Learning to drink whiskey.
 

YouTube. Cute Scottish bartender explained perfectly the merits of adding water. It calms down the harsh booziness and you can taste it - the differences.

Picked up a local bourbon.

Caramel, leather, tobacco...I can taste it.

I know - not an ideal practice, but I tend to add water to my bourbon by first pouring a glass and then adding an ice chip. I let the ice chip melt completely and swirl before drinking.

I don't remember most of the content, but I attended a presentation by Dewars at a conference once on why to add a little water (complete with samples of course). Nice young red-haired lady in a tight dress asked me if I wanted to try some Scotch and listen to her talk for a while. Pure kryptonite...

I only like whiskey (Scottish whisky) if I add a whole lot of lemonade. Wow, fair got flamed. Easier to just not drink it at all.

Bourbon, I just add cola :)

Drinking it YOUR way is the ideal way! Don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Yep, I like mine with a few chunks of ice in it. I try to finish it before too much ice melts & dilutes it too much.

If you use a large clear ice ball, the bourbon will be cold and the ice doesn't melt and water down the flavors of the bourbon.
Want something interesting, try this, aged at sea, you can really taste the saltiness from the ocean. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...93af6b8764.jpg

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Well I don't know why this forum isn't allowing my pictures but the bourbon I was talking about is called "Jefferson's Ocean Aged At Sea, Voyage #17.

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Drink it your way,

That said if you have to drown it in coke or lemonade, you don’t really like,it. Find something you do.

Just pull the cork, put the bottle to your lips, tilt it up, and take a huge swallow!

What? You don't want that warm ass glow? You don't want to feel like you're brilliant?

Sheesh! Afterwards, be sure to take your Porsche on a fast canyon run.

Yeah! Be a MAN! Be THE man!

Yes, I agree completely, can't stand that chit. I'm a pinot noir drinker. Every day :)

Classic Spanish variant. J&B con Esprite. Mucho gusto.

I pull it from the freezer, pour it in a glass, and drink it. I had no idea there were tricks to it.

Same here. I do rotate it 90 degrees each time I put it back in the freezer on it's side. :D

I was invited to a presentation by Jura whiskey and their spokes man offered up to try a half a teaspoon of water in it and indeed it did 'open' it up...very nicely

Not for me.

I'll stick to Mich. Ultra...laughing...

If one needs to learn to drink it to appreciate it, I will pass. I loved beer from my first taste of it.

I don't care much at all for hard liquor or wine at all. Cocktails are just a way to mask the taste of the alcohol and make them drinkable. I have never once had any wine and thought "that tastes good" and I have had some good wine and I tried to like it.

In many movies the intellectuals go to the study and the host offers some sherry and of course they all partake. I had someone offer me some fancy sherry in a similar situation. I had to play adult and not do a spit-take with it. Yuck.

The Van Winkle family of Pappy fame drink their bourbon with a little ice and a twist...

I love both. Just drink too much of it. Standard fare beer for me.

Although there is nothing better then straight Jack out of the freezer.

Then you haven't tried Woodford Reserve out of the freezer.

One of the better days of my life - I was on work travel over a weekend in Glasgow.

Walked into one of the better known pubs with a wall of whisky.

"Hello. I don't know much about whisky - what should I have?"

Some discussion over what I've already had and liked (Tallisker) and she had five bottles on the bar, poured me all of them, charged me for two, darn near hugged on the way out.

Walked down the street to another. "Hello. I don't know much about whisky..."

I love Scotland... Unlike their relatives to the the south, they seem to really like 'merikans.