seagulls99
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- Feb 10, 2012
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Any recommendations for Single Malt Whiskey? Am looking to spend anything under £50.
Lagavulin 16-year old Islay (if you like a peaty malt) Can be got for less than £50 online. Very nice
Any recommendations for Single Malt Whiskey? Am looking to spend anything under £50.
Drinking it either neat or just with water a marketing ploy in the 80s? Rubbish, there were pubs in Scotland in the 60s and 70s that would ask you - very firmly - to drink up and leave if you added anything other than plain water to your Scotch. And that applied to blended as well as single malts.I watched the history of scotch series on bbc4 last year - the buying of single malts over blends is a marketing ploy that was started in early 80s due to the whisky lake. The same with drinking it neat or with splash of water. They now say drink it however you want and blends can be much better due to the effort of master blender to ensure consistency batch after batch.
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Drinking it either neat or just with water a marketing ploy in the 80s? Rubbish, there were pubs in Scotland in the 60s and 70s that would ask you - very firmly - to drink up and leave if you added anything other than plain water to your Scotch. And that applied to blended as well as single malts.
As a gift or for you? If the latter, what do you usually like?Any recommendations for Single Malt Whiskey? Am looking to spend anything under £50.
A master blender tries to make a blend taste the same as the blend used to taste, so that customers get the same product they're used to. But that doesn't mean the whisky tastes better, that makes no sense.They now say drink it however you want and blends can be much better due to the effort of master blender to ensure consistency batch after batch.
If you like peaty, Kilchoman is really good and one of my favourites from Islay. They have even started selling it at M&S which is a bonus as it wasn't in supermarkets before.
Unpeated - Bruichladdich 'the Classic Laddie' is really nice. All their whiskies are great I think.
For a good value easy drinking, Highland Park always nice.
And I wouldn't dream of adding anything other than, literally, a few drops of water to it!