Whiskey (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

Dunnes are doing special offers of late on buideals of Irish and American whiskeys. Down to €18 some of them of late, and that was pre-budget. Worth having a look, I think they rotate them.

 

[andyman]

Dunnes are doing special offers of late on buideals of Irish and American whiskeys. Down to €18 some of them of late, and that was pre-budget. Worth having a look, I think they rotate them.

Yeah, they were selling 70cl bottles of Jameson for €17 yesterday, which is nuts. A 1ltr bottle would work out at €24, having been €38 originally.

Nuts!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I love talking about whiskey in the morning!

 

[magicbastarder]

i've been told the aldi select irish whiskey is good - it's a cooley, i think it's about €28.

 

[MilanPan!c]

jack daniels is my absolute favourite drink in the whole entire world ever ever ever. sigh.

would you like some whiskey with your candy?

 

[maims bond]

would you like some whiskey with your candy?

 

[MilanPan!c]

still, i don't think they do a 'season'; the bottles certainly aren't marked for the year of production or otherwise numbered.

There's a bin/lot number, no?

 

[andyman]

Great. I just quit drinking and now I'm all eager to try this Green Spot stuff. Fuck ye and your limited edition temptations.

 

[Polly]

IMHO it has to be single malt... speyside has some great malts...maybe Aberlour

 

[magicbastarder]

There's a bin/lot number, no?

didn't see one on my bottle.

 

[MilanPan!c]

didn't see one on my bottle.

There's def a way to tell, because the older stuff goes for more in the speciality shops.

That place down by the central bank has some extremely pricey old bottles.

Hmmmm.....

 

[magicbastarder]

was given a bottle of 15 year old dalmore last night.
lovely stuff.

 

[palace]

Just a note....

At one time, all whisky was spelled without the "e", as "whisky". In around 1870, the reputation of Scottish whisky was very poor as Scottish distilleries flooded the market with cheaper spirits produced using the Coffey still. The Irish and American distilleries adopted the spelling "whiskey", with the extra "e", to distinguish their higher quality product.

pulling an out of context wikipedia note relating to a sole incident 140 years ago is your idea of winning an argument?

i spit on your attempt!

scotland has 100 distilleries... ireland has 4... we do hand crafted perfection... you do mass produced muck...

 

[ratmonkey]

And there's no mass produced muck coming out of Scotland?

 

[andyman]

scotland has 100 distilleries... ireland has 4... we do hand crafted perfection... you do mass produced muck...

You'd probably want to take a look at what you wrote.

 

[MilanPan!c]

pulling an out of context wikipedia note relating to a sole incident 140 years ago is your idea of winning an argument?

i spit on your attempt!

scotland has 100 distilleries... ireland has 4... we do hand crafted perfection... you do mass produced muck...

the original plan for Scotch was make something undrinkable, then charge 100 quid for it... people are stupid enough to think expensive = good... thus the Scotch industry was born.

In Ireland the plan is, "if we make something delicious, we'll all be happy".

Scotch, even the best stuff, tastes like tainted paint thinner.

 

[maims bond]

Scotch, even the best stuff, tastes like tainted paint thinner.

Are you for real or just being argumentative? I reckon most whisk(e)y drinkers would have respect for both Scotch and Irish.

 

[ann post]

 

[MilanPan!c]

Are you for real or just being argumentative? I reckon most whisk(e)y drinkers would have respect for both Scotch and Irish.

A little of both, though I really don't like scotch and really don't get it's appeal and really think that being boutique isn't enough to justify changing a lot for something that basically doesn't taste great.

Bleugh...

And yeah, I have had really good stuff.

I have repeatedly argued though, that Ireland should learn from Scotland and make a raft-load of boutique whiskey distilleries downthecountry.

Rather my taxes go to whiskie than banks...

 

[MilanPan!c]