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So, I'm no aficionado but have recently, (last year or so) been enjoying scotch. Of late I've sampled and enjoyed Chivas, Jameson, Laphroaig and the Speyside Malt from Aldi, but I'm now out and need a new bottle to enjoy. Any recommendations? Can't be expensive, so a good deal required, and nothing too challenging.
Any suggestions?
Do you mean you are out of Whiskey?
Did you like any of them? What did you like? Find a tasting somewhere 🙂
Or balvennie double wood, or smokey longrow peat smoked, or something random!
Waitrose own brand, £17 for a gallon.
Help, I’m out of Scotch!
I’m no aficionado
Evidently.
A bottle of Highland Park 12 year old would be a one to start. Easy going, smooth and not going to catch anyone out really. £20-£25 a bottle though which may or may not be too much. That's a single malt which are usually more expensive than a blended whisky such as Chivas. Blended whisky can be great, some snobs will turn their nose up at it though but so what, they're not the ones drinking it.
I've recently got a bottle of bowmore in the sale at Tesco £24 and it's lovely
Glenrothes £10 off in booths just now, easy drinking speyside.
Pendryn is worth a try. I’m working through a bottle I bought for Christmas, and while it’s perhaps not the smoothest, it’s not bad at all.
After that I’ve got a bottle of Woodfords Reserve Kentucky bourbon that I’m really looking forward to cracking open. Mmmmmmmm, nice.
If you fancy trying a blend copper dog is really nice, about £22 from tesco
He's out of whisky....
Whiskey is Irish...
Try a good spseyside like tomintoul
Chivas is a blend.
Jameson is Irish.
Woodford is American.
Penderyn is Welsh.
And Glenrothes is a shitey town next to Kircawdy
Rather than recommending anything I particularly like I would recommend taking a slightly different approach and go on masters of malt or similar and ordering a range of samples. Not overly expensive unless you get really carried away and choose the ten million year old variants but would let you taste across a decent range and decide which variants to concentrate on.
And Glenrothes is a shitey town next to Kircawdy
Who are a distillery, who make a lot of different whisky with a big range of flavours. Name the bottle not the building it was made in!
Glenrothes is a Speyside malt, my tongue in cheek remark was aimed for Glenrothes town in Fife although there is a new distillery Inchdairnie may be its name
Fair enough but the name is not the defining character, they have a good range of barrelling and expressions out there
It's hard to give recommendations when you probably couldn't have picked four more different whisk(e)ys if you'd tried. What did you like / dislike about each, what were your preferences?
If you like a good blend try Monkey Shoulder, it's usually on offer somewhere. Highland Park is good and no doubt there will be a Jura out there you like (Superstition being the country mile best of an otherwise bad bunch IMO)
Penderyn is rancid shite.
FTFYHTH
Try a Talisker if you've not had one before. All 3 common varieties (standard 10 year old, Skye, Storm) are worth trying and you can usually find one of them on offer in the supermarkets.
How about Auchentoshan? Where the pristine waters of the Clyde are filtered through shopping trolleys to remove johnnies and feminine hygiene products.
Thanks, I think. I'll go on the hunt for a Talisker.
Talisker is great. Go Skye, 10 yr, then Storm in that order.
Re Penderyn - not a fan of the standard one, but the peated one (Celt) is good.
Auchentoshan American Oak £20-£25, very light with lots of vanilla. Like it.
Also, had a Black Grouse (around £17) recently, not as smokey as I though it would be. Also on the Like list
Where the pristine waters of the Clyde are filtered through shopping trolleys to remove johnnies and feminine hygiene products
Sorry I thought Auchentoshan was triple filtered - shopping trolleys then hygiene products then johnnies each adding it's own unique taste and texture
Talisker Sky ordered.
Woodford is American.
Penderyn is Welsh.
Really? There was me thinking Kentucky was a suburb of Aberdeen, and Penderyn was near Tobermory!
Everyday’s a school day on here.
#noshitsherlock
And neither of those are Scotch whiskys. But crack on...
of course they are, chivas regal is a blended scotch, there is a difference between a blended scotch and a single malt scoth, however both are scotch.
of course they are, chivas regal is a blended scotch, there is a difference between a blended scotch and a single malt scoth, however both are scotch.
I was talking about Penderyn and Woodford.
I was once told (by someone who looked and sounded like he knew what he was talking about) that a good blend is better than a single malt? Confess I know nowt - would the cognoscenti concur?
Standard Penderyn is probably the worst whisky's I have ever tasted. The Cumbrian brewery Tirril does a fine range of whisky though.
Worst whisky ? Try Chinese moutai, tastes like rotten cabbage fermented in turps, £200 a bottle!
What was Aldi’s speyside like? Any good?
a good blend is better than a single malt?
A good blend is better than a bad single malt. Other than that it's down to preference. It's only a drink at the end of the day. Find one you enjoy, enjoy it, then same again or try another.
The Lidl single malts (£18) are pretty good for the price. Just finished a bottle of Jamesons IPA cask mates which was better than expected. Quite a few offers at Tesco for less than £30 at the moment.
I was once told (by someone who looked and sounded like he knew what he was talking about) that a good blend is better than a single malt? Confess I know nowt – would the cognoscenti concur?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvq10yliPq/
The pale blue bottle was a Johnny Walker, blended and consistent, blended by an exceptional blender, hand bottled etc. really really good - but at a price to match, better than a lot of single malts I've tried - problem for it was what came next!!
aberlour, just because of the run off into the river by the walkers shortbread factory
If you aren't going down the vintage route, Lagavulin is decent and readily available.
Very peaty, a bit more expensive than most 'standard' single malts.
**** me there are some self-righteous arseholes on here aren’t there!
https://www.smws.com/events
Can you get to one of these? There is a tasting panel selection which would be really worth doing at home lots of great tasting notes around there
Yep, SMWS events are great. I’ve introduced a fair few colleagues to the SMWS through the whisky and burger nights.
However, anything you buy single cask is so different to a single malt bottling from that distillery it makes it difficult to form an opinion on particular brands. I’ve had bottles from SMWS that taste nothing like the regular bottlings so it really only serves to make a good intro to whisky in general.
In response to question above, I really like the Aldi highland. It's my general purpose common or garden cut cost favourite. Better than their (or Lidls) speyside or islay on relative terms (IMO)
Kind of the point for me, learn your flavours, learn what you like and understand that a name is not a drink!!
Noticed Talisker Skye was 25 quid in Asda yesterday.