singlemalt advice

[Livingston]

That sounds like a great idea...but as we are coming into the tourist season here the only possible night would be a Wednesday. Perhaps sometime in mid April?

Rondo

Tartan Day is the 14th if you can make a weekend. If not, I'm up for a Wed at Pints Pub. When you're ready, just start a kilt night colorado thread and we'll all join in. If you want to look at their malt list go to www.pintspub.com

[rondo]

Tartan Day is the 14th if you can make a weekend. If not, I'm up for a Wed at Pints Pub. When you're ready, just start a kilt night colorado thread and we'll all join in. If you want to look at their malt list go to www.pintspub.com

Cool...I don't think I can do a weekend, let me kick it around for a day or so and we'll do something on the 18th or 25th.
Rondo

[English Bloke]

Balvenie Doublewood if you want something that will appeal to most novice palates.

The bottle looks like this...

[Orvis]

As a nice light before-dinner whisky, I recomment The Balvenie Single Barrel 15 year-old ($50-$75 range). For an after-dinner whisky, I usually enjoy Laphroaig 15 ($50-$75 range) or, if you can get it, Laphroaig 18 (about $100). I enjoy Laphroaig's 10's extreme peatiness (even the medicinal/iodine taste), but it's not everybody's cup of tea. Laphroaig's 15 and (especially) the 18 still have the peaty flavor, but with the rough edges aged out of them.

[Livingston]

Balvenie Doublewood if you want something that will appeal to most novice palates.

The bottle looks like this...

Doesn't look like that around our house. Usually the color change is near the middle or bottom of the bottle.

[KFCarter]

The Balvenie should be on your short list.

Their Doublewood and the 12 year old are two very fine selections in the $50 range and their Caribbean Cask (aka Golden Cask) and Port Wood are a bit more expensive but well worth the extra dollars.

You will not be disappointed and no, I am not a representative for The Balvenie but could be a shareholder based on my wife's purchases of this brand!

Another second for the Balvenie; Doublewood, or perhaps the 15 y.o. single cask

[rondo]

Okay, lots of recommendations...thanks. I've decided the best way to sample all is to wait for a tasting. No pubs locally have the variety of single malts suggested so i signed up on Pints Pub's [Denver] mailing list to be notified of their next tasting. When it comes around I'll let those interested know when it is and perhaps we can combine the tasting with a Denver kilt night. Thanks again for all the wonderful recommendations. I look forward to sampling them all...eventually.
Rondo

[Spartan Tartan]

I LOVE this thread! I can't keep myself in stock of items in this price range, but I LOVE this thread!!!

[rondo]

I LOVE this thread! I can't keep myself in stock of items in this price range, but I LOVE this thread!!!

lol...Yeah, believe my I know. As a bar/restaurant owner, though, I think I can write this off as market research.
Rondo

[ForresterModern]

I popped open my bottle of Glenmorangie Finnealta last night for the first time in a few months, and after enjoying the lusty tasting double promptly corked her back up and hid her back in the back of my whisky cabinet, remembering why I kept her there in the first place. That stuff was so nice that if I saw it more frequently toward the front of the cabinet I would drink that bottle dry and have to shell out for another post haste. Another of the collection of Glenmorangie special second cask bottlings, this one a mixture of several vintages and caskings. Drat, now I am thinking about it and have the urge to go back for more. Must restrain. Must.....Restrain..........