/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20307499]

Which one /ck/?

[Anonymous No.20307505]

>>20307499
none scotch sucks faggot

[Anonymous No.20307506]

>>20307499
Id pour all of them down the toilet

[Anonymous No.20307514]

>>20307499
all of em mixed together with some root beer

[Anonymous No.20307527]

Years ago when I was first learning about whisky I read one of those long-form dramatic expose pieces about tracking the child molesters on the bitcoin or something. At the time I was particularly fond of oban. And the main bad guy, they caught him, and they mentioned how he was just a regular guy and he liked sportsball and his favorite whisky was oban. Ever since all I can think of when I see oban is "child molester" and I get the ick from the idea of owning a bottle. It's a good drink, there's no reason I should be like this but whiskies are a diamond dozen and there's just no recovering from that when there's so much competition. Thank you for reading my blog.

[Anonymous No.20307570]

Laphroaig 10 year for me, but anything from Ardberg is a close second. Also those are the only ones I’m familiar with so I’m just making the comfortable choice

[Anonymous No.20307575]

>>20307505
I see somebody has a weak constitution. Stick to your bud light, trans mcgee

[Anonymous No.20307578]

>>20307527
I, for one, will not fall for your meme

[Anonymous No.20307592]

>>20307575
Cope. You will never be a man or a tortured artist, buttpirare.

[Anonymous No.20307607]

>>20307592
I'm sure that meant something to you. You're probably a bit tipsy, you've probably had half a can

[Anonymous No.20307610]

Lagavulin gets my vote

I've almost finished my current bottle, should pick up another soon.

[Anonymous No.20307625]

>>20307499

[Anonymous No.20307628]

>>20307499
That's not the right glass for drinking scotch. There's a specially designed one that is said to enhance the tasting experience. Do you have any?

[Anonymous No.20307642]

>>20307628
glencairn is for glenfaggots.

[Anonymous No.20307665]

>>20307499
I've had most of those and my pick would be the Lagavulin 16 though situationally Highland Park 12 is also great and the 10 year Laphroaig is the GOAT for price/performance.

[Anonymous No.20307670]

>>20307610
Lagavulin 16 is here it's at.

[Anonymous No.20307783]

>>20307514
/THREAD

[Anonymous No.20307787]

The Ardbeg with the U on the left.

[Anonymous No.20307873]

>>20307499
What if your interest in alcohol does NOT stem from Parks And Rec and LARPing as Ron Swanson

[Anonymous No.20307874]

>>20307625
Is this the guy forcing Scotch down our throats?

[Anonymous No.20307883]

>>20307873
There are a ton of flavor profiles to explore in the liquor world. Hell even the difference between a heavily peated scotch vs something like a Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban is pretty significant even though they are both scotches

[Anonymous No.20307956]

>>20307499
For me, it's the 'vreckan

[Anonymous No.20308084]

None, I don't drink
thanks

[Anonymous No.20308087]

>>20308084
You're probably a lot of fun to be around. I can tell. Also there's nothing better than some clown waltzing into a thread to shitpost about how he doesn't like the subject matter. Yes, I'm sure you're quite the life and soul

[Anonymous No.20308115]

>>20308087
I told you I don't drink.
What more do you want from me?

[Anonymous No.20308264]

>>20307499
actually tastes good

[Anonymous No.20308452]

>>20307499
open both the Quarter Cask and Laga16. let them sit in the glass for about 30 mins and then add a quarter teaspoon of water. watch the 16 gets its teeth kicked in.

[Anonymous No.20308485]

>>20307499
Today, I'd mark a shot of each, shuffle them, and see if I could accurately guess which is which. I would continue doing this until I got it right, or fell down. I highly recommend you do the same.

[Anonymous No.20308490]

>>20308264
Excuse me, sir, this is a bottle of Spantch.

[Anonymous No.20308500]

>>20307499
No thanks.
All low quality trash.

[Anonymous No.20308510]

>>20308500
Go on

[Anonymous No.20308543]

>>20307499
Dewers white label will be fine. None of it tastes good and I don't want to waste your money. Don't have that? Oh

[Anonymous No.20308555]

>>20308500
I'd love for you to elaborate

[Anonymous No.20308566]

>>20307499
The Highland Park: 12 Year because the bottle looks the coolest and it has viking stuff on it. Other than that, they all seem to be boring.

[Anonymous No.20308774]

>>20307514
I've never used rootbeer as a mixer, it's probably good with some types of whiskey. I've never been one to use scotch as a mixer, I don't think it pairs well with many flavors.

[Anonymous No.20308807]

>>20308774
rootbeer is already described as medicinal in flavor, should pair nicely with some islay scotch.

[Anonymous No.20308869]

>>20308774
You can use it almost like an anti-bitters. Any serious amount of it will just taste like you dumped liquor into rootbeer, but a few drops to a teaspoon of it, depending on what it's working with, can make strong, harsh, and bitter liquors and liqueurs play nicely, especially absinthe in cocktails that have no good reason to have an absinthe rinse.
Once you get past cloyingly sweet, rootbeer's largely vanilla, caramel, and wintergreen, sometimes with a bit of cherry bark ("DM") that can make it work alright in Last Word riffs with whiskeys/ies.

[Anonymous No.20308890]

>>20307499
None.

[Anonymous No.20310237]

>>20308890
Pussy

[Anonymous No.20310245]

>>20307499
Talisker 10 tee bee aych

[Anonymous No.20310318]

>>20307642
t. treanny

[Anonymous No.20310335]

>>20307499
>collects islay scotch whisky
>only opened bottles aren’t from islay
Why cultivate the image of a peated scotch whisky connoisseur when don’t want to drink any?

[Anonymous No.20310340]

>>20310335
Could be he drinks them quickly so they often need to be replaced anew.

[Anonymous No.20310505]

>>20308869
Rootbeer's flavor traditionally comes from sassafras

[Anonymous No.20310646]

>>20310505
You're not likely to find sassafras heavy root beer these days, what with safrole being basically boner poison for your liver. Sarsaparilla will do the trick.

[Anonymous No.20310652]

>>20307499
>nothing but scotch
embarassing

[Anonymous No.20310690]

>>20310652
>drinking corn water

[Anonymous No.20310753]

>>20307499
the wine on the top shelf, thanks

[Anonymous No.20311725]

>>20310335
you can clearly see the ardbeg 10 and oogie is open schizo

[Anonymous No.20311762]

>>20307499
I'm going with the highland park

[Anonymous No.20311779]

>>20307499
Highland park ofc thats a nice bottle. but maybe its not a special enough night, in that case talisker

[Anonymous No.20312008]

>No Campbeltown
Disappointed

I vote Corry

[Anonymous No.20312028]

get some port charlotte bro it's better than ardberg if your into islay whiskey

[Anonymous No.20312234]

>>20312008
nta but shit is like hens teeth since the stores that get any just flip them to auctions for insane markups.

[Anonymous No.20312328]

>>20312234
That's one benefit to government run stores, no flipping and highly allocated items are available and limited to 1 or 2 bottles per customer.

[Anonymous No.20312342]

>>20308264
surprised there's not much crossover between brandy and whiskey drinkers

[Anonymous No.20313876]

Water

[Anonymous No.20313941]

>>20312342
There's usually a geographical divide

[Anonymous No.20314139]

>>20307499
Cragganmore or Strathisla. Benriach if I want a little bit smoky. None of that Islay shit that just taste salt

[Anonymous No.20314152]

>>20314139
Gods, I wish Cragganmore was owned by Distell instead of Diageo.

[Anonymous No.20314182]

>>20314152
The best would probably be if it wasn't owned by some big corporation at all, but I guess there are extremely few self owned distilleries left

[Anonymous No.20314206]

>>20307499
Alcohol is the goyest goy drug there is
>government bans all drugs
>cheer like a retarded monkey
>realise sober life is boring as fuck
>"Pls, Mr. Shekelberg can we have at least one of them"
>gets a goy pass for alcohol

[Anonymous No.20314229]

>>20307499
None. Just give me a beer you hipster doofus.

[Anonymous No.20314232]

>>20307499
drugs are for pussies who can't cope with life

[Anonymous No.20314238]

>>20314232
Shut up nerd go eat a bullet.

[Anonymous No.20314245]

>>20314238
junkie detected

[Anonymous No.20314307]

>>20307499
Lagavulin gets my vote

[Anonymous No.20314317]

Green Label, too bad literally nowhere in 100 mile radius of me carries it. They all have red and black, a few even have gold and blue, but no one has green.

[Anonymous No.20314543]

>>20314317
Same here

[Anonymous No.20314553]

>>20314317
they have commercials with black people so I can't drink jw unfortunately

[Anonymous No.20314554]

>>20314245
Nah I'm an alcoholic not a junkie you stupid little kid.

[Anonymous No.20315042]

>>20314317
It costs around 3 bulleits or maker's mark over here, both being imported. With this price I guess I would rather stick with my corn syrups than the blended slop

[Anonymous No.20315067]

>>20315042
>It costs around 3 bulleits
It's only around $25-30 more than the 10yr Bulleit, and more or less the same price as the Bulleit single malt or 12yr. Which are the more appropriate comparisons as the green label is a 15-year age-stated blend.

[Anonymous No.20315579]

>>20307499
$11 bottle of even williams.

[Anonymous No.20315643]

>>20307610
>>20307665
>>20308452
>>20314307
I see I'm in good company. A few years ago my ex gave me an Islay tasting set for my birthday. Lagavulin was the best by far. Then she gave me a bottle and some oddly feminine shit glasses for Christmas.

[Anonymous No.20315647]

>>20315643
*Shot
Jesus Christ Gboard why do you auto correct shot to shit?

[Anonymous No.20316322]

>>20307499
Water for me, thanks.

[Anonymous No.20316328]

Wild Turkey > All of this gay shit

[Anonymous No.20316333]

>>20307499
Whats third from right?
Whats in the decanter?

[Anonymous No.20316339]

>>20316333
fourth, missed the 12 year.

[Anonymous No.20317007]

>>20316333
>>20316339
See >>20315643

[Anonymous No.20318546]

>>20307505
Nigger

[Anonymous No.20318567]

>>20307499
buy indian.

[Anonymous No.20319621]

>>20318567
dont do this it makes mustard gas

[Anonymous No.20320569]

>>20307628
Go to any house or pub in Scotland and odds are you'll get it in a glass like that. The fancy shaped ones are only for tourists, super high end specialist places (also for tourists) and wankers. See also: whisky rocks.

[Anonymous No.20320573]

>>20314553
Now this is based

[Anonymous No.20321915]

>>20320573
JW is a shitty blended whisky anyway.

[Anonymous No.20321927]

>>20321915
> blends = shit
wow i'm sure that's your own nuanced opinion after years of trying blends and not just regurgitating the opinions of others who also have barely tried anything but cheap blends.

[Anonymous No.20322573]

>>20321927
If blends are so good why isn't there a trend of buying a bunch of decent single malts and making blends yourself at home? Seems like a no brainer since it'd give the best of both worlds and serious whisky snobs are already buying loads of bottles at once.

[Anonymous No.20322689]

>>20321927
It's because of Parks And Rec and Mad Men
Also the Peat fetish was carried over from Reddit

[Anonymous No.20322745]

>>20307499
I'm not a scotch guy myself, so I'll take the host's recommendation.

[Anonymous No.20323379]

>>20322573
ratios and experience are mostly the reasons people don't into blending at home. also partly because theres no way to effectively replicate 'the perfect storm tier' of the fabled great blends from the whisky loch era with the stuff widely available in the market today. its more efficient to just put up the money to get a bottle from that time instead and those are going to be even better now than they were back then due to nearly 40 years of bottle aging at this point.

another aspect is that premium blends typically get rested in less effective barrels for a period (which for consumers is at best not convenient and virtually impossible at worst), so that they can marry.

>>20321927
there is no benefit in putting much effort into finding exceptional blends that might be floating around when the craft market pricing you'd be paying is on par with single malt vintages.

its really only a considerable option if you have the expendable funds and/or are bored with everything else.

>>20322745
You'll be having a finger of the Highland Park 12 in a tumbler with a splash of water.

[Anonymous No.20323728]

>>20323379
I'd argue as an entry-level "good" blend, Johnnie Walker Green has great price/performance. 15 year age stated, some nice peated single malts in the blend, just overall good and consistent.

In the same price bracket for single malts you'll be looking at 12 years or younger in most cases, and they won't be anywhere near as consistent as JW Green is from bottle to bottle.

[Anonymous No.20324903]

>>20323728
Let me know when Diageo bottles it unchillfiltered and at 46% abv and doesnt double the price

[Anonymous No.20325093]

>>20307610
In our house we drink Lagavulin 16 on mildly special occasions. Our every day whisky is Johnnie Walker Black. We're not fancy; we just like that peat.

[Anonymous No.20325109]

>>20325093
I'm usually drinking JW green. Lagavulin I like to have on hand for the occasional heavy peat.

[Anonymous No.20325120]

>>20325109
I haven't tried Green. My wife and I tried Blue a fair bit ago and didn't love it. It was too alcohol-y and didn't have enough smoke for our palates.

[Anonymous No.20325128]

>>20325120
Blue is overpriced for normies who don't like scotch

Green is the best johnnie walker with smoke.

Gold is unpeated and also pretty good. But if you're looking for smoke, look elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.20325199]

Is there a handy chart like this but for Bourbon?

[Anonymous No.20325218]

>>20319621
So, you say you like peat; yet you can't handle Paul John Bold, notorious for its peatiness?

[Anonymous No.20325237]

I used to colelct a scotch here and there but then I realized I liked brandy more.

[Anonymous No.20325244]

>>20325237
Just drink what you enjoy anon fuck everyone else.

[Anonymous No.20326524]

>>20325237
Scotch purists are slowly infecting rum and brandy communities, and they keep desiring rums and brandies that are more and more Scotchlike (SUGAR BAD! OAK GOOD!)

[Anonymous No.20326630]

>>20307499
Pour them all into a bucket and chug it

[Anonymous No.20327310]

>>20326524
Unfortunate as I specifically prefer the fruity sweetness of brandy and I'm not afraid to admit it.

[Anonymous No.20327887]

>>20326524
This a complete non issue as oak is better for aging and you'll still be able to have your syrupy nite cap as the market swaying your afraid of is only getting attention from the single malt enthusiasts which is only 10% of the scotch market and only as a alternative spirit.

[Anonymous No.20329363]

>>20308566
holy reddit

[Anonymous No.20329466]

>>20327887
I don't mean reasonable amounts of oak, I mean "Just oak my shit up" levels of woodiness
The standard for rum should not be "slightly sweetened tree bark"

[Anonymous No.20329468]

Does anyone here even use chasers any more?

[Anonymous No.20329505]

>>20329466
smith & cross bros how we feelin
>>20329468
no i am over the age of 16

[Anonymous No.20329797]

>>20307499
Lagavulin ofc

[Anonymous No.20331636]

bump

[Anonymous No.20332015]

>>20314206
No, alcohol is a universal human constant. That is why banning it caused so much shit. Drugs come and go, but fermentation and alcohol are best buds with humans.

[Anonymous No.20332020]

>>20322689
peat is why I drink burbon

[Anonymous No.20332026]

pic related is probably my go to scotch for any occassion. It's the most drinkable and probably the best starter scotch to introduce newbies to

[Anonymous No.20332030]

>>20332026

*Occasion

[Anonymous No.20332064]

>>20332026
I’ve never tried this but I really don’t like teal

[Anonymous No.20332105]

>>20307499
I have a bottle of the Corryvreckan on my shelf. Still waiting to open it because it was so expensive.
How's it taste? Ardbeg 10 is probably my favorite whisky.
I tried the glenallachie 12 recently and that was really good too. Completely different taste from Ardbeg, it was really sweet and rich with a sherry taste.
Unfortunately tonight I decided to try pic related. It's way too sweet and doesn't taste like juniper at all. I saw it in the store and bought it on a whim and I should've looked up a review first because fuck they're right.

[Anonymous No.20332155]

>>20332064
It's closer to a cognac honestly, very light for a scotch, almost zero aftertaste.