My husband loves good scotch neat and trying different ones. I usually take a tiny sip and don’t like it. Although, I enjoy other drinks. Road trips are fun. We recently returned from a month trip with our 3 pooches.
My husband loves good scotch neat and trying different ones. I usually take a tiny sip and don’t like it. Although, I enjoy other drinks. Road trips are fun. We recently returned from a month trip with our 3 pooches.
Just recently
I have been drinking Scotch. And Irish whiskey. I ised to hate that stuff, but I think I was drinking the cheap kinds.
And just this morning I looked up the difference between Bourbon and Scotch.
Bourbon is usually made from corn and is always made outside of Scotland. Only Whiskey made in Scotland (they make it from barley) can be called Scotch.
I used to drink Scotch. I didn't like it, so I tended to suck it up quickly. Didn't end well.
Went back to Brandy Alexanders ( not blended). I still have one occasionally.
I'm not a fan of straight hard liquor--ice or no ice. I do like to sip some liqueurs, like cognac. I'm definitely a wine or beer person, with the occasional gin and tonic on a hot summer day.
My daughter loves cocktails, but I just feel most of them are just overpriced punches. I will have a margarita on occasion. I really don't like martinis at all.
We have a good friend of the family who is definitely a Maker's Mark guy. Doesn't drink anything else. Makes gift-giving easy.
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so, is that an expensive Scotch?Originally Posted by catherine
I am enamoured of the small cigar lounge/gentleman’s drinking club in Hermann. There I sampled a few Scotch brands, and liked best the one from Arran, the island where DH’s aunt lived. It was very smooth. The experienced Scotch drinkers in my group agreed it was the best.
To the best of my knowledge, Makers Mark sells its used barrels to Laphroaig Distillery, Port Ellen Scotland.
Wonder how quickly we will hear from Ishbel?
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Love Laphroaig! I know some people are turned off by the smokiness but I like all kinds of smoky foods, so why not my Scotch?
I kind of fell into liking whiskey. I was out with some friends and the bar was offering two-for-ones on Scotch. We sipped them all as taste tests. Some of them seemed quite medicinal-tasting to me. But the rest I liked (surprised me as I'm not a fan of gin, vodka, tequila, or other distilled spirits). And it interested me that despite having the equivalent of two drinks in about 45-50 minutes, I didn’t get the buzz that I'd get from two beers or glasses of wine. And (bonus!) whiskey is very low in carbs, so I can drink it relatively freely while I have to be quite careful about how many beers or what kind of wines I drink.
I think it's like enjoying coffee -- you can drink whiskey watered down or in a cocktail. But the people who really like it drink it straight or maybe with a bit of water or ice. Also like coffee, if you're going to try it, try the good stuff, not cheap swill. But it is an acquired taste.
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Im not sure why but I was not intrigued by the “opportunity” to seal my own bottle. I simply purchased bottles from the gift shop. When my ambassador barrel ages and is ready to be bottled....I will probably do so if offered. Nice pic.
I don’t often think of politics over my morning coffee but there is a certain entertainment value going on with Trumps “Reign of Terror.” I’m not sympathetic nor am I aggressively offended by it all. I suppose it’s because of my inherited skepticism of government per se (after all I worked in it). I know what motivates people in charge and “the good of the people” isn’t usually high on the list. There are significant pensions to be secured and lifelong relationships that provide “consulting” fees to make one comfortable the rest of your born days.
Still, one need choose a side sometimes if you can’t separate the parties. I have stated it and will again.....I have always been able to agree with a lot of Ron Paul’s politics, if for no other reason than he was a thorn in the side of the mainstream Republican Party. The Democratic Party left people like me in the progressive dust on Air Force One on the return trip from Dallas on November 22, 1963 so where else was there to go but the greenies.
All this circles round to the seed that stuck under my floating bridge this morning. Rand Paul has been on a tear lately. I get a kick out of his ability to become a thorn also. His calling for Trump to rescind the security clearances for people like Brennan and Clapper......now that’s downright heroic in my eyes.
Everone knows , well everyone has been reminded, that you don’t cross the “intelligence community”. What is this community they speak of and why as appointed and not elected entities do they have the power to demand your allegiance? Why do former intelligence heads still possess clearances? Especially given their cozy positions as consultants to the free press.
I have always believed it to be true that “people who talk, don’t know and people who know, don’t talk”......and especially true of the people actively working to maintain the security of our Country. These people, talk way too much and seem to relish the power the media gives them over public opinion. Now I don’t click glasses with fellas and gals of the former administration and I don’t know crap from shinola about the secret threats to our existence but I do know I wish I had a time machine so I could transport George Mason here and watch his reaction.
George was responsible for much of what went into the Constitution and then was one of three who refused to sign it. Thomas Jefferson took his ideas and spun them onto the Constitution in his own eloquent words. George got a little miffed when they wanted him to sign it without an attached Bill of Rights. George was adamant that the executive office not be filled by one person but by three. He thought one person too closely resembled the Monarchy they just separated from. He had a good point.
Mason was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Much of it was used as fodder for the Constitution. His idea of freedom of the press was interesting in that he viewed the threat of restraint of such freedom as coming from a “despotic Government.” What could be more despotic than to have certain former officials who were unelected but remain able to acquire classified information of the current elected officials and then use that information to poison the “free” press? Or worse yet, plant false information of a classified nature, act like you are discovering it and then use it against your political enemies. This would all make a great novel if it weren’t all so true.
Next time, I promise myself to talk about tagging butterflies or childhood recollections of winter rubber boots with those metal clamps.
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