Fellow Whisky Affictionados!

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Depending on your intended budget for the main birthday whisky, it might be useful to experiment with a bottle of something good first, to get a rough idea. If you're looking at £60+ for the main event, £25 for a decent bottle to experiment on might be worthwhile. Supermarkets do a pretty wide range of whisky, including some nice ones ~12 years old around that price.

I think you may have to skip the ice lolly suggestion, though. Alcohol has a very low freezing point and I've just read that 40% abv freezes well below the -18C you get in a domestic freezer.
 
The balvenie 12yr doublewood is a very nice general whiskey IMO.

Infact, i've just finished off my bottle. Will set you back around £30
 
If you can taste it first to see if you like it (it's peaty, like most Islay's), then Ardbeg 10yr old is hard to go wrong with. Grab a miniature from most decent Off Licences.

I like Glenfarclas 12yr old as well. If you want to get inebriated (Though better of the original word I used) on it then their 105 (Cask strength) is good for a strong whisky. as noted on the whisky exchange, a touch of water makes it better.
 
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InSanCen said:
If you can taste it first to see if you like it (it's peaty, like most Islay's), then Ardbeg 10yr old is hard to go wrong with. Grab a miniature from most decent Off Licences.

I like Glenfarclas 12yr old as well. If you want to get inebriated (Though better of the original word I used) on it then their 105 (Cask strength) is good for a strong whisky. as noted on the whisky exchange, a touch of water makes it better.
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If you want be get inebriated, drink Bells or Grants or whatever. They're just as effective at getting you drunk - you just need about 20% more to offset the difference in abv (I'm assuming that the 105 is 105 proof, 52.5% abv).

I once spent some time in an off license with a calculator, finding out which bottle gave the most alcohol per pound. It was an exercise in student efficiency :) The winner was Tiger Milk, a bottle of slop that made Thunderbirds seem refined. When I were a lad...I was an idiot :)
 
Has anyone here tried VAT 69? I was watching band of brothers the other day, and if its true to life, then VAT 69 was a very popular and rare whisky in WW2. Im just wondering if its still good compared to todays standards of whisky, or if its just among the ranks of an average/cheap whisky compared to whats available now.
 
I drink Macallan, Glenmorangie, and Lochnagar for general seshs when I can. I sometimes have Whiskey with ice as for the Whiskey I drink it usually tastes smoother that way.
 
you do lose allot of the flavor by cooling the whiskey (and with ice it waters it down) but with some drinks that a good thing ;)

With a really nice whiskey i prefer cooling the glass in the freezer and letting it warm slowly as i drink it, but as mentioned its really up to you how you enjoy it, its all about enjoying it after all
 
Another one you could try is Edradour - fancied a glass last night only to open the box and find an empty bottle instead :(

Still made do with a 25 year old Glenfarclas instead.
 
I'm quite new to whiskey! Not sure why, but I just never had any until a short while ago.

What do people think of Dimple? Was the first ever whiskey I tried and I really liked it!

Got given a bottle of 12yr old Glenlivet aswell which is ok, but not as nice as the Dimple imo.

Any more recommendations for some smoother (similer to the Dimple) whiskey? Tried red label which was rather :o to say the least.
 
I went through this the other week looking for a nice whiskey for the long summer nights in the garden, In the end i decided to go to a few specialist whiskey shops York and had a few taster sessions and bought some minitures after discussing what i was looking for with the shop keepers. This help greatly as i tasted some really nice ones and some really terrible ones! but to finish i settled on Glenrothes special reserve.
 
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I'm quite new to whiskey! Not sure why, but I just never had any until a short while ago.

What do people think of Dimple? Was the first ever whiskey I tried and I really liked it!

Got given a bottle of 12yr old Glenlivet aswell which is ok, but not as nice as the Dimple imo.

Any more recommendations for some smoother (similer to the Dimple) whiskey? Tried red label which was rather :o to say the least.
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Go for an 18 yr old Glenmorangie.

Should also be noted that the Dimple is a blend whereas the Glenlivet is a malt.
 
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Scuzi said:
Drinking whisky is about enjoying the experience. All these pompous so called whisky connisseurs all seem to insist that you should never put water in whisky, you should never put ice in it and so on, along with the "If it was meant to have more water in it, the distiller would have put more in" comments.

Ignore all of these. You are drinking the whiskey for you. It's for you to enjoy. You're not drinking it to impress other people like those who are giving advice in this thread.

If you like it with ice, put ice in it. If you think it tastes better diluted with a lot of water, drink it that way.
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There are good reasons for drinking Whisky in the traditional ways. The flavour of Whisky comes from volatile auromatics, if you chill it you get less of these, if you heavily water you dillute the flavour, if you add flavoured additives you mask the flavour.

Sure, there's no point in drinking anything in a way you don't like but, equally, why spend your money on the best quality whiskys if you're then going to take steps to stop you from being able to probably appreciate their subtlety and complexity?
 
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