Nowadays I can’t really afford to drop alot of wedge on booze, what with the mortgage and all… back in the day I used to work in a fairly old country pub in the UK, when the landlord was in a good mood he’d break this shit out. I remember it being pretty tasty…
have been to the oban distillery and can attest to its deliciousness. had a mate that owned a hotel in oban (nothing fancy), and he was telling me that despite the distillery being 500m from his hotel, they had to buy it from a distributor 3hrs away in glasgow.
that’s just silly.
but yeah, the scotch is good 
Found a bottle of this at the back of the spirits cupboard.
1L bottle, guess it was duty free from someone that doesn’t listen, whiskey, not Irish whiskey.
[QUOTE=ceffy;321286]My favourite is:
I just cracked a bottle of this and it is awesome. Super smooth
Been in the highlands (scotland) for two weeks now and all my uncle does is make me drink whiskey.
I had laphroaig, glenfidditch and JW black label to name a few. Having free reign on a well stocked liquor cabinet while it’s bucketing rain outside is a recipe for disaster. I like the islay isle whiskeys, they’re pretty popular around here.
I picked up a 12yo balvenie recently, very nice!
your uncle would want you to spell it correctly then!
whisky.
which islay malts you had? lagavulin has gotta be my favourite.
and now I’m going to have an oban after all this delicious chat.
where are you by the way?
have just got back into rum. this stuff is delicious, but feels hokey drinking out of the tiny rum glass
Dang, my mate had a tour of the Islay distilleries for his stag earlier this year, I couldn’t make it.
Whisky is surprisingly popular here, and cheap (a 700ml bottle of Ballentines is ~$12 aud).
Had this a couple of times. its ok.
Got given a bottle of Chivas 18 today, from a builder (I “will” continue to do jobs for!) and promptly cracked it open once home.
mmmm, it’s Ok. Wouldn’t rave about it.
Irish single > Scotch.
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#doascotch
Thanks for the bump Rolly!
So I was chatting to FoA’s most famous gentlemen last night and he pointed me in the direction of this thread. I want to start to drink and appreciate whisky and scotch. But I just don’t know where to start. I had mentioned to the owl lover last night that my first drink of this sort was a few months ago in Yosemite National Park. I had been hiking all day in the rain and was soaked, for some reason I thought it would be good to sit by the fire and sip on a warming drink. So I got a makers mark with some ice. It was hard to drink initially, but I eventually finished it as the ice melted and softened the flavour.
So where to now?
hahahaha.
60/40 scotch to water ratio is how i started.
oh, with a half pint. i was lucky enough to be shown the differences in whiskies in a glaswegian pub that sold “malt o the month” each month for £1.30. even the malts that weren’t on special were only £3-ish.
good times.
I reckon the Macallan is a really good place to start the single malt journey. Pretty smooth and inoffensive.
Then go through lots of others and end up at laphroaig
haha pretty much.
glenlivet is also pretty easy to start with.
I think I need to find a bar in Canberra that has a good choice so I don’t have to go out and buy bottles of the stuff.
Na you just need to find a friend with a few bottles…
Or there’s the Aus Whisky Society who have a tasting event in Canberra on the 13th of March but if you thought bike nerds were full on
dallimor sounds like it could be a whisky!
There is a Dalmore which probably shares an ancestral link. It is pretty good