WHISKY TASTING NOTES

: Moorlady

03.13.2022 | 3:23 AM ET

Tasting Notes: PROPER NO. TWELVE IRISH WHISKEY It should be noted first that as a moor-dweller, the Moorlady has a decided prejudice in favor of all tipples most peaty. Mr. McGregor's offering escapes the frequent pitfall of blended Irish whiskies that is sweetness. He is to be heartily applauded for it, and all bourbons should be put on notice that sweetness is not a quality which will be met with kindly in the Moorlady's tasting rooms. It is further noted that Mr. McGregor's whiskey is entirely unaged, and perhaps invites the tongue to taste Ireland as it is now, not through intervention of oak or sherry barrel, foreign modifications, true, but distilled naked, and blended naked, like an orgy of confident, beautiful young people, with stories of journeys and oceans and mountains and barks to tell. One wonders how, without adulterating substance, it manages to make it smooth and fire-dead into the barrel. Giant's spit? Ogre's piss? Irish spring water? For how can something so tame be worthy of its Gaelic definition, "the water of life," without the quickening of fire. This is whiskey for old men, and for boys who don't know that it was meant to make them fire-breathing dragons, and not simply old men of lesser wrinkles. In pandering to the least common denominator with his product, Mr. McGregor, has neutered the essential spirit of the island.

: Baldric Eggling

03.22.2022 | 3:04 PM ET

@Phil what the ****? When did you move back from the Philippines?

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phillip53

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03.22.2022 | 6:55 PM ET

its been a year. i thought everyone here knew it, but you might have been suspended at the time, maybe.

* Edited at 03.22.2022, 7:01 PM ET *

"you dont need religion to have morals. if you can't tell right from wrong you lack empathy and humanity, not religion."

: Baldric Eggling

03.22.2022 | 7:09 PM ET

What made you come back?

phillip53

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03.22.2022 | 8:28 PM ET

couldnt get my visa renewed anymore because of covid, i had to leave or be deported. if you get deported you cant ever return. i feel i was lucky to get out as easily as i did.

"you dont need religion to have morals. if you can't tell right from wrong you lack empathy and humanity, not religion."

: Moorlady

04.07.2022 | 1:35 PM ET

Sorry, @Phil. I have your books packed and ready to go! I just need to get myself off to the post office!

: Baldric Eggling

04.07.2022 | 6:40 PM ET

@phil join my group bud

https://www.tapology.com/groups/881

phillip53

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04.07.2022 | 9:12 PM ET

many thanks to you moorlady

i will fish

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WastelandWanderer

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04.08.2022 | 6:22 AM ET

McGregors whiskey is dirt, thats what I heard, never tried it. The best whiskey I ever had was this expensive aged Japanese whiskey my friend got, I forget the name, but whiskey always gave me the shakes the day after if I drank alot of it. I'll always dislike the way McGregor sucker punched that old man for saying no to his offer of a glass of proper 12 whiskey, that was a bad one. Well he created some jobs and people will always be putting toxic crap in themselves (alcohol destroys your positive gut bacteria, causes aging and strain on your body) so may aswell join the party. Maybe 40 to 100 years from now it will be more refined and better quality. Still not buying it. I prefer Jägermeister and those really nice German and Italian beers, theres a good few quality ones, Spaten is a well known one. I havent tried stuff from too many nations yet so im still quite ignorant to which could truly be the best, but the German and Italian ones hit the mark a few times. I tried some good Dutch, French, Polish and Lithuanian ones, other places too, but yeah if I was to be honest, the German ones would have the best quality Ive tried so far.

* Edited at 04.08.2022, 7:10 AM ET *

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WastelandWanderer

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04.08.2022 | 7:13 AM ET

One more thing

I know im going off talking non whiskey, but guys try this "Belgian witbier" beer called Hoegaarden it is truly unique, that may be my favorite alcohol even more than Jager.

* Edited at 04.08.2022, 7:17 AM ET *

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04.08.2022 | 7:20 AM ET

Great one for me at least

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WastelandWanderer

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04.08.2022 | 7:21 AM ET

One of the nicest drinks ever

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: Moorlady

04.08.2022 | 8:12 AM ET

I try to avoid gluten; just one of the reasons I love scotch. I don't think Proper Twelve's bad. It's not great either. Middling. Good for watching the fights (goddamned advertising!).

: Moorlady

04.12.2022 | 9:29 PM ET

Tasting Notes: Akashi Whisky Akashi is the label of the White Oak distillery in Akashi, Hiyogo, Japan. It does not put me in mind of oak trees, however. Rather, it puts me in mind of a birch forest: tall, slender, and white, with papery bark--golden sunlight and cool breezes wending through. Methinks this is the blended version, although they do produce a single malt. The blend is airy and approachable. I first encountered it as part of a flight at a sushi restaurant, and it paired well with that fresh and nuanced cuisine. This is the stuff of Debussy's "Afternoon of the Faun." It meanders and meditates. Heartily recommend. It is the stuff a hart might happen upon in a whisky brook....

: Moorlady

05.07.2022 | 5:34 AM ET

PROSECCO TASTING NOTES

Tasting Notes: PITARS MILLESIMATO PROSECCO. I don't even know if that's the right name. This is very cheap prosecco. It comes in a set of three: gold (prosecco), blue (brut), and pink (rose) bottles wrapped in macaron-colored foil. They're imported by "More Than G****s" in Northbrook, Illinois. What, in addition, to g****s do they import? Bottles? Anyway, this is mostly an ode to the mimosa--the blood of the brunch eucharist. We all have our own Christ-of-Brunch. For me, it's a dearly departed aunt. But you can always claim Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Dry, sparkling wine, at least this dry, sparkling wine isn't a beverage you take naked. It's a juice accessory. This morning, I'm changing things up, with the Pomegranate Blueberry variant from POM. Quite good. The great thing about mimosas is that they're one of the few ****tails its socially acceptable to drink at breakfast on weekends or days off. To weekends!

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05.07.2022 | 9:09 AM ET

Single barrel Bourbon or 100% agave tequila for me. Scotch, Irish, and American whiskeys are too clear for me. They aren't terrible just little taste. Favorites are Booker's, Four Roses specialties, and Blanton's which I just had about a month ago. Never had Proper but don't care for Jameson's so..... But my brother loves it.

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05.07.2022 | 9:55 AM ET

Blanton's is pretty good. Had a bottle one time, took me and my friend near a year to work through it because we don't drink much. But I enjoyed it a lot.

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: Moorlady

05.13.2022 | 8:33 PM ET

WHISKY TASTING NOTES

Tasting Notes: LAPHROAIG, 10 YEAR. To taste Laphroaig, pronounced "La Froy," is to taste a cool beach, baptized since time primordial in salt waves and salt air. It is to contemplate the sorites paradox, grain by grain of sand. It is to sit around the pub fire and marinate in peat smoke, and stories of piracy and mermaids and sea war. It is the original truth serum, with flame that lingers on the lip and tongue, but contrary to popular belief, its truths are imbibed, not spilled. The best truths are distilled, aged, bottled long, and reduced to essence. To drink of them is to come home.

* Edited at 05.13.2022, 8:34 PM ET *

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10.21.2023 | 12:03 AM ET

WHISKY TASTING NOTES

Tasting Notes: TALISKER, 10 YEAR. In my opinion, Talisker is the only offering worth tasting from the Isle of Skye. It's wilder than its mainland or Islay neighbors. Rougher around the edges. Almost medicinal. You could be excused drinking it for your constitution But it will rake your throat in the going down, and in the most delightful way. It's dry as desiccated grassland. And does not taste of any proximity to the ocean, unlike it's Islay neighbors. It is bracing in the drinking. And shot through with darts of weedy wet grass.

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