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@sandersch and did you follow my advice and enjoy a nice malt with 20K?
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@kevie opening a bottle now ;-)
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@kevie I have opened a bottle of The Glenlivet 15 French Oak Reserve. Cheers! *raises glass*
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@kevie it will make editing more fun tho.
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@sandersch cheers mate, I'll join you for a wee dram later once I'm finished editing this show :)
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@sandersch no doubt, but I'd rather get it right the first time :)
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@sandersch *raises glass* but I've got an 8 yr old Irish single malt, not ideal bur does the job
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@mcnalu Irish?!?! what's up? are you outside of our wee country?
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@kevie in terms of genes I'm 50% Irish, 0% Scottish. But the the Scots came from Ireland so... I love whisk(e)y!
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@mcnalu both Irish whiskey and Scotchish whisky are great. I also enjoy Indian Amrut whisky.
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@mcnalu hmmmm fair enough, I've never developed a taste for the Irish Whiskies, TBH I'm not a fan of many whiskies from outside of Scotland
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@sandersch I've never tried any Indian whisky, I've had a few very nice drams of Japanese Whisky,but I still return to Scotland in the end
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@kevie that's very nationalistic. I for one do not enjoy Dutch whisky.
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@sandersch I've never even seen a Dutch whisky, is there much exported?
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@sandersch it's purely down to taste, there are some parts of Scotland that I'm not so keen on the whisky and others I love
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@kevie I find the Amrut whiskies better then the Japanese whiskies I have tried.
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@sandersch I've got a bottle of Indian. I am 0% Indian but I am 50% Iranian and my Persian ancestors did invade what is now north india
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@kevie I don't know about that, but it doesn't have a good reputation.
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@sandersch have you tried Suntory Royal whisky? That is probably my favourite of the Japanese ones
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@sandersch just searching for Amrut online, I will give it a try when I get paid next week, thanks for the tip :)
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@kevie this irish whisky is rather pedestrian but with no legs
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@kevie suntory?! what else have they got dailymailbnp :)
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@kevie I don't believe so.
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@sandersch a nice dram, but probably not worth the high price, gladly accept it as a present :)
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@mcnalu In my experience I've found a lot of the Irish Whiskies to be quite floral in their taste, but to be fair I've only tried about 10
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@kevie this one isn't floral. well, maybe pungent lily
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@mcnalu TBH some of the indistinct ones can be really dull and a drag to take,Aberlour 10yo is one I always get at Christmas but don't enjoy
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@mcnalu not that it's horrible, just incredibly bland with no real taste whatsoever
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@mcnalu how can it be a pedestrian with no legs? That's what PEDestrian means! :) #takingthingsliterally
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@kevie the Amrut is cheaper here then Scottish single malts.
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@kevie Santa should know by now to give you something else!
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@irinarempt agreed, but Santa just doesn't seem to listen, especially when I always return a bottle of MacCallan Fine Oak to 'Santa'
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@sandersch seems like the cheapest I can get it delivered is £35
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@sandersch over here they seem to be, that's why I don't tend to be too adventurous with my whisky as an expensive foreign bottle may....
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@kevie that is expensive. Are the Japanese whiskies also very expensive?
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@kevie I've had a bourbon or two that would stand up to any of the better Scotches I can afford. But, those bourbons were stupid expensive.
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@sandersch ...cost me a fortune and then I may not even finish the bottle
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@vanden I've only tried the bigger branded bourbons, I found Jim Beam Black quite drinkable, but still wouldn't trade it for a Bowmore etc
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@vanden I have not had any bourbon that could match a good single malt.
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@kevingranade it smells of feet. pedestrian is from pedes meaning on foot iirc. #pedantry :)
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@sandersch I hope you and your spirits-talking partners are happy: all this moved me to pour a #Laphroaig. I've only 4-fingers left :-(
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@sandersch yes, a Japanese blended whisky is £35 in Scotland, malts start at about £40 and go up to about £100 (off the shelf)
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@kevie Well, the ones that seemed competitive were around 3x the cost of something like Bowmore 12y, and only as good, so never saw point.
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@kevie yeah, this Irish one falls into that category. not horrible, not good, but tolerable.
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@kevie Irish whiskies are too sweet, IMO. That being said, I know virtually nothing about said beverage.
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@kevie well we may not make a good whisky here. We do have better prices for them ;-)
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@johnnynull bourbon are sweet. Irish whiskies less so.
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@vanden *raises glass* (of much inferior whiskey)
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@vanden recently I've developed a taste for Bowmore 15yo (Darkest) have you sampled that one?
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@vanden shows you, you need a good cache of bottles.
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@vanden is it the 10yo? That one costs between €30 and €35 here.
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What is it? 8 year anything scares me. In Canada, I've never seen other than the 2: Jameson and Bushmills.
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@kevie No, though I should like. Bowmore 12 was my substitute Laphroaig when that could not be bought in Canada; never seen the 15 Dark.
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@vanden the 15yo Bowmore is very different from the 12yo Bowmore.
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@sandersch It was the 10. I couldn't find it this Christmas (fairly isolated corner of NE Italy), but t/ year before, something like 28euro.
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@sandersch I should expect. But, also, given goodness of 12, I have high hopes. (Though Laphroaig Quarter Cask abomination a countereg.)
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@vanden dunleire - it doesn't scare me so much as bore me
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@mcnalu A boring wisk[e]y *is* scarry, though often suitable for coffee, ice cream, and cooking.
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