I only tried out a few of the distillery bottlings of stuff like Ardbeg Ten-Year-Old - sustained smokiness and probably a bit too much of it - and quite young Bruichladdich The Organic, which was okay as the first whisky I tried ever about a month or two ago. There was no comparison and it's all pretty new to me.
The coloring agent permitted in single malt scotch is odd, the "blend" of several whiskies is odd to me as well.

The Highland Park above is very mildly smokey and, well, fruity for me. Maybe a bit too much wine cask, barrel or whatever it is, evoking memories of the red wine vomit session mentioned earlier in this thread at times. It doesn't contain any colouring agents, is un-chillfiltered and from a single cask, not a "blend." Quotation marks because blended scotch seems to be something else, if the Wikipedia entry about the topic is to be trusted.

Laphroaig was also available from the bottler and line above. It was good, maybe even better than the distillery bottling of something else from the same brand. Maybe not. They're all fine and different.

All the interesting adjectives people like to toss around when they talk and write about scotch and booze in general make me smile and recollect the time when I was shopping around for a home theater system in a hi-fi and hi-end stereo store. All gets ethereal at some point and placebos are to be found left and right. There's a solid chance that if a bit more is spent on the gear, it'll sound better. The alchemistic tendencies of some people in the business is something else though.

Last night, we went to visit a friend who had to work late bartending. It's at a hotel and little did we know it was going to be slammed. I ended up getting a Stella because their beer selection was horrible on top of running out of the good stuff by 10pm.

She then presented us an extremely generous shot of Grand Marnier (WTF!). Can't say no. LOL

We said our goodbyes and headed to the local live music bar, had a Guinness that WAS SERVED IN A FRIGGIN' MASON JAR! What the hell? The place happened to be creep night so we left, went back to where we were before.

At that point, I said fuck it and had a double shot of vodka.

So, I've never had an issue with mixing alcohol but I'd have to say that's some of the most random ass combination of alcohol I've had in a long time.

Went home early Thursday with a cold. I'm going to see what interesting effects mixing my medication with some beers will have tonight.

All i Have is gin & sugar-free Mojito mixer. Wish me luck.

is just me or does the mention of gin amongst a group of people conjure up as many if not more horror stories than tequila?.

Not for me. My first time getting drunk was on Tequila. I was 14 and able to buy alcohol because I was 6'4" and could grow something of a beard. I know I drank the worm and puked up some green shit that night.

All my Gin stories are warm-weather and good. I can't say the same for Tequila.

I never delved into gin. Gin alkies always look a decade or more older than they actually are.

Isn't scotch what you get when you filter shoe polish through a sock? That's what I imagine the taste would be.

Nah, they all pump their scotch in different kinds of barrels and then into other ones to let the stuff mature, gain, develop and maintain different types of flavors. It's booze wizardry.

Met up with two girls I hadn't seen face to face in about 35 years last night at my local watering hole/pizza place. Had a few beers. Mich lights. I'm just about over drinking beer cause it makes me feel like shit. I need to limit myself to one beer and it needs to be a good one when I do it.

Ditch the alcohol and take up weed.

Welcome to the world of Whisky, Pipe Dream. You've started off well, and clearly you're a man of refined taste! Highland Park is always a winner.

I actually met the guy behind the "Signatory" label, Andrew Symington, serendipitously last year. He made a fortune buying up barrels of "abandoned" Scotch, that is the inventories of the many distilleries that went belly up during the 80's, and repackaging them as rarities. They're not all classics, many are just single malts that are bred to be blended, but you sometimes find a gem. Your Highland Park is 20 years old now and no doubt a killer.

Symington is your typical, taciturn Scot. He took his profits and bought the Edradour distillery in Pitlochry, where I made his acquaintance one day. I had emailed before my arrival, to make sure that I could get the tour. The lady at the welcome wasn't aware of the situation, so she summoned over "the boss".

She explains my correspondence to him, whereupon he looks me in the eye with nary a whit of welcome or humor and says "I don't know anything about that. Go wait in the bar." That was that.

If you ever get a chance, Edradour has some fantastic custom casked whiskies, such as the "Barolo" and "Bordeaux". The basic Edradour isn't really to my liking, however.

Signatory

Johnny F, hi.
How do you drink whisky yourself?
How much do you pour at once and in total on average?
Undiluted, diluted, ice?
Which type of glass do you prefer and why?
Where do you get info about the stuff you might be interested in online?

It seems that there's some review don working for some distillery which gets good reviews or something. Sounds confidently corrupt. Whisky bible my ass. I prefer first-hand impressions.

Last night's gin gave me a raging boner. I've heard gin can do that. Unfortunately, I got way too drunk to go out and do anything. I never, ever get hangovers, but today I just feel goofy. Like I've been constantly forgetting where I've left my phone and just feeling generally befuddled.

1/4 to 1/2 oh Haze. 70mg Percocet, 90mg Vicodin, 100mg Focalin, 80mg Vyvanse since 630ish EST this evening. It is currently 1139pm

That's a veritable medicine cabinet worth of shit. The last time I got drunk & high, I texted gibberish to everyone in my phone and had 2 girls tell me never to bother them again because they think I'm crazy.

There are quicker ways to out yourself you know. Unless you like it slow. LOL

And to think I wouldn't take the hydrocodone prescribed after my vasectomy.

I'm good ladies n germs. Of all these it'll be the damn cigarettes that get me some day

Gen, I shant be outing or offing myshf for any reason I'm far too awesome and haven't had the chance to tighten up the will so the wife gets what she came with and as little more as possible.

10 more mg of P&V

Or your liver. 90mg's of vicodin would add up to a ton of Tylenol. Even if they're Norco's, that'd 10mg hydro with 325mg of Tylenol per pill which = 2,925mg of Tylenol. I think 3,000mg/day is the recommended maximum dose. I can't remember if Percocets have Tylenol or Aspirin mixed into them. If it's Tylenol, you are way over your limit for the day. If your pee is brown and your poop is pale gray tomorrow, you might be fucked.

Nah I'm not even close to a daily user. These days I do this once a monfffff if I'm lucky. Have I mentioned I hate my wife haha. I'm just enjoying an unexpected NY Giants victory. And steezo they are 325's. The lil yellows

No Tylenol for me. No acetaminophen. It's a fools game.

Stomach issues from aspirin or ibuprofen are basically plumbing problems and much easier fixed.

Personally, I don't take any of them but if I did it would be Bayer aspirin or generic advil/ibuprofen. I took the one hydrocodone to fall asleep, and it worked.

Smokey, I gotta say you're pushing it as far as liver toxicity goes. The antidote to Tylenol/acetaminophen overdose is N-acetylcysteine or N-A-C. I take it whenever I take vicodin. It's available as a supplement in most any health food store. I don't know if taking the supplement is the same as having a doctor treat you properly for liver toxicity, but I take it anyways. Either that or you can do a cold water filtration method to separate out the acetaminophen from your pills and then you filter it away.

How do you drink whisky yourself?

Heavily, though it does give a uniquely nasty hangover when abused

How much do you pour at once and in total on average?

About 3 fingers

Undiluted, diluted, ice?

I've always taken my drinks on the rocks, even my coffee, it's just my thing. Purists will argue that I'm not getting the full effect, like I can't taste the goat shit from 1898 that got left in the peat, et al, but that's bullshit

Which type of glass do you prefer and why?

Any short tumbler will do, flask on the golf course

Where do you get info about the stuff you might be interested in online?

Just buy something and try it. There was a guy named Michael Jackson (not the King of Pop) who the definitive guide, in my opinion. You seem to be ahead of the curve already, so do what you like.

Ice, actually. Interesting.
Yeah, the aroma tends to open up a bit once the whisky gets a bit warmer than it was in the bottle, I think. Goat shit flavor could be quite a happening though. I'll try some rocky sometime.
I bought, I drank, I passed out. Sometimes at least. The funny thing in my eyes regarding almost anything reviewable nowadays is that usually it becomes snobbish pretty soon. Wine snobs, whisky snobs, all just snobs. They might know their booze and shit, but come on, lighten up; that vinyard/distillery tasting with a near-coma experience on the house probably was good, not necessarily a reason to go fanlon on the stuff.

Are you referring to the Bruichladdich "Organic" thing? That's just some trendy bullshit, and any efforts to make whisky out to be something other than a tipple is folly. It's whisky, you drink, you get drunk. You could save the planet in other ways, I suppose. Smug snobbery is not a particularly Scottish trait.

Sorry, I was to say in my last post that this Michael Jackson guy wrote the definitive guide or two on whisky. If you really want to geek out on it, I highly recommend his books. Look in any bookstore, you'll find 'em.

^^The man also had a thing or two to say about beer. Well worth the read.

Yes, the organic one. I'm not into the green fad so much, like the food though. This ball of dirt can burn in hell for all I care.
It's fine that people get excited about the various tastes and so on; I usually just want to get hammered and the really expensive stuff doesn't cut it in rational realms.
The immaterial good which is sold with whisky in a small segment of the market is exclusivity. For a mere few thousand bucks you'll get some killer booze and a shrine display to admire it in. Not my scene.
Glenlivet from the Signatory Un-Chillfiltered Collection like the Highland Park further up, 15 years old. Like a well-rounded whore.

I'm a Glenmorangie guy. I've tried some others, but it seems to agree with me. Kinda like I know I should choose Chimay over Michelob, but it just works for me.

Floofinberg, you need to check out this site: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/

At a far too pricey hotel in NYC fighting with the wife, left the house to keep from powerbombing a bitch off the 2nd floor balcony. 4 hydro, 3 oxy (codones). 3 fokes, 2 blunts and even 2 shots of Cuervo, so for a nondrinker I'm feeling no pain

Im also unsure of how faithful I shall remain this evening. Ohhhhhh what to do what to do?!

Beer. Lots of it. All different kinds.

Only had two beers last night. Bohemia. One of my favorite Mexican beers. Anyone else here like Bohemia?

It's good, another one of the Mexican beers borne of German immigrants. I could suck down a dozen if I had to

Johnny F mentioned the nasty hangover whisky can cause. Now I know what he meant. Ugly.

Woodford Reserve, as Bornyo turned me on to it somewhere back in the mists of time :drinky:

It'd be a lot of but I switched from whie wine to rum and then after I took it I went back to wine.

I told you so. As a Maker's Mark man, I thought that was all a man needed for an everyday Bourbon. Then I tried Woodford Reserve.

Had a few Guinness while we went to go support Jenna Haze dancing at the Red Parrot. I had not been to a strip club in almost six years so it made it that much more exciting.

First show she played with my boobies and thanked me for letting her use them and second show she shoved my face in her hoohah and humped it real good. The boys got jealous. Super hot!

I'm just sad that cameras aren't allowed but it's all good.

Guinness at a strip club, fuckin' awesome. I don't remember having this in Cali.

Well right I have a fifth of Jack Daniel's and a case of Samuel Adams it's going to be a great day.

I'm never drinking again.

3 vodkas on the rocks. I open the cab door at the light on 59th and puke. Close door and look up. I just puked in front of Bergdorf Goodman. Where did my awesome high alcohol tolerance go?

Alcohol/drug tolerance leaves quickly. That is why you always hear of junkies that were clean for a while ODing.

You're just as human as Tori Black.

Easy. The difference between animals and humans is the presence of a soul.





But, as long as they have vaginas and substance/emotional issues, they are fine with me.

And the ability to wait patiently in line.

*dook dook dook*

Martinis. If you think a martini has vodka in it I would like to personally eat your eyes.

Eat my eyes? With your gin breath?

They also don't taste like apple, watermelon, banana or any of the other froo froo things that have "tini" tacked onto the end of them. No matter how yummy they may be, they are not a martini.

any of you beer snobs tried the new 6% bud light platinum yet?.
i'm hoping the extra alcohol kills the pissy aftertaste found in regular bud light.

I haven't found Bud Light to have any aftertaste. I find "Bud Fat" has a sweetish aftertaste that I don't care for. Bud Light's just a little less water-like than Coors Light and also very predictable in it's results. I know what happens after 2, 6, 12 and so on...

I haven't seen the higher proof BL yet.

i drink the cl which is water like you said so everything has an aftertaste. i'm down to try the bud light platinums for the simple reason they wont freeze as quick as the cls do when i leave them on the back porch.