Single Malt

[dangerous]

Lucky cunt. I'm surprised you managed to get any work done with that much whiskey.

Shit man.. I doubt there was SFA 'whiskey' there.

[SMOKEU]

They would have tasting's. 12 different whiskeys and we would pour tasting glasses for each person. most would have one maybe two, the rest, as you can't put it back in the bottle, went into a bottle for us to drink later.

I think that's why i can't drink it now, well straight anyway, and I could never put anything into a good scotch.

Yeah, a good whiskey must be had straight. It's a crime to mix it.

[St_Gabriel]

A bit off topic, but I make a very nice whiskey by using Jack Daniels oak barrel chips. I add 10L of neutral spirit to 500g of oak chips and leave it for a few weeks before filtering it off through a funnel with some cotton to remove the small pieces of oak. Makes a very tasty drink indeed.

Try it after its been on oak chips for 3.5 YEARS then you will know what smooth is. It takes a while to build sufficient stock so that it can last that long but it is was worth the effort.

[SMOKEU]

Try it after its been on oak chips for 3.5 YEARS then you will know what smooth is. It takes a while to build sufficient stock so that it can last that long but it is was worth the effort.

I'm keen! I would probably end up drinking it all well before then unfortunately.

[Indiana_Jones]

Another booze thread lol.

I enjoy whiskey, but I prefer rum

-Indy

[slofox]

Try it after its been on oak chips for 3.5 YEARS then you will know what smooth is. It takes a while to build sufficient stock so that it can last that long but it is was worth the effort.

I just recently finished my last home distilled whisky - 6 years old by the time I got through it.

I age it on toasted french oak chips. I call it "mid-atlantic" whisky since it tastes somewhere between scotch and bourbon. I don't use flavour sachets of any sort - after a while they taste synthetic - to me anyway.

Since that was the last of my stocks, I have fired up the still today - being as how it's the first entire day home I have had in several years. At present we have one litre of spirit at 90%. Bit lower than usual - I usually get the first litre at 92%. But then I haven't done this for quite a few years. Head temperature is 75C - just about right. I should end up with 4 -5 litres all up at around 80%. Dilute to 40 - 45% and there's about 8 litres of whatever you like to call it. Which lasts me for ages, since I am not supposed to drink ANY alcomohol at all...(we won't go into that).

This is the first still run I have done in my latest dwelling. Last place I lived, I had an entire subgarage/basement/workshop under the house which had power and water so was ideal for an alchemist's workshop. In the current poky little hole I have to commandeer the kitchen and rig stuff all over the goddam room...

Funny thing - last jar of whisky I had from previous batches sat in my cupboard for several years, untouched. Eventually I put it through a carbon filter and then hurfed in some oak chips. I thought it odd that it coloured up so quuickly since I was light on the chips anyway. Tried it eventually and ended up pissed real quick...got suspicious and tested it with the alcohol hydrometer. Turned out I hadn't ever diluted it - it was 80%.

When I tried diluting a sample of the finished product, it went cloudy. So I just had to drink it at 80%. Sigh...

[fuknK1W1]

Ya right Walker aint whiskey... its farking whisky

Too true good to see a man who can spell...sometimes

[Akzle]

Too true good to see a man who can spell...sometimes

whisk-E-y generally denotes irish whiskey. (and yank stuff. but really. what the hell does america make that isn't shit, they were all reject irish anyway.)
whiskY generally for the drink from anywhere else
and scotch for "whiskey" from scotland...

[dino3310]

ive just lately discovered the missus stash of cooking sherry not to bad when only $6 a bottle

[dangerous]

whisk-E-y generally denotes irish whiskey. (and yank stuff. but really. what the hell does america make that isn't shit, they were all reject irish anyway.)
whiskY generally for the drink from anywhere else
and scotch for "whiskey" from scotland...

WRONG... ya not a good listener are ya mate, the Scottish, Japanese, Kiwi's and Canadians are the only nations that spell the word less the 'e'
Im telling ya now 'scotch' as you put it does not have a 'e' in whisky.

[Akzle]

WRONG... ya not a good listener are ya mate, the Scottish, Japanese, Kiwi's and Canadians are the only nations that spell the word less the 'e'
Im telling ya now 'scotch' as you put it does not have a 'e' in whisky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky#Names_and_spellings
the internet doesn't entirely agree with you.
the aforesaid is MY interpretation of teh spellings.
scotch≠whiskey

[scumdog]

WRONG... ya not a good listener are ya mate, the Scottish, Japanese, Kiwi's and Canadians are the only nations that spell the word less the 'e'
Im telling ya now 'scotch' as you put it does not have a 'e' in whisky.

I'm with him on this.

And with the 'Irish make spuds' thing...

[dangerous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky#Names_and_spellings
the internet doesn't entirely agree with you.
the aforesaid is MY interpretation of teh spellings.
scotch≠whiskey

... interesting reading ta, however the attached is from your wiki site scotch=whisky

[Akzle]

... interesting reading ta, however the attached is from your wiki site scotch=whisky

my wiki. lolz.
SCOTCH it's not whiskey and it's not whisky. it's fkn scotch. i dont care what they call it in scotland, who the hell would listen to a scotsman anyway... ( i have welsh heritage)

[Berries]

( i have welsh heritage)

That answers so many questions you wouldn't believe it.

As someone who was forced to live north of the border for a number of years and built up quite a taste for the stuff I have to say it is Scotch Whisky. Or Scotch. Or Whisky. You won't find a decent bottle that doesn't have the word whisky on it but you'll find many that don't have the word scotch. That's what the English call the locals to piss them off.