mistertrickster
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Sat Mar-19-05 07:18 PM
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Question--what is the correct way to drink good scotch according to the |
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connosieurs? On the rocks? Mixed with soda water? Mixed with still water? Or neat at room temperature?
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soothsayer
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Sat Mar-19-05 07:22 PM
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1. Scotch always requires a splash of water to open it up. Try it |
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before, and then with even a tiny splash, and you will see the flavor bloom.
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Sat Mar-19-05 07:29 PM
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2. I just wish to second what soothsayer said! nt |
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Sat Mar-19-05 07:30 PM
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short glass filled with crushed ice and scotch is my favorite or scotch and still water, preferably bottled water to avoid additives like chlorine
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Trajan
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Sat Mar-19-05 07:32 PM
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4. That is like asking .... |
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"How do you want that steak cooked ? " ....
Obviously, the 'rules' of Scotch usage can be as subjective as any Art ...
Mine ? ... I prefer a soda and ice some days, just ice and water on others ....
Not that I drink much, mind you, but Scotch is always my first choice ... No matter how it is prepared ...
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Sun Mar-20-05 10:14 AM
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7. Nothing subjective about it |
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Just like when they ask 'how do you want that steak cooked?' one has to respond 'blue or preferably still twitching'; so too one HAS to drink whisky (I mean the real stuff not blends) with just a splash of still water.
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Sat Mar-19-05 07:48 PM
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5. small ice cubes. when they begin to melt |
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things get very good. laphroaig is a terrific (if a little pricy) single malt.
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mistertrickster
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Sun Mar-20-05 10:05 AM
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6. Great, thanks all--I got given some 15 yr old Balvenie the other week |
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and wanted to drink it right, heh.
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Jeff in Cincinnati
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Sun Mar-20-05 10:49 AM
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I was given a bottle of Dewar's that is probably twenty years old. It has been opened.
Drink it or flush it?
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Sun Mar-20-05 10:54 AM
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then flush it. Flush only the parts you drank.
Or send it to my house. I'll tell ya if it's any good...
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Jeff in Cincinnati
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Sun Mar-20-05 12:39 PM
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if having been exposed to air would have made it turn -- no idea with regard to the chemistry of hard liquor.
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Sun Mar-20-05 02:47 PM
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12. Flush it. The alcohol has probably long since evaporated. |
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Plus Dewars is garbage anyhow.
:D
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Sun Mar-20-05 02:47 PM
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11. Straight up or with a small splash of spring-water |
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My preference is to drink good single-malt scotch in a snifter, although there are those who prefer a low glass or even one of those weird oblong ones.
Room temperature, absolutely.
And laddie? If it's not single-malt, it's not good scotch at all.
-Technowitch "An Irishwoman who does enjoy good scotch"
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