Talisker

Dang. With all the acronyms, I was thinking:

TALI-whacker-styled-Silent-Knight-Extreme-Rendition or something like that.
 
Mulder said:
My fav is Macallan and my #2 is Edradour.

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I had to go to Safeway and stock up on some stuff for the house and saw that they had a Macallan. So I got a 12 Year and I'm having some now. It is good; more flavor then the Oban but a harder finish.
 
That's why the 18yo and 25yo are so great. All the flavor without the harder finish. The 12yo always seemed a little rough to me.

Tony G said:
I had to go to Safeway and stock up on some stuff for the house and saw that they had a Macallan. So I got a 12 Year and I'm having some now. It is good; more flavor then the Oban but a harder finish.
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Tony G said:
I had to go to Safeway and stock up on some stuff for the house and saw that they had a Macallan. So I got a 12 Year and I'm having some now. It is good; more flavor then the Oban but a harder finish.
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You can get Scotch at your Safeway?
 
Tango-Papa said:
You can get Scotch at your Safeway?
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Yes, not great for liquor but has a great selection of wine and beer.

I live in California and it has been that way ever since I can remember (I’m over 50) I recall traveling around the U.S. when I was in my early 20's wondering what all the weird laws were all about having to do with buying liquor.

I'm going to have to hit a real liquor store for some of the older scotch.
 
For those of you that like the Islay malts check out Ardbeg. It's far and away the best Islay out there in my opinion although not well known outside Scotland. More peaty than the peat of Laphroaig and Lagavulin but much smoother than it's two south coast neighbours - they're only a few 100 metres apart. The 10 year old is 47% alcohol and non-chill filtered with the 17 year old a very smooth 40%. If you really want to splurge your cash then try the Lord of the Isles at 25 years old and 46%. Here in Japan I can get the 30 year old that doesn't seem to be available in my native Scotland. What's more the whisky here is less than half the cost of whisky in Scotland. That's the British government for you - tax whisky in the UK at 66% of the total cost making it more expensive to buy whisky in Scotland than in the most expensive country on the planet! No wonder I only go back for holidays!;)

For you Macallan guys - try the Sherry or Port Wood Glen Morangie as they have that slight sweetness that comes from aging in flavoured wood barrels making it kind of similar in colour and flavour to the Macallan although Macallan have been doing this the longest. On the subject of whisky trivia an interesting bit of Lagavulin trivia here as it's been mentioned in this thread. In the 1800s their was a bust up between Lagavulin and Laphroaig with Lagavulin being accused of copying after they poached the staff from their poorer (at the time anyway) neighbour and copied their stills and so on. They didn't end up with a perfect copy due to different locations of their warehouses and water supplies but came up with a good whisky anyway. But as I'm a big Laphroaig fan I don't buy Lagavulin on principle - although I will drink it if there is nothing else and if someone else has already bought it of course!;)
 
Tony G said:

Yes, not great for liquor but has a great selection of wine and beer.

I live in California and it has been that way ever since I can remember (I’m over 50) I recall traveling around the U.S. when I was in my early 20's wondering what all the weird laws were all about having to do with buying liquor.

I'm going to haev to hit a real liquor store for some of the older scotch.
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That's pretty dern convenient... and I'd volunteer to do the grocery shopping every week if it meant liquor shopping at the same time. Of course, and no offense intended, that and the weather in SoCal are probably the only two things that I would consider a bonus to living there. I keep waiting to hear they are going to regulate the number of breaths any one person can take on a daily basis:rolleyes: .
 
rabu9 said:
Here in Japan I can get the 30 year old that doesn't seem to be available in my native Scotland. What's more the whisky here is less than half the cost of whisky in Scotland. That's the British government for you - tax whisky in the UK at 66% of the total cost making it more expensive to buy whisky in Scotland than in the most expensive country on the planet! No wonder I only go back for holidays!;)
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So, what does a guy from Scotland, living in Japan, do for a living? Just curious, if you don't mind saying...
 
Tango-Papa said:
That's pretty dern convenient... and I'd volunteer to do the grocery shopping every week if it meant liquor shopping at the same time. Of course, and no offense intended, that and the weather in SoCal are probably the only two things that I would consider a bonus to living there. I keep waiting to hear they are going to regulate the number of breaths any one person can take on a daily basis:rolleyes: .
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God I wish you'd come here and convince about 10,000,000 - 15,000,000 people that you're right.
 
Tango-Papa said:
So, what does a guy from Scotland, living in Japan, do for a living? Just curious, if you don't mind saying...
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For a living I teach at some universites here and am trying to finish my Phd at another university. So all in all the living is good as the booze is cheaper and the bar opening hours are longer than the UK, not too mention the salaries are better. What more could a man ask for except for a local Busse / SRKW dealer?
 
rabu9 said:
For a living I teach at some universites here and am trying to finish my Phd at another university. So all in all the living is good as the booze is cheaper and the bar opening hours are longer than the UK, not too mention the salaries are better. What more could a man ask for except for a local Busse / SRKW dealer?
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Hmmmmm... not much... well, maybe a few things, but sounds pretty good as is.
 
sitting here drinking Talisker and spreading butter on my crackers with a battlerat butter knife. life is good:thumbup:
 
TALISKER 10 YR OLD
LCBO 249680 | 750 mL bottle

Price: $ 66.50
Spirits, Whisky, Scotch Whisky
45.8% Alcohol/Vol.


Made in: Scotland, Great Britain
By: UNITED DISTILLERS GROUP LONDON LTD


Tasting Note
Bright medium-amber colour; malt, iodine, white pepper, underbrush and smoke aromas; creamy vanilla flavours, soft and smoky, lightly peppery; medium to full-bodied with an intensely smoky finish

Serving Suggestion
Neat or with a dash of spring water


Sounds nice... 66.50 cnd sounds like a nice price i think.

if i had the cash....
TALISKER 25 YEAR OLD ISLE OF SKYE SINGLE MALT
700 mL bottle

Price: $ 429.95
Spirits, Whisky, Scotch-Malt Whisky
59.9% Alcohol/Vol.


Made in: Scotland, Great Britain
By: United Distillers Group London Ltd


Description
A malt that Michael Jackson calls 'volcanically powerful', Talisker is one of the finest Island malts. It is a distinction maintained for over 100 years; its intense peaty, peppery quality is still a hallmark. The late 19th century writer Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) was a big fan. Hopefully, it had no influence on the writing that book! This is a malt that is taylor-made for the connoisseur.
 
If you want something to put some hair on your chest, try some 18yr old Ardbeg....most phenolic of all the single malts in Scotland.
 
Agree, Ardbeg, is my favorite Islay.

Talisker gives me "the animal" (that flushed, allergic feeling,) something aweful!
 
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