Yesterday's Discoveries (contains alcohol)
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muninnhuginnI finally got round to making this year's sloe gin. M had gone out to buy the gin as the ancient bottle of Gordon's was insufficiently full. I'd told him, since I was going to contaminate the gin with fruit and sugar, not to go to anything too upmarket (both gin and vodka seem to come in much more interesting forms these days -- and sometimes even organically produced). He came home with this. Now, I'm not actually particularly fond of gin. But opening the bottle released the most amazing botanical bouquet, nothing like your bog standard Mother's Ruin. It wasn't, apparently, more expensive. So, organic gin, organic golden caster sugar, sloes picked on an organic farm -- organic sloe gin!
Less usefully, due to my not looking at which soft drinks bottle I was picking up, I diluted my Highland Park with a splash of Tesco's sparkling water with apple and raspberry flavour. Not the choice I'd have actively made. Nor one I'm going to repeat. Very strange (well I couldn't really tip a decent Scotch down the sink) and definitely requiring a second to drink, this time with the correct Canada Dry, to wash away the taste.
Less usefully, due to my not looking at which soft drinks bottle I was picking up, I diluted my Highland Park with a splash of Tesco's sparkling water with apple and raspberry flavour. Not the choice I'd have actively made. Nor one I'm going to repeat. Very strange (well I couldn't really tip a decent Scotch down the sink) and definitely requiring a second to drink, this time with the correct Canada Dry, to wash away the taste.
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Date: 2006-11-06 10:45 am (UTC)Yeuch! You might as well pollute it with dry ginger ale!
I'm coming to the conclusion that Gins vary as much as Whiskies, and that once you get away from the horrible mass-market stuff designed to be mixed with soft drinks that overpowers its flavour, then you get some fine drinks. The same is, of course, true for Whisk(e)y. Your horrible Teachers is meant for cleaning the sink, or the loo. Your Highland Park, on the other hand, is not meant to be savoured.
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Date: 2006-11-06 10:52 am (UTC)I have to confess I regard Highland Park as our basic scotch and do add dry ginger. I think you can still taste the difference between it and a cheapo blend even through the fizz.
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Date: 2006-11-06 12:24 pm (UTC)More caffeine! Brains!
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Date: 2006-11-06 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-06 12:43 pm (UTC)There are a few single malts I don't myself care for (Glenfiddich, for one), but I'll still respect them. Cheap blends made with nasty grain whiskies, on the other hand ... bleuch!
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Date: 2006-11-06 11:41 am (UTC)We used to regard Glenfiddich as the 'cooking whisky', but ended up making Glenmorangie butter one Yule as that was the cheapest spirit in the house...
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Date: 2006-11-06 12:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-06 12:17 pm (UTC)I should have clarified that we had no non-whisk(e)y spirits in the house after shops closing time on Dec 24.
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Date: 2006-11-06 12:25 pm (UTC)I can't say I cared for either, but I wouldn't say the whisky one was worse.
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Date: 2006-11-06 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-06 01:00 pm (UTC)OK, noted.
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Date: 2006-11-06 12:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-06 11:44 am (UTC)no subject
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