A good friend offered me a bottle of Talisker(scotch) "aged 10 years". It's really good! I love J.Daniels too. But that Talisker whisky is amazing. What is your favorite?
Rock and Roll,
Mops

I'm a bourbon guy - Wild Turkey 100, Maker's 46, and Old Grandad 100.

for single malt: glenmorangie

for bourbon : jackie d.

jack d is not qualified as Bourbon, just american whiskey (to little corn)

Bourbon : Jimmy Beam
For bledend Scotch: J & B

for the rest: down in the sewer...

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rollmops
A good friend offered me a bottle of Talisker(scotch) "aged 10 years". It's really good! I love J.Daniels too. But that Talisker whisky is amazing. What is your favorite?
Rock and Roll,
Mops

Mops how much time do you have? Yes Talisker is a most acceptable dram however how about the other 350 plus Scottish Malt whiskies? You really must develop a new hobby and endeavour to try every one. In fact when the Stones come to Scotland on the next tour myself and Teleblaster will gladly assist you in a whisky sampling evening if you are crazy enough! Oh and these are just the Malts, we also have a large number of Blend Whiskies of which the Famous Grouse is particularly efficacious. As for the Malts, my own favourites come from the Hebridean Island of Islay.Several Distilleries all situated by the sea produce a strong flavoured whisky suggestive of the sea. they actually taste like seaweed/iodine.
Anyway the Scottish gaelic language depicts whisky as UISGE BEATHA meaning the water of life.
Slainte (cheers) Mops.



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Thought i would chip in as a Scotsman

The best blended whisky is Bells, not only my personal opinion its the biggest selling blended whisky in Scotland where people really know their whisky, although its not so easy to find everywhere in the world on export. My other favourite is the three star Crawfords from Glasgow, also quite hard to find. For easy to find blended you cant go wrong with Famous Grouse.

For single malt its really a matter of personal preference there are so many great ones, I like Bowmore Islay a lot, the bottles disappear the fastest

This question is like asking what your favourite Stones song is, how can anyone pick just one out of so many?!

Personally I love Glenmorangie, Glen Islay hits the spot pretty well too. I also love the Irish ones like Jamesons.

The other half favours Glenfiddich, the older the better, but I find this a bit sharp for my taste.

I must be a bit weird though as I'm about the only whisky lover I know who doesn't rate Jack Daniels.



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arniesw
This question is like asking what your favourite Stones song is, how can anyone pick just one out of so many?!

Personally I love Glenmorangie, Glen Islay hits the spot pretty well too. I also love the Irish ones like Jamesons.

The other half favours Glenfiddich, the older the better, but I find this a bit sharp for my taste.

I must be a bit weird though as I'm about the only whisky lover I know who doesn't rate Jack Daniels.

daniels is waaaaaay too sweet, like many bourbons and sour mashes....corn is just too sweet of a grain for me.

i'm very partial to the peaty islays...the newest one, kilchoman, though new on the market at just 3 years old has great promise. i imagine that will be in my regular islay rotation in a few years. for now gimme an ardbeg 10 or a corryvreckan....tastes like that are reasons enough to live.

Talisker is great.Laphroaig is great.Glenlivet and Macallan are great in other style.
Blended:....white Horse...maybe vat69

i'm too poor to think those malts.

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RaahenTiikeri
Talisker is great.Laphroaig is great.Glenlivet and Macallan are great in other style.
Blended:....white Horse...maybe vat69

i'm too poor to think those malts.

too poor to pour?

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RaahenTiikeri
Talisker is great.Laphroaig is great.Glenlivet and Macallan are great in other style.
Blended:....white Horse...maybe vat69

i'm too poor to think those malts.

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Nothing is too good for the real workers.
refrain from moral lectures everyone, have you every exceeded the speed limit and placed others in danger?

A good Scottish top shelf whiskey here in New Zealand is about the price of a Stones ticket..I don't mind paying for quality..yea'..

I was waiting for you to chime in Tod. I wish I could have attended the whiskey tasting with you a few months ago in SF. As for me, 15 year old Laphroaig is like breast milk of the Gods to me but any peaty smokey Islay is a thing of joy...

I liked the Knockando Scotch I got as a gift, but I'm no connoisseur.

Calling the Orcadian "DRAMBO". Gies yer spiel.

I really should say Auchentoshan as I live just across from the distillery but I'll plump for Glenfarclas 105 (tho you need a second mortgage just for a nip!)

Lagavulin 16, for those who love the peat.

The only scotch I like is Lagavulin. Love the "bandage" taste.

Knob Creek. A shot in a tumbler with one ice cube.

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Come On
jack d is not qualified as Bourbon, just american whiskey (to little corn)

Bourbon : Jimmy Beam
For bledend Scotch: J & B

for the rest: down in the sewer...

Bourbon has to made in the state of Kentucky. JD is sour mash whiskey.

Laphroig is a great single malt. Knob Creek is amazing bourbon. There are lots of nice small batch bourbons available now. I don't care as much for blended whiskeys or Irish whiskey, but I know they have their fans too.

Thank you everybody;that's a long list of good booze and my task will be to try them all!
Rock and Roll,
Mops

Ardbeg for me, Lagavulin comes close...

sjouke

When I'm in a very depressive mood, than I've always a meeting with my good friend 'Jim Beam'.

When I'm in a very depressive mood, than I've always a meeting with my good friend 'Jim Beam'.




Mmmm I'm sipping it right now....

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ROLLINGSTONE
I really should say Auchentoshan as I live just across from the distillery but I'll plump for Glenfarclas 105 (tho you need a second mortgage just for a nip!)

just a regular 'farclas is among the better speysides. glen grant and cardhu, at last avaiable again in the us market, are other of my faves from the spey region.

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ChrisM
I was waiting for you to chime in Tod. I wish I could have attended the whiskey tasting with you a few months ago in SF. As for me, 15 year old Laphroaig is like breast milk of the Gods to me but any peaty smokey Islay is a thing of joy...

indeed. if you ever get offered a dram of an old bottle of a port ellen (now defunct), get on your knees and beg for more. as good as i've ever tasted.

good chance i'll be back for the whisky fest this fall, chris. maybe you can join us this time....

Lagavulin 16 Year Old Single malt.

I think I will have one now, hell, its Friday!

Ross

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cbtaco19
The only scotch I like is Lagavulin. Love the "bandage" taste.

laprhoaig has even more of a bandaid taste than lagavulin, i think. love 'em both.