The long hot dry summer is over.
A night out with father, brother-in-law, and brother-in-law's father (visiting from Scotland) put paid to the mostly alcohol-free summer. We spent a night out having a good meal followed by the real treat of the evening, sampling a great many expensive offerings of Scotland's finest export in Vancouver's best gastropub - none of your Irish or American or Canadian inferior offerings for this party of four, if you please (the menu had a full page of single malts; there was about seven or eight Irish whiskeys on the back page, and a few North American and Japanese).
My favourite - we sampled about twenty, accompanied by a tasty cheese plate, some sausage and french fries - was a classic offering: a 16 year-old Lagavulin. But if you pressed me, I'd have cast a strong second-place vote for the 15 year-old Bruichladdich. Or my perennial favorite, Caol Ila (a real fire-starter, an 8 year-old with over 64% alcohol content), could have taken pride of place. Or there was this very good recommendation by the bar manager ...
I'm glad we thought ahead and booked a cab for the trip home.
7 comments:
Inferior??? Inferior??? How can anyone call a good bourbon inferior to something that smells and tastes like something that is used to top driveways?
Wolfy just doesn't get it. My mouth was watering. Might have to make a trip to BevMo.
-DrC
Oh Wolfy gets it. I've learned to drink the stuff socially mainly because I had a boss who drank it and used to go around on holidays with a bottle and expected us to join him. I also had a good friend who drank nothing but and myself and another friend killed a bottle of the good stuff in his honor at his wake. Just not my poison of choice.
It is like I am in another world on this one. An unfortunate incident with Seagram's 7 during my college years have left me unable to drink anything resembling whiskey or scotch.
Glad to hear you had fun!
I'm always disappointed when the best on offer is something I have sitting in my liquor cabinet back home. Considering there is ALWAYS a bottle of Lag 16 (or 2, or 3), this happens more frequently than I'd like. 'Tis my favourite Scotch by far.
I'll side with Wolfshead here a BIT though - bourbon is a fine beverage. It's just limited to the restrictions that define what "bourbon" is. But they're starting to work around the classic methods and bring some more complexity to the beverage.
Lightning,
drinking Seagram's 7 alone will cause you problems tho I do have to admit I drank some really heavy duty pait thinner during my college years, at least my first one. If it averaged over $2 a pint I couldn't afford it.
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