ATTN: whisky (or whiskey) drinkers.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I prefer my bourbon whiskey neat, but some of them are better with a dollop of water. And once in a while in summer, I'll drink bourbon rocks.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Reminds me of that old joke (that's not really a joke):


You know why the Brits like their beer warm?



Because the same people that make their cars make their refrigerators.




By the way, there are several excellent american lagers (though they may not be available where you are). Sessions is awesome, and New Belgium brewery out of Colorado (they make fat tire) makes a kickass lager as well. It's taken an unreasonably long time for lagers to make inroads in the american microbrew market but it's finally happening.

Lagers really showed well last summer, for once. It's been years of people bitching about the preponderance of hoppy-ass ales. The proportion of IPA to all other varieties in the beer aisles is completely ridiculous. I especially want to kick in the face brewers who put out 6 different overhopped motherfucking ales, one stout, and one wheat beer, which for quite some time seemed to be ALL OF THEM.

I've heard from Willamette Valley farmers that a driving factor for all the hoppiness is that in order to farm hops in Oregon you need a contract with a brewer, and all the hop growers are friends with the brewers they produce for. I don't know the truth factor in that but I do know that we do not need any more beers that make me shit and sleep.

[LMNO]

Some highland scotches, I find personally, are improved with a few drops, maybe even a teaspoon, of cold water. I don't know why.

[Triple Zero]

You know, Faust mixes his with Coca Cola.

YOUR SECRET IS EXPOSED FAUST

[BabylonHoruv]

Reminds me of that old joke (that's not really a joke):


You know why the Brits like their beer warm?



Because the same people that make their cars make their refrigerators.




By the way, there are several excellent american lagers (though they may not be available where you are). Sessions is awesome, and New Belgium brewery out of Colorado (they make fat tire) makes a kickass lager as well. It's taken an unreasonably long time for lagers to make inroads in the american microbrew market but it's finally happening.

Lagers really showed well last summer, for once. It's been years of people bitching about the preponderance of hoppy-ass ales. The proportion of IPA to all other varieties in the beer aisles is completely ridiculous. I especially want to kick in the face brewers who put out 6 different overhopped motherfucking ales, one stout, and one wheat beer, which for quite some time seemed to be ALL OF THEM.

I've heard from Willamette Valley farmers that a driving factor for all the hoppiness is that in order to farm hops in Oregon you need a contract with a brewer, and all the hop growers are friends with the brewers they produce for. I don't know the truth factor in that but I do know that we do not need any more beers that make me shit and sleep.

Also bad when the stout and wheat beer are also over hopped.

You figure a stout or wheat will at least be safe, with some flavor and not hops out the ass, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

[Cain]

I know someone, whose father used to work for Glenmorangie and so who had a considerable single malt collection, who threw a house party once and, at 2am that morning, found some of his guests had opened a 21 year old bottle and started mixing it with cola.  Not coca-cola, cheap, sugar-free cola from Tesco

[Phox]

Personally, I can't stand hops, but that's why I'm a bourbon girl. I do enjoy an occasional Guinness, however.

And I take my Jameson neat, when I can get it. 

[East Coast Hustle]

I know someone, whose father used to work for Glenmorangie and so who had a considerable single malt collection, who threw a house party once and, at 2am that morning, found some of his guests had opened a 21 year old bottle and started mixing it with cola.  Not coca-cola, cheap, sugar-free cola from Tesco

That's just....I don't even.

[Cain]

Welcome to Scotland: pissing over it's own heritage since the building of Hadrian's Wall.

[Suu]

I know someone, whose father used to work for Glenmorangie and so who had a considerable single malt collection, who threw a house party once and, at 2am that morning, found some of his guests had opened a 21 year old bottle and started mixing it with cola.  Not coca-cola, cheap, sugar-free cola from Tesco

That's a cardinal sin. They're going to a special hell for that.

[Faust]

You know, Faust mixes his with Coca Cola.

YOUR SECRET IS EXPOSED FAUST

NOOOO, I am destroyed! Why did you have to expose my terrible sissy drinking habits.

RECOUPING FACE:

In the last year I haven't really mixed with anything. I always take two ice cubes and I won't drink anything other then Jameson, paddy/power/bushmills/jackD all make me feel sick.

Ice works for blending the flavour but it overshoots it if you don't drink quickly enough and then you get watery whiskey.

[Richter]

Jack D and Jim Beam are distilled American self loathing.  That said they have their uses.  Mainly mint juleps.

[Phox]

On the topic of ice: The first drink I ever purchased at a bar was Johnnie Walker Red Label on the rocks.

That has nothing to do with anything, of course, and I don't often partake of Johnnie and I don't put ice in my Jameson, but I think I might try Faust's two ice cubes next time.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Jack D and Jim Beam are distilled American self loathing.  That said they have their uses.  Mainly mint juleps.

Beam... <shudder>

It's horrible. And I drink Old Crow by choice.

[Kai]

Reminds me of that old joke (that's not really a joke):


You know why the Brits like their beer warm?



Because the same people that make their cars make their refrigerators.




By the way, there are several excellent american lagers (though they may not be available where you are). Sessions is awesome, and New Belgium brewery out of Colorado (they make fat tire) makes a kickass lager as well. It's taken an unreasonably long time for lagers to make inroads in the american microbrew market but it's finally happening.

Oh, that's good to hear! With people who aren't beer savvy, I've compared ales to red wines, and lagers to whites. In that sense, how shitty all the lagers in NA have been in the past is like if white wines from an entire region were complete shit. Every major USAian brewcorp has a lager as it's flagship, and they're all bad, some of them REALLY bad. People seriously equate beer with the shitty taste of watered down fresca that is canned american "lager" these days. I do love my lighter ales (e.g. New Glarus Spotted Cow, which is light and creamy), but there's just something about the cold brewed crispness of a good lager that an ale can't fill on a really hot day. Zywiec, for example (sorry if this is a shitty example).

And I agree with Nigel. I've had some pretty good IPAs, but for the most part they just aren't all that drinkable. If I wanted that much bitter I'd eat cocoa powder. (Note: I don't eat cocoa powder). I'm not talking the nicely hopped feel of an imperial stout either. That's just fine.