Single Malt Scotch.

[rspacher]

I have had the 18yr Macallan..its good but overpriced...
One of the sleepers is the Macallan Cask Strength...
Very good, and find it out here for around $56...
I will have to get down to the local costco...for $70 it is worth it...
Now I have 2 bottles I want to get a hold of for those winter evenings..Lagavulin mature
and that 17yr macallan...

[liv2ski]

This one is getting opened after bar results come out. It's getting hard to wait.

Damn, I sure wish I was there to share some of that with you. I bet ya it is fucking incredible. Finally a nice cool night this evening, so I finished off the last of my 12 yr old Highland Park. I love to drink single malt once it cools off. Come on Winter.

[Hugh Conway]

Christie's booze auction coming up:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/s...3-c6219c080b6a
some cool scotches, also Lot#161 looks cool for bourbon fans, this one in particular to me:
Bellmont Handmade Sour Mash Distilled 1914 bottled 1926. Bellmont Distillery Co. Kentucky

[Woodsy]

I tasted some high end blends in a store down in Baltimore recently. Couldn't remember if Compass was one. They were fine, but, for the price, I'll go a few dollars more for a pure one.

I was at the 10 year compass box tasting this week and I will tell ya, it is better than most Single malts
and yes i have had most
blending of malts at the high end exceeds the malts

highland park aside, kinda

[couloirman]

Just tried some Laphroaig 10 year and it was almost as good as the much more expensive 16 year Lagavulin, but $35 cheaper per bottle. Sweet and intensely smoky, almost an aftertaste of beef jerky. Its permanently replacing the usual lagavulin slot in my liquor cabinet now so I can save some cash. Mmm mmm mmm.

[liv2ski]

Damn, shopping around on the internetz for some 18 yr old Highland Park. Best price I found was $92 shipped to CA Anyone know a good deal on that or the Caol Ila 18 yr old?

[moose pit]

Just opened a 1995 highland park, not bad... not bad at all.

[liv2ski]

Just opened a 1995 highland park, not bad... not bad at all.

Yep, my favorite scotch. 12 yr old is pretty good, 18 yr old is really good and the 25 yr old is the nectar of the Gods.

[Tippster]

Not a Scotch, but I'm powering my way through a bottle of this stuff right now:

http://www.highwest.com/spirits/whiskey/rendezvous-rye



So fucking tasty.

[Scrubadub]

What kind of glasses do you use to drink your scotch? I had been using brandy snifters as I like the tulip shape, but I just ordered a set of these glasses from the Scotch Doc....tulip shape, no stem, hand blown and thick glass.....Looks perfect to me.

http://www.scotchdoc.com/tsd/shoppe/taster.html

[nealric]

Damn, I sure wish I was there to share some of that with you. I bet ya it is fucking incredible. Finally a nice cool night this evening, so I finished off the last of my 12 yr old Highland Park. I love to drink single malt once it cools off. Come on Winter.

Opened it last night. It is indeed incredible.

Makes Laphroig 10 year seem like a highland scotch in comparison. For a second I thought I had been transplanted to a smoky pile of peat in Scotland. Nice finish of oak and walnut. Truly epic.

[schindlerpiste]

Tipp: Gotta love the High West!!!

PSA: bottles of Laphroaig 18 years for sale in UT. for ~$70. My new favorite for the coin.



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[FartBag Commando]

Snagged a bottle of Glenfiddich Distillery Edition (102 proof/15 yr) while in MoCo, Md a few weeks ago. Quite tasty! I like the cask strength scotches.

[arild]

this

and this

and this

have entered my collection the past few months. Longrow CV fucking kills it. Cask strength Springbank is also very nice.

[arild]

From left to right:
Ardbeg 10yo(former favourite), Bowmore 12yo, Bruichladdich Peat, Laphroaig Cask Strength 10yo(extreeeemely good. Needs shitloads of water), Laphroaig Quarter Cask (current favourite, although all aforementioned malts kill it), Glenlivet 12yo, Oban 14yo(semi-favourite non-Islay), Springbank vintage 1997 cask strength (Springbank 10 being perhaps the best non-Islay out there in my opinion - I kinda like my peat+smoke), and Old Pulteney 12yo, a bottle of swill I keep around to get my brother drunk.

[liv2ski]

Some of the finer things in life. Thanks Dad

[brice618]

So, my contract to hire has ended. They aren't keeping me on, damn economy.

Bought a bottle of Highland Park 12. 1/3 of the way through. Sure to post in get drunk and post as much as you can soon. In the morning, hangover check in (after physical therapy of course).

Fuck, I liked that job.

[BraddA]

Christie's booze auction coming up:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/s...3-c6219c080b6a
some cool scotches, also Lot#161 looks cool for bourbon fans, this one in particular to me:
Bellmont Handmade Sour Mash Distilled 1914 bottled 1926. Bellmont Distillery Co. Kentucky

Dear Santa...

[Benny Profane]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/di...?_r=1&src=dayp

[s.p.c]

Just bought a bottle of Glenfarclas 12. Really nice and smooth. Pretty incredible briny finish. The first time I drank I thought I was imagining it, then last night confirmed it, as did the folks at Cask in SF who sold it to me. Highly recommended.

Oh, the company I work for (Liquor.com) is hosting a contest for The Glenrothes, where if you submit an essay or photo you will be entered to win a trip to Scotland to go to their distillery to make scotch. If you don't want to jump through the hurdles (and if you do), you can still be entered to win a tasting glass and T Shirt set. At this point you have a better than 1 in a 1000 chance to win the trip. Not too bad. You can enter here: http://liquor.com/glenrothes-vintage-moments-2011 . Full disclosure, you'll be put on our email list- but IMHO, the articles are pretty damn good.

Also, another good scotch site I found recently: http://www.connosr.com/

[garyfromterrace]

To all of you bastard's who told me I was drinking MY scotch wrong, and that THEIR method of scotch drinking was the only way:

(from the Vancouver Sun, Oct 15, 2012 page I6 in the Travel section article "Only one place to go if you want to learn about Scotch")

David Stewart a Master Distiller with Balvenie for 50 years says the following about drinking the nectar of the gods (ok I made up the nectar bit):

"There's no right way to drink whiskey, though there is a method of training yourself to distinguish the subtleties. Add a bit of water to your dram (the proportion should be 1:3), give it a shake (do this with your hand over the lip: rubbing your palm will help you get a sense of the malt's nose), then take two sharp sniffs."

Now I do not condone the "shaking" method while in the midst of mixed company at the local watering hole. I have always maintained that an approximate 1:3 ratio of scotch (that's 3 scotch to 1 water BTW) to water allowed me to properly "taste" the scotch. Much to the chagrin of many of my supposed "friends" who said it should only be drunk neat.

Apologies if this has already been covered in this thread, I'm afraid I didn't have time to read all the pages.

[XXX-er]

I always add a small splash of cold water ^^ so that doesn't sound bad to me but I 'm thinking scotch with coke or any kind of soft drink is verboten eh?

BTW I was scoping duty free scotch in europe last month AND the higher end stuff specifically Laphroaig Quarter Cask is as cheap or possibly cheaper in Alberta than BC

[garyfromterrace]

Oh yeah Al, no pop with that stuff for sure. Though I've a soft spot for the occasional scotch and soda (as in club soda yanks) especially with cheaper scotch. Prices for booze are much cheaper in Alberta that's for sure. I really liked buying booze in Poland though - that was heaven!

[XXX-er]

Rather than carry booze from yurp to syrup land I decided to just wait till I am next in Alberta ... AKA Mordor

I can agree with cheap scotch n soda but I'm not sure one should drink cheap scotch?

[liv2ski]

How can there be a wrong way to drink Scotch? I mean fuck, you're drinking Scotch, right? I like 2 fingers in a bucket glass with 1 ice cube.
Edit: sounds good. Getting up to have some Highland Park 18 year old.