Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: WG. on April 01, 2007, 23:12
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Heh Ziggy, just poured myself a wee nightcap of Dalmore. Not a bad drop and possibly the best thing to come out of Alness since Eric Black.
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:lol: I'd agree with that!
Slanjivar :D
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Slainte Mhath :D :D
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i suppose this topic qualifies for being in this section as " poreserving " ? the liver :lol:
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Yup, you got it mate. Also keeps the end of the nose nice and bright red so that we can get around in the winter without the lights on.
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Balvenie Doublewood tonight. Absolute bl**dy nectar. Beautiful whisky made just 6 miles along the road in Dufftown. Same family-owned company that makes Glenfiddich.
Doublewood is pricey but well worth the money if you are looking for a gift for someone special (could include yourself, of course). The name refers to its double maturation in two different types of oak cask.
Yup, it is right up there in my Top 5 Malts - along with about 10 others!
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i find i do off some people very quickly :x specially whne they tease :lol:
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i find i do off some people very quickly :x specially whne they tease :lol:
You got your recipe slot, I got my Tipple thread! :wink:
Don't worry though, I don't have too big a selection in the cupboard. Pee's me off that we have to pay more for whisky than almost any other country when it is made on our doorstep. Between excise duty and VAT, up to 80% of the price we pay is tax. VAT is even calculated after excise duty is added in so there is tax on the tax!!! :evil: :evil:
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Balvenie Founder's Reserve last night & rather too much of it, I'm afraid ... charity golf game!
Founder's Reserve is quite a bit cheaper than the Doublewood mentioned above and still an excellent drop. Typically Speyside, it is smooth and mellow and quite easy to drink neat.
Balvenie is one of the last distilleries to use its own malting floor. Indeed they even grow some of their own barley too so you can follow the process from beginning to end at a single location in sunny Dufftown.
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Have you tried Isle of Skye WG.....that's quite a nice tipple too. Got some free from the IOS rep as I happened to play on the circuit with him and his wife and it was rather nice - the dram and the golf.
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I'm not a big one for the blended whiskies but if the IOS rep fancies a game at Huntly, I could be bought rather easily ...
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Sooo what's the tipple tonight WG???? :wink:
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Sooo what's the tipple tonight WG???? :wink:
An Australian red wine actually. Supermarket own-brand special at £2.86 per bottle and well worth the money. I've tasted worse at £6 per bottle.
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Sounds good....mines a South African Chenin Blanc :?
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Isle of Jura 10 year old single malt.
Broke the seal on a new bottle and I must say it isn't doing much for me. Lacks the heavy peatiness which I like in other West Coast drams but also lacks the smoothness of a Speyside malt. It has a slightly oily feel which I don't much like.
I will persevere and report further if it fares better on subsequent tastings. There are whiskies which seem to suit your taste buds better some nights than others.
Can't complain ... I won the bottle as a door prize.
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Isle of Jura 10 year old single malt.
and I must say it isn't doing much for me.
Top it up with some lemonade WG. It'll be fine then :lol:
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Top it up with some lemonade WG. It'll be fine then :lol:
Steady there girl ... we're not talking Teachers here ...
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Hells bells Aunty, sailing close to the wind there!
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WG - ever tried the Single Barrel Balvenie? Pretty special and has a hand written label from the head distiller.
I once served Sean Connery most of a bottle and he took the rest to bed with him! He never made it to breakfast the next morning!
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Hells bells Aunty, sailing close to the wind there!
Philistines us Sassenachs :roll:
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Ok folks, I'm coming out of the closet here and I need support. The awful truth is that I.....................just can't stand the stuff. There it's said now, disown me if you will, but at least I have my dignity. :oops:
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WG - ever tried the Single Barrel Balvenie? Pretty special and has a hand written label from the head distiller.
I once served Sean Connery most of a bottle and he took the rest to bed with him! He never made it to breakfast the next morning!
Balvenie Portwood and Balvenie Doublewood are both in my top 10 malts (see my post on this thread). The distillery is only 7 miles away; adjacent to (and owned by) Glenfiddich.
Haven't seen the single barrel Balvenie though, perhaps Sean bought it all up. He might just be a tad wealthier than me.
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Ok folks, I'm coming out of the closet here and I need support. The awful truth is that I.....................just can't stand the stuff. There it's said now, disown me if you will, but at least I have my dignity. :oops:
:D United we stand IHM, I'll come out as well I can't abide it :lol:
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Ok folks, I'm coming out of the closet here and I need support. The awful truth is that I.....................just can't stand the stuff. There it's said now, disown me if you will, but at least I have my dignity. :oops:
I'm afraid I have to agree with you Ice. I think it's disgusting stuff, even when well diluted with lemonade :lol:
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Thanks RR. If it were the only drink in the last pub in the universe one minute before I died I wouldn't bother and just have some crisps. :wink:
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HEH, this is my thread : WG's tipple !! Stamps feet & throws a paddy ...
All you philistines can b*gger off and start a Pimms or Tequila thread of your own. Leave some bandwidth to the sophisticated members of this forum.
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or some pork scratchins :wink:
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or some pork scratchins :wink:
OUT !!
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Sorry WG are we off your Christmas card list now?
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or some pork scratchins :wink:
OUT !!
NO ! (http://bestsmileys.com/notlistening/2.gif)
An a packet of scratchins please.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: They don't like it up 'em Captain Mainwaring. :lol:
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Leave some bandwidth to the sophisticated members of this forum.
Who do you think you are kidding :?: Not me :lol: :lol:
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The awful truth is that I.....................just can't stand the stuff. :
Neither could I until I visited the distillery in Oban, after the tasting I realised how good a single malt could be. WG I have now progressed to Talisker which is my favourite.
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The awful truth is that I.....................just can't stand the stuff. :
Neither could I until I visited the distillery in Oban, after the tasting I realised how good a single malt could be. WG I have now progressed to Talisker which is my favourite.
Ok WG, invite all us unbelievers up for a tasting. Maybe we could combine that with a camping party for Muntys return. :wink: :lol:
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Neither could I until I visited the distillery in Oban, after the tasting I realised how good a single malt could be. WG I have now progressed to Talisker which is my favourite.
Talisker is indeed a fine drop. Since you like the peaty ones, maybe you should try one of the Islay malts, e.g. Bowmore, Laphroiag, Lagavulin, Caol Ila.
And to any heathens reading this, yes of course you are invited up for a tasting. Easier still, pop into your local pub and try a single malt at my expense. Just tell the friendly bar-keep to charge it to WG's account.
Suggestions (since most folks find the peaty ones an acquired taste) : Macallan, Balvenie, Glenmorangie, Glendronach, Highland Park, Glenlivet. Very mild whiskies would be Glenturret or Glenfiddich
Serving suggestion : Neat or with just a little chilled water. I usually have a glass of iced water to sip separately.
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OH has just polished off a bottle of Lochnagar whisky, but I think he prefers Bushmills.
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OH has just polished off a bottle of Lochnagar whisky, but I think he prefers Bushmills.
:shock: In a one-er??
Well I never even knew there was a distillery near Balmoral. Next time I run into Chuck & Camilla, I'll ask him what he's got in his hip flask.
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Lagavulin and Laphroiag are in top 5
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A big fan of Balvenie Double wood. Bought a bottle of Auchroisk last weekend (I think used to be Singleton) - very good too. Have a resonable collection - nothing too expensive and not collected for the sake of it - it all gets tasted! Have a bottle of Suntory recently bought over from Japan awaiting a tasting too. Recently given a bottle of Cardhu from an aged relative sitting in their cupboard (the whisky not the relative) - also (trend here) very good.
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Balvenie Doublewood tonight. Absolute bl**dy nectar. Beautiful whisky made just 6 miles along the road in Dufftown. Same family-owned company that makes Glenfiddich.
Doublewood is pricey but well worth the money if you are looking for a gift for someone special (could include yourself, of course). The name refers to its double maturation in two different types of oak cask.
Yup, it is right up there in my Top 5 Malts - along with about 10 others!
Try the Balvenie Portwood too Knulpuk, sometime you've got £40-odd doing nothing better.
Feel free to file a report on Suntory once you've sampled. Very interesting story about how the whole Japanese whisky thing took off due to one man : Masataka Taketsuru : see http://www.nikka.com/eng/founder/index.html
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The world whiskies award recently gave the Suntory Hibaki the best blend in the world and the Taketsuru the best blended malt. They are clearly doing something right!
Has anyone tried the Penderyn Welsh whisky by the way - its not cheap be interested to hear any views
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Another Whiskey hater owning up here,all the rest of the family and inlaws love single malts but I`d rather have the water on it`s own.
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I guess its an acquired taste - my wife hates it. The only things I would say say would be give a different malt a sip now and again - you never know - and also be careful what you you try - kicking of with a Lagavulin or a Laphroig or any other "powerful" whisky might make wonder how anyone could like it!
Perhaps a gentler lowland or even speyside whisky might be a gentler introduction - maybe with a bit of water to take out the kick.
But waters good too!
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My favourite is Glenmorangie, since drinking single malt I cant drink grain whiskeys at all even with a mixer. But give me a Glenmorangie with an ice cube lovely :D
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I`ve tried all kinds of single malts and come to the conclusion that it`s a waste of good whisky trying any more.Pass the port someone! :lol:
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Finished off the Jura tonight. It took a bit of a hiding when brother-in-law was home from Australia. Despite my initial thoughts, I was rather getting used to it ...
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Sitting here reading the posts with a glass of Glenfiddich for a nightcap.
I make my own spirits (legally) but would not try to make a single malt. My drink of choice is bourban or straight kentucky. The single barrel bourbans in the states are a similar aquired taste as single malt, with the smooth, oak taste. I go to Missouri,Ozark, every couple of years and that is where all the barrel wood (white oak) for the bourban barrels comes from.
They take their whiskey very serious in those parts. The barrels are used and then shipped to WG's part of the world to be used again.
Small world and a brilliant piece of recycling that I can agree with.
coatesi
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Sitting here reading the posts with a glass of Glenfiddich for a nightcap.
I'm only 7 miles away from the Glenfiddich distillery! Not a bad drop - exceedingly well marketed - but not in my top ten. The Glenfiddich Solera Reserve is worth a try if you ever see it.
Yes, the distilleries all tend to use several types of casks - new casks made for purpose, used sherry or port casks, and used bourbon casks. The single malt is then 'married' using whisky from all three types of casks to give a consistent uniform product in the bottle.
Unlike wine, the clock stops when whisky is bottled. So you will see 10, 12, 18, 24 etc year old malt whiskies. Wine on the other hand is labelled with the year in which it was bottled.
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The question was asked on Chivas Regal on another thread : http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=8493
Chivas Regal is marketed very succesfully - especially in North America - as a premium whisky. What they don't tell you is that it is a premium blended whisky. There is nothing wrong with it - in fact it is very nice - but in my opinion the majority of malt whiskies are better.
Here is an explanation :
single malt whisky : Produced from malted barley by a single distillery and must be aged in wood for a minimum of 6 years. Malt distilleries, without exception, use small copper pot stills in a batch distillation process
pure malt whisky : Several single malts can be married (mixed) together to produce a pure malt. Not commonplace but they are available.
grain whisky : Raw unmalted barley can be used to produce whisky in a continuous distillation process in Patent Stills. Very little malted barley is used on account of its higher cost. Grain whiskies are not, as far as I am aware, marketed separately
blended whisky : A mixture of one or more single malt whiskies with a large proportion of grain whisky. The best of them are quite palatable (Grouse, Chivas Regal); the cheapest of them should only ever be used to take the sweetness away from lemonade or coke! :wink:
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Sitting here reading the posts with a glass of Glenfiddich for a nightcap.
I'm only 7 miles away from the Glenfiddich distillery! Not a bad drop - exceedingly well marketed - but not in my top ten. The Glenfiddich Solera Reserve is worth a try if you ever see it.
Yes, the distilleries all tend to use several types of casks - new casks made for purpose, used sherry or port casks, and used bourbon casks. The single malt is then 'married' using whisky from all three types of casks to give a consistent uniform product in the bottle.
Unlike wine, the clock stops when whisky is bottled. So you will see 10, 12, 18, 24 etc year old malt whiskies. Wine on the other hand is labelled with the year in which it was bottled.
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Are you suggesting A) there is no 20 etc.year old wine
B)whiskey is never labelled any non-sense
C) whisky is superior to wine
I'm gonna have an argument with you, matie... :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Are you suggesting A) there is no 20 etc.year old wine
B)whiskey is never labelled any non-sense
C) whisky is superior to wine
A) No. Read the post.
B) Yes. Read the post.
C) No. How you can deduce that from reading my post is beyond me.
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Thanks for the answer, WG XX :wink: :lol:
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Unlike wine, the clock stops when whisky is bottled. So you will see 10, 12, 18, 24 etc year old malt whiskies. Wine on the other hand is labelled with the year in which it was bottled.
Wine as it is marketed in not wine producing countries is nothing to do with wine, really.
Actually, so I'm informed that a bottle of wine is a kind of nes-wine, usually made by diluting a bit of jelly tablet.
Nothing that to do with wine in barrels, mate. :wink: :wink:
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Balvenie Doublewood 12YO tonight after a very nice houseguest bought us a bottle. Bl**dy nectar.
If you like malt whisky and you've never tasted Doublewood, then do get a bottle. Put it on your Christmas list.
Doublewood because it is aged 6 years in one type of oak cask and then 6 years in an oak cask which has previously been used for sherry. The result is softer and smoother than a baby's bum. A lovely drop.
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angels dribble :wink:
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Do you still have my postal address Munty? Thought you might be planning to have a case of Doublewood delivered to me as a Christmas surprise. Don't panic - there are only 6 bottles in a case.
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i was gonna send u some that there vietnamese wisky mate :lol:
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OK that'll do thanks, I can always put cola in it for Mrs G :wink:
Got rat-a*sed once on Thai Mekhong whiskey ... oooh ma heid !!!
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oh tha stuff they take from the logging nelefants :lol: :lol:
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You could easily be correct :?
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in belize we had a local brew made by the local ,it was made from roots n nuts n a lump of indestinguisable meat like stuff ,was afruit but not sure ,and this stuff was just left to bubble for god knows how long ,,it mae ya puke to smell it as it was brewing but when it waas done n " decanted " from a pigs gut ,it was as clear as water ,, it was strainerd through the womesn skirt cloths lolo.. now we being " marines " we had barby i think i mentioned before ,and we had a drop of this brew,,,,,,,,, the sensation was like sucking on petrol pipe .....i jest you not ... it would burst into flames when spat in the fire ,,, i couldnt drink more than a sip......... , :roll:
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On offer at T*sco until 9-Dec-07 only
70cl Balvenie Doublewood Malt Whisky for £16.99 made here (distillery is just out of shot to the left)
(http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dufftown/dufftown/images/touristinformation.jpg)
This stuff is bl**dy nectar and that is one heckuva good price. Buy some for yourself, some for your parents, some for your in-laws, even some for me if you'd be so kind.
And if you do, then put only two things into the glass with it ... a little iced water and/or more Doublewood. :wink:
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Thanks, WG, well handy, have got a couple of family members, who forever ask for whisky only for Christmas presents. :lol: xx
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There may be other Balvenie malts on the shelf too - Director's Reserve, Single Barrel but these are not as good as Doublewood IMXO :wink:
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Thanks, Taltos, my headache sorted. :D
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my headache sorted.
Oh, and mine too, I assure you :wink:
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:lol: :lol:
Shall try some next time.
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tried a lot of malts my 2 favs are 18 yrs old glenfidich or just ten year old glenmorrangie always a bottle in fridge worst one i tried was treat from wife traditanial glenmorangie at close to £100 a bottle blooming awful. will try doublewood
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at morrisons a ten years old glenmorrangia £15 6bottles per person max
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I can't think of a better use for £90 ! :D :D
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Can you tell its a Christmas present? Kind in-laws bought me some Aussie reds which would normally be outside my budget.
Tonight I'm having a Rutherglen Estates 2006 Shiraz and very nice it is too. Full bodied and dry without any of the really dry dustiness which real Shiraz drinkers seem to crave.
Oh sorry, Sally A, I almost forgot the bit you need to know - a whopping 14.5% abv :wink:
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Mine's a meagre 14%, the bottom half of the bottle tastes better than the top half, the good stuff must have settled 8)
A good full bodied red clings to the side of the glass.
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Mine's a meagre 14%, the bottom half of the bottle tastes better than the top half, the good stuff must have settled 8)
A good full bodied red clings to the side of the glass.
No, Sally, by the time you get to the bottom anything would taste better. :wink: