I’ve encountered moonshine that could probably be used to strip paint before…
How can people drink that stuff?!?
Organic solvents, yum yum yum!!
On 2002-10-18 11:42, The Weekenders wrote:
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…
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Will secure a bottle of chartreuse and give newcomer impressions…
Aged? You bet. The monks are as old as the hills.
$20-$30 excessive. I pay $A50-80 for much the same brands. Ouch!
cheers.
[ This Message was edited by: Wombat on 2002-10-18 12:13 ]
Michael (and others):
Being more of a lager/ale or Baileys person myself, I must claim ignorance of the “ways of chartreuse.”
I have since figured out that there are two main varities- yellow or green. Aside from the fact that the green appears to be strongest- which would you recommend that someone try?
edited to correct typo
Thanks, Tom
[ This Message was edited by: TomB on 2002-10-18 12:21 ]
On 2002-10-17 17:44, vaporlock wrote:
I think it would be interesting if we could somehow document the lives of our mailing tubes…
Eric, I think you must be really, really easily amused… 
No, I haven’t been drinking.
Hmmm, maybe that’s the problem… 
John
I tasted whiskey once, but I didn’t swallow.
Can I be president of the United States?
Yeah, Tube, EIGHT YEARS AGO!!!
Oh, don’t forget to "take full responsibilty " while yer at it. Means nothing, but he sure said it a lot.
Don’t get me started about that hillbilly.
Weekenders - I just got for my daughter’s reference section, the new 17th Edition of Bartlett’s Quotations, and it includes Clinton. If you think his quotes about not inhaing or not having “sex” with Lewinsky are duplicitous, get a load of this one, testifying before the Grand Jury, August 17, 1998:
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the - if he - if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not - that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.”
Now back to our regularly scheduled game; I just mailed out an Overton in a tube that bore my Abell. And if I wasn’t home ill today, I’d be Abell to drink Over a ton of Jameson!
See, when I’m home sick, you all pay for it by virtue of my increased posting…
Over Abell, Roger Wilco,
Philo
I have a triangular box perfect for mailing low whistles. Does that count?
Only Tomatin could fit in it probly.
And yes, for anyone who cares, Trader Joes and BevMo have the best competing prices for whisky. They beat Costco.
Wombat," I feel yer pain." Time to move.
(And PhilO, why is that clown in Bartletts next to Franklin etc?..sheesh..I guess “you wont have Dick nixon to kick around” is there too, right?)
Exception was Costco’s xmas gift MacCallans “set” you got two bottles, wood crate, flask etc…who needs that stuff? As is typical of that place, they make you buy more than you want.
[ This Message was edited by: The Weekenders on 2002-10-18 14:52 ]
Orange pekoe tea is less expensive than these liquors, and you can fit a teabag in a regular letter envelope.
My liver salutes yer clean one, Walden but I prefer whisky…
Tea from 4–5 pm for the Weekender, whisky is possible at all other hours.
On 2002-10-18 14:46, Walden wrote:
Orange pekoe tea is less expensive than these liquors, and you can fit a teabag in a regular letter envelope.
Orange pekoe, no less. Such taste. But is Orange pekoe truly a Waldeny thing to like? Hmmm.
please, my friends, I’ve been a single malt whisky nut for the past 10years, please get the spellings right!!
american and irish whiskEy
candian and scottish (scotch) whisky
correct spelling of a few brands:
The Macallan
Glenfiddich
well, I’ll leave it at that.
sorry for being a nerd..
On 2002-10-19 08:31, amar wrote:
please, my friends, I’ve been a single malt whisky nut for the past 10years, please get the spellings right!!
american and irish whiskEy
candian and scottish (scotch) whisky
correct spelling of a few brands:
The Macallan
Glenfiddich
well, I’ll leave it at that.>
sorry for being a nerd..
Thank you, it’s been driving me nuts too. Though I still think it sounds funny to have the “The” in front of Macallan.
Sorry about the late reply re chartreuse. Which one to try first depends on your take on alcohol preferences generally, for one thing. People who stick to beer and wine and aren’t used to the hard stuff probably shouldn’t try the green first; whiskey drinkers wouldn’t worry about that.
That said I think the yellow is easier to appreciate immediately even besides the strength question. It’s a little softer and mellower. The green can really get up in your face at first. It’s one of those flavors that’s so complex that sometimes people don’t know what to make of it and think it reminds them of cough syrup.
If anyone tries either for the first time as a result of this I’d like to know about it. I’d be proud to make a convert or two.
My uncle has said that the only whisky an Irish-American catholic should drink is Jameson. Bushmills and all of the scotches are for protestants. Canadian is for Canadians and bourbon is for southerners and other heathens.
Like Walden, though, I keep my liver pure these days. I haven’t touched a drop of beer, wine or spirits in years, and thank God for that with the prices you guys are quoting!
I feel perfectly justified buying $20 a pound coffee beans now.
On 2002-10-18 13:53, TubeDude wrote:
I tasted whiskey once, but I didn’t swallow.Can I be president of the United States?
No, just his secretary. And only if you also tasted cigar, and did not inhale it.
On 2002-10-18 04:17, Wombat wrote:
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.
I thought that was typically American, where I saw the scene in some bars : getting a whiskey (i.e. bourbon) in a shot glass, dropping the whole thing–with the glass!–in the beer glass. Makes a nice bubble effect when it hits the bottom. They aptly called it a “depth charge”.
vaporlock, I know what you mean, when I refer to that fine dram I leave out the “the” too.
slainte!
On 2002-10-19 15:15, vaporlock wrote:
Though I still think it sounds funny to have the “The” in front of Macallan.
That’s by no means the only brand with a ‘The’ in front. The reason I heard is this. Most brands of scotch are named after the places where they are distilled. Now, you can’t trademark a place name and there’s nothing to stop anyone else from the region marketing inferior scotch under that name. The ‘The’ gives you something you can trademark. I don’t know if this explanation is correct.
On 2002-10-20 09:59, Wombat wrote:
The ‘The’ gives you something you can trademark.
Sounds like a good enough reason to me. I move that we make this the “Official” reason that makers use “The” in their product names.
I have a journal of all the different single malts that I’ve tried (somewhere around 30 I would guess off hand). Mostly back when I had a job and when the stock market was being friendly to me. They are almost exclusively 10-12 year olds (the stock market wasn’t that friendly to me ). Anyway, I do have in my posession some little gems that I would like to brag about. All were bottled at cask strength in 1999:
'67 Glenlivet - I cracked this one open the day my daughter was born.
'68 Glenlivet - I will crack this open on her wedding day.
'69 Glenlivet - I will someday open this on the deck of a Russian ice breaker on the day I get to dive the South Pole.
'70 Glenlivet - TBD at later date.
'72 Glenlivet - This one goes in my coffin with me.
The set was a birthday present from my lovely wife. I am saving enough of all of them so that I can do a side by side taste test someday!
[ This Message was edited by: vaporlock on 2002-10-20 14:17 ]