The Whiskey Thread

[Hound]

What's the board view of laphrioag? Peaty as f**k but fun all the same.

Love the peaty stuff. Laphroaig is good, but I find Ardbeg even peatier, so that's my fav.

[Hardy]

If peat was a flavour there never would have been a famine.

[AZOffaly]

Tullamore Dew. 

'Last week the experts they all said the same,
The Kingdom would surely win Sunday's big game.
Kerry were favourites four to one on,
But the Offaly heroes they proved them all wrong.

The Kerry supporters came up on the train.
They came for big sam in the sunshine or rain.
They came for big sam but 'twas little they knew
Next we'd t'would be brimming with Tullamore Dew'.

[ONeill]

What's the board view of laphrioag? Peaty as f**k but fun all the same.

Love the peaty stuff. Laphroaig is good, but I find Ardbeg even peatier, so that's my fav.

Both nice. Working my way through anCnoc - quare taste.

[Milltown Row2]

Had two weekends in a row of a Rabby Burns night! I'd that many I forgot what I drank!

[CiKe]

What's the board view of laphrioag? Peaty as f**k but fun all the same.

Love the peaty stuff. Laphroaig is good, but I find Ardbeg even peatier, so that's my fav.

Both nice. Working my way through anCnoc - quare taste.

Laphroaig is good. Bought an Ardbeg Uigeadal or something similar years ago. Would blow the head off you. Not gone back to it.

Lagavullin 16. Now that is a good whiskey.

[Tyrdub]

What's the best whiskey around the £30-£40 mark ?

i was given a bottle of Jameson Caskmate at Christmas, really nice whiskey and not that expensive

[ONeill]

Had two weekends in a row of a Rabby Burns night! I'd that many I forgot what I drank!

You've a tiny frame though. Do smaller people get drunk quickly?

[Milltown Row2]

Had two weekends in a row of a Rabby Burns night! I'd that many I forgot what I drank!

You've a tiny frame though. Do smaller people get drunk quickly?

I know plenty fat feckers who are well pissed before me so I'm not sure on that one

[lurganblue]

This is a thread I would have ignored as I thought whiskey wasn't for me.  Over the last few months I have started trying to learn a bit about the different types and begun trying to see if I could grow to like at least some of them.  I really like the idea of sipping on a neat glass of whiskey of a winter's evening.  I don't feel I am quite there yet.  I started with the Jamesons with a little ginger, and then progressed to adding a little water instead.  I like Guinness so have the Jameson's stout edition a rattle.  Prefer the original.

Currently working through a bottle of Powers, which seems to be similar to Jamesons in ways.  Would I find that to be the case too with Paddys, Tullamore dew etc?

I see a lot of talk about Green spot and redbreast.  I might try on one of these as a treat over Christmas but I have a feeling they may be wasted on me.  Nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose.

[trileacman]

This is a thread I would have ignored as I thought whiskey wasn't for me.  Over the last few months I have started trying to learn a bit about the different types and begun trying to see if I could grow to like at least some of them.  I really like the idea of sipping on a neat glass of whiskey of a winter's evening.  I don't feel I am quite there yet.  I started with the Jamesons with a little ginger, and then progressed to adding a little water instead.  I like Guinness so have the Jameson's stout edition a rattle.  Prefer the original.

Currently working through a bottle of Powers, which seems to be similar to Jamesons in ways.  Would I find that to be the case too with Paddys, Tullamore dew etc?

I see a lot of talk about Green spot and redbreast.  I might try on one of these as a treat over Christmas but I have a feeling they may be wasted on me.  Nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose.

Your wasting your time with that landfill whiskey. Go out and get a few bottles of good scotch.

[ziggy90]

Bushmills - Black or Original - is the one for me.

[maddog]

Anyone tried Mourne Dew ?

[Hound]

I see a lot of talk about Green spot and redbreast.  I might try on one of these as a treat over Christmas but I have a feeling they may be wasted on me.  Nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose.

I like both of those. I tried both the dearer versions too (yellow spot and RB15) but to be honest I preferred Green and RB12.

A few years ago I got a bottle of Connemara, which is an unusual enough Irish as it has a peated taste. I was very unsure of it initially, but by the end of the bottle I was really enjoying it and then later discovered Scotch from Islay which is much stronger peated. Real medicinal! I adore the stuff now and it's pretty much the only type of whisky I drink  - especially on a winter evening! 

[Chief]

Bushmills - Black or Original - is the one for me.

Redbreast Lustau edition is a fair upgrade on Black Bush - although a good deal more expensive also.

As a standard bottle Black Bush is hard to look past