So Amar, do you actually drink it or just look at it??
Wouldn’t last that long around mi casa. Heck, it’s not even around long enough for me to spell it right… 
Eh by gum..
or something like that.
Jeez Weeks, you’re starting to sound like Shaw now. I’ll be charitable here and put it down to osmosis.
Mmmm.. I think that Amar needs to be seeing a Doctor, that’s not a drinks cabinet, it’s a lifestyle.
Slan,
D. 
Just my Gold Rush lore showing thru (I am a scholar and performer of Calif Gold Rush music)… Shaw just talks funny.
“Off I started Yankee-like, I soon fell in with a lot from Pike.
The next group was some damn whoa-has,
A right smart bunch from Arkansas…”
Ya know, some of the old talk comes in useful at times…
As for Amar, that’s a part of his bachelor pad decoratin’, if you think about it. I didn’t notice the lava lite, or did I???
Bit of the old cross cultural coming in now.
So much for Macaroni..but that’s another story
Speaking about talkin’ funny…
I was only here in England for about two weeks, a fortnight so to speak, when I came across this Geordie boy who had just got back from a week in London. His accent was beyond my comprehension but I managed to get the main parts of his tale, after a lot of “Excuse me. I’m sorry but could you say that again please..”
When he was finished his story and I was still sitting there trying to fill in the gaps, as such, he came out with a classic statement.
“Tell ye now mate, they talk reet funny down there”..
I just looked at my pint and slowly shook my head.
Slan,
D.
Laphraoig, Highland Park, Bowmore and Balvenie all use floor maltings, but only about twenty percent or so. The rest they have made by maltsters to their specifications. Springbank doesn’t bring in malt.
I don’t get it…why a pic of the local liquor store? 
Got any McCallan? or Midleton Very Rare? yum…
Philo
I was referring specifically to Scotch, not all whiskeys. And some of the hootch you refer to would be better used for stripping paint off antique furniture.
Not shown in Amar’s photo is his mainstay stock of Vat 69.
djm
Sorry, no McCallan, there is Macallan however, look on the top right. If you insist on having McCallan, go here: http://mccallan.org/
And Irish Whiskeys? Well, I’ve only got two irish single malts, can you spot them?
Henke, I’ll go and have a look.
Know why it’s called Vat69? No, it’s not a dirty story.
William Sanderson made various vats of his blend, invited his buddies over to find out which was the best. Well, number 69 was the winner.
Maybe y’all don’t have any enforcers of revenue law up there in the north, but my great granddaddy did hard time in the state pen for that.
Yes, I’ve heard that they’re particular fond of their pigeons in Oklahoma.
djm
From January to April this year, I drank a 20 cl bottle of Highland Reserve every day. Not because it’s good, but because it was cheap.
Tyrconnell and Bushmills, what no Red Breast?
The squabs, anyhow.
Good bottle of cask strength Glenmorangie up there, that was one of my favourites. What is the signatory bottling? And is that McMacMacallan (entering into the spirit of the board) wood box one of the vintage year reproductions? And what is right in front of that? Also - nice one on the Springbank, but have you got any of their Longrow there - what do think of that stuff?
Right about the irish booze. But only got the two, no other, sorry.
The Signatory bottling (blue box on the right) is a 1976 Vintage Port Ellen, bottled 1999, 55.9%vol.
The Macallan wooden box is a 25year, bottled 1966 (my birthyear 
), hardly any left, sadly..
And right in front of it is bottle 2135 of one of these: http://www.royalmilewhiskies.com/product.asp?pf_id=0010000006186
Unfortunately no Longrow, but I have a Springbank there, the wooden box, I tried it at a tasting and had to get it, I thought it was the most perfect dram I had ever tried!
Oh man, just did some searching and found here: http://www.whiskyauction.com/auction/archive5-06.html that the bottle is being auctioned for 530£ 
All kidding aside, I have never had a 34-yr old aged whisky. Man, I am envious to get a taste of that… Tip o’ the hat to Amar. He’s serious!
Very, very good stuff. Particularly envious of the Port Ellen and the Springbank. Have you cracked into the Port Ellen? Report, report! And how about the Private Eye and the '66 Macallan - when are you getting yourself outside of these? What else have you drunk that was interesting? I had a Macallan 1874 that a friend gave me a year or two ago. (Good friend) that was really lovely - one of the best I ever had even though I would generally be more into the peat than the Speyside. Do you collect as much as drink, generally, or do you gradually work your way through them, picking up a bottle when it strikes you?
I cannot recommend highly enough that you get some Longrow though - Springbank distillers using peat - absolutely magic stuff. I’ve got some that they aged a couple of years in a Tokaji barrel which is extraordinary. Although the 14yr may be the best ordinary sort of expression of a whisky that I’ve been lucky enough to taste. I don’t really have the money to collect a shelf like yours, (comes of being a musician) so I’m really envious of your selection. I usually only keep two or three bottles at a time and when I’ve drunk through one, I replace it with something else, but I’ve been taking great care with that Longrow.
Things are reasonably good at the moment as I just moved from Scotland a few months ago. At the mo’ I’ve also got an Aberlour first fill sherry of 13yrs that I filled from a cask at the distillery that has been hanging about as yet unopened, some Uigeadal, some Red Breast (for Irish mixed grain unblended), some Penderyn from Wales (as yet too young a distillery to be very good) and a vatted malt that I filled from a vatting cask at Springbank. I drink the stuff a lot more in the winter than the summer, so I am glad that the cool weather is finally rolling in here.
What is your instrument by the way?
Hmmm.
it seems that Amar and I definitely should meet! Perhaps he’s also member of
Silvano