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£13 Lidl whisky wins top prize at the World Whiskies Awards
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Thank god for experts
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arsene york-hunt
3:08 Fri Mar 1
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I like a glass of Tizer with two lumps of ice
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ChillTheKeel
2:49 Fri Mar 1
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I'll be on the Talisker 18 tonight. Lovely stuff.
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Nick QQQ
2:46 Fri Mar 1
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I’m well into my old fashions at the moment. Has to be bulleit rye whiskynfor thatbwhich is also good over the rocks if you can’t be fucked to make it.
Blend wise I don’t mind admitting I’m a Jonnie walker with a dash of coke man. Double black is lovely very smokey, gold good.
Single malt not fussed really as long as it a above the £30 price point.
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Joe C
4:51 Fri Mar 1
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I’d say Gold Label if you’re doing JW
Island Green very nice too.
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Willtell
6:13 Thu Feb 28
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It's all round to Lidl then so that you can fill up your Black Label bottles...
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RBshorty
6:07 Thu Feb 28
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If you must go Johnnie Walker. Then the Green label is the way to go. The Blue label is overpriced. And the Black label is ok but not the cost premium. And Johnnie Walkers are all blends.
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bill green
5:05 Thu Feb 28
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in my youth we went round a friend's house and polished off his dads johnnie walker black label. which we topped back up with rough ol sainsburys blended the next day.
next time i went round there, my mates dad was sitting there drinking whiskey. "just having a black label lads, you can't beat a touch of class"..
'that's right Mr S ...'
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ChillTheKeel
4:53 Thu Feb 28
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altyhammer 3:02
Ice is the saviour for shitty whiskies. Also a drop of water or a single ice cube brings out the flavours in certain Malts.
Otherwise, you are obviously correct.
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easthammer
4:03 Thu Feb 28
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My God Father when alive was a Whisky Broker.
He taught me a couple of lessons about the nature of the product.
First off Whisky tends towards conspicuous consumption.
Those of you with an "A" level grasp of economics will know that such goods have perverse demand curve. That is the higher the price the more the demand. Unlike "normal goods" where the lower the price the more that is demanded.
His company was in 1960s supplying Air India with all its in-flight whisky and it also sold a brand of Whisky to the public particularly in and around the Midlands. The exact name now escapes me, Queens something. It was not a good seller. He resolved this by changing the label and uping the price by £2 a bottle ( a lot in those days ) As a result it flew off the shelves.
He related this to me on a visit when I had nervously served him a cheap supermarket own brand of blended whisky which I thought might have offended him. He was not one to bullshit and wasn't just being polite. He told me that it was a good as the more expensive blends and always find something you like
and judge it by taste and not the price.
I do now prefer the taste of single malt whisky but I never assume the higher the price the better the whisky
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Willtell
10:03 Thu Feb 28
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I thought Black Label was a marketing gimmick. It's still a blended whisky rather than a malt whisky.
For me Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey is the smoothest and best of all whiskey I've ever had. Often cheaper than the 'better' whiskys too...
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joe royal
7:57 Thu Feb 28
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I thought suntory was a golf course.
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Claret Badger
3:55 Thu Feb 28
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been drinking loads of Black Label recently
currently polishing off a bottle of Monkey Shoulder
Sun Tory Yamazaki is a bit of alright too
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altyhammer
3:02 Thu Feb 28
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Can’t be bothered checking who said it but ice and whisky, especially malt whisky, is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
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Capitol Man
1:35 Thu Feb 28
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Age does seem to improve some of them. I had a couple of bottles of Laphroig 30 year a number of years ago - I should have had a case and stashed it way given what it Goes for now - but that 30 was better than the 20 and a whole different world to the 10.
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Justin P
12:17 Thu Feb 28
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Only cunts shop at Lidl
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eusebiovic
10:22 Wed Feb 27
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There is an Irish Whiskey called Redbreast which I am very fond of...it's so good it has a touch of dark rum about it but without being sweet or overpowering...
I treat myself to a bottle now and again
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kylay
7:32 Wed Feb 27
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Suntory's whisky's are my favorite in particular, Hibiki.
damned hipsters have been driving up the price for years though.
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Fo the Communist
7:13 Wed Feb 27
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ChillTheKeel 12:38 Wed Feb 27
JB stable brands tend to be a tad medicinal to me. Might be a centrist thing..
People like what they like so no point trying to convince you otherwise but for my taste a Michters No 1, Hancock's Presidential Reserve or even Fighting Cock or Basil Hayden can't be beaten over ice.
Recently opened a rather fine bottle of Smooth Ambler Contradiction as it goes.
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worm
5:32 Wed Feb 27
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just the smell of whiskey makes me gag
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gank
5:20 Wed Feb 27
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Collyrob wrote...
HairyHammer 12:41 Wed Feb 27
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Let us know what it’s like. If anyone knows how to gobble on an 8 year old it’s you.
ag ag ag ag
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lufbra iron
5:17 Wed Feb 27
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never seen whiskey chat on here. love it
years of doing business in Aberdeen i got the taste for it.
Now i cant watch a Peaky Blinders episode without cracking the Glenmorangie open
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