Now Irish whiskey is not really a hip libation. The cultured and affluent like to conspicuously display their sybaritic excess and high net worth with expensive Scotch single malts.
Even if I had the money, which I don't, I don't really care for the taste. I guess it is a bit too nuanced for my simple palette.
American whiskey is all the rage, rye and bourbon suddenly hip but there is a smokiness to it that I also find mildly off putting.
Too much like my abusive stepfather's Old Crow or Old Grand Dad I suppose, the mere smell teleports me back to one of Bosch's little hell zones of childhood.
So I go for the Irish, it is clean, straightforward and simple. As I said, my go to is Jameson but I have no problem drinking the protestant whiskey, Bushmill's, in its absence. My gullet is evidently nondenominational.
I have drank two of these in the past, Green spot and Red Breast and one not on the list, Powers. None of them slayed me.
I do like the sound of some of these. Writer's Tears and Knappogue sound promising. Might scratch some literary itch. Be interesting to dwell in the devil's keep for a spell.
Might be time for a fact finding research project. Let me know if you are in.
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Interesting, I could go for a sip or two. Count me in for the tasting :-)
Funnily enough, I only became aware of the whiskey religious divide a couple of weeks ago on reading a John Banville novel. Never bought Jamesons but years ago a cousin who lives near the Bushmills distillery gave me a bottle of Black Bush. The cousin is a catholic - maybe that's why he gave it away..
Oban is an affordable and very smooth scotch. Give it a try.
Definitely in, Robert -- Red Breast is my favorite, so far . . .
Interesting. I don’t like beer and wine, never have. Drank some beer in college, but that is because that is what was around. When I was a bartender I drank dewars - which is certainly not an expensive scotch. But if I am going to drink for enjoyment (very rarely) it will almost consistently be Jamison. I can’t stand bourbon - but I never realized it was what the bastard drank. I figure he drank everything in order to wash down his pills.
That is so funny Liz. Had no idea you drank it too. Must be something genetic about the stuff.
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