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As a N.I. resident i fervently wish for the day when Bushmills distillery is put to the torch.  I like Suntory Toki or Maker's Mark for preference but my budget drives me to Tesco own band vodka if i want a drink... Baileys has gone way up in price this year. edit: cat: 
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I'm a basic bitch who likes bourbon or rum with sweet artificial flavours, like Red Stag or Tennessee Apple. Yes it's just JD with fake apple flavouring, but it tastes great with a bit of ice and that's good enough for me.
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Dec 1, 2022 14:08
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I got given a monthly whiskey tasting subscription as a birthday gift last year and as a result I have switched from spending all my disposable income on videogames to whiskey instead 👍🏻 I’m now one of those people who will try to press a dram of my new favourite on anyone who walks in my front door.
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HopperUK posted:gently caress yeah, maximise just enjoying the things you like and not minding if people who know more tease you about it. What if I enjoy voting libdem
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Dec 1, 2022 14:20
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Not a whiskey drinker at all. I mostly drink aldi spiced rum with cherry Pepsi, or Aldi ruby port. I did like red legg when I got given some but the price!!
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TACD posted:I got given a monthly whiskey tasting subscription as a birthday gift last year and as a result I have switched from spending all my disposable income on videogames to whiskey instead 👍🏻 That sounds fun, I got a craft beer sub once and every one of them tasted of hops and car air fresheners. Whisky sounds more promising though.
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Dec 1, 2022 14:30
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I hate the really hoppy beers. It's why I usually go for stouts, ales and that sort of thing.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'm a basic bitch who likes bourbon or rum with sweet artificial flavours, like Red Stag or Tennessee Apple. Yes it's just JD with fake apple flavouring, but it tastes great with a bit of ice and that's good enough for me. Kraken and Coke, can't beat it. I was told once that folk can have very different reactions to whiskeys based on the blend or whatever. I'm not sure how true that is but I tried a whiskey once and just one sip of it was enough to put me off it. I see other folk in real life and TV necking the stuff and just can't grasp how they're taking mouthfuls of it without gagging. I used to drink a lot of shots including absinth (the weak off the shelf poo poo) when I was younger and I swear those were easier to drink than the whiskey I had.
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Different whiskys taste different, some taste like antiseptic road tar and others taste like butterscotch. It's what you like I guess.
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Also a lot of the first whisky that people try is a loving poo poo blended one because it's cheap. There'd be more people who drink whisky were it not for having tried Bell's to see if they liked it and drawing conclusions based on that.
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OwlFancier posted:Unrelated but while the cold is shite it does make nice mornings. Convex posted:urge to listen to KLF intensifying For some reason I immediately thought you meant this, but I suppose you actually meant this
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:For some reason I immediately thought you meant this, but I suppose you actually meant this The second 
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Just Another Lurker posted:As a N.I. resident i fervently wish for the day when Bushmills distillery is put to the torch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjVzGYZLhvo
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Also a lot of the first whisky that people try is a loving poo poo blended one because it's cheap. There'd be more people who drink whisky were it not for having tried Bell's to see if they liked it and drawing conclusions based on that. That was me; first whisky when i was 18, never drank it again till i was 50.  edit: Both protestant owned.  
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Dec 1, 2022 15:19
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Big fan of peaty whiskies, most of them already mentioned (Lagavulin 16 being my favourite) but will also put in a good word for Oban 14, lightly peated but otherwise pretty smooth and rich and a bit of a salty tang from being a coastal distillery.
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Dec 1, 2022 15:26
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Just Another Lurker posted:Both protestant owned. It worked pretty well though, even to this day most batches of Jameson's whiskey are less than 15% piss.
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I don't drink.
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Dabir posted:I don't drink. When still i did though i tried whiskey one time. I liked it so much i over indulged, woke up to a 24 hour long hangover and ever since then jusr the smell of it makes me feel ill.
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Kin posted:Kraken and Coke, can't beat it. Yeah, the thing is that whisky types really vary wildly. Some of them are extremely smooth and go down like water, some of them taste like someone has emptied an ashtray in your gob & everything in between. Where it's made, if peat is used in the malting process, etc, it's like wine in that way where a wine head will tell you there's a big difference between a wine from Burgundy & a wine from Napa Valley or from Chile. Terroir is I think the right word, at least for wines, the environmental conditions. And then there's the barrels: Scottish whisky has to be stored in a cask that was already used by something else, usually bourbon or sherry. Where as other whiskey from around the world can be stored in new barrels. And then there's how long you char the inside (Jack Daniels barrels are charred for 40 some seconds, the only cooperage left in Speyside chars them for 15 seconds. And whether it's American or European oak trees also makes a difference to the taste & colour. Although plenty of whiskies will add a caramel colouring to give the drink the "expected" colour. And that's without getting into blends. None of this is important info really, if you don't like it you don't like it. I've never acquired the taste for beer, I can drink it if someone puts it in front of me but I'm never going to buy a pint of any sort of beer if there's even the most boring Strongbow style cider on available instead. Some craft beer bore could go on for days about how magical it is but my tastebuds are my tastebuds. But the point is that yes, there are really big differences between different bottles. Or even from cask to cask. At this point in my life whisky & cider are about all I drink. I think part of what I like about peaty whisky is that regardless of how much I like it it isn't something I want to overindulge in. Partly just because 35 notes on a bottle still feels a sizeable amount, where as £25 somehow doesn't. So I want to savour it. Where as if I spend less on something that I'm going to have with a mixer, be it vodka or cheaper bourbon, I'm probably going to have too much & there's too high a chance that when I get properly steaming I'll get messy & emotional & it's a bad time. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:Jameson's was set up by a Scottish Presbyterian failson who hated the Irish and invented a new kind of still head because he was convinced that his workers were stealing whiskey and replacing it with other fluids. Fun fact (RIP Twisto): Guglielmo Marconi was his great grandson. StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Time for Lebkuchen and Carols from King's. there is one good carol and it’s Peter Warlock’s Bethlehem Down the rest of them can get to gently caress
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I love a peaty whisky. If it smells like a fireplace I'm all for it.
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Just Another Lurker posted:That was me; first whisky when i was 18, never drank it again till i was 50. Still don't know what it was, but on my 18th someone bought me a couple of double whisk(e)ys and to this day it was the worst hangover I've had in my life. Haven't touched the stuff since.
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anCnoc was a firm favourite whiskey back when I did drinking. I grew up not many miles from the knockdhu distillery
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I'm a very light drinker now, pretty much down to a single whisky over ice that I can take my time with or a half of lager if I'm actually thirsty. I like the taste, but I hate being drunk now.
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I watched Jay Forman's new YouTube video on the Tube Map, and at one point it's revealed that the guy playing Harry Beck is actually Jago Hazzard doing a cameo, and all I could think is that Twisto should have been in there as a premier obscure London facts content creator too. So sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEhvWXmLyk
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The problem with whisk(e)y is that whatever it tastes of (if anything) is usually covered up by the fact that it mostly tastes of burning.
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My dog is of british descent and I worry for the dogs of the UK, are the Dogs ok in the frozen remains of England?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:As my teetotalness of the past 17 years is because of bad reaction to alcohol (allergic reaction - tachycardia, feeling the blood thumping round my body for hours afterwards etc) not 'clean living' or religion, I was happy to discover last year that I can actually cope with the special Christmas cream with baileys in it. Brandy or cointreau cream however sets me off badly so need to avoid completely. My housemate used to make a mix of half baileys, half single cream in a small glass, and that was pretty nice. Unfortunately I've also developed lactose intolerance, so I have to get lactose-free cream or milk now. Very nice though. Good as a base for hot chocolate, you just have to be very careful heating it up. The Perfect Element posted:I think we should have a twisto memorial plaque in the op, to commemorate our greatest ever poster. HopperUK posted:gently caress yeah, maximise just enjoying the things you like and not minding if people who know more tease you about it. Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'm a basic bitch who likes bourbon or rum with sweet artificial flavours, like Red Stag or Tennessee Apple. Yes it's just JD with fake apple flavouring, but it tastes great with a bit of ice and that's good enough for me.
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Hot sauce guys as in people obsessed with Scoville numbers or as in Tom of Finland leather men squirting ketchup at one another?AtomikKrab posted:My dog is of british descent and I worry for the dogs of the UK, are the Dogs ok in the frozen remains of England?
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Guavanaut posted:Tom of Finland leather men squirting ketchup at one another? Horny is forbidden
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The OP posted:In Other News Anyone know what happened here exactly?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I like southern comfort & cherry pepsi max, I know that makes me a trash human made of dogshit, but to me, whisky/whiskeyposters are almost as bad as hot sauce guys. It's awful. It all tastes awful, you've just convinced yourselves that it doesn't and now you're used to how awful it tastes. JD and Irn Bru
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Anyone know what happened here exactly? No new snap election until "until there’s a new Brexit breakthrough with the EU" *clown brass band sound*
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Whiskey is a chemical weapon specifically engineered to make me projectile vomit for a minimum of 12 hours after consumption. It's all bad.
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Amazing that folk in NI put up with all this Brit meddling. They should kick off imho.
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Actually I think you'll find it's the fault of the EU, Sinn Féin, the Irish Republic of Southern Ireland, the SNP, and Jeremies in general and Jeremy Corbyn in specific for not doing what the Tories want all the time.
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I really enjoy seeing people who don’t understand acquired tastes talk rubbish about things I like, it makes me very happy
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StarkingBarfish posted:Fun fact (RIP Twisto). Well poo poo, I'd missed that news.
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