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When the night has gone well, and you've had your fill of beer. Your having a night off the Port, so what do you have a few glasses of to end the night?
One of my favourites is

The silky, sweet thickness with a few blocks of ice...Heaven.

Alan

What is it Alan? Not familiar...

Todd,

Its a whisky Liqeuor. Like Drambuie, if you've come across that. Thick and sweet. Yum.

Alan

Alright, that leads me closer... While I have tried Drambuie and don't particularly remember anything spectacular about it, if I happen to see this at a bar I may try it out (without having to commit on purchasing an entire bottle that I may not like.)

Thanks Alan! (Enjoy!)

Todd

We know a song about this, don't we children?

Gonna take you to a Glayva
Gonna take you to a Glayva
Glayva Glayva Glayva

I usually assume that these things are a teenager’s version of a real drink. Is that just prejudice, or is it actually a better quality drink than, say, a Bowmore, which is a great post-beer refreshment.

More about Glayva.

I've always wanted to drink straight whisky, for the image. And if I'm drunk enough, I can. But for my taste buds its too a harsh drink, and I completely ruin it with lemonade.
Funnily enough, I enjoy the peaty 'soil' tasting whiskys, and yet recoil if that ever comes across in a Port.

Alan

Whisky should always be cut down to 30%. Cask-strength (60%) straight sterilises the tongue; bottle-strenght (40%) almost does so. Add water to take to 30%, or even 25%.

Dark Star Brewing Company’s 3.8% Hophead? Brewed about two miles from my father’s house.

OK - I'm Scottish, so I can tell you some truths about this subject.

1. Glayva (and Drambuie) is only consumed by women and tourists, mainly Americans with tartan (plaid) trousers on

2. Cask strength whisky can be drunk and enjoyed undiluted provided it is of the highest quality. Spend a few hours at the Malt Whisky Society in a Single Cask tasting in Queen Street, Edinburgh if you don't believe me

3. Anyone who puts lemonade in whisky should be shot

4. Alan should drink Lagavulin - it's 1% whisky, 99% peat, 100% gorgeous

5. KillerB has no sense of rythm

6. I don't drink whisky (very often)

Derek

4. Alan should drink Lagavulin - it's 1% whisky, 99% peat, 100% gorgeous

Are you sure your not describing a small plot of land where a dram of whisky was spilt?

Now where are my tarten trooosers!

Alan

OK - next time I am over in your neck o the woods I'll bring a Lagavulin 16 yr old - yum

Tartan!!!!!

jdaw1 wrote:I usually assume that these things are a teenager’s version of a real drink.

Derek T. wrote:Glayva (and Drambuie) is only consumed by women and tourists, mainly Americans with tartan (plaid) trousers on

I was trying to be polite, but really, I wasn’t disagreeing with Derek T.’s more forthright version.

jdaw1 wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:I usually assume that these things are a teenager’s version of a real drink.

Derek T. wrote:Glayva (and Drambuie) is only consumed by women and tourists, mainly Americans with tartan (plaid) trousers on

I was trying to be polite, but really, I wasn’t disagreeing with Derek T.’s more forthright version.

I was also trying to be polite

Derek

We both failed.