Are single-malt whiskey snobs supersad haughty people, or are they on to something?

[BlackCat]

It sems like that Penderyn isn't that easy to get here, but I'll look for it.

About paint strippers, welll, I guess that Johnnie Walker red label fits nicely into that category. It's smirnoff alll over - lots of ad but no quality.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A lot of consensus here. I'll second what everyone else says about Laphroaig - great stuff.

On the other hand, I've always preferred Bushmill's to Jameson's

[MikeH]

Yeh, me too. Often in the UK a place will only have Jamesons if they have an Irish whiskey.

[Ecthy]

I'm not a whiskey person myself and I knew that Johnny Walker was cheap and crap stuff. I'm quite surprised that a whiskey connaisseur wouldn't know.

[MikeH]

To be fair to Asher, he said that was in the past. I don't know why he's getting stick for it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And Johnny Black is decent. Johnny Red is low-rent, but it mixes well and isn't any worse than J&B, Dewar's, or Black and White. It's a fine starter scotch if you haven't got a lot of drinking cash. As a poor graduate student, it's what I had in the house when I couldn't find Teachers or Black and White.

Another high-end blend that hasn't been mentioned is Pinch, which is also marketed as Dimple. That's my wife's favorite, and it's mighty fine.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Ecthy
I'm not a whiskey person myself and I knew that Johnny Walker was cheap and crap stuff. I'm quite surprised that a whiskey connaisseur wouldn't know.

Johnny Walker isn't a whiskey.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Johnny Walker isn't a whiskey.

Of course it is. All scotch is whiskey (or whisky; I can never remember which ones keep the "e" and which ones lose it).

[Asher]

Originally posted by MikeH
To be fair to Asher, he said that was in the past. I don't know why he's getting stick for it.

He's trying to make me cry.

I'm also trying to find out who he's calling a whiskey connaisseur.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Of course it is. All scotch is whiskey (or whisky; I can never remember which ones keep the "e" and which ones lose it).

I believe it depends on origin. To Americans it's whiskey, to Brits/Scots/Irishmen it's whisky. That's what I heard.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Of course it is. All scotch is whiskey (or whisky; I can never remember which ones keep the "e" and which ones lose it).

Irish no "e" everyone else "e".

[LordShiva]

[Dinner]

The Scottish can't spell but the Irish can; so switch the words around.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Asher

He's trying to make me cry.

I'm also trying to find out who he's calling a whiskey connaisseur.

Me? I was genuinely wondering since I knew it was crap and you're a conaisseur (sp) compared to me.

[Asher]

I thought I very clearly established in the OP that I'm no such thing.

What I can do, Ecthy, is read. Try it sometime.

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