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Jun. 29th, 2009 07:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
As you know, I am extremely dedicated to scientific inquiry. As such, when last christmas a friend gave me a $60 gift card for Beverages & More, I naturally saw the opportunity for science!
Specifically, I was going to buy as many of those little bottles of whiskey/whisky/scotch as I could and compare and contrast until I felt I knew something about the subject!

From what I've been able to put together, Scotch IS better (imo), though I'm still extremely suspicious of their lack of an e in "whisky."
Whiskeys I noted to be good: (in appx order)
Glenlivet (single malt scotch)
Glenfiddich (single malt scotch)
Kilbeggan (irish whiskey)
Cutty Sark (blended scotch whisky)
Jameson (irish whiskey)
Dewar's (blended scotch whisky)
Johnnie Walker Black Label (blended scotch whisky)
Johnnie Walker Red LAbel (blended scotch whisky)
Whiskeys I can't decide if I like (in no order, because, yeah)
Chivas Regal (? scotch)
Macallan (single malt scotch)
Blegh
Bushmills (irish whiskey)
Wild Turkey (bourbon)
Kessler (american blended whiskey)
Jim Beam (bourbon)
Maker's Mark (bourbon)
Back in college I thought I hated whiskey, but that was because I'd only tried it as shots or "whiskey and coke." Whiskey and coke has always tasted like asphalt to me. The above research was conducted sipping it straight at room temperature.
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Date: 2009-06-29 02:08 pm (UTC)Glenn & Sons
Date: 2009-06-29 11:03 pm (UTC)Re: Glenn & Sons
Date: 2009-06-29 11:08 pm (UTC)http://www.whiskyshopusa.com/
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Date: 2009-06-29 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 03:57 pm (UTC)Back
Date: 2009-06-29 11:00 pm (UTC)Re: Back
Date: 2009-06-30 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 02:29 pm (UTC)Chivas Regal
Date: 2009-06-29 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 03:29 pm (UTC)i've always been rather pleased with Glenlivet, Glenfiddich and Cutty Sark, for scotches.
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Date: 2009-06-29 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 06:00 pm (UTC)"I'll have a whiskey for main course and a whiskey for pudding."
"And what would you like to go with that, sir? A whiskey?"
"No, a bottle of wine."
I'm wondering what Coke does go with. I don't like it with rum or whiskey.
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Date: 2009-06-29 06:46 pm (UTC)Whisky
Date: 2009-06-29 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 06:46 pm (UTC)I'd recommend, rather than including whiskeys like Macallan and Jim Beam in the same experiment, try comparing Macallan to other well-regarded single malts, like Lagavulin or Glenmorangie. Compare Johnnie Walker to Cutty Sark or Chivas. And at least give bourbon a chance: try Blanton's or Booker's or Basil Hayden's. You still may not like it, but what you're doing is like comparing Coors to Guiness and then saying American beer sucks.
Forgive me if I got excited; I am passionate about bourbon, although I acknowledge it isn't for everyone. :)
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Date: 2009-06-29 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 10:58 pm (UTC)If I have a chance to try such things I certainly won't pass it up though. (:
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Date: 2009-06-30 02:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 08:54 pm (UTC)Macallan
Date: 2009-06-29 10:51 pm (UTC)As to dividing into categories, maybe, but my goal wasn't really to figure out what was the best of it's type, but just what I liked and didn't, seeing as going in I had no opinions at all on the entire class of whiskey/whisky/bourbons..
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 11:41 pm (UTC)jim beam is obviously cheap
wild turkey gets you fucked up.
all this without jack daniels?
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