Whisky / Whiskey / Bourbon

So Rye is not my thing. I love Laphroaig what is similar that I should try?

Ardbeg, Talisker, Lagavulin

in the order 1, 3, 2

ooh would have to be 3, 1, 2 for me!

2,0,1

All three in a blender with ice and diet coke and a slice of lemon.

2, 3, 1.

3, 2, 1, ALL THE WHISKIES!

The Ileach.

@EB @youramericanlover @umop3pisdn

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ardbeg-Uigeadail-Whisky-70-cl/dp/B008U7SUE8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455819880&sr=8-1&keywords=uigeadail

This is what I think of when I think Ardberg, so please let me know with Talisker and Lagavulin you might be talking about. Happy to re-visit my thinking :)

I was just thinking of their basic offering, so 10yr, 10yr, 16yr.

I prefer the Oogy over the 10

I get too much TCP at the first taste with Ardbeg but it apparently evens out with time. But I'm with @umop3pisdn on Lagavulin, the standard 16 is amaze but I also had a distillers edition which was like, life changing. It was '92 or '93 so I don't know how that's changed now that the distiller's editions are no longer attached to a year (ie the different barrels could have been matured and then mixed for the bare minimum of 10 years) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lagavulin-Distillers-Whisky-70-cl/dp/B007UOLH9W/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455887577&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=lagavulin+distillers+edition

I find Talisker 10 a bit rough, like the peat and malt and caramel are all good flavours in the glass but sort of hit you independently one after another, I think it's disjointed. For the same price I'd go for the distillers edition not because it's more "prestigious" but because it's says a few of the harsher notes of trad talisker are evened out just a little (unlike Talisker Skye which appears to be them trying to make Talisker taste like a speyside or something or Talisker Storm which is for people who don't know about Laphroigh Quarter Cask apparently) https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/27538/talisker-2003-distillers-edition

I had a bottle of 1997 distillers edition Lagavulin 16 I bought from Balmoral Castle where it was weirdly much cheaper than anywhere online - it was lush - the finish in sherry casks malarkey seems to really work with the Lag, still plenty of peat but with a nice honey and raisin finish

The Talikser Port Rhuge (sic) is also worth trying.

Talikser Port Ruighe

https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/talisker/talisker-port-ruighe-whisky/

Yeah thanks for nothing pal. :)

Should be here in a few days.

Edinburgh Fixed are touring the Southern Hebrides soon for as many distilleries as we can fit into four days.

*moves to Edinburgh

Come if you fancy it.

Oh my days these two are tasty.

1 Attachment

I currently have a bottle of Scotch Whiskey Society "Beaty and the Beast".

It's a single cask limited bottling, from Ardbeg.

It's the nicest thing I have ever drunk.

Heaps of chilie, leather, liquorice, vanilla, and burnt toffee. Also has a lemon citrus tang running through it.

At £120 a bottle I am limiting myself to one measure per sitting.

don't think of it like that; think of it as exceptionally good value at appx £4.29 per single measure - you wouldn't get that quality for 5 times the price in a bar!

what did you dilute it with?

what did you dilute it with?

simpsonscastcarryingflamingtorches.jpg

easy tiger, that there beauty and the beast is over 60% proof, so it would be perfectly acceptable to let it down a tad..

Diet Coke