/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9417168]

I LOVE SCOTCH WHISKY

[Anonymous No.9417179]

>>9417168
I love egg

[Anonymous No.9417181]

pls stop making me want to drink /ck/. It's garbage day and I just threw out my empties.

[Anonymous No.9417185]

SCOTCH =/= WHISKY

God you fucking retards don't know shit about severe alcoholism

[Anonymous No.9417204]

Can we have a thread where we discuss cheap whisky that's decent?

usually whisky threads devolve into people boasting about their consumption of overly expensive single malts.
As much as I like Lagavullin distiller's edition....I can't afford to drink a bottle of it per week.

Thus far my favourite cheap whisky is Black Bottle (taste's like bunnahabhain lite).

from the american side of thins, my favourite whiskey is buffalo trace

[Anonymous No.9417216]

>>9417204
Glen Moray is probably the cheapest single malt I know of that still tastes great

[Anonymous No.9417232]

>>9417185
Sorry about your brain cells gramps but scotch is a kind of whisky

[Anonymous No.9417247]

I fucking love scotch, pic related one of my essential barkeep bottles
>>9417185
Are you actually retarded?

[Anonymous No.9417251]

>>9417204
I can't stand blends unless it's a blended malt. In terms of single malts Tomatin and Glenfarclas make some good affordable whisky

[Anonymous No.9417386]

>>9417168
So do all the other redditors. Now tell us how much you love hot sauce or rare steak. I'm sure telling us how much you love these things will make up for your lack of real masculine accomplishments.

[Anonymous No.9417409]

>>9417204
2 gingers and Jack Daniels

[Anonymous No.9417628]

>>9417386
I just like drinking it m8. It tastes good. I don't expect to get pussy because I'm drinking some ten year old grain alcohol.

[Anonymous No.9417660]

>>9417409
>Jack Daniels
>good
lol no

[Anonymous No.9417848]

>>9417386
Stop being underage
>>9417409
Jack Daniels is crap. If you want good cheap bourbon get some Weller 12 or OWA

[Anonymous No.9417924]

>tfw i can only afford cheap crap like this

[Anonymous No.9417955]

Learn to work the saxophone - I play just what I feel

[Anonymous No.9417973]

>>9417924
>3 years

Wew

[Anonymous No.9418004]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZ7S-LuKTA&t=325s

Whose your favorite taster?

[Anonymous No.9418207]

>>9418004
Myself

[Anonymous No.9418233]

>>9417924
Bojack Hordereddit drinks this

[Anonymous No.9418282]

>>9417185
Do you also drink your beer neat, with a lemon twist?

[Anonymous No.9419388]

>>9418004
Horst is a faggot who wasted a video saying how yucky tasting Brexit was, fuck that dumb old kraut. Their only good videos is Ben's interviews/tours at the distilleries he goes to.

[Anonymous No.9420210]

>Go to a pub
>They have a good selection of whisky
>Ask for one
>Get a blank look
>Have to spend five minutes saying "no, not that one, the one to the left. No, the one before that. The one that says 12 on it" before they work out what you want

It amazes me that a place can have a good selection while their staff don't a fucking clue about any of it.

[Anonymous No.9420220]

Best thing I've ever tasted in my life.

[Anonymous No.9420238]

>>9418004
ralfy....7 years ago.

yootoobers are cancer now

>>9420210
>It amazes me that a place can have a good selection while their staff don't a fucking clue about any of it.

why? its a minimum wage, dead-end job. All i expect is a minimum level of hygiene and for them to be semi-competent with a cash register.

[Anonymous No.9420294]

>>9420238
You're going to some pretty shit tier pubs then.

[Anonymous No.9420628]

What do you guys think of this?

[Anonymous No.9420649]

>>9420628
It's not terrible but it's overpriced.
I heard a story about the brand almost failing until they jacked up the price, making people think it was fancier than it is so they started buying it. Don't know if it's true, though.

[Anonymous No.9420659]

>>9420649

That's a curious story.
I really love it, it's probably the best scotch I've personally tasted. I'd say it's 'worth' the price, although it hurts to purchase every time.

[Anonymous No.9420672]

>>9417168
..you can just call it scotch. And yes, a good scotch is a beautiful thing.

[Anonymous No.9420680]

>bought a bottle of bruichladdich port charlotte impulsively
>arrives yesterday
>tastes crap
>angrily order a bottle of laphroaig and a bottle of finlaggan to compensate
fuck

[Anonymous No.9420695]

Scotch whisky loves you too.

[Anonymous No.9420708]

>>9420680
Bruichladdich is overrated. People go on about it but I feel like they like the aesthetic more than the actual drink.

[Anonymous No.9420716]

>>9417204
My go to whisky's are famouse grouse and islay mist, nothing special but it gets the job done and they taste allright.
Grouse starts off sub par but gets decent halfway through the bottle.

[Anonymous No.9420724]

>>9417204
Teach's Highland Cream is probably the best money to taste ratio I've personally had. 10 bucks a bottle for incredible smoothness.

Crown Royal and Suntory Old are two of my favorites. Crown mixes well with everything, Suntory Old is almost exactly the same as Crown without the maple finish but costs like 17 or 18 bucks a bottle.

I'm not a massive fan of Cutty Sark, but the tiny price tag justifies its quality.

[Anonymous No.9420729]

>>9417409
Jack Daniels is unjustified. I can't think of any whiskey that costs less than a bottle of Jack, more than 10 dollars, and tastes worse.

[Anonymous No.9420789]

>>9420729

It sounds pretty hipster but I basically assume any booze that spends millions on marketing is going to be overpriced and underwhelming.

[Anonymous No.9420794]

>>9420789
I think this is fair, actually. Jack's price is dramatically driven up by extensive advertisement. You're paying to subsidize marketing costs, not for the cost of production. Skip it.

[Anonymous No.9420849]

>>9420708
It seems to be rated highly, never tried it before now though. It was really nasty, and I have no idea why it says "heavily peated" on the bottle as it barely has any peat to it at all. Going to try it again tonight, but I think I will end up giving the bottle away. Really annoyed I wasted £37 on it, although this is the first time I have ever bought something that is actually bad to be fair.

[Anonymous No.9420852]

>>9417168
I LOVE SCOTLAND, PERIOD.

[Anonymous No.9420954]

>>9420628
Overpriced and too much grain. Blended scotch is such a scam.
>>9420680
Port Charlotte distillery bottling is mediocre compared even to the Classic Laddie its honestly a bad representative of good PC.
Look for an IB Port Charlotte they're much better. Most of the praise for Bruichladdich usually is due to the Octomore or Black Arts series anyways.
>>9420708
Nah Bruichladdich have great shit for the price. They also experiment with casks a lot like Springbank does except most of their shit usually stays in the UK.
If your ever on Islay do the warehouse tour cause apparently its awesome, im going there next summer myself.

Also if you want an inexpensive older whisky look for Balblair 15+ year old vintages like pic related, shit is fucking cash.

[Anonymous No.9421261]

>>9420954
>Octomore

I'll concede that I haven't tried it, but I can't see Octomore as anything other than a MOAR PEAT meme in the same vein as American IPAs. I like a peated whisky, but I would never choose one that's advertised by how peaty it is, the peat should just be an aspect of the flavour.

Also, I went to Islay a couple of months ago, but unfortunately Bruichladdich was closed that week for maintenance. I went to all the others though (apart from Caol Ila and Ardbeg). The best tour and experience was probably Bunnahabhain, it was a bit run down and rough, but it felt a lot more genuine than ones like Laphroaig (which felt a bit too polished).

My surprise disappointment was Jura. It was a lot more bare bones than I expected, especially considering it's one of the more popular brands. Kilchoman was a lot better than I expected, especially considering its age. Their 100% Islay tastes like shit though, and is only good as a gimmick.

[Anonymous No.9421512]

>>9417386
brb gonna go kms

[Anonymous No.9421716]

>>9420849
Currently trying it for a second time, and in fairness it is better than last nights experience. I'm no good at tasting notes, but it has more flavour and depth than it did before and the nastiness has almost gone. However, it all dissipates quickly and the alcohol burn is very prominent which leads me to believe it's too young. It isn't a peated whisky at all really, and I certainly won't be buying it again. Lagavulin 16 / Ardbeg 10 / Laphroaig QC are all a hell of a lot better than this. It's not terrible, but not great. Think it will be a bottle I dip into after a few too many when my senses are dulled as opposed to one I will give away so all is not lost. Thank fuck I didn't pay the £50 it is supposed to sell for, I'd be really pissed off if I had.

[Anonymous No.9421742]

>>9418282
>not drinking the delicious Schrödinger's beer that is neat and garnished with a lemon peel at the same time

[Anonymous No.9421774]

>>9417168
Can get pic related for 15 eurobux this week (25% off). Should I?

I know it's irish, not scotch, This just struck me as the right thread to ask this in.

[Anonymous No.9421789]

>>9421774
Its really overpriced and overrated desu.

I suppose you could start there but if you wanted to explore Irish whiskey next time try either bushmills if you want a profile more like scotch or Tullamore Dew if you want more of that.

Both are easy to find and mainstream irish whiskies.

[Anonymous No.9421792]

>>9421774
Yes, it's worth a try. Personally I don't like it much, it is ok and inoffensive but pretty bland to my tongue. However lots of people rave about it so at that price it absolutely is worth a try. Don't put ice in it would be my recommendation, it tastes of almost nothing if you do that. A bit of room temperature water goes much further to take the burn away and open it up.

[Anonymous No.9421815]

>>9421789
>Tfw I found a bottle fo pic related some dude put out on the street while clearing out his basement

I really feel like I shouldn't drink it, seing as it seems to be way to expensive and I may not be able to appreciate it properly (went for 90 quid on an auction site I found).

inb4 theft accusation: The guy literally came out, told me where to find a bag and gave me an unused kitchen knife in its cardboard box.

[Anonymous No.9421830]

>>9421815
Liqours for drinkin, innit?

[Anonymous No.9421838]

>>9421815
90 quid isn't THAT much, I say drink it and let us know what it's like. Maybe even get a new bottle to compare it with?

[Anonymous No.9421844]

>>9421830
Yeah, but it's not going anywhere, and maybe I could get there by starting with some less expensive whiskeys. And I could resell it at some point (though let's be honest, I'm probaly too lazy for that.) Or at least wait for an occasion.
I guess I'll just have some of the same guy's Grand Marnier from the 70s for now.

[Anonymous No.9421849]

>>9421838
Don't have it at home right now, I left it at my grandparent's place so I wouldn't be tempted. I'll probably end up trying something like that, though.

[Anonymous No.9421856]

>>9421844
To be fair liquor once its out of its aging process doesn't really get better with age, unless for example the batch was made using a method or specific ingredients that differ from the modern standard.

[Anonymous No.9421865]

>>9421856
Do you mean it stays roughly the same, or does it actually get worse with time?
Because I was aware of the aging process happening only in the barrel. It might only get more scarce with time...

[Anonymous No.9421890]

>>9421865
Sealed liqour is what the call "shelf-stable" and unopened it can last more or less indefinitely.

Opened bottles stay good for up to 8 months as an industry trading standard, and after that the liquor is realistically fine to about 7 or 8 years at which point it all intended taste of the original will be very faded or non-existent.

[Anonymous No.9421897]

>>9421890
Well, it's still sealed, so it really isn't going anywhere. Thanks, by the way. I wasn't sure about bottle life expectancy.

[Anonymous No.9421905]

>>9421890

leave a dram of scotch out over night, it will be foggy in the morning. Time takes its toll.

[Anonymous No.9421990]

>>9421905
it'll do that if its not been chill-filtered. this is a good thing.

add a teaspoon of water to a good whisky and it will turn cloudy in about 15 minutes.

pour a glass of Johnnie walker black, leave it over night...it won't be cloudy because its been filtered.

>chill-filtered V non-chill-filtered whisky

[Anonymous No.9421998]

>>9421990

interesting as shit, thanks. I didn't really care, but I was surprised when I left some Talisker out.

[Anonymous No.9422009]

>>9421998
can confirm....talisker gets a bit of the scotch-mist when you add a teaspoon of water....makes it sweeter too, really opens up.

love talisker

[Anonymous No.9422112]

>>9422009
Interesting, it shouldn't because Talisker is chill filtered. Ultimately I think it's a bit f a curiosity, some people get really into chill filtered vs non chill filtered but ultimately if you like the whisky who cares. As for letting a dram sit for a bit, I think it makes a difference. 15 minutes - half an hour works very well, most important thing is that it is at room temperature and not cold. Overnight seems excessive, but I haven't tried it so will give it a go anyway

[Anonymous No.9422134]

>>9422112
I agree on the whole chill filtering thing. People seem to make a big deal of it, but I don't actually think it makes much difference. Plus, I completely understand why a company would want to do it, as idiots would think cloudy=bad.

[Anonymous No.9422293]

>>9417204
Famous Grouse is probably the best cheap blend you can get.

[Anonymous No.9422309]

>>9422293
Agreed, much better than Bells or Grants. Highland Park 12 and Old Pulteney 12 are usually around £25 a bottle too which is another nice step up. Nothing wrong with JW black either. If you are in the UK, Lidl have their own brand called Ben Bracken which is £17 a bottle, it's really good too. There is a speyside, highland, and Islay one. Extremely good for the money, better than the usual blends

[Anonymous No.9422315]

>>9417204
I like bulleit rye. And other ryes. I'm going to try some of the other ones suggested in the thread.

[Anonymous No.9422325]

>>9422309
I might have a look at the Ben Bracken, thanks. Lidl and Aldi tend to have nice booze in general.

I remember when I was 18 buying a bottle of Whyte and Mackay before ever trying it, absolute gutrot.

[Anonymous No.9422422]

>>9422315
Regular bulleit is very good too, much prefer it to buffalo trace or wild turkey 81. Although if we are going for properly cheap, Jim Beam white is very, very good for the money

[Anonymous No.9422449]

[Anonymous No.9422475]

>>9422134
IT REMOVES PROTEINS AND ENZYMES, THUS, FLAVOUR.....WHY SHOULD WHISKY BE DESTROYED SO ITS AESTHETICALLY PLEASING TO PLEBS

[Anonymous No.9422479]

>>9422422
>Jim beam white
I am intrigued. How much better than jack?

[Anonymous No.9422481]

>>9421742
I only drink paradoxical drinks. Scotch that is not whiskey, neat beer with a lemon twist, gin without any juniper.

[Anonymous No.9422487]

>>9422481
>gin without juniper
that's not paradoxical, it's vodka

[Anonymous No.9422500]

>>9422309
teacher's usually gets put forward as the best budget blend....but every time i've tried it I disliked it. This was a few years ago when people were saying teacher's was putting out bad batches. maybe its great but im not buying it again.

I can get black bottle and isle of skye 8 for £15. also you can get "hog wash" from aldi for £15 which is a malt blend and bourbony but decent.

I grew up in the west highlands all my grandparents, great-uncles etc drank blends and pretty much stuck to grouse and black bottle (old formulation) it was only around christmas/new year that people would drink single malts....and even that was recent.

to my understanding nobody really gave a fuck about single malts before the 1960's .

the recent black bottle reformulation is lush. tastes nothing like the old one. but its good

[Anonymous No.9422519]

>>9422475
It's business. Good business at that.

[Anonymous No.9422524]

>>9422479
Considerably better I think, and half the price. It's genuinely surprisingly good for how cheap it is. Not as smoky but a lot more flavour, although to be fair I haven't drunk JD in a long time. Works just fine as a mixer too if that's your thing

[Anonymous No.9422548]

>>9422500
Small world, I'm from Skye. Will pick up a bottle of Black Bottle on your recommendation tomorrow. Know where you are coming from with single malt - it's good that more people seem to be into it but I don't like the tend of non age statements being sold at premium prices because of marketing and popularity. I remember about 8 years ago my dad got MacAllan 10 out of Costco for £18 a bottle, wish I had been into whisky then

[Anonymous No.9422555]

>>9422524
I mean I do old fashioneds a bit but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.9422564]

>>9422555
Give it a go, it's so cheap it almost doesn't matter if you don't like it. To be fair, JD is overpriced as American whiskey goes so maybe the balance is off that way

[Anonymous No.9422573]

>>9422564
Cool will do. Thanks for the tip.

[Anonymous No.9422577]

>>9422479
Hugely. JB white is a little rough, but it actually tastes like whiskey instead of gasoline and foam banana candy like JD.
JD is bottom shelf swill masquerading as having a pedigree.

[Anonymous No.9422604]

>>9422548
I don't mind the whole NAS thing. I've found a few that I enjoy more than some age statement ones, and I don't mind paying a similar price. In fact, I think that they can make some more interesting flavours if they aren't bound to age.

[Anonymous No.9422648]

>>9422548
>>9422548
I've been a drunkard for a long time. I used to be able to get old pulteney, which I really like, for£15.
Black bottle used to cost me £11.
After 2008 whisky prices sky-rocketed.

they reformulated black bottle a few years back. it used to be quite peaty and smokey. very distinctive. now, as i think i might have mentioned earlier, it tastes like bunnahabhain lite.

bunnahabhain 12 became one of my favourite single malts when they upped the abv to 46%, got rid of the food colouring and stopped filtering it....but i haven't had a bottle in a few years.

isle of skye 8 is a really decent blend....but don't expect it to taste like talisker. it reminds me of highland park lite (HP used to be decent...then i bought a couple of bottles that weren't great).

Every month i used to get so excited about which single malts were on special offer at super markets (i remember getting lagavullin for £22)....but even on discount i can't afford to buy them regular.

buy black bottle and let it air/rest for a bit with the cap off.....it can get quite good. I love drinking it with a good heavy scottish ale like orkney dark island.


>mfw skye apparently isn't an island anymore cos it has a bridge

[Anonymous No.9422659]

>>9422604
used to get pic related for £25.

fantastic stuff. now £40+

[Anonymous No.9422687]

>>9422659
Bear in mind that inflation and scarcity exist.

[Anonymous No.9422825]

>>9422487
Well, slightly citrus-coriander-cardamom infused Vodka. Possibly some fennel in there too.

[Anonymous No.9422908]

>>9422825
that sounds delicious

[Anonymous No.9422979]

>>9422908
>>9422908
There's nothing stopping youfrom trying it. Use some orange and lemon zests, possibly add a very small amount of cinnamon to the mix (I fucked up a batch of gin quite badly with cinnamon). Use a decent vodka (or filter some cheap stuff through activated carbon, though dilutioin will be an issue for small batches), and try making small batches to nail down the recipe without wasting too much booze. Infusing vodka is surprisingly fun once you get into it.

[Anonymous No.9423766]

>>9420628
i only ever drink it at my grans because it's all she drinks. for that I rate it
old people/10

[Anonymous No.9424068]

>>9420680
>>9420708
The basic Bruichladdich literally tastes like vomit to me. Seriously. It has three stages when I taste it -- an initial stage, OMGSOMEONEBARFEDINMYMOUTH stage, and then an aftertaste stage.

The aftertaste is nice, but the OMGSOMEONEBARFEDINMYMOUTH stage makes it very not worth it.

[Anonymous No.9424088]

>>9420794
This. Same goes for that new hipster shit, "Monkey Shoulder". It's just a basic scotch with little flavor and a gimmicky bottle. A few months ago at a meet-n-greet for a professional group I belong to, someone bought a bottle of it to share around, and I had to make polite noises about it because it's not good business to piss off people who might farm out some work to you.

[Anonymous No.9424095]

>>9421849
>go back to grandparents' house
>Grandma, where's my whiskey?
>I dumped it down the sink, you shouldna be drinkin' that shite you little hellion
>Grandma I'm 35 now I'm allowed :-(

[Anonymous No.9424098]

>>9424068
You're sensitive to butyric acid, like me.

Other whiskys to avoid include: Springbank, Balvenie, and Monkey Shoulder.

[Anonymous No.9424104]

>>9422481
>>9422487
Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

[Anonymous No.9424120]

>>9424098
Thanks! I did try Monkey shoulder a few months ago ( >>9424088 ) and didn't notice that in it, though. Same with Balvenie (Doublewood), which I have had occasionally, although I prefer much more smoky stuff like Laphroaig.

[Anonymous No.9424143]

What's the best not overly smoked cheap Scotch, blend or single malt?

[Anonymous No.9424154]

picked this up this morning for 60nzd to last me until pay day

did i fuck up?

[Anonymous No.9424159]

>>9421261
as somebody who's tried the octomore I can assure you it is MOAR PEAT and nothing else
people like to romanticize islay whiskeys by saying things like "It's drinking a camp fire" or "It's like staying at a log cabin in the woods"
but the octomore was like chewing a piece of burning charcoal. I couldn't feel a single redeeming quality.

[Anonymous No.9424169]

>>9424154
>did i fuck up?
If you enjoy it then it was worth it.

[Anonymous No.9424173]

>>9424169
yeah I normally get glenfiddich 12-21 years but I was wondering the general consensus. Im not a huge whiskey connoisseur yet I dont really drink anything else. I was thinking of getting a jap whiskey but I didnt know anything about them so I just went with the old faithful

[Anonymous No.9424197]

>>9421261
where is this beach?

[Anonymous No.9424202]

>>9424173
>>9424154
>glenfiddich
how is this scotch? is it over smoked? whats the overall taste?
I've been really interested in trying it, im a whiskey newfag

[Anonymous No.9424213]

>>9424202
im a whiskey newfag too. I just get it because its what I drink with my brother and he drinks loads of different single malts. I dont really know anything about the distilling process or anything like that

[Anonymous No.9424226]

>>9424104
go home ripper you're mad

[Anonymous No.9424457]

>>9417168
Not a scotch, but a whisky. I like this one, pretty sweet and gives me nice apple burps. Anyone got recs for more like this?

[Anonymous No.9424499]

>>9424457
whiskey*
whisky is used for scotch and canadian
knob creek, elijah craig and four roses single barrel are good moves to make from woodford reserve

[Anonymous No.9424579]

>>9424202
No smoke at all, Speyside whiskies rarely have any. Glenfiddich 12 is the worlds best selling single malt I am pretty sure, it is a decent whisky. Nothing too remarkable but nothing wrong with it at all, a good step above the usual blends.
>>9424173
Tread carefully with jap whisky, it is perfectly good but stupidly expensive now for what it is. I had a bottle of Hibiki 12 which was nice, you could almost mistake it for a delicate Speyside if you didn't know where it was from. It was very nice, but I remember thinking at the time it wasn't really worth the £40 I paid for it. Now there is a non age statement version which costs £65, so fuck that. Also got Yamazaki cheap in costco once and it was pretty average, also skyrocketed in price.

[Anonymous No.9424597]

pic related best (peated) whisky i have ever tasted so far.

[Anonymous No.9424605]

>>9422659
Still worth it. It's a retarded statement but it tastes like $100+.

[Anonymous No.9424613]

Don't know what countries you guys are in but you pay far too much.

[Anonymous No.9424620]

>>9424597
Agreed, I tried it in a bar a few months ago and was totally blown away. Got a bottle of it now I dip in to occasionally, I will 100% be replacing it when it runs dry. Incredible stuff

[Anonymous No.9424622]

>>9424095
>Not having alcoholic grandparents

My Granddad drinks about a third of a bottle of whisky a day but he only drinks famous grouse. Which means he has a bunch of genuinely great old whisky bottles that he's been given in his cupboard that I can take some of whenever I'm up. He has a bottle of Tobermory that's pre-1995. Bottled of course, so it's not worth anything, but interesting all the same.

[Anonymous No.9424626]

>>9424197
Here(ish). There's a campsite. It was blowing a gale when I was there though so the whole camping experience was a bit miserable.

[Anonymous No.9424636]

>>9424202
No smoke, it tastes fine. I was a whisky newfag until about a year and a half ago. My advice on how to learn is to just drink as many as you can. If you're in a pub or bar that has bottles, try something new. If you want to really dive in at the deep end (and have some nearby) go on a distillery tour. You'll learn a lot and learn how to distinguish differences between casks and ages.

Even if you've only got american whiskey places nearby it's worth trying.

[Anonymous No.9424648]

>tfw this is the best I've ever tried but it's only sold in airports for way more money than it should be

[Anonymous No.9425132]

>>9424613
>pic taken 2005

[Anonymous No.9425543]

>>9424597
Corry is fucking cash
>>9424648
Never seen that release before, is it like Ceobanach except with more proof?

[Anonymous No.9425711]

>>9424613
Most posters are from the USA where scotch is an import and priced accordingly. They get better prices on bourbon than we do for the same reason.

[Anonymous No.9425718]

>>9425132
Would of been cheaper than that 12 years ago.

[Anonymous No.9425935]

>>9425711
Not necessarily, Buffalo Trace is at a decent price here in Canada compared to shit like Jack Daniels or Makers Mark
It mostly depends on the distributor pricing scheme

[Anonymous No.9425958]

>>9425543
I've not tried Ceobanach so I'm not sure. All I know is that it was the sweetest peated whisky I've tried and I thought it was delicious.

[Anonymous No.9425986]

>>9425958
Well I guess ill be looking for that when i hit the tavern tonight!
As a fan of the 18 year and some of their unpeated IBs they're one of my favorite Islay distilleries as of late.

[Anonymous No.9426385]

>>9418004
Ralfy is the best and it's not even close.

[Anonymous No.9426457]

Can someone give me a general run down of the differences between whisky from different parts of Scotland and how they compare?
I know that Islay whisky is specifically known for its peat flavors, but that's it.
How does a Speyside differ from a Highland and so forth?

[Anonymous No.9426975]

>>9426457
Speyside is lighter.

[Anonymous No.9427336]

I love bourbon, so I decided to give scotch a try. I didn't really know what I was doing and picked up a bottle of this. At first I hated it, but I kept at it and now I'm able to drink it without making a face!

My question is, what is the general opinion on Laphroaig? Is this a decent whisky that I picked up?

[Anonymous No.9427436]

>>9427336
It's not a good choice for a beginner since it's rather smoky.

[Anonymous No.9427443]

OK guys, serious question here.

Anyone else, after drinking whiskey/scotch, feels burning when peeing? My pee burns slightly after drinking scotch, is there something in the drink?

[Anonymous No.9427465]

>>9427336
I like it, scotch whisky tastes different depending on which region it comes from.
I'd recommend trying a scotch from each region and trying to figure out which one suits your taste best.

Check out Ralfy on YouTube to watch reviews on whisky you're interested in.

[Anonymous No.9427489]

>>9427436
The smoke is what had me cringing when I first tried it, but it's kind of grown on me. I just drank some while cooking bacon, and the combination of the bacon scent and the whisky taste was actually really nice.

>>9427465
Thanks for the map. I'm interested in trying scotches from different areas, but I doubt I'll be checking any youtube reviews.

[Anonymous No.9427503]

I'm almost done with mybottle of rye and would like to give scotch another go. I enjoyed Laphroaig and am toying with the idea of buying Lagavulin 16.

any other hidden gens to try? I've really liked everything Itried aside from Dewar

[Anonymous No.9427521]

>>9427503
If you liked Laphroaig you could try something from Kilchoman. I think of the Machir Bay as like a better, more well-rounded version of Laphroaig 10.

[Anonymous No.9427549]

>>9427503

bunnahabhain 12

[Anonymous No.9427552]

>>9427503
Cutty Sark

[Anonymous No.9427559]

Someone gimme the redpill on Citty Sark and the Famous Grouse, please.

[Anonymous No.9427563]

>>9427559
*Cutty

[Anonymous No.9427723]

>>9427559
I want to know about these brand as well, I'm a whiskey newfag

[Anonymous No.9428186]

>>9427336
A while ago I wanted to branch out and try new stuff so I got a bottle of the Laphroaig and at first I hated it. I tried it once and it went in the cupboard and I didn't touch it for months.
Later I decided to try it again and it wasn't so bad. Then later I actually loved it.

I think the really peaty, smokey flavor is an acquired taste, but once you get it you really love it.

[Anonymous No.9428280]

>>9417179
her?

[Anonymous No.9428335]

>>9427521
Isn't Kilchomqn on the pricy side?

[Anonymous No.9428338]

>>9427559
>>9427723
They're shitty cheap blends that aren't actually 100% scotch. They add cheap grain alcohol to bulk it up, staying right on the borderline of what is acceptable to call scotch.

[Anonymous No.9428665]

>Tried a bunch
>Never found any I truly love
>Mostly just buy something new each time

[Anonymous No.9428921]

>>9428338
Good to know. Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.9429322]

>>9427559
Cutty Sark is the exact same price as the vastly superior Teach's Highland Cream so I see no reason to bother with it unless you're curious

[Anonymous No.9430055]

>>9420238
>dead end job
There is an entire profession of people who who would disagree. The money they earn varies wildly.
>>9417185
I think this is bait but just in case, all scotch is whiskey not all whiskey is scotch.

[Anonymous No.9430077]

>>9427336
Laphroaig is a generally high quality scotch but it isnt a scotch you should begin with when first trying scotch whiskey because of the level of peat. Glenlivet 12, Highland park 10, Glenmorangie 10, Mccallan 12, and Glenfiddich 12 are all excellent and relatively inexpensive scotches for new scotch whiskey drinkers.

[Anonymous No.9430094]

>>9428665
Story of my life.

Is it just supposed to click and suddenly one I enjoy and it becomes my favorite?

[Anonymous No.9430117]

>>9420628
>blended

[Anonymous No.9430121]

>>9430077
glenlivet 12 is great for its price, 18 is fucking amazing.

though if i'm honest, i've been known to knock back dewar's and water if i'm looking to get silly.