Lapua posted this in the basement.

How do you drink your scotch? On ice? With seltzer? Mixed? Or, like me, straight up with a little splash of water?

When I could drink it I used one or two ice cubes.

Scotch and Mt. Dew mixer. Occasionally with a pickled egg garnish.

Go to scotch is Oban.

I prefer not to. I’m pretty sure scotch and diesel fuel are one and the same.

Make mine bourbon.

Not a scotch guy, but I'll usually drink it in the same fashion as the person who's offering it to me.

lapua6547's selection doesn't suck. I also kina like the stuff in the triangular prism bottles: Gen-somethinerother.

FC

In a glass or straight from the bottle.

with a couple ice cubes

Depends on the scotch.

Neat or water depending in all single malts.

You mix Oban w/ Mt Dew?

When I was drinking man, I preferred it the way of an old Scottish saying I heard one time.

"Neat. The way God made it"

Or maybe with an ice cube in it at a jazz concert. I seemed to drink fewer that way.

I mix my twelve-year-old Scotch with great value ginger ale...

With the 21 year old stuff I splurge and use real Canada Dry

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Just kidding... one perfect ice chunk off of a block.

I drink my Scotch with bourbon, and hold the Scotch.

Not always - sometimes I mix with Dr. Thunder or very occasionally Orange Crush.

I remember this cat back in the early 80,s.

Dont try it.
IIRC
It,s like 4 or 5 total rounds in the bar verses you wind up doing.

LOL!!!




Got sicker than a schitt house dog drinking Cutty Sark at a Party when I was 13.
Drank about 2/3rds of a fifth, 0 mixer no ice.
Hardcore outta a glass.

LaLa land at the porcelin god when it hit me like a dump truck.

Baa Baa Black Sheep was my fav show.
Most def didnt measure up to Pappy Boyington and the rest of the Corsair Pilots that night.

Can’t drink that stuff

neat in a snifter

Good man!

Mathman just drove off a cliff.....


I will drink it with a spash of water and an ice cube. Thats how the father in law drinks it.

Just a little refined I allways pour it in a crystal glass first and sip. Mb

LMAO!

Neat in a Glencairn Whisky Glass, same goes for Bourbon, Rye, Irish Whisky etc.

It depends on the scotch. The Macallan in the pic has been ruined.

No scotch. Gave up bourbon a long time ago (20 yrs?)
I just drink beer or bloody marys/screwdrivers.

Usually after dinner....

with a straw, like anyone else does...

Straight out of a bottle of Scoresby?

Neat, no exceptions.

Neat

This !

Ala natural, just like I eat my oysters.

Not a fan. My brother is a Scotch snob and it seems to me the more expensive the scotch the worse it tastes to me.

Cheers;

Neat, or not at all! I won’t drink the rotgut scotch, as they give you heartburn and bad hangovers with far less volumes.

What's the rotgut line for you?

Cutty Sark, JWRed. Or other $10-15 bottles.

It’s better not to drink the fire water and not harm your body.

Drink very little booze now but if I do any scotch it's my traditional style with a little water & an ice cube.

Cutty Sark is not what I'd call sipping whisky, but I've found it's just fine for a mild tasting scotch and soda. I've had a number of Cutty and sodas and never once had heartburn or a hangover from it. Sure it may be a little bland and uninteresting, but I wouldn't call it rotgut.

Without some wise azz who sits there and whines about how Scotch tastes.

I like Famous Grouse, and since Scotch snobs say since it's a blend it can't be ruined any more anyway, I have mine on the rocks.

But Friday is my Gibson night. Gin with pickled onions, dirty. Rocks again.

I agree 100%
Scotch sucks

Those are snobs who don't really know what they're talking about. I have two very fine blends on my bar right now.

Now that I am retired I like my morning coffee with Famous Grouse.

When I was a kid I recall Famous Grouse commercials in Outdoor Life/Field and Stream.

Ditto.

I may join you on that Gibson Rocky.

Sorry MathMan, the boy have taked me into a G&T tonight;

Hendrick's Summer Solstice, Fever Tree Cucumber tonic !

Gimmicked up cucumber salad in a glass.

Make mine clean and classic, Beefeater and regular tonic, twist of lime.

I like decent blends. I’ve had some really smooth and flavorful blends too. This thread is about what each individual prefers, so there is no reason to get butthurt over different opinions on scotch.

Who's butthurt?

I've tried, lord knows I've tried. Scotch is just too much bad stuff. I'm going to stick to scotch eggs. For drinks a standard well whiskey is best for me.

My experience has usually been that the hospitality far outweighs the hooch bering served (Bud Light excepted: no amount of hospitality can outweigh that crap).

That being said, I'm always endeavoring to gain more experience.

FC

Straight with one or two ice cubes.

That’s an absolute shame.
Neat for me. Maybe a drop of water depending on the dram

Ways to improve your scotch or bourbon: https://www.barrelsonline.com/black-hoop-oak-barrels

Has anyone tried aging what you buy, and and aging it some more in an oak barrel? I heard it really improves the smoothness and flavor. It would be interesting to try this aging technique.

It's all good, got the bases covered;



A final though, that I know you agree with;

Most people drink their beer & white wine too cold & their red wine to hot.

Flavour profiles are changed markedly, by temperature.

Cheers;

👍

Over a couple of ice cubes.

Just about finishing my Gibson. Mighty fine drink, that.

I despise ice. But the big block brings out the flavor in good Scotch.

Trust me..

Plus 1

😎

It's a Glenlivet tumbler tonight with a couple if ice cubes. Glenmorangie this time.

The porcelain bunny is protecting my cache...😬😎

Beaver 10 knows his shiit

Room temp - neat.

I'm an inbred low brow and drink the Crown Royal of scotches, Chivas Regal

Chilling does not bring out flavor.

Neat. Pure and simple.

But adding a touch of clean water isn't a crime at all.
It can do wonders to open up a scotch.

Accurate.

Had JW Odyssey tonight

If I gotta drink scotch then its gonna be with mt dew, fanta orange, or maybe some coca cola.

Yes it does

you shouldn't drink scotch

When I drank I liked it straight.

Bourbon is gross to me.

Gin says martini; I always loved Bombay Sapphire shaken, neat.

Talk about alcohol abuse 🤢

Nope.

Life's full of choices...

And you made a wrong one.

enjoy...

I'm not Scottish, and don't need to take their whiskey.

Tequila in a glass.

never

I like Cutty Sark.

Anyone who doesn't like it can eat a bag of dicks.

Bunch of Philistines in here!

On ice. Usually Glenfiddich of some flavor.

Glenlivet on the rocks. That’s how I like it! That’s how I drink it! When I drink Scotch. Usually Wild Turkey 101.

This.

Single Malt.

Lynn

Exactly!

Dewars on the rocks.

Laphroiag, Bowmore, etc....with a splash of water.

Though once a I buddy and I swiped a bottle of McCallan 18 and make jello shots. Not sure how much trouble he got in when his dad found out.
The jello shots sucked, BTW.

Our version of scotch is French brandy aka Cognac. We drink it straight.

I'm of the same mind, but before I figured that out I used to drink it by pouring it into my mouth. I know of no other way to drink scotch.

Your man bun is too tight.

My favorite is Highland Park 12 or 18 but I had an Aberlour 12 Double Cask earlier this year that was very nice indeed. I have a nice Japanese malt, Nikka Coffey Malt (Coffey is a type of still, it's not coffee flavored) which has a nice rich chocolate note that makes it a fine after dinner dram. And - - - chilling any alcohol retards volatilization which will effect the smell (nose) of the whisky and since smell is a large part of taste, chilling will effect taste. With a nice, aged, single malt, you've paid for that flavor; you might as well get all the flavor you've paid for.

On top of that chilling anesthetizes the palate.

Damn, I think I’ve found my Christmas present!

I won’t waste good scotch in it (I think the distillers know what they’re doing), but it would be nice for my homemade brandy experiments.

Hey...that makes sense. Maybe I CAN drink Scotch again without wreching.

1 small cube in Lagavulin,or Laphroaig Quarter cask. I can trace direct lineage back to 12th century Scotland. Although recently I have been sipping good Bourbon. For the money Elijah Craig small batch

I let some other poor sucker buy it and I take the bourbon. Me and scotch just don't mix. Black Velvet and I do.

kwg

Only you guys could make drinking booze gayer than a Maypole festival in San Francisco.

That's a long way to trace a Quarter cask!😁

Cute thread.

Try Boodles ,you wont regret it

https://www.boodlesgin.com/

This thread (scotch) is second only to the chili w/beans or wo/beans threads.

I keep it in the freezer, always ready, my only other gin I like.

Lynn

How do I drink my Scotch?
From a Gin bottle.

I just poured a half bottle of Dewars down the Sewers. Stuff tastes like dirt. Kept the bottle for an old friend who attended a few dinners but he stopped socializing after his wife passed. I tried a sip before deciding to dump it. No way would I drink it. What is the taste from? Peat?

Yep, you either like Scotch or you don't. I do.. Gin is like sucking on a pine bough.. A good Mescal, yep.

Actually, more like sucking on a Juniper bough. Good stuff!

Highland Park 12 is my go to drink and I've got two bottles of 18 in the cabinet I sip on for special occasions. Balvenie Doublewood 12 is another favorite of mine.

I agree with all you say about ice, it's blasphemy to put ice in good whisky. However, with the number of times on this thread I've counted guys listing cheap rotgut bourbon as their favorite drink it doesn't surprise me a bit. What can you say? There are plenty of guys that want steak well done and think Kim Kardashian's enormous ass is sexy.

Ice cubes are for people who don't like the taste of their whisky.

I have to say that gin & tonics have gotten me through a few hot summer days....

Hendricks doesn't

Gin? How did we get talking about gin on a whisky thread. So be it:

https://us.monkey47.com/distillers-cut

I'm a neat guy.

I like to start with a good hit of single malt. Then switch to Scoresby for the rest of night. I drink out of a stainless steel beaker and use a dilute Lemonade for a palate cleanser.

That step down is akin to falling off a cliff.

Back in the days of my youth, when I drank "blended" whisky and thought Dewar's White Label was good stuff and Chivas Regal the ne plus ultra of scotch, it was right from the bottle, often with a pinch of Copenhagen on the other side of my mouth and a beer in my other hand. Now, with a cabinet of single malts (and a bottle of White Label for when someone wants a scotch-based cocktail) it's usually neat or with a single cube of ice.

Sounds like me! Except it would have been Turkey 101 in those days.

Today??? I drink my single-malts by putting them in the back of the cabinet for company and pour myself a double of Makers 46 over a round ball of distilled water ice in my Yeti tumbler.

The Macallan, it sure-as-hell aint...

Shaman introduced me to Scoresby almost exactly 1 year ago. Curiously, it's not passed my lips since.


And speaking of The Macallan, whoda thunk the world of Scotch whiskey would need an equivalent to THE Ohio State University?

FC

Neat.

Well, I figure that once I've addled my taste buds, it's not really worth wasting the good stuff.

To me, Scoresby has a very honey-like taste. As a swilling scotch, I've found no better. At camp it works equally well as an antiseptic and a parts cleaner.

Wannabewanna: I don't - I spend my monies on guns and ammo!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

You just didn't deaden your taste buds enough. We'll have to continue your lessons. It's all a matter of discipline.

I used to have to visit the warehouses of the old Monsanto plant. They did a half-day on safety training. It was filled with warnings like: "If you smell something like fresh doughnuts, you're already dead." Scoresby is a lot like that. You just need to keep it coming until that golden honey taste comes through and then you know it's too late. I'm using THE Macallan until no more than 2nd stage separation and then switch to Scoresby for the Trans-Lunar Injection burn.

. . . and then I hear the laconic voice of Rocky Rabb intone: "You have a Go for Press to MECO."

I was relating this to my sons the other night. It was a full moon back in 2008. I'd nailed a nice 8-pointer at sundown and I had no one at camp to help. It took a long time to get it gutted and loaded in the S10 and I was quite spent when I hit the Thoughtful Spot, and poured myself my first one. TLI went smoothly, and I was in a nice parking orbit, bathed in moonlight when my phone rang. KYHillChick wanted to know if I was all right.

She had taken Angus to band practice, and missed my earlier call to tell her I was out. I regailed her with my story about the buck and then asked for the Cincinnati Caledonians for a request: Play Caber Feigh (The horns of the deer) It was their signature tune.

There I was, in a perfect orbit around the full moon of November with an entire Pipe and Drum band playing my request. It was mighty fine-- one of the highlights of my life. For some reason, I don't recall splashdown, but I woke up in bed the next morning with my mouth feeling like I'd been licking the heat shield and a 200 lb buck frozen solid in the freezer. It took until noon to thaw things out enough to get the hoist in and get him out. The processor was mighty amazed when I rolled in with a deer frozen in a solid rectangular block.

I keep a bottle of Scotch under the sink at all times in case the drain gets plugged.

I drink scotch the right way. I dump the nasty crap down the damn drain then crack the top on a Miller Tall Boy.

Last night, Glenfiddich and rocks.

Somewhere I've read that single malts taste like "seaweed marinated in iodine".
I mostly agree... For me, it's been John Walker Black for the better part of 30 years.

on the Rocks

I have a good friend that drinks Glenlivett12 year old . Every time I show up he pours me 4 fingers in a whiskey glass .

Then one day I told him thanks but live is too short to drink that gawdawful stuff .

Sicko! I drink it wet.

Some single malts from the island of Islay may fit that description but single malts from the Speyside, Lowland and Highland regions can be fruity, sweet, honey notes, floral etc. The term Single Malt just means it's a whisky made from malted barley only, no other grain spirits are blended into it and is the product of one distillery. Johnny Walker Black is a blend which will contain malts as well as other grain whisky. The blends can and( likely does) contain whisky from several distilleries and your JWB will contain malts from Islay.

Neat............