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Once you've put a bunch of water and three cubes of ice in that "best single malt" you may as well have used something basic like Famous Grouse or Cutty Sark. LOL! You can't be serious. Cutty Sark... LOL! Sure, for ice and water duty. Besides those two it could be Johnnie Red, Dewars, et cetera. Maybe 90:1 water:Cutty makes it good. 
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Famous Grouse has a better flavor profile for Scotch & Soda than does single malt.
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Yes people drink it.
It's how you virtue signal in the booze world. Exactly perfect way of explaining it.
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Yes people drink it.
It's how you virtue signal in the booze world. Exactly perfect way of explaining it. Some folks indulge in the other direction of virtue signaling. "Oh, I can't be a snob 'cause I like cheap stuff" "Anybody that claims to have any semblance of a refined palate is a fake, poser snob"
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I once had a drink with Booker Noe III, of Bookers’s fame. He had his best single malt with a finger of water and 3 cubes of ice. He said- it’s whiskey- not holy water… drink it how you like. word
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Yes people drink it.
It's how you virtue signal in the booze world. Exactly perfect way of explaining it. Some folks indulge in the other direction of virtue signaling. "Oh, I can't be a snob 'cause I like cheap stuff" "Anybody that claims to have any semblance of a refined palate is a fake, poser snob" I don't like fakers of either genre but if it tastes like gasoline I ain't drinking it.
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Famous Grouse has a better flavor profile for Scotch & Soda than does single malt. I just put in a splash of water, no cubes. Will buy Teachers as well.
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In th Bush, it's R&R for the win.....  . A friend /co-worker bought his father some very expensive good scotch for his 70th birthday. One taste, and the bottle went back on the shelf and the old man returned to what he had been drinking for 55 years - Cutty Sark. He didn't like the good stuff.....
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Perhaps you're missing the point. Good or bad, to your taste or not, it is an expensive whiskey. Perhaps the old gent just wanted to say thanks and picked it up by price, probably something he wouldn't have afforded for himself.
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Ha Ha: Islay scotch, heavy smoke and peat. Lots of smooth flavors rolled into it once you get used to it.
Send it here, I’ll drink it.
You were probably expecting Speyside or Highland scotch which is closer to Canadian or Irish whisky.
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Famous Grouse has a better flavor profile for Scotch & Soda than does single malt. Famous Grouse has a dark sister as well. It’s the smoky Black Grouse, to see if that bit of change attracts you. Try them side by side. It won’t leave your wallet light. But leave the soda shelved. Never could understand the attraction.
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Once you've put a bunch of water and three cubes of ice in that "best single malt" you may as well have used something basic like Famous Grouse or Cutty Sark.
Horses for courses. Lol damn harsh
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Taste is highly personal so there's no wrong or right answer. However, Laphroaig is highly sought after due to the range of taste it offers. Lots of great complex flavors in every sip. It certainly is intense, and probably not the best "starter" scotch, although it is what I started on. I prefer to mix it 50/50 with good ice cold water, which brings out the subtle flavors. Again, no ice, and be sure the water itself is high quality so it doesn't adulterate the scotch. Nothing better than sitting by a fire in the evening and nursing some Laphroaig. Especially when it is snowing outside.
By gifting Laphroaig, oak-tree-guy was showing you his extreme appreciation for your help. The gift not being the scotch so much by itself, but the opportunity to expand your palette into a new pleasure.
Again, taste is personal etc., but if a person feels the need to add a flavorant to his scotch, that scotch wasn't that good to begin with (or the person just doesn't like scotch). But, whatever; just like rifle cartridges, "shoot what'cha like."
If I was close, I'd happily take it off your hands.
JMHO
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If you have to acquire a taste for it, that's double speak for tastes like sh itt. Why bother.
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I’ve tried scotch a few times. Cheap and expensive. It’s just not for me.
I think in order to acquire the taste for scotch you have to have a Medicare card.
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If you have to acquire a taste for it, that's double speak for tastes like sh itt. Why bother. There's lots of things in life that take some practice to get good at. Tasting things is one of them. Life is richer when you make the effort to fully participate.
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Can’t say I have ever complained about a drink or bottle
bought for me. I never b itched about a smoke I have bummed
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If you have to acquire a taste for it, that's double speak for tastes like sh itt. Why bother. There's lots of things in life that take some practice to get good at. Tasting things is one of them. Life is richer when you make the effort to fully participate. If we all thought that way, all we'd ever eat is pablum and all we'd drink is milk & water.
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Ha Ha: Islay scotch, heavy smoke and peat. Lots of smooth flavors rolled into it once you get used to it.
. Any scotch from Islay rocks but Lagavulin 16 and Bowmore are the cream of the crop.
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Yes people drink it.
It's how you virtue signal in the booze world. Exactly perfect way of explaining it. Some folks indulge in the other direction of virtue signaling. "Oh, I can't be a snob 'cause I like cheap stuff" "Anybody that claims to have any semblance of a refined palate is a fake, poser snob" I agree... a poseur is a poseur.
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