For a possible independent Scotland; What Scotch to drink????

[Ryano42]

I was thinking Lagavulin...not a fan of the peaty stuff.





Any suggestions?

A good vegetarian Haggis???

[valerief]

1. Frig Scotch. Bourbon is better. nt

[OriginalGeek]

2. I thought Lagavulin and Laphroaig where of the same peaty ancestry?

Laphroaig 18yo is my favorite but I don't get to have that too much. The 10 is ok but suddenly costs twice what I used to get it for...so is the Quarter Cask. Damn scotch got expensive when I wasn't looking!

[NV Whino]

3. Dalwhinney

Or, inexpensive Trader Joe's Finlagen.

[Chan790]

4. I'm going to save myself $80...

and simply listen to how beautiful it is to hear someone (in this case, Scottish actor Brian Cox) properly pronounce the names of good scotches. Man, Americans butcher the names of some of the better scotches.

http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/scotch-pronunciation-guide-5836909

Mr. Cox agrees with your choice of Lagavulin. It's his favorite. "The cognac of whiskeys. Works like a depth charge...pow!"

[OriginalGeek]

9. That is the greatest use of video

I've seen in months - maybe years.

[Callmecrazy]

5. Scotch is the bastard son of Bourbon...

Bourbon must be aged in the barrel, and then the barrel must be used to age Scotch.

[cemaphonic]

18. Some are aged in rum casks

The Glenfiddich Gran Reserva is some great whiskey, but very expensive.

[elleng]

6. Canadian Club, of course!

[derby378]

7. Talisker!

[1dogleft]

8. a vegetarian haggis

NO scotch for you....this weekend when I am enjoying my scotch eggs and thumpers AND going to a scotch tasting @ the New Hampshire Highland Games listening to Albanach I will think of you.(haggis is horrid but still..)

[seaglass]

11. thanks for posting this. I'm in MA and did not know about this - scrambling to make some

plans to go

[1dogleft]

14. it was a good time

even with lousy weather. Hope you made it or can make it Sunday

[seaglass]

16. Yes I did go with my daughter. Dressed for the promised 67 degrees :-( so I got a new sweatshirt

and scarf for the day

It was wonderful! Unfortunately planned to go to the 2:30 whisky tasting and it was sold out - but other than that a great day.

[1dogleft]

17. no kidding

I was there for that. Laphroaig single malts.Very informative and fun.They sold a lot of sweatshirts today lol

[DFW]

10. The results are in

The Scots voted overwhelmingly against independence.

I therefore suggest a big glass of water. Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

[Paulie]

12. Springbank

[Taitertots]

13. The Balvenie 21 Portwood

https://glenmorangie.com/en/glenmorangie-nectar-dor
https://glenmorangie.com/en/glenmorangie-quinta-ruban

[PassingFair]

24. +1

You have excellent taste!

[Aristus]

15. Lagavulin isn't peaty?

When you crack the seal on a new bottle, you can smell the peat all the way across the room...

[MADem]

19. English Whisky....

Since the Independence Vote failed, might as well try the stuff out....?

http://www.englishwhisky.co.uk/

[mackerel]

20. Wtf is wrong with the bottle? Even their packaging is shyte.

I'll stick with Tullamore Dew and pray NI gets their vote next.

http://www.tullamoredew.com/us-en/our-birthplace

[MADem]

23. That might be a size thing--they have regular looking bottles, too.

http://www.englishwhisky.co.uk/the-whisky

The Whisky

Our whisky is batch made by hand with no computers, matured in fine casks, bottled on site using our own water and is non chill-filtered. We are really proud of these things and believe you will taste the difference too.

Why the Chapters?

As a new distillery we wanted to offer our customers the opportunity to follow the production of a fine single malt whisky, peated and unpeated, from conception through to, well, indefinitely! For this reason we thought it would make easy reading to keep the development in chapters, so at various ages from 1 day old through to 40yr old we will give you the opportunity to taste how the whisky is maturing. Each new bottling will be a new chapter to the 'The Book'.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

21. For a United Kingdom, it has to be Sheep Dip

Originally blended in Oldbury-on-Severn (in South-West England, but only about 5 miles from Wales), it's now blended in Scotland.

http://www.whisky-pages.com/stories/spencerfield-spirits.htm

[DFW]

22. You scot to be kidding me

I don't do alcohol, so I'll take anyone's word for it.