Comments on: A Recommendation You Probably Wouldn’t Expect From Me

By: AlanM

AlanM — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:02:39 +0000

#20, that could have been phenylthiocarbamide, which tastes like nothing to most people and is very bitter to “supertasters”.

#73, I love Talisker, but I can’t imagine recommending it as a first scotch. It has a very distinctive taste and can be a little… assertive (not Laphroaig assertive, but still enough to kill small animals from across the room). How about Oban as a more gentle introduction? Or even the classics Glenlivet or Glenfiddich?

I’m not sure I have any friends that I like quite enough to give this stuff to except for… well… me.

By: Joerg Mosthaf

Joerg Mosthaf — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:47:38 +0000

I like all three – coffee, alcohol (Whisky) and cilantro (great in Thai food – spicy coconut chicken soup – mmmh :)).
My favorite coffee is Maragogype – south american giant beans. Taste great and are affordable.
With Whisky I tend to like Speyside and Islay single malts. My favorites are the Aberlour a’Bunadh and the Talisker Distillers Edition. Recently I have discovered the Orkney Malts and love the Scapa 12 yo.
@Ben: I also could not resist taking advantage of your offer and ordered some christmas gifts :)

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:05:22 +0000

I am the last Tasmanian badger. I make my own whiskey. Then I throw it away and rink rum because rum is better. I make it blue by using smurfs as a primary ingredient. I am the last Tasmanian badger. I haunt the forums. I lurk.

By: Viabaja

Viabaja — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:13:27 +0000

JS, I know you don’t drink, but I’m still waiting for the wine review rollout!

By: Ben @ Master of Malt

Ben @ Master of Malt — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:07:05 +0000

Just wanted to dip in and give my 2 cents worth here guys – I’m the Sales Director at Master of Malt, and wanted firstly to thank Devan Desai for his kind words about our whisky… It’s one of my personal favourites from our extensive selection.

[shameless pitch]We have probably the lowest delivery charges to the USA of any retailer in the United Kingdom (shipping 6 bottles to the states costs about $10 a bottle) and I’d be absolutely delighted to include a small tasting sample of the 19yo Tomatin and a glencairn crystal nosing glass completely free of charge with any order from our site for the next month so that you guys can try it for yourselves. [/shameless pitch]

If anyone wants to take advantage of this offer, please just type the word WHATEVER into the delivery instructions box at the checkout.

#The Pathetic Earthling – that is one of the closest lists to my own personal favourites I’ve ever seen – you should try Ardbeg Uigeadail – it’s the most fantastically rich and complex Islay I’ve ever tried.

By: Nee Stewart

Nee Stewart — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:57:56 +0000

I’m the non-drinker in our family, and my husband is the taster. He samples widely, but with his current Scotland kick–don’t ask–Scotch is the drink du jour.

I came across him drinking one evening and asked, “Isn’t that the Scotch you said tasted like dirt?” (wondering why he was drinking it).

“Yes, but it is the dirt of the Scottish Highlands.”

I guess anything is palatable, if you have the right attitude toward it.

By: Dani Atkinson

Dani Atkinson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:51:09 +0000

Oh thank God, there ARE other ‘just don’t like it, don’t feel like it, and don’t want to’ non-drinkers out there. And so many, looks like! I’m so glad. I feel like such a freak sometimes.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:23:50 +0000

Speaking of Romulan ale, the Society of E.B. Milliways (Sewanee, TN) makes a local pan-galactic gargle blaster that is blue. It also tastes blue. Most people don't believe that until they try some, but many times I have heard the slightly astonished sentence, "You're right, it really *does* taste blue."

By: skipjim

skipjim — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:52:35 +0000

I guess I should have checked the label a little closer before I bought it.

it might have been drinkable as the 9th or 10th beer of the night after your tastebuds are numbed well enough to endure the abuse but not before.

By: TheMadLibrarian

TheMadLibrarian — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:36:07 +0000

Skipjim, I bought a case of the Romulan Ale as a gift back when the Star Trek attraction was still running in LV. Getting it home was a labor, because we couldn’t check it, and the flight crew didn’t know if it was okay to carryon. Coors produced it, and it was a poor specimen of brewing: nasty, nasty, nasty. Because of the blue coloring, it wasn’t even suitable for cooking; it tinted the chili a vile color.