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What is your favorite Scotch Whisky?

GHT

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I am but a poor graduate student so my go to whiskey and scotch choices are Jack Daniel's, Jameson, and Johnny Walker.
I do enjoy McClelland's 12 year single malt, but that was reserved for very special occasions :lol:
JC, JD is, of course, not Scotch, but it is rather good, I've visited their distillery, what a treat it was. But, don't limit yourself to just JD, you might like to try: Makers Mark. A truly smooth Kentucky bourbon, well worth trying in the larger glasses.
As for Scotch, well the finest whiskys from Scotland are made from water from the river Spey, there's none finer than Mortlach. A tad pricey though but as a student and a future whisky connoisseur, you might be interested in Ian Buxton's 101 whiskies to try before you die.
 
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Bugguy

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Not that long ago I crashed a Dewers scotch tasting in Philadelphia. I was the "designated dad" for several 20-something Penn and Drexel medicine and law students that worked for me. Think back-room of a popular bar and populate it with a half-dozen of the Dewers equivalent of the Miller Beer Girls and 40 of the "cream of American youth" and you have an idea of what I stepped in to.

They had a pyramid of scotch bottles with a 18 yr old at the top (bottle). The ladies were passing trays of 12 yr old, so Dad created a teaching moment and suggested the kids bypass the girls and go for the top shelf bottle. Dewers was trying to hook them early and betting on a high income downstream ROI.

I don't know if the education took, but I enjoyed an evening of Dewers best - and I walked back to my apartment.
 

Glacierman

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I like 'em smoky....Lagavulin 16.

If I'm impecunius at the moment, I'll settle for Ardbeg.

And if my pockets are to let, I'll lower myself to a great American...Gentleman Jack. It ain't Scotch, but it IS uisge beatha, American style.
 
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I go for peat, the more the better. I would rate Lagavulan 16 yr as one of the best. Otherwise one of Laphroig's offerings. Just started on a bottle of Kilchoman Sanaig, initial bouqet of new leather shoes and caramel, on the palete is dense sherry sweetness followed by lingering peat smoke.
If you havent tried Talisker, give it a go. You will like it. Its one of my favorites.

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Dr. Lecter

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I like 'em smoky....Lagavulin 16.

If I'm impecunius at the moment, I'll settle for Ardbeg.

I go for peat, the more the better. I would rate Lagavulan 16 yr as one of the best. Otherwise one of Laphroig's offerings.

I'm of similar tastes, though the Ardbeg 10 and Lagavulin 16 are nearly indistinguishable to me in that each is too smooth to measure up to the pleasant roughness of the Laphroaig 10 and 1/4 Cask. But then I discovered Ardbeg Corryvreckan...it's the strongest, most peaty thing I've ever drunk and has pretty much supplanted Laphroaig 10 as a daily drinker.
 

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