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Title: Whisky Bible snubs Scots, names Japanese spirit best in the world
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2014-11-05 17:41:43

[DrCaleb]

Is this guy sniffing glue?

[Jabberwalker]

I'll give it a try if I can find it. I'm not hiding my breath in Ontario. Our local liquor stores nearest around me don't even carry dark navy rum at Christmas. Is all the "light" and "amber" stuff for fruity cocktails.

[Batsy2]

To rub further salt into the wounds of the benighted Scottish whisky industry, an English whisky - Chapter 14 Not Peated, by the English Whisky Co - was named the best in Europe.

In a savage critique of the Scottish industry - whose quality was written into folklore by the likes of Robbie Burns - the Jim Murray Whisky Bible complains: ‘Where were the complex whiskies in the prime of their lives?’

Scottish bard Burns’s 1785 poem Scotch Drink celebrates whisky as ‘thy strong heart’s blood’ and ‘guid auld’ drink.

But Murray bemoans the lack of innovation in the present-day Scottish whisky industry.

He writes: ‘Where were the blends which offered bewildering layers of depth?

‘Where were the malts which took you on hair-standing journeys through dank and dingy warehouses?

‘Some have taken their eye off the ball and not brought into account the changes which have altered the face of whisky.

‘They began to believe their own PR hype and standard brands started standing still or going backwards.’

In recent years, English wines have beaten their French rivals to be named the best in the world. Now English whiskies are trouncing their Scottish rivals.


England's Chapter 14 Not Peated has been named Europe's best whisky

[Lemmy]

Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.

[Batsy2]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.

And that was also English.

[Lemmy]

Batsy2 Batsy2:

Lemmy Lemmy:

Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.

And that was also English.

...and also shite.

[Regina]

You're talking to a wall. He's an idiot and probably not old enough to drink or afford good Scotch.

[DrCaleb]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I'll give it a try if I can find it. I'm not hiding my breath in Ontario. Our local liquor stores nearest around me don't even carry dark navy rum at Christmas. Is all the "light" and "amber" stuff for fruity cocktails.

The Japanese Whisky might very well be exceptional. I'd like to try it to see. But I can't see it being better than The Glenlivet 18 year.

But I know that Alberta Premium Rye was one of 3 things you'd buy if you wanted to get shitfaced and not be retching again at the smell of in a week. Because no one drank it except to get shitfaced. Alberta Premium Rye, Alberta Premium Vodka or Jack Daniels. They were cheap, and no one liked them, so you didn't have to worry if you wanted a drink again a couple weeks.

Perhaps it's improved? I've always kept Canadian Club around as a day to day Rye.

[DrCaleb]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Batsy2 Batsy2:

Lemmy Lemmy:

Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.

And that was also English.

...and also shite.

If I recall the movie, the nurse was P.P.C.L.I.

[Regina]

When I was young we drank Alberta Premium for the same reason! That and the label was a peel and stick decal. Collected them for my bedroom door and cooler like they were victory marks on the side of a fighter plane.

[Batsy2]

Lemmy Lemmy:

...and also shite.

That's just a matter of opinion. And it's the opinion of the Jim Murray Whisky Guide, the world's leading whisky guide, that England's Chapter 14 Not Peated (which you have never tried) is the best whisky in Europe.

Now get over it, my dear. There must be something about the fact that it's an ENGLISH whisky which pisses you off. Because I didn't see you complain about the Japanese whisky. Dear oh dear.

[Batsy2]

Regina Regina:

He's an idiot

For pointing out that an English whisky is the best in Europe? You'll have to do better than than, matey.

It's most other people on here who are the idiots. This is a trolls' forum. That was highlighted further by the trolling which has taken place in this very thread by almost everybody else apart from me.

[Jabberwalker]

How British.

[raydan]

How trollish.