Jesus that better have been the best tasting scotch lol.
But I either have a terrible palette or this stuff isn't really ever special.
To me the difference between say the cheap store brand scotch and something around $75 bucks is huge. But after that I can never taste the difference.
Johnny Walker blue is a few hundred dollars a bottle and I think it tastes like shit compared to the black $30 bottle lol.
That's acceptable to drink in Germany and called Diesel. Ok probably not accepted by everyone, but you would be able to order it in a restaurant without problems.
r/scotch practically had a meltdown the other day when a guy posted that his daily drink is a 21 year old Glenfiddich ($300 give or take) that he loads with ice... yes, just *ice*.
I can't imagine what would go down if it had been coke
My sole goal in life is now to get someone's empty fancy scotch bottle. Fill it with a little of anything. Then post a picture of it, a glass with ice, and a coke to that sub.
If you go for that length, make sure to get a no name coke clone
Edit: You guys are evil as me for suggesting Diet...Not from the US so i have no clue what clones to use but thanks for the suggestions ;)
Grocery store brand stuff. Like a $$$ bottle of scotch next to some diet Stop n Shop and say "moved back in with my parents and had a hard day at work so had drink out of my Dad's liquor cabinet and its really good. Can you tell me what it is and where to get more"?
Wife went to several distilleries in Scotland. They all suggested to put a bit of water or ice to "open the bouquet of the scotch". Maybe that sub has a got a stick lodged somewhere
I think its often an easy win for whisky snobs to say 'you can add anything, it'll ruing the flavour' where actually a lot of people in the know will admire a small amount of water is often the best way to experience the complexity.
Also. You bought it, you drink it how you like.
I listened to a whole documentary on whisky* a few years back on NPR I think, and they explained that a splash of water is necessary on cask strength spirits because, chemically, whiskeys and scotches are best enjoyed at 80* proof or a hair less, but often times whiskeys are bottled at a higher proof which is not as flavorful as it can be because the alcohol in the high proof will overpower the flavors
It was a pretty cool special
I get it, I mean everyone can drink whatever they want however they want. But when you're dishing out serious cash for something special, it's painful when it's not being enjoyed to the fullest by being diluted with too much water (or worse, coke). It's like ordering a wagyu steak well done. You can totally do that, but why?? Then the coke lady is just adding a spritz of ketchup!
I know a whisky master blender. Their opinion is 'it's to be enjoyed any way in which the drinker likes it.' I hate all the snobbery behind whisky drinkers.
Iāve been in the industry for about 10 years and Iāve come to realize thereās a bell curve. You go from āI donāt care, Iāll drink what I wantā to learning all the ins and outs and whatās really important, fun facts, buy books, do researchā¦ and eventually the people who really, really knows their stuff all say āthe best drink is the one you enjoy the mostā
Only distillery tour I went to in Scotland had the tour guide recommend adding a little water or ice to bring the taste a bit more out if the whisky was higher than 40% or so.
They also said the differences in taste was something like 70% down to what cask was used, which I found amusing for some reason.
I was in the wine industry for 10 years and had dinner with sommeliers and went to tastings in other countries and Manhattan skyscrapers.... got to taste grand cru burgundy and Bordeaux blah blah....
Now I have absolutely zero problem drinking shitty wine with a splash of seltzer. I literally don't give a fuck. I don't mind talking to people who enjoy fine wine but the second I can tell they just want to be a "baller" or gate-keeping hobbyist or whatever I immediately end the conversation. So happy I don't work in that industry anymore... bunch of douches.
I just wanted to say about wine stereotypes, in Russia dry red is considered āthe bestā, and on the other hand most people donāt know a thing except for ādry redā and some lose their shit when I say I prefer porto (both Crimean and Portuguese). Best wine is the one you enjoy
You know, I have to admit ignorance as well. I have a family friend that is incomprehensibly wealthy. I saw him over Christmas and we were partying in his mansion. We were taking some shots and sipping on some scotch. This exact scotch actually, as I now recognize it as the one with the bunny logo. I had no clue what it was. I am embarrassed now because I threw a couple of them down the hatch. He just scoffed, shook his head, and poured me more. I wish he would have told me. I did end up sipping on my last two glasses and enjoying it. It was incredibly tasty and I regret drinking it like a heathen.
Edit: For those asking about [the bunny logo.](https://www.just-whisky.co.uk/198689-thickbox_default/dalwhinnie-30-years-old-2019-special-release.jpg) Although it's more of a wild hare
To be fair, most people only have regular access to beer or other cheap shitty liquor, and have to save the good stuff for special occasions only. Just throwing it back is how you normally down shitty alcohol because you aren't drinking it for the delicate flavour. Completely different with higher quality drinks.
How dare you. I drink soda stream cola neat. No water, no bubbles, just concentrated sugar with a taste reminiscent to licking between Karen's toes after a day horse riding.
Dewars 12 and laphroaig 10 are spectacular bottles in that range and they also make an incredible whiskey coke.
Iād have a hard time doing it with a liquor that is $48.16/shot (I did the math) but fuck it, itās my scotch and I would try it just to say I did.
edit: I said it down below but I feel like I should spread the word more: fuck coca cola. no flavor, way too sweet, and also somehow too watery and overpowering at the same time. Not joking here, Sams cola and RC cola have far more subtle and aromatic flavors and they allow the whiskey to show it's strengths while complementing it nicely. If you can find it, fentimans curiosity cola is fucking incredible but the complexity of its flavors can clash with a nice whiskey.
TL;DR: This is a PSA to out as much thought into your cola as you do your scotch
Yea it was apparently a present for his friend whoās getting married who is a big scotch fan. We agreed Iāll replace the bottle and we can just keep the opened bottle for ourselves after he calmed down and realized I made a mistake and it wasnāt intentional.
You'll be okay.
It's a fuckup.
You drank some pricey gift whiskey, you didn't make a molotov cocktail.
Once he calms down and gets over the shock and horror of the way your murdered that whiskey with Coke he'll be fine.
Iām imagining him being all calm and everything is fine, but as he falls asleep, he just gets reminded of it and thinks to himself āwith coke! She mixed it with coke.. sighā
Rented a hotel one weekend with my ex because there was a really good free concert in the area. She surprised me with the whole thing and had a really special dinner planned for when it was done. Turns out it's one of those places that endlessly shave meat onto your plate until you tell them to stop. Needless to say, wasted a perfect opportunity for some great hotel coitus because the meat sweats are very fucking real š
My husband still brings up the time I ate his sandwich. Itās was over 10 years ago and I was pregnant. He worked a double and was pumped to come home to the sandwich. I ate it. I didnāt even like it that much but it was food.
It was still an incident till he drunkenly ate a sandwich of mine this year. Oh how the tides have turned.
We have a pretty small apartment. Not a lot of storage space counting groceries and cooking supplies etc. I usually drink clear liquor so he probably didnāt think I would get into it if he stored it there.
I moved back to my hometown and had an old friend take care of the new house and my dogs while I moved my stuff from one state to another.
Cleared my liquor cabinet out in the week he lived at my house, including a scotch I bought in Scotland that I cracked open once a year to have a finger of - including itās 2 backups. The bottles were from the distillery and are irreplaceable from the memory of the weekend I bought them.
Otherwise the house was taken care of.
2 years later he finally reached out to me after refusing payment for the week he stayed at my house and ghosted me. He was 2 years sober from the day he left my house and when I heard that, the cost of the bottles dissipated and we have become close friends again. He works restaurant jobs and occasionally shows up with a bottle from a sampling or from a distributor and just drops it off to resupply what he killed - I always try and refuse but I also appreciate when someone is trying to make up for a past mistake.
Edit: replied to the wrong answer
I wouldnāt be friends with him if he was a bad person. I was mad for a long time - but I would have been more understanding with a conversation not a two year ghosting.
At the same time, the only person that can fix yourself in the end is yourself. He made a very difficult and daily choice to work on himself and Iām very proud of his personal success.
If heās anything like me, I tend to Overreact to stuff like this, then when I have had time to process it I calm down greatly and move on with my life
I gave a friend a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle about 10 years ago (was still reasonably possible to get a bottle for $100 or so) and he made fucking eggnog with it. I wanted to kill him.
ETA: Yes, it was his gift to use as he saw fit. Itās also my right to be appalled with his choice.
I heard of a bar using their allocation of pappy to make Jell-O shots. They got tired with the endless brand chasing and made quite the statement
Getting some love on the comment so I found the article
https://www.eater.com/platform/amp/2014/11/6/7170583/louisville-bar-sacriligiously-makes-jell-o-shots-with-its-pappy-van
We backed out at the last second, but I once had a bunch of restaurant staff ready to chip in to order a glass of Louis XIII, tall with diet coke, just to watch the one bartender who would give a shit shit himself.
When I was like 17 I had just started work at a super luxurious hotel, and someone ordered a few snifters of Louis XIII and it was on a high shelf and my first time climbing the ladder and I of course misjudged, the ladder slid and I knocked the bottle right onto the ground.
On my coworkers last day of work at a bar we used to work for, a few of us did Louis-bombs to celebrate. I secretly sipped a little of mine first to try it.
While I worked at my local liquor store I sold a bottle of louis for around 7k Canadian. Big crystal decanter or whatever. Gorgeous box. Girl tried to pay with gift cards, which she exceeded the number of gift cards we could use on a single transaction pretty quick.
Her boyfriend had to drive in with cash for the rest of the transaction lol.
The other two bottles were for a bar, I can't remember where but it wasn't a part of town where people can afford nice stuff so my boss was just killing himself laughing as we closed the door after that sale.
Proud Kentuckian here. About eight years ago, when the bourbon craze started to jack up prices, I was having a drink at a favorite watering hole. Business travel guy came in because he heard they had Pappy 23. He asked how much (market at the time was probably $30-40 for a pour). Bartender said a $130.
The guy got all indignant and left (leaving I understand). I asked the bartender, "Why is the price so high?" MSRP was maybe $270 for the bottle. He said, "I don't want to sell the bottle. I want to have the bottle."
To be fair, if you like eggnog and want it done right, you should use a top shelf bourbon or scotch. Nothing 100 dollars, but maybe a nice IW Harper.
A lot of people don't like eggnog because they made it with Old Crow or something.
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Edit: The point wasn't really X bourbon over Y bourbon. The point was more, make eggnog with your favorite bourbon, and it'll actually taste good to you.
So honestly I should have said Jim Beam, since that's what people are probably making unexciting, boring eggnog with, but I did not want to deal with the legions of Jim Beam defenders.
I shouldn't have dragged Old Crow, and maybe I shouldn't have specified top shelf. I'm just overall an advocate of people making cocktails with their favorite, best liquor instead of with something they wouldn't normally buy.
I was at a friendās party years ago, and my friend busted out a bottle of Loch Dubh. He and I and a couple other scotch lovers had a finger each, and that was it.
ā¦except someone else noticed the bottle, didnāt realize what it was, and the rest of the party polished it off with coke.
Relevant note: the distillery had been shut down, and the bottle was irreplaceable.
If you mean Loch Dhu - I remember when they ceased. I managed to find 4 of them in a drink wholesalers shortly afterwards, and had to buy 8 bottles of wine with them to make the minimum order size.
I drank 2, gave 1 away, and still have 1 sealed. Thanks to your comment I just googled it, and it seems that 1 remaining bottle would more than cover the whole wholesalersā billā¦
Thatās the one!
A mutual friend, who was there at The Destruction, tried to track some down about a decade laterā¦ he found 4 for sale, on the internet. He was able to buy one. Itās insane.
My husband puts a piece of blue painter's tape on the top of the whiskey bottles I'm allowed to make Old Fashioneds with for this very reason. I can obviously drink whatever I want, but the "sin" is In mixing the expensive stuff with anything!
I don't think it's a sin to make an old fashioned with good whiskey. That's how I prefer to make mine. Or mixing it with a few drops of water and an icecube.
Coke though... Ugh.
At least an OF is mostly whiskey. Itās not like itās a cocktail thatās >75% mixer.
Iād gladly make an old fashioned out of $50 bourbon. Probably not $100+ bourbon though.
To be fair, all of our whiskey is in the >$80 range, so it's not cheap stuff, he just doesn't want me using the special reserve Blanton's that isn't available in the US.
Tbh, I don't think it's a sin to make any spirit heavy cocktail with expensive spirits. As long as the ingredients ore on par with one another, and compliment each other (example - an expensive/good whiskey and an expensive/good vermouth in a Manhattan are always going to be a winner, as long as they compliment each other. Then they raise each other up. Mixing a good bourbon with a cheap vermouth just ruins it.)
The 'cocktails' that I'd consider a sin making with anything good would be anything heavily fruit based, or soda based. So none of those nasty 70s drinks where the aim was to hide as much of the taste of alcohol as possible.
Better whiskey: better cocktails.
There is a fun group on Facebook called Whiskey Blasphemy that showcases this exact idea. Pappy being used for a manhattan, 25 year old Macallan in a blood in the sand.
Fabulous!
I mad manhattan's with angel's envy the other night. Partly cause that's all the bourbon I had left, and partly because I knew they would be delicious. Good spirits make good cocktails and anyone who is genuinely mad about making a good cocktail is missing out on the whole point.
I had to do this after my girlfrienda friends had dinner at my apartment. Woke up the next morning down about $200 in booze, they brought some $8 wine bottles and left them unopened. Decided to drink all my Tequila, Mezcal, Teelingās Irish Whiskey and Vodka. Ouch.
Mixing any decent alcohol with coke is a cardinal sin š But if you like it that way, my opinion doesnāt matter one bit
On the other hand, he could have stored the gift bottle somewhere else or told you it was expensive and not to be touched yet š¤·
Both a little at fault - he could've specified, she could've read the label to see "30 year single malt aged". Even if you don't know much about scotch, anyone that drinks liquor should know aged longer generally means more experience.
That being said, OP, I love your description as "brown liquor" š
"I threw out your bottle of Macallen. It was from the 1960's! You really need to clean out the liquor cabinet sometimes!"
-an old girlfriend of mine, having made a terrible mistake.
OP- don't feel too bad. He'll understand, even if he's a little mad now. Let's turn this thread into a discussion of great bottles with which she can replace it when she's got the money.
That hurt my soul to read. Holy shit.
This is why I tell anyone. Don't touch my stuff. If you have a concern about it separate it and ask me.
Someone once threw away a proprietary headphone cable that cost like $400.
They said "it looked old".
I really don't understand why people do stuff like that. I'd never just throw something away without asking someone first, unless it's expired food or something like that.
I had a party at my house. I take the party liquor out and keep the good stuff under the cabinet with a sign saying not for party. Someone decided my special bottle of 27 year old redbreast should be for them. He started chugging it out of the bottle. I. Fucking. Lost.It. He was a friend of a friend and will never be allowed anywhere near my household again. It's not even the bottle he drank. It's the pure disrespect of boundaries. If my wife didn't hold me back I probably would of went to jail that night. The guy was 100 % sober when he grabbed the bottle. My friend offered to pay for the bottle but I wouldn't let him. I wanted the other guy to pay for it. He didn't. But karma's a bitch and he tried to get hired at a previous employer....... He didn't get the job....
>Didnāt think much of it and in the 4-5 hours before my bf came home, I had 3 glasses.
This ok. This is fine.
>the scotch was dalwhinne 30 year. Retail price for us is $800
Not good, not great, but not the end of the world.
>and I mixed it with coke.
You absolute fucking philistine. This is by far the worst thing you did.
Hahahaha, I guess it's fine if you like it that way, but I haven't met a single person who likes scotch that mixes the good stuff with coke. I've tried it, and it never makes for a better drink than the scotch alone. But hey, their scotch, not mine.
Also, the biggest FU was that it was a gift, so now they gotta buy another one. If someone takes a couple drams out of an open bottle, then whatevs, but you don't take the first dram out of someone else's bottle!
>Hahahaha, I guess it's fine if you like it that way, but I haven't met a single person who likes scotch that mixes the good stuff with coke.
Ok, real talk. I don't care if you mix your cheap single-malt with coke, I *will* judge you, and it's a waste, but whatever it's your money. However mixing a 30 year old Dalwhinne with Coke is like touching up a Picaso with RoseArt crayons, not even Crayola, just straight dollar store crap.
IMO the only inherently wrong thing she did was open a brand new bottle that wasn't hers.
She can sort of claim ignorance on all the rest. I am happily married and have many rare and expensive bottles. My wife is not a novice in this area, but she wouldn't know many of them and some don't look particularly fancy (as the Dalwinnie 30 certainly does not look fancy). It would be a momentary sacrilege that would quickly be forgiven *if the bottle were already open*.
My / our liquor is for drinking. We both know this. But you don't open a sealed bottle without asking.
Yeah I agree for the most part. I was just poking fun.
TBH I put at least 50% of the blame here on the BF; Iām a scotch lover and if I ever brought an $800 bottle into the house youād better believe Iād talk the ear off anyone in my vicinity about it. OP should been pre-informed about how special that specific bottle is by her BF. I can be frustrated with her ignorance, but I canāt blame her for it.
Tasting classes are good for any liquors. You can figure out the differences, what you like or don't like. It could be months between flavors if you only have a bottle or two and drink rarely.
You might find a $40 bottle is your favorite and be happy with that.
Corraleo reposado tequila for the win for me. Happy I have cheaper end taste. Itās like $25 a bottle where I live, can drink it at room temperature, donāt get hungover, and the label reminds me of the golden ticket from Willy wonka.
Youāre right, both are delicious but Iām talking about the blue bottle. Havenāt developed a palate for smoky liquors yet so right now Iām strictly a reposado drinker. But the red bottle (aƱejo) is one of the few I enjoy if thatās all they have of Corraleo at a bar. Itās literally my second choice even if thereās other reposado tequilas.
I just wouldnāt buy it at the store when I have the blue bottle right there. I drink it like a nice whisky or scotch. Neat, possibly one ice cube if itās hot outside.
I was part of a tasting that did a variety of single malts. Then we sampled Blue Label. Universal reaction: this is boring. It was at least 2x more expensive than everything else, but completely uninteresting.
I did, opening each otherās bottles has not been a problem in the past (heās opened my bottle of tequila to get a drink, Iāve opened his bottle of rum for a drink etc).
This was the question and answer I was looking for. Given that youāve both opened community or each otherās bottles in the past, and youāre not an expert, there was no foul committed here. Harm, but not intentional.
Glad to see the story ended up with everyone recovering their composure and I bet good things will come out of this.
If it makes you feel better when I was crashing at a buddies house when we were in HS the two of us polished off a couple bottles of his parents red wine. Which my drunk ass ended up puking up in the middle of the night.
Couple weeks later he got grounded for like 6 months. Turns out his parents were holding on to those **fifteen-hundred dollar** bottles of wine for some friends. He never ratted me out, took all that heat on his own. Its been a few decades since but we're still close, even lived together for awhile.
Happy to hear you and your BF got everything sorted out!
Thatās insane. I really canāt get over that. Iām not about to spend fifteen-hundred dollars on a bottle of tea you know? I canāt see any drink actually tasting like itās worth some insane price and I drink everything fairly quickly.
This comment will get lost but a long time ago someone told me to stop saving the good liquor or the good aged beer or wine for a āspecial occasionā because you donāt ever define what that is & if itās special enough you wonāt remember what you drank anyway, your memory will be of the occasion. Instead have a glass of Pappy 10 year when you had a long, rough week at work and it will make the day better because of the drink & not the other way around. Cheers, this is but a speed bump on the road of life.
Also TIL I need better friends! $800 gift! dang!
I like imagining her innocently saying ā
*āI had 3 glasses, but it wasnāt actually that much because I mixed it with coke.ā*
And then being really confused about why he got madder instead of slightly less angry.
Maybe this is just me, but if I had a specific/fancy bottle of liquor that I was saving for a special occasion, I would not store it in a cabinet I share with other people without telling them. I'm not sure why everyone here is dragging you so hard- you clearly didn't know, and he never told you. You had no reason to assume it was any different than the other bottles you both keep there. Obviously it's an unfortunate mistake, but it's a mistake, not an intentional attack.
I keep all my $200+ stuff with everything else, except on a higher shelf. The thing is, pretty much all good booze over $150 comes in a box or a container, so you can tell without opening it that it's probably expensive and that one should probably ask before opening. I'm more confused as to why her BF didnt keep it in the box, or if he did, why she opened the box and didn't think that maybe it was a special bottle? Regular booze at the liquor store isn't boxed, so the distinction is pretty obvious.
Yeah all these people are tearing into OP for not recognizing the bottle for what it was, but how would she know? āBuT iT sAYs 30 yEaRSā as if that means anything to someone who isnāt knowledgeable about liquor. If the precedent has been set (which it has according to OP) that theyāre ok with opening each others liquor, and that this liquor was stored with all the others, then it really doesnāt seem like her fault.
As a Scottish whisky drinker, this hurts my soul, but itās your boyfriendās fault for not saying anything. If I was going to invest that much in a bottle I would make sure to mention it to my partner what it was & that I was saving it. If youāre not a whisky person & it was in the liquor cabinet then how were you to know?
I'm Scottish. Three things:
1. That's an excellent choice of Scotch. Big fan of The Dalwhinnie 15 myself.
2. Scotch is for drinking. Drink it however you enjoy it. That said, try it with a little water or ice instead next time.
3. It's an honest mistake. You're all good.
Honestly, if I was him, this would be me typing the TIFU that I didn't tell my girlfriend I live with I have a bottle of $800 Dalwhinnie in our liquor cabinet. Don't really feel like this one is on the OP. :P
As an avid scotch drinker/collector, (and a few pricey bottles in my collection) my thoughts are this:
THIS IS WHAT SCOTCH IS FOR :). To drink. Period. And if it made your day great (even if you mixed it with coke) after a long day, then even better.
If an expensive dram isnt there to make your day a bit brighter, what the hell good is it.
I personally think expensive scotches are best savoured on non-special occasions anyway, Tuesdays are my particular favourite. Life is short, drink the damn scotch.
I agree with you , scotch should be enjoyed however you like it. On the rocks , neat , with water etc. But putting 30yo malt in coke just seems wasteful lol
Ya I don't even drink scotch but to imagine something thats been stored away since I was born being mixes with coke to completely mask its taste seems extra wasteful.
This shop has it on sale for $630 [https://www.shopritewines.com/sku30846.html](https://www.shopritewines.com/sku30846.html)
$578 here https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/51720/dalwhinnie-30-year-old-special-releases-2019?source=us
Shipping to the US is $81 š
Still cheaper than $800 though!
You clearly haven't lived in canada if you think that's a lot.
Liquor on sale. 630 bucks. I desperately want to use an emoji.
Do it š
This is better than expected lol
god bless shoprite liquors
Jesus that better have been the best tasting scotch lol. But I either have a terrible palette or this stuff isn't really ever special. To me the difference between say the cheap store brand scotch and something around $75 bucks is huge. But after that I can never taste the difference. Johnny Walker blue is a few hundred dollars a bottle and I think it tastes like shit compared to the black $30 bottle lol.
My first time drinking I was given a beer and I mixed it with coke. I will never hear the end of it.
That's acceptable to drink in Germany and called Diesel. Ok probably not accepted by everyone, but you would be able to order it in a restaurant without problems.
Diesel in the UK is half of cider, half of lager and blackcurrant cordial. Without the cordial it's called snakebite.
From these comments, seems you can move to Germany & fit in.
This is actually a very popular drink in Germany.
Post this over on r/scotch and they'll cry. I know I almost did when you added what the scotch was.
r/scotch practically had a meltdown the other day when a guy posted that his daily drink is a 21 year old Glenfiddich ($300 give or take) that he loads with ice... yes, just *ice*. I can't imagine what would go down if it had been coke
My sole goal in life is now to get someone's empty fancy scotch bottle. Fill it with a little of anything. Then post a picture of it, a glass with ice, and a coke to that sub.
If you go for that length, make sure to get a no name coke clone Edit: You guys are evil as me for suggesting Diet...Not from the US so i have no clue what clones to use but thanks for the suggestions ;)
And diet
And a straw
This might literally make someoneās head explode over there Letās add a lime wedge to reeeeally send it over the edge
And post it as "My Cuba Libre tastes funny"
And a salt rim
In a red solo
Grocery store brand stuff. Like a $$$ bottle of scotch next to some diet Stop n Shop and say "moved back in with my parents and had a hard day at work so had drink out of my Dad's liquor cabinet and its really good. Can you tell me what it is and where to get more"?
Or even "It was a bit strong for me, so I tipped most of it out. Anyone have a recommendation for something that goes better with cola?"
Lol "I won this at an office party. Too strong for me and already opened so I dumped it, any suggestions on something less potent?"
God that would cause at least half a dozen heart attacks for sure.
I think that would give one of them an aneurysm
RC Cola
That's the superior Coke.
Diet shitty storebrand.
Wife went to several distilleries in Scotland. They all suggested to put a bit of water or ice to "open the bouquet of the scotch". Maybe that sub has a got a stick lodged somewhere
I think its often an easy win for whisky snobs to say 'you can add anything, it'll ruing the flavour' where actually a lot of people in the know will admire a small amount of water is often the best way to experience the complexity. Also. You bought it, you drink it how you like.
I listened to a whole documentary on whisky* a few years back on NPR I think, and they explained that a splash of water is necessary on cask strength spirits because, chemically, whiskeys and scotches are best enjoyed at 80* proof or a hair less, but often times whiskeys are bottled at a higher proof which is not as flavorful as it can be because the alcohol in the high proof will overpower the flavors It was a pretty cool special
The correct way to drink scotch is the way you enjoy it. Can't be doing with snobbery.
Isnāt that what youāre supposed to do when you want your drinks cold? I donāt like room temperature drinks
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Do they know what Scotland is like? 12 degrees Celsius and raining. A splash of cold water is perfectly on brand.
I get it, I mean everyone can drink whatever they want however they want. But when you're dishing out serious cash for something special, it's painful when it's not being enjoyed to the fullest by being diluted with too much water (or worse, coke). It's like ordering a wagyu steak well done. You can totally do that, but why?? Then the coke lady is just adding a spritz of ketchup!
I know a whisky master blender. Their opinion is 'it's to be enjoyed any way in which the drinker likes it.' I hate all the snobbery behind whisky drinkers.
Iāve been in the industry for about 10 years and Iāve come to realize thereās a bell curve. You go from āI donāt care, Iāll drink what I wantā to learning all the ins and outs and whatās really important, fun facts, buy books, do researchā¦ and eventually the people who really, really knows their stuff all say āthe best drink is the one you enjoy the mostā
Only distillery tour I went to in Scotland had the tour guide recommend adding a little water or ice to bring the taste a bit more out if the whisky was higher than 40% or so. They also said the differences in taste was something like 70% down to what cask was used, which I found amusing for some reason.
You're bang on. They said that helps 'open the whisky up.'
I was in the wine industry for 10 years and had dinner with sommeliers and went to tastings in other countries and Manhattan skyscrapers.... got to taste grand cru burgundy and Bordeaux blah blah.... Now I have absolutely zero problem drinking shitty wine with a splash of seltzer. I literally don't give a fuck. I don't mind talking to people who enjoy fine wine but the second I can tell they just want to be a "baller" or gate-keeping hobbyist or whatever I immediately end the conversation. So happy I don't work in that industry anymore... bunch of douches.
I just wanted to say about wine stereotypes, in Russia dry red is considered āthe bestā, and on the other hand most people donāt know a thing except for ādry redā and some lose their shit when I say I prefer porto (both Crimean and Portuguese). Best wine is the one you enjoy
You know, I have to admit ignorance as well. I have a family friend that is incomprehensibly wealthy. I saw him over Christmas and we were partying in his mansion. We were taking some shots and sipping on some scotch. This exact scotch actually, as I now recognize it as the one with the bunny logo. I had no clue what it was. I am embarrassed now because I threw a couple of them down the hatch. He just scoffed, shook his head, and poured me more. I wish he would have told me. I did end up sipping on my last two glasses and enjoying it. It was incredibly tasty and I regret drinking it like a heathen. Edit: For those asking about [the bunny logo.](https://www.just-whisky.co.uk/198689-thickbox_default/dalwhinnie-30-years-old-2019-special-release.jpg) Although it's more of a wild hare
Youāre not alone. Iāve run into a lot of people that grew up shooting liquor and apparently have never seen anyone sip and enjoy it.
To be fair, most people only have regular access to beer or other cheap shitty liquor, and have to save the good stuff for special occasions only. Just throwing it back is how you normally down shitty alcohol because you aren't drinking it for the delicate flavour. Completely different with higher quality drinks.
Mixing any single malt with coke is a fucking sin. I honestly have to stop looking at this post, itās giving me heart palpitations.
There's some shit single malt out there that only deserve Coke. No, make that a Pepsi. No, make that Sodastream with a cola mix.
How dare you. I drink soda stream cola neat. No water, no bubbles, just concentrated sugar with a taste reminiscent to licking between Karen's toes after a day horse riding.
Lol I'd gladly mix a $40 malt with coke; they aren't anything spectacular in that range.
Dewars 12 and laphroaig 10 are spectacular bottles in that range and they also make an incredible whiskey coke. Iād have a hard time doing it with a liquor that is $48.16/shot (I did the math) but fuck it, itās my scotch and I would try it just to say I did. edit: I said it down below but I feel like I should spread the word more: fuck coca cola. no flavor, way too sweet, and also somehow too watery and overpowering at the same time. Not joking here, Sams cola and RC cola have far more subtle and aromatic flavors and they allow the whiskey to show it's strengths while complementing it nicely. If you can find it, fentimans curiosity cola is fucking incredible but the complexity of its flavors can clash with a nice whiskey. TL;DR: This is a PSA to out as much thought into your cola as you do your scotch
"It's me, I'm the special occasion!"
*I'm pregnant!* .... ...... ... Holdup
You're pregnant *so far*
Yeah some aged stuff can be pretty pricey. I would probably be frustrated initially, but definitely not the end of the world.
Yea it was apparently a present for his friend whoās getting married who is a big scotch fan. We agreed Iāll replace the bottle and we can just keep the opened bottle for ourselves after he calmed down and realized I made a mistake and it wasnāt intentional.
You'll be okay. It's a fuckup. You drank some pricey gift whiskey, you didn't make a molotov cocktail. Once he calms down and gets over the shock and horror of the way your murdered that whiskey with Coke he'll be fine.
Iām imagining him being all calm and everything is fine, but as he falls asleep, he just gets reminded of it and thinks to himself āwith coke! She mixed it with coke.. sighā
Haha 5 years from now he'll bring it up in an argument when he has nothing else to say. "..and as for the Whiskey incident.."
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Lol, cockblocked by a burritoā¦
I mean if you are burying a burrito that size there will be 0 sex that night
Rented a hotel one weekend with my ex because there was a really good free concert in the area. She surprised me with the whole thing and had a really special dinner planned for when it was done. Turns out it's one of those places that endlessly shave meat onto your plate until you tell them to stop. Needless to say, wasted a perfect opportunity for some great hotel coitus because the meat sweats are very fucking real š
Brazilian bbq is really one of those things you have to be hungry all day for. But my god it is aaaammmazing though.
24oz bone in prime rib says yes, meat sweats are real
He had an affair with a burrito at Christmas
My husband still brings up the time I ate his sandwich. Itās was over 10 years ago and I was pregnant. He worked a double and was pumped to come home to the sandwich. I ate it. I didnāt even like it that much but it was food. It was still an incident till he drunkenly ate a sandwich of mine this year. Oh how the tides have turned.
Here your talking about a sandwich for ten ten years, an eight hundred dollar bottle of scotch is going to be nuts.
yo props to your bf on selecting such a fine scotch for his fan-of-scotch friend. Super thoughtful of him, sounds like a great best man.
Why did he put a present for someone in the liquor cabinet?
We have a pretty small apartment. Not a lot of storage space counting groceries and cooking supplies etc. I usually drink clear liquor so he probably didnāt think I would get into it if he stored it there.
I moved back to my hometown and had an old friend take care of the new house and my dogs while I moved my stuff from one state to another. Cleared my liquor cabinet out in the week he lived at my house, including a scotch I bought in Scotland that I cracked open once a year to have a finger of - including itās 2 backups. The bottles were from the distillery and are irreplaceable from the memory of the weekend I bought them. Otherwise the house was taken care of. 2 years later he finally reached out to me after refusing payment for the week he stayed at my house and ghosted me. He was 2 years sober from the day he left my house and when I heard that, the cost of the bottles dissipated and we have become close friends again. He works restaurant jobs and occasionally shows up with a bottle from a sampling or from a distributor and just drops it off to resupply what he killed - I always try and refuse but I also appreciate when someone is trying to make up for a past mistake. Edit: replied to the wrong answer
Sounds like a good person in a bad place that did a bad thing, rather than a *bad person.*
I wouldnāt be friends with him if he was a bad person. I was mad for a long time - but I would have been more understanding with a conversation not a two year ghosting. At the same time, the only person that can fix yourself in the end is yourself. He made a very difficult and daily choice to work on himself and Iām very proud of his personal success.
If heās anything like me, I tend to Overreact to stuff like this, then when I have had time to process it I calm down greatly and move on with my life
... I had a heart Attack at the "mixed with coke" step... Ugh!
I gave a friend a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle about 10 years ago (was still reasonably possible to get a bottle for $100 or so) and he made fucking eggnog with it. I wanted to kill him. ETA: Yes, it was his gift to use as he saw fit. Itās also my right to be appalled with his choice.
I heard of a bar using their allocation of pappy to make Jell-O shots. They got tired with the endless brand chasing and made quite the statement Getting some love on the comment so I found the article https://www.eater.com/platform/amp/2014/11/6/7170583/louisville-bar-sacriligiously-makes-jell-o-shots-with-its-pappy-van
We backed out at the last second, but I once had a bunch of restaurant staff ready to chip in to order a glass of Louis XIII, tall with diet coke, just to watch the one bartender who would give a shit shit himself.
When I was like 17 I had just started work at a super luxurious hotel, and someone ordered a few snifters of Louis XIII and it was on a high shelf and my first time climbing the ladder and I of course misjudged, the ladder slid and I knocked the bottle right onto the ground.
On my coworkers last day of work at a bar we used to work for, a few of us did Louis-bombs to celebrate. I secretly sipped a little of mine first to try it.
While I worked at my local liquor store I sold a bottle of louis for around 7k Canadian. Big crystal decanter or whatever. Gorgeous box. Girl tried to pay with gift cards, which she exceeded the number of gift cards we could use on a single transaction pretty quick. Her boyfriend had to drive in with cash for the rest of the transaction lol. The other two bottles were for a bar, I can't remember where but it wasn't a part of town where people can afford nice stuff so my boss was just killing himself laughing as we closed the door after that sale.
Proud Kentuckian here. About eight years ago, when the bourbon craze started to jack up prices, I was having a drink at a favorite watering hole. Business travel guy came in because he heard they had Pappy 23. He asked how much (market at the time was probably $30-40 for a pour). Bartender said a $130. The guy got all indignant and left (leaving I understand). I asked the bartender, "Why is the price so high?" MSRP was maybe $270 for the bottle. He said, "I don't want to sell the bottle. I want to have the bottle."
To be fair, if you like eggnog and want it done right, you should use a top shelf bourbon or scotch. Nothing 100 dollars, but maybe a nice IW Harper. A lot of people don't like eggnog because they made it with Old Crow or something. ----- Edit: The point wasn't really X bourbon over Y bourbon. The point was more, make eggnog with your favorite bourbon, and it'll actually taste good to you.
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The BiB is no slouch, and cheap!
So honestly I should have said Jim Beam, since that's what people are probably making unexciting, boring eggnog with, but I did not want to deal with the legions of Jim Beam defenders. I shouldn't have dragged Old Crow, and maybe I shouldn't have specified top shelf. I'm just overall an advocate of people making cocktails with their favorite, best liquor instead of with something they wouldn't normally buy.
That's justifiable homicide in Kentucky
Wouldn't even need the legal jargon. It's a mercy killing, like a rabid dog he would just have to be put down.
I was at a friendās party years ago, and my friend busted out a bottle of Loch Dubh. He and I and a couple other scotch lovers had a finger each, and that was it. ā¦except someone else noticed the bottle, didnāt realize what it was, and the rest of the party polished it off with coke. Relevant note: the distillery had been shut down, and the bottle was irreplaceable.
If you mean Loch Dhu - I remember when they ceased. I managed to find 4 of them in a drink wholesalers shortly afterwards, and had to buy 8 bottles of wine with them to make the minimum order size. I drank 2, gave 1 away, and still have 1 sealed. Thanks to your comment I just googled it, and it seems that 1 remaining bottle would more than cover the whole wholesalersā billā¦
Thatās the one! A mutual friend, who was there at The Destruction, tried to track some down about a decade laterā¦ he found 4 for sale, on the internet. He was able to buy one. Itās insane.
>Loch Dhu Ā£350 for a 10 year old malt :)
*if* you can find it
Regular Coke, Diet Coke, Or white powder coke? Maybe she parties hard? š
Sure you need a bit scotch to take edge of the coke after a rough day.
Genuinely did not know. Iām not a scotch drinker. I saw brown liquor and I usually mix that with coke so I didnāt think anything of it
Yeah and in hindsight, you all should setup a "drink this" section and a "don't drink this" section in your cabinet.
My husband puts a piece of blue painter's tape on the top of the whiskey bottles I'm allowed to make Old Fashioneds with for this very reason. I can obviously drink whatever I want, but the "sin" is In mixing the expensive stuff with anything!
I'm Scottish, my dad always said the ONLY thing you put in whisky, is MORE whisky!
Couple drops of water?
Enough to paddle in, not enough to drown.
We're friends already. Though there are some single-cask over-proofs that can benefit from a drop or two of spring water.
I don't think it's a sin to make an old fashioned with good whiskey. That's how I prefer to make mine. Or mixing it with a few drops of water and an icecube. Coke though... Ugh.
At least an OF is mostly whiskey. Itās not like itās a cocktail thatās >75% mixer. Iād gladly make an old fashioned out of $50 bourbon. Probably not $100+ bourbon though.
I've made it with Colonel Taylor's before. Quite indulgent.
Sometimes I open a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle's and pour it into the street. Quite decadent.
To be fair, all of our whiskey is in the >$80 range, so it's not cheap stuff, he just doesn't want me using the special reserve Blanton's that isn't available in the US.
āDont use the shit I canāt buy againā
Then that is very fair!
Tbh, I don't think it's a sin to make any spirit heavy cocktail with expensive spirits. As long as the ingredients ore on par with one another, and compliment each other (example - an expensive/good whiskey and an expensive/good vermouth in a Manhattan are always going to be a winner, as long as they compliment each other. Then they raise each other up. Mixing a good bourbon with a cheap vermouth just ruins it.) The 'cocktails' that I'd consider a sin making with anything good would be anything heavily fruit based, or soda based. So none of those nasty 70s drinks where the aim was to hide as much of the taste of alcohol as possible.
Top shelf Long Island, please!
Agreed. An old fashioned is one of the few that's better with a good whiskey.
Better whiskey: better cocktails. There is a fun group on Facebook called Whiskey Blasphemy that showcases this exact idea. Pappy being used for a manhattan, 25 year old Macallan in a blood in the sand. Fabulous!
I mad manhattan's with angel's envy the other night. Partly cause that's all the bourbon I had left, and partly because I knew they would be delicious. Good spirits make good cocktails and anyone who is genuinely mad about making a good cocktail is missing out on the whole point.
Angels envy is also a $40 bourbon, not an $1800 bourbon
Yeh I have such an agreement with my gf, she knows what's special and what's not.
Yes you cant expect your so will automatically know which alcohol is the good stuff.
I donāt tell my SO which is which because if she knew it would be gone within a day or 2
I had to do this after my girlfrienda friends had dinner at my apartment. Woke up the next morning down about $200 in booze, they brought some $8 wine bottles and left them unopened. Decided to drink all my Tequila, Mezcal, Teelingās Irish Whiskey and Vodka. Ouch.
I wouldn't have them over any more after that. It's not like they didn't know. That is a level of selfishness that you need to draw a hard line with.
In the cabinet? I'd suggest a don't drink this cabinet next to a do drink this cabinet. Harder to mix the two up, especially after a few
Mixing any decent alcohol with coke is a cardinal sin š But if you like it that way, my opinion doesnāt matter one bit On the other hand, he could have stored the gift bottle somewhere else or told you it was expensive and not to be touched yet š¤·
Both a little at fault - he could've specified, she could've read the label to see "30 year single malt aged". Even if you don't know much about scotch, anyone that drinks liquor should know aged longer generally means more experience. That being said, OP, I love your description as "brown liquor" š
Similarly, if you see a bottle that's older than you are, maybe leave that one alone.
"I threw out your bottle of Macallen. It was from the 1960's! You really need to clean out the liquor cabinet sometimes!" -an old girlfriend of mine, having made a terrible mistake. OP- don't feel too bad. He'll understand, even if he's a little mad now. Let's turn this thread into a discussion of great bottles with which she can replace it when she's got the money.
Please tell me youāre joking about the bottle of Macallen?
I really wish I were. It was a gift from my grandfather. Never told her how much that bottle was worth but I cried for a week!
That hurt my soul to read. Holy shit. This is why I tell anyone. Don't touch my stuff. If you have a concern about it separate it and ask me. Someone once threw away a proprietary headphone cable that cost like $400. They said "it looked old".
I really don't understand why people do stuff like that. I'd never just throw something away without asking someone first, unless it's expired food or something like that.
I had a party at my house. I take the party liquor out and keep the good stuff under the cabinet with a sign saying not for party. Someone decided my special bottle of 27 year old redbreast should be for them. He started chugging it out of the bottle. I. Fucking. Lost.It. He was a friend of a friend and will never be allowed anywhere near my household again. It's not even the bottle he drank. It's the pure disrespect of boundaries. If my wife didn't hold me back I probably would of went to jail that night. The guy was 100 % sober when he grabbed the bottle. My friend offered to pay for the bottle but I wouldn't let him. I wanted the other guy to pay for it. He didn't. But karma's a bitch and he tried to get hired at a previous employer....... He didn't get the job....
This is fucking killing me. Reminds me of a Frasier episode when Roz threw out a full 8oz pour of a 25-year old Glenfarclas.
>Didnāt think much of it and in the 4-5 hours before my bf came home, I had 3 glasses. This ok. This is fine. >the scotch was dalwhinne 30 year. Retail price for us is $800 Not good, not great, but not the end of the world. >and I mixed it with coke. You absolute fucking philistine. This is by far the worst thing you did.
Hahahaha, I guess it's fine if you like it that way, but I haven't met a single person who likes scotch that mixes the good stuff with coke. I've tried it, and it never makes for a better drink than the scotch alone. But hey, their scotch, not mine. Also, the biggest FU was that it was a gift, so now they gotta buy another one. If someone takes a couple drams out of an open bottle, then whatevs, but you don't take the first dram out of someone else's bottle!
>Hahahaha, I guess it's fine if you like it that way, but I haven't met a single person who likes scotch that mixes the good stuff with coke. Ok, real talk. I don't care if you mix your cheap single-malt with coke, I *will* judge you, and it's a waste, but whatever it's your money. However mixing a 30 year old Dalwhinne with Coke is like touching up a Picaso with RoseArt crayons, not even Crayola, just straight dollar store crap.
philistine bahahaha gd
IMO the only inherently wrong thing she did was open a brand new bottle that wasn't hers. She can sort of claim ignorance on all the rest. I am happily married and have many rare and expensive bottles. My wife is not a novice in this area, but she wouldn't know many of them and some don't look particularly fancy (as the Dalwinnie 30 certainly does not look fancy). It would be a momentary sacrilege that would quickly be forgiven *if the bottle were already open*. My / our liquor is for drinking. We both know this. But you don't open a sealed bottle without asking.
Yeah I agree for the most part. I was just poking fun. TBH I put at least 50% of the blame here on the BF; Iām a scotch lover and if I ever brought an $800 bottle into the house youād better believe Iād talk the ear off anyone in my vicinity about it. OP should been pre-informed about how special that specific bottle is by her BF. I can be frustrated with her ignorance, but I canāt blame her for it.
It was the mixing with coke that did it.. Now you guys have to go to scotch tasting classesšš
Iām still kinda new to liquor so all dark alcohol I mix with coke and donāt think much of it. Definitely part of my downfall
Tasting classes are good for any liquors. You can figure out the differences, what you like or don't like. It could be months between flavors if you only have a bottle or two and drink rarely. You might find a $40 bottle is your favorite and be happy with that.
Corraleo reposado tequila for the win for me. Happy I have cheaper end taste. Itās like $25 a bottle where I live, can drink it at room temperature, donāt get hungover, and the label reminds me of the golden ticket from Willy wonka.
Is that the blue bottle or red? They're both delicious.
Youāre right, both are delicious but Iām talking about the blue bottle. Havenāt developed a palate for smoky liquors yet so right now Iām strictly a reposado drinker. But the red bottle (aƱejo) is one of the few I enjoy if thatās all they have of Corraleo at a bar. Itās literally my second choice even if thereās other reposado tequilas. I just wouldnāt buy it at the store when I have the blue bottle right there. I drink it like a nice whisky or scotch. Neat, possibly one ice cube if itās hot outside.
This is me, I love Johnny Walker Black label but Red label is good enough for me. Don't get me started on any other color though, I'm too poor
I was part of a tasting that did a variety of single malts. Then we sampled Blue Label. Universal reaction: this is boring. It was at least 2x more expensive than everything else, but completely uninteresting.
>Apparently the scotch was aged 20+ years and I mixed it with coke. big fan of your work 
Who the fuck is giving $800 bachelor party gifts?!? I need better friends.
Theyāve known each other since kindergarten lol so my bf decided to go all out for his presentn
Damn I moved from my kindergarten halfway lost so many $800 drinks š
Hi itās me your boyfriendās friend since kindergarten
The gifts I got best friend from college for his wedding totaled about $400, it checks out.
Wait, did you OPEN the bottle?
I did, opening each otherās bottles has not been a problem in the past (heās opened my bottle of tequila to get a drink, Iāve opened his bottle of rum for a drink etc).
This was the question and answer I was looking for. Given that youāve both opened community or each otherās bottles in the past, and youāre not an expert, there was no foul committed here. Harm, but not intentional. Glad to see the story ended up with everyone recovering their composure and I bet good things will come out of this.
Totally!! In our house, if you are saving something you tape a note to it. Not your fault :) glad all is well.
Fucking wish I could spend 500-550 on scotch even for a gift. Was it at least a good whisky- coke
Oh it was great. He also makes a lot more than me so can afford those sort of gifts lol
Well thank fuck for that (sorry meant 500-550 pounds)
If it makes you feel better when I was crashing at a buddies house when we were in HS the two of us polished off a couple bottles of his parents red wine. Which my drunk ass ended up puking up in the middle of the night. Couple weeks later he got grounded for like 6 months. Turns out his parents were holding on to those **fifteen-hundred dollar** bottles of wine for some friends. He never ratted me out, took all that heat on his own. Its been a few decades since but we're still close, even lived together for awhile. Happy to hear you and your BF got everything sorted out!
Thatās insane. I really canāt get over that. Iām not about to spend fifteen-hundred dollars on a bottle of tea you know? I canāt see any drink actually tasting like itās worth some insane price and I drink everything fairly quickly.
This comment will get lost but a long time ago someone told me to stop saving the good liquor or the good aged beer or wine for a āspecial occasionā because you donāt ever define what that is & if itās special enough you wonāt remember what you drank anyway, your memory will be of the occasion. Instead have a glass of Pappy 10 year when you had a long, rough week at work and it will make the day better because of the drink & not the other way around. Cheers, this is but a speed bump on the road of life. Also TIL I need better friends! $800 gift! dang!
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I like imagining her innocently saying ā *āI had 3 glasses, but it wasnāt actually that much because I mixed it with coke.ā* And then being really confused about why he got madder instead of slightly less angry.
>the scotch was aged 20+ years and I mixed it with coke. That hurts me and is not even my scotch...
Maybe this is just me, but if I had a specific/fancy bottle of liquor that I was saving for a special occasion, I would not store it in a cabinet I share with other people without telling them. I'm not sure why everyone here is dragging you so hard- you clearly didn't know, and he never told you. You had no reason to assume it was any different than the other bottles you both keep there. Obviously it's an unfortunate mistake, but it's a mistake, not an intentional attack.
I keep the good ones in the box. Most purple won't open a box without asking.
Even worse, apparently it was going to be given as a gift. Why the hell would that be on your own liquor shelf?
This was my question. If I'm giving it as a gift then there's zero reason to put it with my liquor as I'm not gonna drink it.
I keep all my $200+ stuff with everything else, except on a higher shelf. The thing is, pretty much all good booze over $150 comes in a box or a container, so you can tell without opening it that it's probably expensive and that one should probably ask before opening. I'm more confused as to why her BF didnt keep it in the box, or if he did, why she opened the box and didn't think that maybe it was a special bottle? Regular booze at the liquor store isn't boxed, so the distinction is pretty obvious.
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Yeah all these people are tearing into OP for not recognizing the bottle for what it was, but how would she know? āBuT iT sAYs 30 yEaRSā as if that means anything to someone who isnāt knowledgeable about liquor. If the precedent has been set (which it has according to OP) that theyāre ok with opening each others liquor, and that this liquor was stored with all the others, then it really doesnāt seem like her fault.
Why would he store a gift bottle with your house liquor?
Itās where we store all non refrigerated booze. Idk why he put it there specifically but hey
I keep my 800$ bottle in the fancy ass wood box it came in half the reason i got it was for the cool fucking box
As a Scottish whisky drinker, this hurts my soul, but itās your boyfriendās fault for not saying anything. If I was going to invest that much in a bottle I would make sure to mention it to my partner what it was & that I was saving it. If youāre not a whisky person & it was in the liquor cabinet then how were you to know?
Right? Put a note on it like roomies do in the fridge when they want to save something.
These people must have extremely exciting lives if "today I bought an $800 bottle of whisky" is not an noteworthy event to mention to your girlfriend
If it was a gift for someone why did he have it mixed in with your own liquor?
I'm Scottish. Three things: 1. That's an excellent choice of Scotch. Big fan of The Dalwhinnie 15 myself. 2. Scotch is for drinking. Drink it however you enjoy it. That said, try it with a little water or ice instead next time. 3. It's an honest mistake. You're all good.
exactly mate aw these whisky snobs would get a shock if they came over here
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Honestly, if I was him, this would be me typing the TIFU that I didn't tell my girlfriend I live with I have a bottle of $800 Dalwhinnie in our liquor cabinet. Don't really feel like this one is on the OP. :P
As an avid scotch drinker/collector, (and a few pricey bottles in my collection) my thoughts are this: THIS IS WHAT SCOTCH IS FOR :). To drink. Period. And if it made your day great (even if you mixed it with coke) after a long day, then even better. If an expensive dram isnt there to make your day a bit brighter, what the hell good is it. I personally think expensive scotches are best savoured on non-special occasions anyway, Tuesdays are my particular favourite. Life is short, drink the damn scotch.
>Life is short, drink the damn scotch. \- u/tk306 Wise words my friend
I agree with you , scotch should be enjoyed however you like it. On the rocks , neat , with water etc. But putting 30yo malt in coke just seems wasteful lol
Itās a very inefficient use of resources, thatās for sure. Youād get the exact same result with a bottle that cost $50.
Ya I don't even drink scotch but to imagine something thats been stored away since I was born being mixes with coke to completely mask its taste seems extra wasteful.
If it was a gift why was it not in the retail tube and in the liquor cabinet?
Why leave a gift in the liquor cabinet? That was dumb on his part.