Originally Posted by Sixty

I gave up when Caubeen died. It just didn't seem fitting when poor Mulligan was distraught.

Originally Posted by jarrod248

Did Mulligan die?

No, but he's not really been straught since.

As FM says. Have heard Canadian whiskies are good. Tried a few and all were ok, pretty good.

Not strictly on-thread but I do like a drop of Everclear 190.

Originally Posted by ordinaryforces

never drink whisky in a pub that has come out of an optic. It's always blended whisky(cheap-piss) go for the bottle thats sitting the right way up. and never ever add a mixer ...blasphemy.
as someone said earlier midleton is quite nice, pricey though.

I have heard it said that the only mixer you could use would be the same water that was used to make the whisky in the first place. The American "Burbon and branch" idea.

Now if this has any basis in fact or even tradition (or maybe it is time to start another one) then why don't the distilleries bottle the "famous peat bog water" or whatever the claim is and sell it alongside the bottles of whisky?

Sounds like a winner to me and I want 10% of the profit if any of them take it up.

Originally Posted by rebel_with_a_cause

Not strictly on-thread but I do like a drop of Everclear 190.

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Colonial said "but some have caramel added to give it a darker colour!" Not "some" , just about all. Its the way they make sure that the final product on the shelf looks the same, batch after batch. Take the darkest possible colour that its likely to be and add caramel ( burnt sugar) to anything less dark until it matches.

Ordinary Forces wrote : "never drink whisky in a pub that has come out of an optic. It's always blended whisky(cheap-piss) go for the bottle thats sitting the right way up." Even that does not mean the unscrupulous landlord has not filled the Grouse bottle with Aldis cheapest. An attempt to stop refilling is why the bottles you'll see around the Med. have a plastic one-way valve arrangement in the neck.

Originally Posted by kilo42

Most people cant tell one whisky from another, especially if they have had a couple. In fact if you want a wee bit of fun tell your drinking mates that you bet they cant tell a lager from a stout or a pint of heavy. Get half a pint of each poured tell your guy to shut his eyes and give him the stout first, he might get the first two swigs right but give him a taste of stout again and usually they wont have a clue what they are swallowing after that.

JDs a nice dram

I can Scotch whiskey makes me throw up Irish whiskey doesn't simples

Originally Posted by Steven

I have heard it said that the only mixer you could use would be the same water that was used to make the whisky in the first place. The American "Burbon and branch" idea.

Now if this has any basis in fact or even tradition (or maybe it is time to start another one) then why don't the distilleries bottle the "famous peat bog water" or whatever the claim is and sell it alongside the bottles of whisky?

Sounds like a winner to me and I want 10% of the profit if any of them take it up.

I must admit I never heard the term "bourbon and branch" before...but I just googled it, and I realised that unbeknowing to me it's the rule I always followed. clean water only,..mixers only kill the whisky and its what gives you the sore head.

I quite like the rural indonesian product.......



.......the fucking stupid locals run their mopeds on it!