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Upon unpacking out latest Tesco delivery I came across a pair of 1 litre bottles of Whyte & Mackay Blended Scotch Whisky. At first I thought this was my error, as I often stick a bottle of whisky in the cart to hold the delivery slot, then replace it with the actual shop later. However, I usually put in a single very expensive bottle that I'd never normally buy myself so that should I forget to remove it then I'm less annoyed. On checking the receipt though, it turns out that these were delivered in error. I presume there's a local alcholic missing their fix right now.
So, the question is what to do with it. Tesco don't want it returned. I'm guessing the food bank don't take too kindly to bottles of whisky being donated. Is there any way of turning (what I assume is) horrible whisky into something nice?
Whiskey Cocktails.
I think a whisky sour is better with a coarser whisky. Steak or duck, pan fried, the pan de-glazed with whisky and added cream and redcurrant jelly (or any jam) is great.
I’m vegan so you lost me at “steak or duck”. I do like a whisky sour though.
Hold the egg white.
Mug of whisky, lemsip, sliced ginger, fresh lemon juice and decent spoonful of manuka honey , you don't need a sore throat to enjoy a toddy
Just decant it into an empty expensive bottle and give it to visitors. It all tastes like shit anyway, so no one will fess up to not liking it.....
Pour it out & ....
I was going to say toddies and lots of them but then saw that you're vegan so that's no good either
Local club/charity for a raffle prize
Try it instead of assuming blindly all blends are shit.
Can't say I like Whyte and Mackay* neat or on ice but it's not the worst whisky out there. Whisky coffees after dinner on a weekend evening ? Shame to waste good whisky for that.
* But I am partial to a grouse in the pub or a bushmills/jameson's after the second nip the singles malts wasted on me anyway.
Have a play with oak whisky sticks?
Drink it with coke.
IHN
SubscriberDrink it with coke.
And give the rest to the hookers
If you don’t like the coke, try it with ginger ale
or lemonade, or fanta
Turn it into blackberry whiskey - search the web for recipes. Makes cheap whiskey drinkable!
Whisky and dry ginger seconded here! Gorgeous drink and you don't need expensive whisky. If this isn't an option I'll be more than happy to take it off your hands...
Scotch tea (or coffee if you prefer). Good after a day outside being lashed by rain. Essential after dusk if on holiday in Scotland in December (i.e. after about 3 pm).
Or hot chocolate.
Top up with straight IPA or ethanol and make a batch of hand sanitiser.
Why are you assuming it's undrinkably rank anyway? Unfashionable yes, but most of the popular blends are fine.
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I was going to say toddies and lots of them but then saw that you’re vegan so that’s no good either
I read that as toddlers and thought, that's a bit hardcore....
I presume there’s a local alcholic missing their fix right now.
Find a desperate wino, tell them it's Christmas.
Okay, maybe I shouldn't assume it's filth - and actually that bloke's review makes it sound quite nice. I will try some at some point to see if it's as bad as I fear. However, I like the idea of the fruit cake if I can come up with a vegan recipe conversion. At 3 tbsp per cake, I'm going to have to make a lot of cakes to get through 2 litres though. The hot drink options are also possibly a good shout once we get into autumn and winter (although it already feels like winter here in North Wales).
I believe my man tops up the Aston washer bottle with it. A winter drive always reminds me of ones highland estate...
Find a recipe online for homemade Baileys, with fresh cream and condensed milk etc.
Buy some cheap stoppered bottles from a cook shop.
The day before Christmas make some Baileys, and give it to people for xmas presents.
If you like them, tell them it goes off in a few days and has to be drunk. If you don't like them...
Too many people snobby about blends. Blends are made that way to appeal to taste buds. It’s unlikely to be terrible, just less complex than most single malts
Hold onto it until october, decant into a couple of other bottles filled with brambles and some sugar, leave til xmas, strain and drink.
Home blends can often work well.
Try it with a small dash of something half decent like a Laphroaig 10 or Ardbeg 10. Can make a big difference.
To be fair it'll probably be very drinkable, genuinely. People pay a lot of money for blends after all.
Personally I would likely prefer it to some of the brutally peaty whiskys out there.
Hold onto it until october, decant into a couple of other bottles filled with brambles and some sugar, leave til xmas, strain and drink.
I clicked on this thread to say the same!
Half-fill a large clean kilner jar with blackberries (raspberries, loganberries etc also work) and sugar. Pour over the whisky. Agitate now and again until the sugar dissolves. Bottle, drink one at Christmas, and keep the other for the following Christmas. It tastes like Port once it's had a year or more in the bottle.
I think it is quite nice with a dash of water, but if you can't face that then how about Rusty Nails?
Add blackberries and some sugar.. leave for a few weeks / months.....
totally transforms it.
Drink at christmas or give away as presents
Some good shouts here. At first I dismissed hels' idea of giving home-made Baileys as a gift (I'm not vegan because I don't like meat/dairy - I'm vegan because I don't want to support the meat/dairy industry, blah, blah, blah, boring, boring, boring). However, turns out it's dead simple to make vegan Baileys and apparently it's proper nice!
Whisky sours or whisky old fashioned is the simple and enjoyable answer to this question in my opinion
Try it instead of assuming blindly all blends are shit.
Can’t say I like Whyte and Mackay* neat or on ice but it’s not the worst whisky out there.
's where I'd be coming from.
I mean, sure, at the end of the day it's cooking whisky. But Whyte & Mackay is HUGE, it's a league above the Bells of this world. Jura and Dalmore are both W&M brands.
tops up the Aston washer bottle with it
My boss in Moscow used to use vodka, cheap as you like back in 1997.
Definitely this,
“ Too many people snobby about blends. Blends are made that way to appeal to taste buds. It’s unlikely to be terrible, just less complex than most single malts”
Blending is a skill that far too many pretentious know it alls overlook without even trying them! There’s some bloody lovely ones out there.
Old Fashioned should be made with bourbon, they're not the same with Scotch as it's not as sweet.
That's not to say it won't be nice, just won't really be an Old Fashioned.
Pour it on your lawn, then the grass will grow half-cut...
...I'll see myself out
Not vegan, but this recipe works really well and uses quite a lot of whisky. I've been making it for years and now don't follow the recipe - I just use the same total weight of fruit and nuts, but use whatever fruit and nuts I fancy or have available. I also tend to add extra spices - cinnamon and ginger in particular. It's quite low on cakeyness, so I imagine you could try swapping the egg and butter for banana and coconut oil or similar and end up with something densely fruity and nutty and held together by a little bit of vegan cake mix.
Cranachan (Whisky, whipped cream, oatmeal & honey sometimes with raspberries) - The food of gods
Blending is a skill that far too many pretentious know it alls overlook without even trying them! There’s some bloody lovely ones out there.
This is very true, but there are a lot of crappy ones too. For example we found a 40+ year old bottle of unopened Chivas Regal in amongst the piles of stuff in my crazy uncles house that we were clearing. It was bloody delicious (and given what they sell for when I looked I'll never be tasting the like again), but the modern stuff tastes totally different and nowhere near as nice (which made me sad when I tried itas I'd always refused to drink it due to whiskey snobbery)
Add brambles and sugar leave for at least 6 months.
+1 for bramble whiskey... it’s bloody ace and a bog standard blended whiskey actually makes the best bramble whiskey
It's drinking whisky they don't call it fighting Mackay up here for nothing :). It's on a par with grouse as someone said it ok with ginger beer and a splash of lime.
Old Fashioned should be made with bourbon, they’re not the same with Scotch as it’s not as sweet.
That’s not to say it won’t be nice, just won’t really be an Old Fashioned.
Have we just invented the New Fangled?
+1 for bramble whiskey… it’s bloody ace and a bog standard blended whiskey actually makes the best bramble whiskey
There's a special place in hell for anyone who wastes good single malt on blackberries etc. I use cheap Aldi blended whisky and it works a treat.
Try it with ginger ale, a slice of orange and ice.
Also not vegan but divine...
Pasta, smoked salmon, peas, cream and a glass of whisky stirred through.
There’s a special place in hell for anyone who wastes good single malt on blackberries etc. I use cheap Aldi blended whisky and it works a treat.
They'll get to look down from their place in hell upon the tormented souls of those who cast aspersions on what others choose to lawfully do with their own whisky.
In days of yore blends were valued for their reliable quality. You were paying a master blender to even it all out for you. But now that we're all seeking some kind of attachment in the screaming void of existence, we like the idea of single malts better.
I think it is quite nice with a dash of water, but if you can’t face that then how about Rusty Nails?
I'll second the rusty nail - years since I had one but absolutely amazing.....
Cranachan very nice.
As there is a fair amount of chrimbo talk may I suggest:
Whisky Lard
(similar to Eddie Hitlers Vodka Margarine)
Give them away as xmas pressies
Manhattans. Or Rob Roys as they're called if you use scotch rather than rye whisk(e)y.
Old Fashioned should be made with bourbon, they’re not the same with Scotch as it’s not as sweet.
I find that Old Fashioneds are sweet on account of the sugar in them. I'm sure you're technically right, but they're not so different with Scotch vs Bourbon in my humble (but quite well-practised) opinion.
a small nip of whisk(e)y to a Guinness/ ale gives it a new depth of flavour.
Not a full measure, just a little.
I use Jamesons Stout barrel aged whiskey in stouts and it is lovely.
Reckon the degreaser you have would work well in a similar environment
Bramble whiskey...
Then recycle the fruit into a Bramble and Apple crumble FTW 🤤🤤
Swap for a stash of Big Issues then cycle round delivering said Big Issues
🤣
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Mug of whisky, lemsip, sliced ginger, fresh lemon juice and decent spoonful of manuka honey , you don’t need a sore throat to enjoy a toddy
Just because in 2 pages no one has picked up that this is a really stupid idea.
Do not mix paracetamol and alcohol!
Do not mix paracetamol and alcohol!
Why not?
Pmsl tinas!
Lol @ lightweight
make baileys
Maca Baileys surely!
Blending is a skill that far too many pretentious know it alls overlook without even trying them! There’s some bloody lovely ones out there.
As a wannabe pretentious know-it-all I haven't much knowledge of blended whiskey. I had a bottle of Monkey Shoulder for Christmas once, and it was a nice drop, but that's about the limit of my experience.
So! At risk of derailing OP's thread slightly, what am I missing out on? W&M is a given obvs, but what else?
Always used to like a bottle of J&B in my less pretentious days.
A few of the Johnnie Walkers are good. I really like the Green label. The old Gold label is beautiful and the XR 21 is fantastic! Blue label overpriced for what it is but still nice. If you buy one that doesn’t suit just stick some ginger ale in it!
They’ll get to look down from their place in hell upon the tormented souls of those who cast aspersions on what others choose to lawfully do with their own whisky.
In days of yore blends were valued for their reliable quality. You were paying a master blender to even it all out for you. But now that we’re all seeking some kind of attachment in the screaming void of existence, we like the idea of single malts better.
Alternatively, times have changed and it's really easy to find good single malt. Unlike your sense of humour.
Nearly forgot the whisky mac, whisky mixed with ginger wine. Perfect winter tipple, also prescribed as a cold cure by the right doctors.
It’s ok stuff that, infinitely better than Teachers anyway.
I pick it up when it’s on offer, for sipping/mixing/cocktails. No point in putting good stuff in lemonade or coke, and even neat I can happily/accidentally smash through a quarter of a bottle in an evening.
Feel like shit in the morning though, not sure is the good stuff is any better hangover wise.
Edit - Whisky Mac! Yes! My top Christmas drink, perfect for that and winter is coming
Try it, perhaps with ice or water. Personally I’m quite partial to Chivas Regal.
That single malt you drink is a blend.
Very few folk drinking whisky will pick up a single barrel bottling. Though if you do and you like it, buy another because it’s never coming back, or simply enjoy as an ephemeral moment.
But now that we’re all seeking some kind of attachment in the screaming void of existence, we like the idea of single malts better.
Well, when one starts out drinking spirits and all that’s around is Bells and Teachers, and Southern Comfort, then you get introduced to the likes of Laphroig and Lagavulin, then Highland Park, blends seem like a retrograde step, somehow.
FFS you lot, it's still August and you're already talking about Christmas 🙁
Have we just invented the New Fangled?
We have now 🙂
decent spoonful of manuka honey
Don't forget to add the magic beans too
prawny
SubscriberIt’s ok stuff that, infinitely better than Teachers anyway.
On that note I have found whisky & tonic works well IMO with the slightly lower end of the blended ones.
Give it a try
It's no fancy single malt, but it will be very drinkable in a mixed drink.
Toddies, sours, or even, shocked face, a bit of cold 7up free and lemon for a low-cal easy drink.
Much better, but also much worse stuff out there!