Join me in the spirit realm.

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Funnily enough, they all taste pretty much the same to me.

Johnnie Walker Princes Street and McConnells in Belfast are worth a visit though, purely from an experiential point of view.

You've not been properly introduced to whiskey by someone familiar with it but you have to have to patience and some expendable income. This all sounds snobbish but it's the God's honest truth. Too many people just do shots of whiskey and base their experience off that but that's like learning the nuances of using a slingshot by practicing with a trebuchet; all you're doing is singling yourself out as a newb and ruining your experience with blunt force trauma to the mouth.

 

[evertondotcom]

You've not been properly introduced to whiskey by someone familiar with it but you have to have to patience and some expendable income. This all sounds snobbish but it's the God's honest truth. Too many people just do shots of whiskey and base their experience off that but that's like learning the nuances of using a slingshot by practicing with a trebuchet; all you're doing is singling yourself out as a newb and ruining your experience with blunt force trauma to the mouth.

I’m also not being facetious but I’ve genuinely attended over 50 tasting experiences at different distilleries around the world, led by “master distillers” and whatnot and as I said, it’s all the same to me.

Then again, I don’t like wine as I don’t appreciate it either but I’m confident I could name 10 different beers on a blind taste test.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

I’m also not being facetious but I’ve genuinely attended over 50 tasting experiences at different distilleries around the world, led by “master distillers” and whatnot and as I said, it’s all the same to me.

Then again, I don’t like wine as I don’t appreciate it either but I’m confident I could name 10 different beers on a blind taste test.

Why, when you admittedly don't like it...makes a whole lot of no sense whatsoever. After less than 5 times of not liking something, people usually avoid whatever it is they've discovered they don't like.

 

[evertondotcom]

Why, when you admittedly don't like it...makes a whole lot of no sense whatsoever. After less than 5 times of not liking something, people usually avoid whatever it is they've discovered they don't like.

I said in my first post, it’s part of my job.

Most recently I went to Summerhall Distillery in Edinburgh (they do Pickerings Gin). Off to Blackness Bay distillery in January, too.

 

[RufusCat]

Finally got around to bottling the first of my fruit infusions - the plum rum. You can certainly taste the fruit, but in a blindfold taste test I doubt I would guess it to be plum, more likely cherry as it has a slight medicinal flavour - not unpleasant though. I was going to recycle the plums into a trifle but after tasting them decided not to as they would completely overpower it. Will enjoy drinking this concoction over the coming weeks but in future will probably use vodka or gin with the plums as the taste of the rum is probably too strong.

 

[summerisle]

Finally got around to bottling the first of my fruit infusions - the plum rum. You can certainly taste the fruit, but in a blindfold taste test I doubt I would guess it to be plum, more likely cherry as it has a slight medicinal flavour - not unpleasant though. I was going to recycle the plums into a trifle but after tasting them decided not to as they would completely overpower it. Will enjoy drinking this concoction over the coming weeks but in future will probably use vodka or gin with the plums as the taste of the rum is probably too strong.

I made Blackberry whisky last year. All gone, so I added a bottle of rum to the blackberries. Had a taste tonight to see if it needed any sugar - absolutely not. The run has mellowed beautifully, and has taken on the blackberry whisky flavour, and it's only been maturing for a month. I can see, once I've drunk it, just adding another spirit to it, can go on ad infinitum.

 

[summerisle]

I made Blackberry whisky last year. All gone, so I added a bottle of rum to the blackberries. Had a taste tonight to see if it needed any sugar - absolutely not. The run has mellowed beautifully, and has taken on the blackberry whisky flavour, and it's only been maturing for a month. I can see, once I've drunk it, just adding another spirit to it, can go on ad infinitum.

Had another taste of the BlackBerry rum, almost the nectar of the Gods. Undecided whether to bottle it or leave it another month to see if it matures even more. Once eventually bottle I'll infuse the blackberries with sherry, so it'll be blackberry whisky/run and sherry.

 

[RufusCat]

Bottled the second of my spirit infusions, the Blackberry Brandy, which I made in August last year. Absolutely lovely - I am deffo going to enjoy drinking this. Followed the lead of @summerisle & reused the blackberries by adding a bottle of vodka to the kilner jar (waste not, want not).

 

[summerisle]

Bottled the second of my spirit infusions, the Blackberry Brandy, which I made in August last year. Absolutely lovely - I am deffo going to enjoy drinking this. Followed the lead of @summerisle & reused the blackberries by adding a bottle of vodka to the kilner jar (waste not, want not).

I've just bottled my damson and sloe gins. With the leftover fruit I'm going to make some curd. Like lemon curd, you can do it with any fruit. Here's an example, but I'll scale it down. There's plenty of recipes available on t'internet.

How To Make Damson Curd

Surprisingly I found recipes for every sort of fruit curd under the sun on the internet and in my cook books but not for this so I have winged it and thought I’d share what I did. For this re…

zebbakes.com

 

[RufusCat]

Coming to the end of the BlackBerry Brandy so bottled the 3rd infusion I did last year - the sloe gin. Leaving it until this evening before sampling (probably during the second half of the game). Looking forward to it, with only the sloe vodka left in the cupboard "to mature".

 

[summerisle]

Coming to the end of the BlackBerry Brandy so bottled the 3rd infusion I did last year - the sloe gin. Leaving it until this evening before sampling (probably during the second half of the game). Looking forward to it, with only the sloe vodka left in the cupboard "to mature".

Don't throw the berries away, try this, it's nectar :

 

[Davideeyore]

Think I'll have a few spirits later

Just saw Whisky Galore! before.

A reminder

 

[summerisle]

Think I'll have a few spirits later

Just saw Whisky Galore! before.

A reminder

Have you seen the sequel ?

 

[Davideeyore]

Haha. The Fast Show. They don't make 'em like that anymore

 

[Eggs]

Think I'll have a few spirits later

Just saw Whisky Galore! before.

A reminder

…..was only thinking of that film earlier.

My son sent me a pic this morning of one of my Grandaughters on New Brighton beach with our stadium in the background and I was reminded of a ‘whisky galore’ incident when rum was washed up there over 150 years ago.