Any One for a Scotch?

[impolyt_one]

So you're saying you would take a long and leisurely walk along the coastline with me?

 

[I<3Bacon]



So you're saying you would take a long and leisurely walk along the coastline with me?

As long as there's booze

edinatlanta got my feathers all ruffled, but there has to be some science involved. As long as tequila distilleries forgo labeling their product as "100% de agave" (which automatically means mixto), they're allowed to add sugar. The combination of ethanol and whatever sugars are introduced will send me to drinker's hell faster than you can say "salud"... very much the same way ****-quality wine with remaining unprocessed sugars does.

 

[Kid Nickels]



i don't know much about scotch but love the taste of lagavulin and laphroaig. recently though i've been getting terrible hangovers after a few shots from my standard laph 10. i've read that this whisky has a particularly high phenol level. can anyone recommend something that has that smoky, peaty islay taste but is a little lighter? i was thinking maybe a bowmore 12

Bruichladdich 12 perhaps? It's still smoky and peaty but I believe "lighter" if I'm interpreting your meaning correctly. Just a suggestion.

 

[edinatlanta]

bacon--that's something a little different but no, different spirits are chemically unable to cause different reactions. you've already said why you don't get hungover from scotch...unlike other alcohols, you are going slow and drinking lots of water at the same time. one of my pet peeves is hearing people go "oh when I mix light and dark spirits I get a worse hangover or a different type of drunk". While, yeah, you do its because you're drinking more than you normally would, not the mixing.

no offense taken. I guess in terms of pet peeves its not really a big deal.

 

[I<3Bacon]

Don't get me wrong... I've plowed through single malts like it was my last night on Earth and somehow escaped hangover hell.

Anyway, that particular reasoning is totally idiotic (light vs dark) and trying to explain to people that caramel food coloring and/or barrel char doesn't get you hungover is pretty much a lost cause. I've learned to let the herps durp.

 

[JohnnyLaw]



Ugh. you guys bring up a pet peeve of mine... the "science" of hangovers... I'll have more to say about it later but basically different types of alcohol wine, scotch etc can't cause worse/different hangovers or some not at all while others can. Now if you were drinking something other than ethanol (well, I would hope you aren't) that would be different. Anyone who says "don't mix spirits" or "dark spirits do this" is flat out wrong. UGH.

My understanding is that yeast doesn't exclusively produce ethanol during fermentation. It also creates other alcohols (fusel alcohols and traces of methanol). Different fermentation conditions will cause more or less of these undesirable, even toxic, alcohols to be produced. If you crank out a product fast and dirty, you'll probably get more. Cheap booze could also contain additives. If there's some truth to the "science" of hangovers, it could very well be related to these substances.

 

[BrianVarick]

I just bought my first bottle of Scotch, Johnny Walker Black. Since I am a scotch newbie can someone describe the notes to me so I know what I am drinking and I can start deciphering flavors? Is that a weird request?

 

[jet]

lol

 

[ToucanSam]

i find that most people, scotch reviewers included, just look up the ingredients online and succumb to listing out the ingredients as if it wasn't pre-determined already.

 

[ama]



i find that most people, scotch reviewers included, just look up the ingredients online and succumb to listing out the ingredients as if it wasn't pre-determined already.

Ingredients? Like barley, yeast and water?

 

[I<3Bacon]

lol

 

[Piobaire]

I was surprised Saturday night with a bottle of the best ranked Scotch of the year, 21 Old Puletney. Damn tasting but a bit more iodine than I usually like. All in all the an incredibly complex drink with lots of I input from both toasted oak and its seaside setting.

 

[impolyt_one]

Pulteney makes me want to wear a peacoat and drink it outside on the porch in the rain, something to that effect.

 

[sinnedk]

had some of this local bourbon last night

 

[I<3Bacon]



Pulteney makes me want to wear a peacoat and drink it outside on the porch in the rain, something to that effect.

Had some of the 12yr in a flask while gardening last week. Forgot how salty/briny it is (without the smoke or peat from Talisker/the Islays). Inexpensive single malts always seem to taste better outside.