I just had a stupid idea, but I think it could be fun…
I have a bunch of whistles and have started trading them with other board members with increasing frequency. Sometimes they arrive in a brand new mailing tube, and sometimes, the tubes have layer after layer of old names and addresses. I always recycle my tubes whenever possible.
I think it would be interesting if we could somehow document the lives of our mailing tubes and maybe even our whistles. Maybe a slip of paper inside the tube that gets updated each time the tube gets used?
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
No, I haven’t been drinking.
Cheers,
Eric
[ This Message was edited by: vaporlock on 2002-10-17 18:15 ]
I tried that schnapps stuff once, thought I was gonna die right there. I’ll take whiskey thanks. Mail me a bottle in one of those mailing tubes!
Must be:
Sigh…but I guess it gives people something to relate to so they can compare the various nectars…
I like all of it except the very cheapest. They sell Dalmore for 19 bucks here (12 yr old) and it makes me happy…also Tomatin in the funny bottle is cheap…Other weekender just poured my 20 yr Lagavulin like it was cheap stuff down her throat in moving anxiety attack.
I was shocked, stunned, wounded…
I’ve working on a bottle of Lagavulin 12 for the last 2 or 3 weeks. It’s one of my “sittin by the fire playin my Hoover narrow bore late at night” favorites. The taste lingers for days.
Believe it or not, Trader Joe’s around here often has Oban, Glenmorangie (usually portwood or sherrywood), Laphroig and Tomatin and my all-weather favorite Macallan 10 (among many others) at a good price.
I’ve never had Chartreuse, but it sounds inviting!
Dear Michael: Nobody is offended if you don’t like Scotch whiskey.
As a fan of it, I wish all the people who werent sure about it would stop buying it so it would get cheap again.
Round about the mid 80s, it became kind of a yuppie thing, to drink single-malt, and the prices went way up.
I been waiting and hoping they’d lower em cause its an expensive habit…
The only good that came of it was a slew of new brands that hadnt ever made it out of Scotland.
So enjoy yer chartreuse. That’s a new one on me but Im sure its good!!!
As for MacCallan, thats the other Weekenders fave cause of the sherry cask aging. Its dang smooth and a bit sweet but I like to keep trying new (to me) brands…
On 2002-10-17 19:26, PhilO wrote:
You have to be of age to drink McCallan, 12 or 18!
Philo
Maybe once IBM hit $100 again I’ll give 'em a try. Hmmm…the way the stock market has been going, they should be distilling the 12 year old right about now.
Weekender, glad to see you made it home from work safely…I was beginning to think this thread was gonna die.
I don’t mean to be on topic, but I have a bunch of tubes, too. I usually try to cover the labels by putting my printout over them, then putting packing tape over that. Anyone who’s curious can cut through the tape and see whose label is underneath.
Now, to the “real” topic at hand. I haven’t tried to develop a taste for Scotch since Glenfyddich was the only single-malt available in New England. I still think the stuff is foul. A year or two later I spent the better part of a year trying to develop a taste for wine. I think most of it is foul, too, except for a good cold German white. Michael, if you’re in the DC area in a couple of years, maybe I can talk my wife into opening our last bottle of 1963 Romariz Colheita.
Lager, ale, and most of the permutations, I love it all. I’m just back from a trip to Texas that involved a couple of nights with Shiner on tap. It doesn’t get much better. Oh, and next year’s meeting is in Antwerp. Lambic (that’s not homemade) for less than seven dollars a bottle!!!
On 2002-10-17 21:16, The Weekenders wrote:
Dear Michael: Nobody is offended if you don’t like Scotch whiskey…
As Lee Marsh, might say:
ENJOY YOUR WHISKY!!!
Aye but not scotch,
Bushmills or Jamesons’s?
Maybe …
with a bit of coffee,
whipping cream, and a pinch of brown sugar.
any thing to help you …
Mixing Jameson’s with coffee? That’s called Irish coffee here and in England. When a dear old Irish aunt of mine was asked if she’d like an Irish coffee in a restaurant, she faked a look of amazement and said: ‘What! And spoil two good drinks.’ Them’s my sentiments too. But if you’re offering me a Baileys … now I just might say yes if you twist my arm.
In parts of England, if you buy someone a whisky, they simply tip it into their pint and keep drinking. The first time I saw that was the last time I ordered single malts for the natives. Speaking of which, who’s for a Glenlivet?
unfortunately at a minimum of thirty bucks a bottle chartreuse is not easy on the budget either, especially mine. I only get a bottle or two a year. But it certainly is good stuff. It’s made exclusively by three monks in France who belong to an order I once thought of joining.
Chas,
as a matter of fact I do live just out of D.C. Not that I’m trying to mooch.
By only three monks? Now thats an exclusive potion!!! Thats a deal at only $30! Aged??
But we Scotch drinkers have gotten used to $20-$30 per bottle. The cost of living, I say…
.
Will secure a bottle of chartreuse and give newcomer impressions…
