does anyone actually like the taste of whiskey?

[insertnamehere]

besides me

[ms.peachy]

YES

[Bob]

i never got the hang of the taste of it, it tastes like hate and sadness (generally the things that drive me to drink it straight up). i like it with soda though. i drink it with that pretty regularly. i'm basically a huge girl i guess

[TOY]

No.

[mickill]

Hell yes. Blended or single malt, preferably neat.

[ms.peachy]

There's a little shelf next to our fridge where we have about 5 bottles of different brands of scotch. Sometimes when I am going to get something out of the refrigerator I stop and open one and take a long sniff, just because I like to do that.

[Adam]

Oh god yeah - single malts all the way. I have a unhealthy addiction to whisky from the scottish highlands.

Don't tell the alcohol police but I have been known to have it first thing I'm awake before 6am.

For the guys that don't like the taste, stop drinking blended or bourbon and get a good malt. Don't mix it with soda and if neat is a little too harsh, had an ice cube or two and wait 10 mins - slowly sip.

[mickill]

Originally Posted by Adam

For the guys that don't like the taste, stop drinking blended or bourbon and get a good malt. Don't mix it with soda and if neat is a little too harsh, had an ice cube or two and wait 10 mins - slowly sip.

For someone who doesn't actually appreciate the taste, I think some blended whiskeys really aren't that bad.

I tried a glass of Johnny Walker Blue in a hotel bar once (30 dollars), and it was actually really smooth. Like, velvety smooth even. Of course, $200 a bottle for a blended scotch is a little on the insane side, but it was still good. Might have to do with the 60 year age. Apparently blended scotches plateau after 25 years or so.

[Helvete]

I hate whiskey so badly. I literally cannot drink it, a single shot and I will throw up.

[Kid Presentable]

I'll drink anything.

[Adam]

When I say blended, I mean stuff like Grants or Famous Grouse and a few other cheap and popular drinks. Stuff like BNJ is good. Also, I'm a fan of Sherry Cast blended and there are some good double malts out there. So what I said ain't exactly true.

There is a blended that comes out for the Edinburgh Fringe actually so you can only get it once a year - I should grab some of that before it all goes cus that was a while ago now.

[ms.peachy]

Originally Posted by Adam

if neat is a little too harsh, had an ice cube or two and wait 10 mins - slowly sip.

According to the (rather fanciable, not that that's relevant, just remembering fondly) bloke who led the distillery tour I went on a few years ago, it is best not to go strictly neat but to add a splash of water (or, an ice cube and 10 mins, as suggested) because the water 'liberates' more of the whiskey's subtle flavours. Has something to do with the density of molecules; the water molecules are bigger and so they space the booze molecules out to have more surface area, or some kind of thing like that. I don't remember exactly; I'd been drinking scotch. Duh.

[Kid Presentable]

Yeah keep a small glass of very chilled water handy. Or not. Straight out the bottle, brown paper bag

[Lex Diamonds]

There's obviously good tasting and bad tasting whiskey but I find if you're at the point where you're drinking a bottle of neat whiskey then you don't worry too much about the taste. As long as you got some strong cigarettes it goes down the same whatever the flavour.

[insertnamehere]

hmmm maybe i should try the water/ice cube thing. i dont know what neat means but from context im assuming it means straight up and room temp, which is how i typically drink it. i like the taste but not the burning. does the 10 min ice cube rule help with burning?

i remember being a fan of jamesons but i cant remember what it actually tastes like, its been forever since ive had any. ive curently got a bottle of jack daniels black, and ive been known to buy george dickel in a plastic bottle.

dont hate.

[MC Moot]

yes...and my fave is on the rocks with a nice rich cafe con leche...a hit of hot coffee then a hit of cold whiskey...after a meal or for breakfast on holiday...

http://www.fortycreekwhisky.com/splash/

[trailerprincess]

I like a whiskey sour

[MC Moot]

^oui,oui say oui...nice reminder,I think i'll get up to that tonight maybe...

[saz]

canadian club

[MC Moot]

http://www.crownroyal.com/home.aspx

[MC Moot]

http://www.gibsonsfinest.ca/

[jabumbo]

nothing wrong with a little dickel




my dad doesn't drink beer, so he is a bit of a whisky connoisseur if there ever was one. his preferred method is to add a few ice cubes and occasionally the splash of water for some of the rougher stuff.

hard for me to drink the cheap stuff though, since i've always been provided with something a little higher up. about a week before my 21st birthday i was at a party with the family and the old fellas had me join in on their 60 yr old whisky tasting. it was almost too good, really.

[insertnamehere]

i like the coffee idea. i might have to give that a go. and i loooove whiskey sours. i get cravings for them sometimes. not in an alcoholic kind of way, just in that i really like the taste of them.

[checkyourprez]

i fucking hate whiskey. i only do shots of it when they are given to me, even then its just to do it so i dont look like a pussy.

worst part about my hate of whiskey is my favorite bar has $2.50 jameson shots as they're every day special.

[cj hood]

i drink crown royal...my man gave me some honey wild turkey...kept in the freezer...looks like honey, pours like honey, tastes like honey (at first)...then bam! gobble...gobble!!!

[b i o n i c]

^ haha

i dont really like the taste of whiskey... i always get that woody taste stuck in my mouth that reminds me of hangover. and woody whiskey heartburn burps

i do love the taste of some good gin..

i went into a bar by myself waiting for a friend last week and asked for a bombay sapphire martini in a regular glass and the chick poured me what looked like a full 10oz of gin. those glasses are deceiving

[camo]

I used to love it but since drinking way too much of it on my 21st my body has become intolerable to it.

I can't even have a drunken conversation with someone if I can smell it on their breath.

[HEIRESS]

a uncle from my scottish side of the family died recently and I attended the wake.
I have never seen so many bottles of scotch drank in one single evening in my ENTIRE life.

every since my brother and I were in the double digits age-wise my dad has forced a wee shot of scotch on us xmas morning as soon as we woke up. even if it was 6 am.
I hated the taste so he used to mix it with cold chocolate milk for me.
and to this day he still mixes it with chocolate milk even though I'm 27 now

[b i o n i c]

is this just tradition, or was it just to calm a couple of overexcited kids down before they start ripping apart presents?

[paul jones]

I have to have it with coke or NO DEAL