???Favorite Single Malt???

[Panache]

Balvenie Doublewood, Highland Park, or Edradour for me and the F-H.C.A.G.!

Cheers

Jamie

[kfreeouf]

Balvenie Doublewood, Highland Park, or Edradour for me and the F-H.C.A.G.!

Cheers

Jamie

Good answer, Jamie!!!

[robthehiker]

I was thinking of nipping down to Allen's Restaurant on the Danforth in Toronto to try out their 50 year old Balvenie. Eh, what's that? It's $1,750 a glass? I'll stick to the 10 year old Bruichladdich I recently opened.

Here's the story on Allen's acquisition of the Balvenie. clicky

[Jack Daw]

Macallan 18....followed by Macallan Cask Strength....followed by Macallan 12. Aberlour is an excellent substitute, but Macallan is the best Speyside as well as overall favorite, IMHO. As a complement, I like my Talisker 18, too. And, the Islay malts are very good, too.

Sisters and brothers, it's ALL GOOD!!!!...in moderate, responsible doses, mind. Don't drink and drive.

BTW, I love having a dram when I'm watching 'Mrs. Brown', 'Rob Roy', or 'Eraserhead'...or, at some Highland games AFTER a piping competition.

[Jack Daw]

For blends, how could anything top Famous Grouse? It has Highland Park and Macallan in it. I only drink blends for mixed drinks. I'm trying to bring back the Rob Roy cocktail. Most bartenders do not know how to make it; so, I have to give them the recipe, which is the blend with, sweet vermouth (my choice over the other types), angostura bitters, and a cherry.

[DTrain]

I generally prefer whatever someone else is paying for.

[Mr. MacDougall]

It's $1,750 a glass?

Wow. I find myself wondering what kind of restaurant can afford to have that on the bar shelf!

[Cat]

Macallan 18....followed by Macallan Cask Strength....followed by Macallan 12. Aberlour is an excellent substitute, but Macallan is the best Speyside as well as overall favorite, IMHO. As a complement, I like my Talisker 18, too. And, the Islay malts are very good, too.

Ah, a man after my own heart! Pretty much any Scotch with the word "Macallan" in it is my favorite. I like the 18yr, but for my money, I think the 12yr is nearly as good and a lot cheaper! I do enjoy the occasional cask-strength, but I feel weird about putting water in my Scotch, despite knowing that's what one does with cask-strength. One of the best birthday gifts I ever got was a small bottle of Macallan 12yr from a random neighbor in my apartment building. And as for less-expensive drinkin', I loves me some Famous Grouse too! I also tried Dahlwhinnie 15yr and Glenkinchie 10yr a couple years ago, and there was one that I REALLY liked, but I can't remember which it was, so I guess I'll have to try them both again!

FWIW, I don't think Speyburn 12yr is all that bad, especially not for $17 a bottle!

I never tried Dewar's White Label until today...and I'll never drink that stuff again (they were out of Famous Grouse mini's!) It tasted ten times worse than the PBR I'm currently nursing!

[robthehiker]

Wow. I find myself wondering what kind of restaurant can afford to have that on the bar shelf!

The article suggests that publicity had a lot to do with it but for $30,000 you'd sure need a lot of it! Man, they must cringe every time a glass breaks in there! "That wasn't the ....? Oh thank God!"

BTW, there is one more bottle left in Toronto. Did you want to go halvesies on it?

[thescot]

Lately I've been quite a Balvenie Double cask fan, but I'm still quite fond of Glen Morangie, Port finished. It has a unique character all it's own, much different from the regular Glen Morangie.

For really peaty, I go with Lagavulan or even Laphraog.

And Oban is hard to beat. For cheap when the bar doesn't have a good one, I'll drink Black Label Johnny.

There's even a cheap one I've tried lately--can't remember the name, but it's three guys so I call it, "Manny, Moe, and Jack"--and they make a very good "smokey, peaty one."