What Booze are you drinking now?
Posted by: kuma on 08 July 2016
No wine, here. This is pretty intense.
I dare say some scoff, but this . . .
This can be drunk at any hour…
Just thinking about popping out for a pint or 3 of:
Cornish Nectar
I had been a Bombay Sapphire man for a long long time until I was forced to find an alternative one day. This fellow was recommended and I have never looked back. Wonderful botanicals, lovely after taste .. mixes well with others (tonic, orange juice, vermouth, though very sparingly); you'd be hard pressed to find something better on a hot, humid afternoon. And after 3 or 4 you can kick back for a conversation with your favorite unicorn before taking a nap.
Alfa4life posted:Just thinking about popping out for a pint or 3 of:
Cornish Nectar
I must say that looks delish.
John Willmott posted:
I had been a Bombay Sapphire man for a long long time until I was forced to find an alternative one day. This fellow was recommended and I have never looked back. Wonderful botanicals, lovely after taste .. mixes well with others (tonic, orange juice, vermouth, though very sparingly); you'd be hard pressed to find something better on a hot, humid afternoon. And after 3 or 4 you can kick back for a conversation with your favorite unicorn before taking a nap.
Gin is an acquired taste for me but I ought to try this sometime.
What a pretty bottle. 
Nigel 66 posted:
I dare say some scoff, but this . . .
How is this like?
kuma posted:Nigel 66 posted:
I dare say some scoff, but this . . .
How is this like?
Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
Nose: It doesn't jump out at you, granted, but there's more here than meets the eye (/nose). Apple crumble, expressed lemon peel and a touch of mango. Millionaire's shortbread, banoffee pie, coconut milk, dried grass, orange Turkish delight and cardamom.
Palate: Toffee and vanilla with pleasant supporting oak notes. Fresh banana (neither overpowering nor artificial), a hint of nougat and honeycomb pieces.
Finish: Praline, cinnamon and a little ginger with perhaps a hint of cardamom returning right at the death.
Overall: Approachable, adaptable, good mouthfeel (I chucked some ice in afterwards and the texture was great). A hugely accessible whisky with tasty spice, toffee and, with the ice now, increasingly some tropical fruit notes too.
There is a Haig Club 3cl Sample x GBP 4.60; Not well rated here:
User reviews are priceless.
- It smells and tastes like cheap aftershave!
- Has an aroma that reminds me of a chemistry set I had as a kid.
- It appears they spent more time on the bottle design than quality testing the final product!
- I'd rather lick a cats armpit
- I thought I might have mixed it up with my rubbing alcohol bottle. But alas I didn't.
- Absolutely horrible, intended for the young posh look at my bloody red trousers types who have no idea what they're doing, seriously, most Welsh whiskey is better than this!
- taste overwhelmingly like fish at first. And not in a good way.
- Save yourself £30 easily. Buy a bottle of bottom shelf supermarket vodka, add a slug of Canadian Maple Syrup and a few drops of yellow food colouring.
Erich, thanks for the laugh. I have never read a booze review and these are more entertaining than hifi reviews.
I like it in hot, wet wheater. No lime and no ice.
Simple as it is.
The last of my home stock of my very favourite whisky in the universe. Very hard to come upon at the moment (at least at sensible prices) as Suntory seriously underestimated demand outside Japan!
kuma posted:User reviews are priceless.
- It smells and tastes like cheap aftershave!
- Has an aroma that reminds me of a chemistry set I had as a kid.
- It appears they spent more time on the bottle design than quality testing the final product!
- I'd rather lick a cats armpit
- I thought I might have mixed it up with my rubbing alcohol bottle. But alas I didn't.
- Absolutely horrible, intended for the young posh look at my bloody red trousers types who have no idea what they're doing, seriously, most Welsh whiskey is better than this!
- taste overwhelmingly like fish at first. And not in a good way.
- Save yourself £30 easily. Buy a bottle of bottom shelf supermarket vodka, add a slug of Canadian Maple Syrup and a few drops of yellow food colouring.
Erich, thanks for the laugh. I have never read a booze review and these are more entertaining than hifi reviews.
@Kuma,
Diageo (distiller of the world's best-selling whisky, Johnnie Walker, and owner of the venerable Haig brand) launched this back in 2014 as a way of trying to attract younger drinkers (21 to 30 year olds) into the Scotch whisky category. Although American, Japanese and to a degree Irish, whiskeys are doing well with the younger demographic, most mainstream Scotches are not, and this was their way of addressing this. No surprise that they also packaged it to look like perfume/aftershave and that David Beckham fronted the launch ad campaign:
Haig Club is a single grain (as opposed to malt) whisky, and it's a decent base for cocktails and highballs, but it's no great shakes on its own or with water and is, I think, a bit overpriced for what it is.
Hasn't the posh look of some, and the clout of a high brand. The Ely Gin pink grapefruit with just ice is the most drinkable gin I have come across.
Let's see what she has to say about that HICAP DR now!
My first booze for about ten weeks, very chilled and slipping down a treat.
With a good quality apple juice and some ice. Come on France! Allez Les Bleus!
Kevin-W posted:
The last of my home stock of my very favourite whisky in the universe. Very hard to come upon at the moment (at least at sensible prices) as Suntory seriously underestimated demand outside Japan!
Never thought Japanese Whisky would be thought after outside Japan!
I grew up with many Suntory commercials on TV but I actually never tried any of it.
A friend mentioned last year that Suntory is starting to export their premium whiskey. Is it any good? Is it like a Japanese hifi, overly smooth and ultra refined?
'Lost in Translation' did the parody of the Hibiki Whisky commercial making. Absolutely Hilarious! In it the director shouts Bill Murray 'This is Suntory's Hibiki a top of the line most expensive stuff@! You have to feel high end and luxurious.' But somehow a translator just tells him 'more intensity'.
...And this one is a real one from the past. I read somewhere that the director told Davis to adlib throughout.
Kuma - the three main Suntory whiskies, Hakushu, Yamazaki and Hibiki are all superb, especially the Hibikis (12, Harmony, 21 and the best of the bunch, the 17). All three have won numerous awards and can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. Nikka, from Hokkaido, also makes fantastic whiskies, including Nikka From The Bar and Nikka Black.
Japanese whisky, I've found, is less peaty, and more floral and perhaps woody than Scotch. Refined, but definitely not overly smooth, and with lovely length. Aside from a couple of Scotches such as The Macallan and Lagavulin, I generally prefer the Japanese stuff to the Scots'.
I hope to be visiting Japan next year, so I'll fill me boots if I make it 