Re: OT: Whisky (was Re: PAW: A good breakfast)
No, you'll have to ye Haggis. At 03:37 PM 2/23/04, you wrote: All this is very interesting. While I like a wee bit of Irish, or Bourbon once in a while, I equate drinking Scotch with proving my manhood. Can I just stick my hand in a fire or something instead? -- Steve Jolly wrote: I have to disagree there - as an Englishman with a large number of Scottish friends and whisky-snob acquaintances, I can assure you that the idea of drinking single malts with ice is widely (although not universally) regarded as heresy over here. :-) The optional addition of a small quantity of water is generally accepted though. -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com "You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway." I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan
Re: OT: Whisky (was Re: PAW: A good breakfast)
That's fine. If everybody liked it, there wouldn't be enough to go round. John On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:37:50 -0500, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All this is very interesting. While I like a wee bit of Irish, or Bourbon once in a while, I equate drinking Scotch with proving my manhood. Can I just stick my hand in a fire or something instead? -- Steve Jolly wrote: I have to disagree there - as an Englishman with a large number of Scottish friends and whisky-snob acquaintances, I can assure you that the idea of drinking single malts with ice is widely (although not universally) regarded as heresy over here. :-) The optional addition of a small quantity of water is generally accepted though. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: OT: Whisky (was Re: PAW: A good breakfast)
All this is very interesting. While I like a wee bit of Irish, or Bourbon once in a while, I equate drinking Scotch with proving my manhood. Can I just stick my hand in a fire or something instead? -- Steve Jolly wrote: I have to disagree there - as an Englishman with a large number of Scottish friends and whisky-snob acquaintances, I can assure you that the idea of drinking single malts with ice is widely (although not universally) regarded as heresy over here. :-) The optional addition of a small quantity of water is generally accepted though. -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com "You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
Re: OT: Whisky (was Re: PAW: A good breakfast)
It's all a matter of the temperature of the liquid. Once whatever liquid there is warms up to room temp, you can't tell if the water came from an ice cube or a splash from the tap. . . keith "Daniel J. Matyola" wrote: > > Adding a little water (about half the volume of the whiskey) seems, for some > odd reason, to enhance the flavor of the whiskey instead of diluting it. Ice > definiely dull both the flavor and the aroma. > > Dan > > Steve Jolly wrote: > > > I have to disagree there - as an Englishman with a large number of > > Scottish friends and whisky-snob acquaintances, I can assure you that > > the idea of drinking single malts with ice is widely (although not > > universally) regarded as heresy over here. :-) The optional addition of > > a small quantity of water is generally accepted though.
OT: Whisky (was Re: PAW: A good breakfast)
I have to disagree there - as an Englishman with a large number of Scottish friends and whisky-snob acquaintances, I can assure you that the idea of drinking single malts with ice is widely (although not universally) regarded as heresy over here. :-) The optional addition of a small quantity of water is generally accepted though. S Paul Stenquist wrote: I frequently drink single malts with ice, so do some of my Scottish friends. Drinking single malts neat is largely an American pretension. Paul Steve Jolly wrote: Shel Belinkoff wrote: What kind of whisky ... a nice single malt, perhaps? A single malt with *ICE* in?! Let's just hope there aren't any scots on the list... ;-) S
