Comments on: Single Malts: You Decide

By: The Devil Drink

The Devil Drink — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:34:23 +0000

St33v: a double measure is always better than a single measure. If you're trying to make a point about the quality of the Scotch, well de gustibus non est disputandum my friend. Non est disputandum at all. ...And don't call me Shirley.

By: St33v

St33v — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:59:37 +0000

um yep,

Sorry to take so long to stumble o this convo – thought this was a food blog; wasn’t expecting such interesting fare…

I agree wholeheartedly, if ya want a single malt ask for a single malt.

and DD: Surely a double malt must be better than a single malt?

By: Gimlets And Bad Dudes — Progressive Dinner Party

Gimlets And Bad Dudes — Progressive Dinner Party — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:25:37 +0000

[...] are you referring to by the word “malt”? May your “malt” be a blend, as according to my antagonist [...]

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:13:13 +0000

Returning to the stoushette above over terminology, I side with M. Fyodor. But not for pedantic reasons, rather out of sheer practicality.

You know, that doesn’t look quite right. I can’t help thinking it should really be “Stouchette”*. Not for practical reasons, mind, but for sheer absurdistry.

Ice in a milkshake, Zoe? That’s just kinky.

Whatever she’s doing, it’s evidently working: brings all the boys to the yarda yarda.

*She was one of the more vexatious starving orphans** in that Tarago scene from Les Miserables.
**Along with that other starving orphan that everyone forgets…Oubliette, I think her name was.

By: The Devil Drink

The Devil Drink — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:54:53 +0000

Oh, I don’t mind a bit of ice in a malt now and then, but generally just have a drop of water

Ice in a milkshake, Zoe? That’s just kinky.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:06:35 +0000

Coming up, the Bachelor Fare guide to cooking with whiskey.

Step 1: Pour one (1) fl oz down throat.

Step 2. Gently warm over fire.

Step 3. Repeat Steps 2 and 3.

Step 4. Repeat Step 3.

Step 5. Restep Peat 4.

Steep 6. Watch your step.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:58:11 +0000

“I don’t divide my whiskeys along gendered lines Zoe.”

Yah, only boys divide tastes in whiskeys along gendered lines. Well except for Zoe who has just been made an honorary bloke for the purposes of this discussion.*

Returning to the stoushette above over terminology, I side with M. Fyodor. But not for pedantic reasons, rather out of sheer practicality. As an aggressive A/B consumer I want my drinks served right and right away. So it behooves me to place my order correctly in the first place.

Asking ” What single malts have you got there Spanky” minimises any possibility of an inaccurate response.

Especially in the States where a bartender who doesn’t like being called Spanky will pull out a bottle of Colt 45 in response to a request for a “good malt”.

* She’ll get over the implied insult.**

** Footnotes are fun!***

*** Gibbon and Dsquared.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:31:59 +0000

“Ice”??

Yes, ice ice baby.

One small cube in a double or triple single malt. Just like adding a tiny spollock of water except it’s got this funky time release delivery feature built in.

“if the Thursday afternoon six days following your go-nuts is the first time you’ve used your rice cooker since then, you might get a nasty surprise.”

Another reason why I have disdain for such effete culinary technology.