Wot Whisk(e)y?

ulava:
<<Port Ellen >>
Now here is a man with taste......


also tickled me: reference to lamp oil.....

but I was really looking for what is *special* and the only gin I can think of as special is The Brittania Club of Corfu no1 Cup.
 
Plymouth or Bombay Safire is the best, mind you there's nowt wrong with the cooking "London" gins either, all make a drinkable G&T. I't's all just glugging alcohol. You have to savour a fine malt or Brandy and you'll soon be dead chugging Woods like Gin. Watch the gravity tho' there' are a lot of low strength gins about...insist on the full 40% by Volume stuff. I'm still working on proof levels myself....

Don't always be fooled into thinking high strength whisky is always the best...I've some 100% (proof) Aberlour that's less drinkable than the 70% and if you really want to strip paint there's always Talisker. I went all po-faced a couple of years ago and bought some of my (then) favorite tipple at cask strength....not one of my better ideas. It's all gone now but I' m back on the regular stuff now..... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Haven't seen Red Hackle around for a few years. I was told that it used to very popular with guys finishing their shifts in the yards. Especially with the welders. Had the reputation of being able to cleanse all the stoor from the mouth and throat. Sometimes referred to as Red Hauchle.
 
Call yourselves sailors, you should all be drinking rum, neat and in the coffee. We have Woods Navy Rum of course and for special friends Mount Gay
 
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Haven't seen Red Hackle around for a few years.

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'Red Haughle', indeed! I had it in mind that the welders in John Brown's used that stuff for scouring off the rust scale on the plates before welding them up, and at Lithgow's they used it for cleaning out the ships' boilers. Faster than hydrochloric....

I last heard of it mentioned in the same breath as Lanliq, in connection with weapons research at Porton Down....

Now, if I ever get a wee boat back up past Kintyre again, I'm sure I could fire up the old Taylor's and start a *civilised* argument - when it's horizontal rain and 40-knot fog outside the anchorage ( July/August ) - about the respective merits of various peaty libations...

"So, what's wrong wi' The Auld Warrior, then?" ...."You're a Speyside man, how do you rate this Smith's Glenlivit?" ...."Show me on the chart again where The Laddie comes from. Can ye get in there?" ....."Is there maybe a wee bus that goes from Port Ellen to Lagavulin? Or would you use the landing slip?" ....."Where's best to anchor these days at Talisker?" - and so on.

And keep a stoneware jug of yon Welsh paintstripper in the locker for the odd visitor.....

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Re: Hiv Ye tried . . .

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. . the Glengarioch yet?

[/ QUOTE ]Ah! I was keeping that one for savouring later on the thread. I've also been savouring it with wee nippy glass each night. Regrettably, more than half way down down.

Truth is Rowana left a bottle of Glengarioch with me, and yes, it's very good indeed. I used to go for the Islay malts, but now I've stopped smoking the north east malts taste better.
 
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My current favorite Scotch is Brucladdich

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Have you tried "Ardnave"? - it's 12yo Bruichladdich relabelled by Tesco. Very good. Rather cheap. Recommended.
 
That's torn it!! Happily minding my own business til this thread appeared. You've all forced me into pouring a large measure of 15yr old Bowmore. It will be your fault if I end up having another one ,as well. Yummy!!
 
Hear am i drinking rum becouse wine made my head bad? And thinking of the press and our forfarthers that were forced to drink it!

Drink rum,i am,should i stop befor entering that awful cold and unforgiveing sea?or ought i continue as our forefathers drinking a pint a day? to forget the cold and discomfort of povety and the hardship of sailing in the Atlantic??Untill i can get to the safty of the Biscay??

And finaly to the social and friendly compagnenship of the baltic??? with its walmth--god im pissed drink rum and hopefully you peww im lost but i dont want to go its awful but still payabe

Im an economic outcast from the med.Now if i had an "e-hat" and everyone gave a euro??Ahhh no 160euros a day no im an ecomic refugee i HAVE to spend the summer in the baltic,oh god, give me the rum bottle!!
 
Welsh malt ? You can't be serious. I usually have malt and a blended aboard. Something like Johnny Walker Black Label for the blended and one of the following malts: The Macallan, Highland Park, Glen Morangie ( sherry casked ) or one of numerous Speyside malts.
 
We used to drink an awful lot of Woods Rum, with Shrub. One day the landlord appeared with an old dusty bottle labelled 'Captain Morgan's 101'. It was splendid. Anyone know of it?
 
My drinks cupboard is'nt high enough to take a litre bottle so I keep a 70cl Malt whisky bottle with a cork stopper and top it up every now and then from the litre of Sainsburys Scotch kept under the settee berth, No one notices the difference, either that or they are to polite to say I keep a crap Malt...

Nick
 
Optics! Optics! When I'm struggling to find room for half a dozen bottles of beer and a bottle of Rum in the bottom of my wet locker...you have optics. Now I see exactly why Mobo's are referred to as gin palaces.....no doubt oyu've crystal decanters and glasses too. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

How the other harf do live......
 
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