

Just had a look and the cupboard isn't as well stocked as I remembered - damn that Scotsman whose name we never mention who stayed with us a while back! A bottle of Jamesons 12 year old, Bushmills 10 year old, Talisker and that's it. But I do have a bottle of Courvoisier and four bottles of champagne, including a very nice 1999 Perrier Jouet with hand enamelled flowers on the bottle!

[martybabe]

Sorry to sound like the perfect woman (I'm definitely not in reality!) but I'm already taken!

Don't get me wrong I'm very much taken by the 'Bride' and she loves me, I tell her every day how much she loves me it would just be nice to share a wee dram with someone that appreciates it. She reckons My Farchlas 105 tastes like cough mixture and napalm. You see what I've got to work with ?

I think I'll have a sip now, this threads put me in the mood and it's a bit bloomin cold up me trosacks. Cheers

[Beemer]

Don't get me wrong I'm very much taken by the 'Bride' and she loves me, I tell her every day how much she loves me it would just be nice to share a wee dram with someone that appreciates it. She reckons My Farchlas 105 tastes like cough mixture and napalm. You see what I've got to work with ?

I think I'll have a sip now, this threads put me in the mood and it's a bit bloomin cold up me trosacks. Cheers

Ha ha - snap! My other half doesn't drink at all, so he reckons all wine smells (and tastes) like vinegar and that whiskey smells like paint stripper! I just wish he didn't like chocolate either, then my stash of that would be safe too!

[Skyryder]

I agree - much prefer it neat! I like Bushmills (Irish) and Talisker (from the Isle of Skye) - that one is very intense, 45.8% proof and quite an acquired taste. I also like Jamesons - very smooth. I used to like Glenfiddich but find it a bit thin now - it's great for cooking though!

Glenfiddich has the highest sales of all the malts. This in no way makes it the best. It's just that if someone who does not know much about malts, and I'm no expert, and they want a malt Glenfiddich is usually one that they have heard of. Bit like Harleys realy............does the job but there are others for those that know.


Skyryder

[Hitcher]

The Glenfiddich 12-year-old is lovely. Malts need to be appreciated for what they are, not what you'd like them to be.