| single malts 23:20 - Oct 24 with 4343 views | kingsburyR |
This board us a wealth of knowledge (or a bunch of liars).
A good pal of mine is coming to stay and he loves single malts. He's no expert so I have a chance to impress.
I want to buy a bottle with a budget 40 -60 quid...Help!
Was going to buy a bottle of Highland park in sainsburys but will that impress? ??
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| single malts on 15:13 - Oct 25 with 1118 views | aston_hoop |
I do enjoy a single malt so last year, I brought a bottle of Japanese whisky while I was in Tokyo. It was a Yamazaki 12 year old and it was honestly one of the best value bottles I've ever purchased. Sadly it seems to be a lot more expensive if you buy it over here. Steer clear of Welsh whisky... |  |
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| single malts on 16:02 - Oct 25 with 1102 views | karl |
| single malts on 14:31 - Oct 25 by WrightUp5hit___ |
Really depends what you want to do, produce a bottle from a totally obscure distillery to confound him, while still being very palatable (Brora, Finlaggan, Benriach) or
Something a bit out of the ordinary but an exceptional dram, try one of the Highland Park (from Wick) Origins. The 15 year old is probably best fit for your brief.
One word of caution though, there is an awful lot of marketing and PR bullsh1t about Whisky (some would say there allways has been) and if you can't sample, sometimes it's best to just buy what you have tried and enjoyed |
Perhaps thinking of 'Old Pulteney' in Wick? |  | | |
| single malts on 17:39 - Oct 25 with 1086 views | stuabd |
I have never knowingly had a single malt whiskey until I got a bottle of Glenfidditch 18 years old for my birthday from a mate.
What have I got here and in basic terms what's the difference between this and the duty free bottle of teachers I bought please?
Is it an American cheese versus full blown matured cheddar thing? |  | | |
| single malts on 17:39 - Oct 25 with 1082 views | paulparker |
If Mrs P and daughter are away somewhere for the evening
One likes to par take in a nice Monkey Shoulder
Goes down a treat |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| single malts on 17:56 - Oct 25 with 1084 views | stansleftfoot |
| single malts on 17:39 - Oct 25 by stuabd |
I have never knowingly had a single malt whiskey until I got a bottle of Glenfidditch 18 years old for my birthday from a mate.
What have I got here and in basic terms what's the difference between this and the duty free bottle of teachers I bought please?
Is it an American cheese versus full blown matured cheddar thing? |
The term single malt is effectively describing the Whiskey's provenance and how it was distilled.
A single malt is distilled from a "mash" Barley or Rye made from a single grain type at a single distillery. The mash is why and how the taste characteristics reflect the area where the whiskey is made, water, peat, wood.
Your Teachers is a Blend made from Blends of different Distilleries, much higher production levels, branded with an attempt to make it always taste the same.
The Single Malt Distilleries are effectively like small vineyards and the blends are like cooperatives.
The distilleries use different barrels to add flavour, colour, The Blends might use caramel to add colour and flavour.
The Blend is then adjusted down to 37.5% whilst Malts can be bought at Cask Strength whereby you can hit 46% and a little higher..... |  | | |
| single malts on 18:21 - Oct 25 with 1079 views | stuabd |
| single malts on 17:56 - Oct 25 by stansleftfoot |
The term single malt is effectively describing the Whiskey's provenance and how it was distilled.
A single malt is distilled from a "mash" Barley or Rye made from a single grain type at a single distillery. The mash is why and how the taste characteristics reflect the area where the whiskey is made, water, peat, wood.
Your Teachers is a Blend made from Blends of different Distilleries, much higher production levels, branded with an attempt to make it always taste the same.
The Single Malt Distilleries are effectively like small vineyards and the blends are like cooperatives.
The distilleries use different barrels to add flavour, colour, The Blends might use caramel to add colour and flavour.
The Blend is then adjusted down to 37.5% whilst Malts can be bought at Cask Strength whereby you can hit 46% and a little higher..... |
Thanks. I'll enjoy it all the more now. | | | |
| single malts on 18:29 - Oct 25 with 1073 views | Red_Ranger |
Only Laphroig will do for me. Highly recommend | | | |
| single malts on 19:23 - Oct 25 with 1052 views | WrightUp5hit___ |
| single malts on 16:02 - Oct 25 by karl |
Perhaps thinking of 'Old Pulteney' in Wick? |
4rse about face again
Old Poulteney is Wick
Highland Park is Kirkwall
Same postcode though! |  | | |
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| single malts on 19:32 - Oct 25 with 1051 views | CiderwithRsie |
| single malts on 10:58 - Oct 25 by PieLout |
I agree that Lagavulin & Laphroaig fine examples of Islay single malts.
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Ardbeg is utterly magnificent. |
Ardbeg is nectar of the Gods.
I never quite felt the same about Laphroaig and Lagavulin again after I'd tasted Ardbeg, fine though they are.
For a smooth whisky, perhaps heretically I wouldn't go Scotch at all but Irish - Ireland's only single malt being Old Bushmills and a lovely drop IMO. | | | |
| single malts on 19:41 - Oct 25 with 1048 views | stansleftfoot |
Laphroig, Lagavulin, Bruichladdich, Ardbeg, Bowmore, Bunnabhian ( spelling might go a bit awry) are all ISLAY malts....and they sum up the differing styles and choices from such a small area. Wish I was a millionaire, and that I had a liver of steel....
Laphroig and Lagavulin are so full of Iodine, peat and briney seaweed they almost taste medicinal but the Ardbeg, Bowmore are far more balanced and perhaps easier on a new Whiskey drinker....Bowmore is lovely, pale, seemingly a lighter lighter but with amazing depth of flavour without being bashed with an almost cough medicine experience.
There is a trick where if you buy membership of the Malt Whiskey Society, you can buy unbranded malts through their Club membership. Your purchases and subscriptions provide funds to buy individual casks which are then bottled as the Clubs. They tell you some info but your palate will ultimately track down the Distillery it originated from. Many cask strength Malts, so expensive (tax) but unique!
Drink Whiskey in the same way as you would a fine wine, look through it to see the colour, check it's density by schloosing the spirit so it clings to the glass, have a good sniff....around 60% of what you taste is learnt through smelling and inhalation, your taste buds for the different tones are spread across your tongue so swirl the liquid around.....for me Whiskey with a good beer chaser is a fantastic mix of the different intonations from Barley.....Have fun! | | | |
| single malts on 19:58 - Oct 25 with 1036 views | queensparker |
This whole thread inspired me to put a bottle of Ardberg in the weekly shop, just about to crack it open. Thanks all!
I love the Islay malts above anything so looking forward to a new one (the missus is less keen, she reckons "they taste like TCP") |  | | |
| single malts on 20:22 - Oct 25 with 1030 views | stansleftfoot |
| single malts on 19:58 - Oct 25 by queensparker |
This whole thread inspired me to put a bottle of Ardberg in the weekly shop, just about to crack it open. Thanks all!
I love the Islay malts above anything so looking forward to a new one (the missus is less keen, she reckons "they taste like TCP") |
Exactly!....TCP or VICKS.....lovely enjoy....Islay can keep a weak man busy with around 7/8 or even 9 distilleries, then consider coming ashore at Cambeltown with Springbank....it's a lovely malt in the 10 year Old.
Buy the missus a bottle of drambuie for christmas and knock her up some Rusty Nails of Drambuie over ice with a blended scotch or even some good stuff....it's nice to drink from the same line of DNA....if you see what I mean......Rusty Nails..mmmm! | | | |
| single malts on 20:29 - Oct 25 with 1023 views | YorkRanger |
I wouldn't profess to be an expert but a drop of Glenlivet always goes down quite well |  | | |
| single malts on 21:20 - Oct 25 with 1004 views | QPRMUSO |
Stuff the jocks as 48% of them hate us, go for a Japanese Suntory, easily as good as any jock whiskey. | | | |
| single malts on 21:22 - Oct 25 with 1004 views | karl |
| single malts on 19:41 - Oct 25 by stansleftfoot |
Laphroig, Lagavulin, Bruichladdich, Ardbeg, Bowmore, Bunnabhian ( spelling might go a bit awry) are all ISLAY malts....and they sum up the differing styles and choices from such a small area. Wish I was a millionaire, and that I had a liver of steel....
Laphroig and Lagavulin are so full of Iodine, peat and briney seaweed they almost taste medicinal but the Ardbeg, Bowmore are far more balanced and perhaps easier on a new Whiskey drinker....Bowmore is lovely, pale, seemingly a lighter lighter but with amazing depth of flavour without being bashed with an almost cough medicine experience.
There is a trick where if you buy membership of the Malt Whiskey Society, you can buy unbranded malts through their Club membership. Your purchases and subscriptions provide funds to buy individual casks which are then bottled as the Clubs. They tell you some info but your palate will ultimately track down the Distillery it originated from. Many cask strength Malts, so expensive (tax) but unique!
Drink Whiskey in the same way as you would a fine wine, look through it to see the colour, check it's density by schloosing the spirit so it clings to the glass, have a good sniff....around 60% of what you taste is learnt through smelling and inhalation, your taste buds for the different tones are spread across your tongue so swirl the liquid around.....for me Whiskey with a good beer chaser is a fantastic mix of the different intonations from Barley.....Have fun! |
Nip an a hauf!
(Tot of whisky and a half pint of heavy beer)
Don't see it drunk by many other than the older geezers in pubs now | | | |
| single malts on 22:30 - Oct 25 with 982 views | Hunterhoop |
| single malts on 09:21 - Oct 25 by johann28 |
+1 for Macallan's |
+2 for Macallan's. |  | | |
| single malts on 22:39 - Oct 25 with 979 views | extratimeR |
Laphroiag-Def, ( very peaty, very clear), we always sink a few to finish up after the game,
- the amount has increased substantially recently. | | | |
| single malts on 23:25 - Oct 25 with 959 views | karl |
| single malts on 21:20 - Oct 25 by QPRMUSO |
Stuff the jocks as 48% of them hate us, go for a Japanese Suntory, easily as good as any jock whiskey. |
Good thread till your contribution, really necessary?
And its Scotch Whisky or Irish Whiskey, if youre being a knob best be a little better informed [Post edited 25 Oct 2014 23:27]
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| single malts on 23:52 - Oct 25 with 949 views | ItalianR |
| single malts on 10:58 - Oct 25 by PieLout |
I agree that Lagavulin & Laphroaig fine examples of Islay single malts.
but
Ardbeg is utterly magnificent. |
There we go. Ardbeg for the peaty option, Balvenie for the smooth one. | | | |
| single malts on 10:31 - Oct 26 with 894 views | WatfordR |
| single malts on 00:36 - Oct 25 by queensparker |
Got into whisky recently after reading Ian Banks' book "Raw Spirit" when he took his best mates on a tour of all the distilleries (it's a great read, worth digging out)
Anyway after that I sampled a few and the best full-on Highland one I found was Laphroaig quarter cask - Laphroaig is the most extreme of the peaty whiskies, it tastes like the Scottish seaside, like the inside of your nose after walking your dog up there on a freezing day on the beach and then sitting in front of a good fire. It's amazing. You can get that one in Waitrose as well I think.
(and I'd echo Brighton above, head down to that shop if you can get there. They're brilliant and will sort you out) [Post edited 25 Oct 2014 0:45]
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For a peaty whiskey, you can't beat Connemara. On the rocks, the first sip is like licking a lump of coal, the heat of the whiskey against the cold of the ice just working its way down through you. Just one of life's comforts. |  | | |
| single malts on 10:37 - Oct 26 with 891 views | smegma |
| single malts on 10:31 - Oct 26 by WatfordR |
For a peaty whiskey, you can't beat Connemara. On the rocks, the first sip is like licking a lump of coal, the heat of the whiskey against the cold of the ice just working its way down through you. Just one of life's comforts. |
Sounds like an M & S advert. | | | |
| single malts on 10:52 - Oct 26 with 883 views | karl |
| single malts on 10:37 - Oct 26 by smegma |
Sounds like an M & S advert. |
Or an S&M advert? | | | |
| single malts on 13:20 - Oct 26 with 858 views | Red_Ranger |
| single malts on 19:58 - Oct 25 by queensparker |
This whole thread inspired me to put a bottle of Ardberg in the weekly shop, just about to crack it open. Thanks all!
I love the Islay malts above anything so looking forward to a new one (the missus is less keen, she reckons "they taste like TCP") |
Me too! Gonna crack it open tonight. Last bottle I had got polished off by the brother in law when he was babysitting. | | | |
| single malts on 17:20 - Oct 26 with 837 views | NathanNI |
I can't get involved in the peaty stuff. Doesn't work out at all.
The nicest whisky I've ever had, and it is a blend, is Midleton Very Rare. It is so smooth, absolutely lovely stuff.
Pricey though, airport purchase more often than not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midleton_Very_Rare |  | | |
| single malts on 20:00 - Oct 26 with 810 views | YorkRanger |
| single malts on 17:20 - Oct 26 by NathanNI |
I can't get involved in the peaty stuff. Doesn't work out at all.
The nicest whisky I've ever had, and it is a blend, is Midleton Very Rare. It is so smooth, absolutely lovely stuff.
Pricey though, airport purchase more often than not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midleton_Very_Rare |
Not Bushmills? | | | |
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