"Anytime you're ready for it!  Just make sure that you've had a lot to drink before we start and can't see straight or have any balance to speak of because I really need all the advantage I can get. "

Sounds good to me! We should of course appoint seconds who will have to be in a similar inebriated condition. Any takers ?

Guitar Doc - actually the gallic is a varient of the Irish spoken in North East Ulster. The Kings of Dal Riada, known as the Scotti, spread from Antrim to Inverness, I imagine they took their good looks with them as well as their propensity to drink and hairy knees.

Kenneth McAlpine, first King of Scotland ( if I remember correctly ) was descended from this line of Irish Kings. Interestingly the Stone of Scone on which the Kings of England sit to be crowned was originally McAlpine's coronation stone and came originally from Ireland. We are not asking for it back, by the way.

You misunderstand me.  I intend to be fully sobor while you are inebriated.  How am I supposed to win if we're on equal footing?  You'd kick my butt!  That seconds thing is a good idea.  We could let them settle it while we drank to their health at a nearby pub.  Shoot, they could do the same thing at the pub next door to ours and just make up a story about who won.  That'd be best for everybody involved I think. 

- Zurf

"Kenneth McAlpine, first King of Scotland ( if I remember correctly ) was descended from this line of Irish Kings. Interestingly the Stone of Scone on which the Kings of England sit to be crowned was originally McAlpine's coronation stone and came originally from Ireland. We are not asking for it back, by the way.

there are many stories about the stone of scone AKA stone of destiny. I have heard it was originally from Ireland but also I have heard it was a present from an egyptian king.
There is also a rumour that when King Edward the first, hammerer of the scots decided to take this stone away to make the scottish feel like they were now powerless against him and could not crown any more kings unless it was under him, it has been said that the stone he took away is not the real stone but in fact a cover for a sewer pit, a lid for a cludgie and with those two handles on the top this might well be right.
Also when some students stole the stone it is also a rumour that the stone that was returned was a replica and the original one they had stolen is in a secret location near Scone. A friend of a friend of a cousin of a friend said the stone they have now has a document inside it saying it is fake.
there are so many stories about this lunp of brick I dont think anyone will really know for sure what is real and what is not.
But I do know that the lowland whisky Bladnoch 15 year old is a very excellent whisky.
absolutely nothing to do with Scone,

Ken

Sounds good to me! We should of course appoint seconds who will have to be in a similar inebriated condition. Any takers ?

Guitar Doc - actually the gallic is a varient of the Irish spoken in North East Ulster. The Kings of Dal Riada, known as the Scotti, spread from Antrim to Inverness, I imagine they took their good looks with them as well as their propensity to drink and hairy knees.

Kenneth McAlpine, first King of Scotland ( if I remember correctly ) was descended from this line of Irish Kings. Interestingly the Stone of Scone on which the Kings of England sit to be crowned was originally McAlpine's coronation stone and came originally from Ireland. We are not asking for it back, by the way.

Zurf - "the Scots make the best whisky." Now that is fightin' talk, Sir. U-Y-KILT was as nice as nice , but you have to go and spoil it !

Do I remember talking in a previous thread about Lagavulin being like chewing peat, or is that just  the whiskey talking?

Anytime you're ready for it!  Just make sure that you've had a lot to drink before we start and can't see straight or have any balance to speak of because I really need all the advantage I can get. 

For day to day, I'm all about the bourbon or sour mash, but when it comes to a special treat, well chewing on peat's not so bad. 

- Zurf

I'm thinking about expanding my horizons and trying some Irish and Scotch whiskey/whisky---and this weekend sounds about as good as any.  I'll post my findings :-D

_debs_

Do I remember talking in a previous thread about Lagavulin being like chewing peat, or is that just  the whiskey talking?

alvee33 wrote:

Takisker is from Skye, Ken. Sorry to butt in.

geezo, Al,
I knew that ,lol. I had that many things going through my head at the time of typing. Talisker is the only malt whisky to come from Skye. but it is talisker, not takisker, lol, sorry for correcting you too,   ( I love typos)

Jings! I love this thread! Looks like one too many haufs for me there....

- Zurf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jll0LloLurY  zurf heres a little booze song for you a drinking mutant

Seems I've got a chord chart of that song sitting right here on my desk.  If it weren't for the B chord in the chorus, it'd be the perfect new old-style country song.  I'm not real excited about having to learn C#m either, but I'm going to.  The F# might just get extended a bit when I play it, which I will claim as an arrangement on A Few Too Many by Russell 'the mutant' Harding. 

Hey, love the hat.  That's sharp!  The band is nice.  I've got a hand-made brown leather bent-brim cowboy hat with a similar hatband, but the conchos are smaller and not nearly as pretty. 

- Zurf

Ken, There is no need to add anything to Southern Comfort.  In the winter, I drink it straight from the bottle (well, actually from a glass, but that's filled straight from the bottle with no mixers).  In the summer, I chill it down by pouring it over ice and then draining back out into my glass.  It is sweet beyond reason, but sometimes I like that.   Like, right now, for instance.  Nah.  It's only 9AM on a work day.  I'll wait for a more reasonable time.

JustDeb, Makers Mark is some of the finest bourbon style whiskey I've had.  I don't recall if it's a sour mash or a bourbon by proper definition, but it is delicious nevertheless.  Perhaps the best I've ever had.  It is also more expensive than Elijah Craig.  Me being a cheapskate, I can forgo a bit of taste for a lot of savings, especially because I usually mix with a dash of ginger ale and a couple drops of lime juice.  No sense buying expensive booze only to mix it with something.  But you surely do have good taste in whiskey, there is no doubt about that. 

Still, when all is said and done, the Scots make the best whisky.  Stupid exchange rate.

- Zurf

I work in a printers factory where we print the labels for bushmill. Next run it is on I will read it see if it mentions this on the label, if not then it should!
We print loads upon loads of whisky labels for company's like ballantines, chivas, and the biggest Diageo. as well as a few more.
I could have a very large collection of different whisky and wine lables, but i will keep my hobby to playing the guitar.

Ken

Well done for such an even-handed approach to a controversial subject!

The oldest whiskey in the world is reputed to be Bushmills, an Irish whiskey that is celebrating 400 years of whiskey making from the same water - this very year. King Kames 1 provided the original licence to distil in 1608. As usual, however I'm sure the authorities only caught on late to a flourishing local industry. Why not help us celebrate it's birthday?

It is made here in Northern Ireland in a small village that looks out onto the wild North Atlantic. Just a few months ago, Bushmills twinned with Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville has a population of 256,231 compared to the 1,319 inhabitants of Bushmills.

I like a Jim Beam - white - but my main wet is the Bushmills Original. Of course you could try making your own ( http://www.homedistiller.org/ ) which is illegal in most parts of the world.

As for who invented distilling, I assume it was some poor chinese guy who failed to get his patent in on time. We should have a "World Whiskey Guy" day to honour him - we'd have to be sure to spell it right, of course ! We could have an international festival of Irish, Scottish and American songs about whiskey.