Run for your lives! Here come the vegans.

[Grahameeboy]

It's neither Jamieson nor Jamesons.

The label says 'Jameson'.

It could plausibly be referred to as Jameson's.

I guess after too many it could be either........

[Flatcap]

I guess after too many it could be either........

Jasimmons......

[007XX]

Gahhh!! Thud. Spasm. Twitch.

A little water helps liberate the volatiles in the alcohol that contain the wonderful aromas and flavours. Drinking neat malt (particularly the cask-strength stuff) will merely cauterise one's palate. Whisky blenders and other professional Scotch "nosers" dilute with 20% water. Personally I think that that's going a bit too far, but it demonstrates value of a little dilution.

And as for ice? Most sipping spirits (malt whisky, cognac, armanac, some rums and fine bourbons, oak-aged tequila) are best consumed at or near body temperature.

Ice, I suspect, has been added to spirits by bartenders for the same reason that McDonald's and others add it -- it makes the measure look bigger.

My apologies Sire McHitcher... I could recall some of your opinion on the matter, but alas not all in this instance.

I stand corrected.

[Hitcher]

Alas, a ferpectly good food rant thread has become a booze thread.

One wonders what malt whisky made from GM barley tastes like?

[Ocean1]

Alas, a ferpectly good food rant thread has become a booze thread.

Much like the ideal consumption thereof in fact.

One wonders what malt whisky made from GM barley tastes like?

You already know, they've been genetically modifying barley for centuries. More good rant material...

[jrandom]

I stand corrected.

Chilling the snot out of cheap spirits (ie, taking it below 0°C) tends to make the drink more palatable by reducing the obviousness of the acrid flavour.

I like to do this by storing Jameson, vodka and the like in the freezer, rather than faffing about with ice.

My preferred way of consuming cheap whisky is in Rusty Nail form (half and half with Drambuie). Drambuie and blended malt sort of cancel out each others' bad points; it's the perfect recipe for getting drunk on a budget.

[007XX]

Cordial yet. Remind me to introduce you to some of the more adult beverages sometime, perhaps during your pending wee visit to Welly.

Alas, a ferpectly good food rant thread has become a booze thread.

One wonders what malt whisky made from GM barley tastes like?

Ocean1 Started it...

Besides, the addition of soft drinks to top shelf alcoholic beverages is very much on topic in my view, as it has been researched for its influence on the softening of the abdominal muscle, leading to the infamous "beer gut" syndrome...

[Ocean1]

Ocean1 Started it...

Besides, the addition of soft drinks to top shelf alcoholic beverages is very much on topic in my view, as it has been researched for its influence on the softening of the abdominal muscle, leading to the infamous "beer gut" syndrome...

And pregnancy...

[Ocean1]

Chilling the snot out of cheap spirits (ie, taking it below 0°C) tends to make the drink more palatable by reducing the obviousness of the acrid flavour.

Cheap spirits have acrid snot!!?

[Hitcher]

infamous "beer gut" syndrome...

It's not a beer gut. I am just circumferentially challenged.

[007XX]

And pregnancy...

Now that's an interesting way to put it...

Anyway, there is also a good angle for this thread...Pregnancy and vegetarians. A friend of mine (being a staunch dietician and vegetarian to boot), had the sense to admit she needed to consume red meat for the wellbeign of her child...

The child is now 2 years old, and she has not gone back to being a vegetarian, for reasons of health as well as preference of satisfaction via the consumption of meat...

Once you go carnivore, you don't go back...

[007XX]

Cheap spirits have acrid snot!!?

It's not a beer gut. I am just circumferentially challenged.

You two are impossible