Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails)
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I'm a beer guy 97/100 drinks but tonight was perfect for warming up with a nice dark rum. It's a strong Pennsylvanian rum flavored with cane sugar and Monsoon Malabar coffee. It is very bourbon like in taste and character.
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Botanist is made by Bruichladdich I think. Good stuff. Citadel too. Made a martini with it, Elderflower liqueur in lieu of vermouth,and a twist for a lady friend who loves elderflower. Very nice.
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That is a great pick up for 40% discount.
Can't go wrong with Talisker a lovely drink and a good introduction to the peatier style Islay heavy hitters.
Enjoy!
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Seul, if you are struggling with the Talisker then I can always find it a good home!
Peaty whisky is not something that many people take an instant like to, from my experience it tends to be some what an acquired taste.
Never tried peated beer, didn't know it was available. Could you suggest a peated beer, I would be keen to try something new.
I am lucky in so much that I have a pretty good varied selection of open whiskies at home to choose from. I find my choice of dram varies with mood, occasion, time of day etc. Loads of variables working away in the decision making process.
I particularly enjoy a peated whisky on a winters evening, sat at home with the log burner fired up.
Happy days!
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ddtrash: where do you live, mate?.. Just asking so I can send you the right (and local!) way to acquire some peated beer…
Completely understand what you mean with different drinks being for different occasions/ moodsets... Same with beer for me...
And yes: I know peated whiskeys are an acquired taste, and that's exàctly why I wanna get into 'm!.. Always open to new things, and if I don't like 'm at first, I'll keep at it, until I at least (think to) understand it...
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Seul, I am UK based. Any suggestions for where to find some decent Belgium beers including the peated ones would be appreciated.
If you like the Talisker then also have a look at either of these lighter peated offerings:
Jura - Superstition , An Cnoc - Rutter.
I learned how some of the lighter peated whiskies were made recently:
Smaller distilleries which only have a single set of stills, can only handle a single distillation process at a time. If this distillery makes a run of heavily peated spirit then the next run of spirit from the still will pick up remnants of the peated flavour.
This "intermediate" run of spirit is effectively used to clean out the stills and produces a lighter peated spirit. It is effectively a cleansing cycle allowing the next batch of "non-peated" spirit to be made and kept free of traces of peat flavour from the previous distillation cycle.Spot the "whisky nerd" !!
Getting thirsty just thinking about this, not a good time to be at work for three weeks on a dry oil rig!
