I saw this DB9 leaving my local carwash today..

Post by **Donald** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:05 pm

Going for a pub lunch with my nan and trying her drink got me into gin. Says it all really!

Post by **indigolemon** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:08 pm

If we ever meet, I'll break out the malts

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:27 pm

Surely you should be drinking this Gordon?!...

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:28 pm

yeah couldnt you tell

Post by **Donald** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:32 pm

Who the drokk is Gordon?!

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:29 pm

I have spent my whole life not really liking shorts, sticking to pints and plenty of them.

As we went to the Bushmills Brewery earlier in the year, I thought it was rude not to buy a bottle and try to like it, so i came home with some Blackbush. Still struggling, i found most of it was being used to make Bushmills sauce to go on top of a steak or pan fried chicken...

Then i went to a BBQ with my mate and later in the evening we had a bottle of Teachers between us with coke. It was a bit rough, but i enjoyed it none the less. I'd tried the Bushmills neat, cold, warm, with a drop of water etc, and couldn't get on with it as much as i tried, but had not tried coke. So the next day i tried the Blackbush with coke, beautiful.

The missus has moaned at me as at £20 a bottle it doesn't last long. I bought some Jim Bean the other day as it was only £12, but it wasn't as nice as the Blackbush

I think i may be making up for lost time.

Post by **Pushki** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:32 pm

Gorgon wrote:Who the drokk is Gordon?!

Post by **indigolemon** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:36 pm

Shiny wrote:I think i may be making up for lost time.

Shiny, have a link to a website that may change your life: http://www.masterofmalt.com/

Can I recommend anything from the Speyside region if you're just starting to dig into Whisky. Try it neat, then try it with a single drip of water in it. Ice is pretty much a nono. Coke, well, not for me - but whatever helps

Also, decent dark chocolate + whisky is awesome!

macky_6 · Post by **macky_6** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:42 pm

Coke in Malt Whisky???

Toughen-up man

Ps, I am Gordon

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:45 pm

I tried the Bushmills neat, drop of water, room temperature etc, but i just couldn't quite get on with it no matter how much i tried. I was rather ill at around 15 on a cocktail of shorts (yeah thought i could handle it) and never really touched shorts since.

I really like it with coke though, although i appreciate it may be sacrilege to some. A bit like ponces that stick ice cubes in cider and think it is cool, when all it does it suppress the flavours.

What Whiskey would you recommend i try at the cheaper end of the scale. Don't take offence, but from those i have tried in the past, i have always found the Irish with an "e" Whiskeys smoother and more palatable than the Scotich Whisky i have tried. I understand that American Whiskey is similar in taste to the Irish, although the Jim Bean wasn't a patch on the Blackbush!