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Whisky Bible snubs Scots, names Japanese spirit

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Whisky Bible snubs Scots, names Japanese spirit best in the world


World | 206901 hits | Nov 05 5:41 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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It's an award that's left a bitter taste in the mouths of Scotland's proud whisky makers. This year, the world authority on whisky -- the World Whisky Bible -- named a Japanese spirit, Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask, the best whisky in the world.  

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:59 pm
    Is this guy sniffing glue?

  2. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:11 pm
    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.

  3. by Batsy2
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:41 pm
    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

  4. by Lemmy
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:06 pm
    Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.

  5. by Batsy2
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:42 pm
    "Lemmy" said
    Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.



    And that was also English.

  6. by Lemmy
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:50 pm
    "Batsy2" said
    Yeah, and the English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar.

    And that was also English.
    ...and also shite.

  7. by Regina  Gold Member
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:05 pm
    You're talking to a wall. He's an idiot and probably not old enough to drink or afford good Scotch.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:51 pm
    "Jabberwalker" said
    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.

  9. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:52 pm
    "Lemmy" said
    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. ;)

  10. by Regina  Gold Member
    Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:54 pm
    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. :lol:

  11. by Batsy2
    Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:20 am
    "Lemmy" said

    ...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.

  12. by Batsy2
    Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:22 am
    "Regina" said
    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.

  13. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:55 am
    How British.

  14. by avatar raydan
    Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:29 pm
    How trollish.



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