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For a good swilling Whiskey, I choose Scoresby: Yes, and keep the good Clan MacGregor for special occasions . Swill is the appropriate word !
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Famous Grouse. Try it!
The Scots prefer a blend and laugh at us Americans that spend more on single malt. Their stance is a blend is consistent bottle to bottle and year to year. They know what they are buying. Single malts can vary from not much to extreme. Already a staple.
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I've not tried enough scotch to know what's what. Some I remember:
* Cutty "Shark" - that's what I used to sneak slugs of out of the liquor cabinet as a grade schooler. It seemed tasty, on account of it being forbidden. The same bottle lasted for decades because they didn't throw enough parties to pawn it off on the guests.
* Something with nearly all consonants in the name, that sounded French - "Le Frog", maybe?: supposedly wonderful and pricey single malt, that tasted like dirt. Couldn't get past the first sip. I wasn't even a grade schooler at the time.
* Ballantine's: bought @ the Roosville, MT crossing for a Canadian hunt, because it was the only brown liquor they had in stock. It was gross, but I still had a few glasses: camp was fairly dry that trip.
* Glenfiddich: If that's the one in the triangular prism bottle, I've liked it quite a bit on both occasions I've had it. Couldn't tell you which "age" it was. Might have been the middle one.
* THE Macallan 12: Shaman talked me into trying a snort of this, and I enjoyed it enough to have had a couple more, since. I like it much better than a certain institution that insists on prefacing its name with, "THE"...
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Famous grouse is decent as well.
I've never tried Dewar’s, is it any good?
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Famous grouse is decent as well.
I've never tried Dewar’s, is it any good? At that general price point I put it well behind Famous Grouse and behind JW Red, and ahead of Cutty Sark and J&B Rare.
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When the father in law comes over the pond we drink Famous Grouse.
Barring that we drink maybe a bottle of Cutty Sark.
His Local was called Wilsons. It was very good but Seagrams shut it down.
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I’m a fan of the Smokey Grouse
"I Birn Quhil I Se" MacLeod of Lewis I Burn While I See Hold Fast MacLeod of Harris
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The best selling whiskey in Scotland is Famous Grouse, for the reasons elucidated above. (And also because the "cheapskate" stereotype started for a reason!) It's my go-to brand.
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Dunno. Don't do that with my other whiskys but on a whim, decided to chill the three pack. Chilled it in the freezer but somehow a bit of the Black made it to the fridge.
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Bought serveral bottles of this several years ago when they weren't sky high. Best blended scotch ever. Too bad I drank them... William Grant 25 Year Old, Rare & Extraordinary
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Did you mean "Skye high"?
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Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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Did you mean "Skye high"? Highland high.
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Had a wee nip - less than a dram - of Famous Grouse today on the golf course. Handsome little leather-bound flask. I view Scotch as the only appropriate libation for golf, for obvious reasons. It was a bit chilly - several shaded greens had sheets of ice on them and when a chip shot landed, it sounded like hitting a hardwood dance floor.
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For being out in those conditions I'd have probably filled my flask with cask strength Laphroaig, it goes well with chilly weather.
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Yeah right.
Cut with some Blackberry Brandy maybe........
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Heathen.
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Monkey Shoulder. Interesting, and pricepoint is also right. For the price (high 20s), Monkey Shoulder is amazingly good.
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Utah has a 46% "sin tax" on alcohol, so the brands you guys recommend are prohibitive here. When I travel, I enjoy a tumbler or three of the good stuff; but at home, it's Famous Grouse, mostly.
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Monkey Shoulder. Interesting, and pricepoint is also right. One of the best bargains going. Blended but all malted barley.
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