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You can always go for Everclear; it only smells like ethanol. Joel Send a noteboard - 23/10/2011 11:07:21 PM
I have been known to put away my share of screwdrivers, too, but learned the hard way that it is worth it to pay a little more for good vodka rather than cheap rot gut. The same is very much true of whisky, and liquor in general and, as Tim says, if they were giving it away it was probably one step up (or down) from trash can punch, so of course it was awful. A lot of people, particularly in college, swear by Jack Daniels Black Label, but, IMHO, it is little more than turpentine with strong name recognition; I find Jim Beam much smoother, but even that is still pretty cheap whisky. Save up for some 20 or 40 year old scotch and you might get a whole other perspective on whisky. You might also look for a blended whisky; mixing an older whisky with a younger tends to make the latter much smoother as well, without having to pay the price for a bottle older than you are.

We weren't just hitting the bottle, you know. There were appetizers, main course and dessert. The whisky was the last drink we had. And it was hideous. I don't mean it was too strong, I can drink cut brandy even if I don't necessarily relish the experience. But the whisky..The smell alone. And the aftertaste.. I guess I just have an aversion to it.

It may, indeed, simply be that it is not your taste, but rational people do not just give away the best whisky except to close friends, if only because giving dozens of people stuff that costs $100 or more per bottle is not exactly cost effective. Obviously, there is a happy medium between paint remover and liquor only available with financing, but, though I do not know your friends, my experience has been that students tend to strike much closer to the latter than the former, with consequent unpleasantness. Most people choose a whisky in large part BECAUSE OF its taste, so it would probably be a mistake to dismiss all of them because of a bad experience with what you get for free at a college party. ;)

Anyway, hope you feel better now--and feel OK tomorrow.... ;)

One of my eight roommates brought friends over from a party, they woke me up at 5 am on Saturday. Didn't get a hangover but my sleep schedule is messed up and I have exams to read to.

Yea. :( Best of luck with your exams; at least you will have something to celebrate/mourn with a whisky worth drinking. I would make a recommendation, but it would probably be a scotch, and no one appalled by the taste of whisky generally will appreciate scotch. Tragic, that. :[
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Whisky - the devil's urine kHz1000 - 21/10/2011 10:29:39 PM 579 Views
the scots or the irish *NM* Yunalesca - 21/10/2011 10:30:43 PM 107 Views
It was there and it was free. That's all I know. *NM* kHz1000 - 21/10/2011 10:35:28 PM 112 Views
It is obviously the scottish stuff. Stephen - 21/10/2011 10:42:05 PM 283 Views
We have some of the irish stuff at home.....it'll put ya down. *NM* Jeordam - 21/10/2011 10:32:53 PM 101 Views
it'll put hair on your chest random thoughts - 21/10/2011 10:41:34 PM 265 Views
You obviously didn't drink the good stuff. Rebekah - 21/10/2011 11:36:22 PM 293 Views
If they were giving it away free it was probably cheap rubbish. Drink real whisky and you'll see. *NM* Tim - 21/10/2011 11:50:30 PM 116 Views
Whisky = uisce beatha = Water of Life Danu - 22/10/2011 07:08:18 AM 294 Views
Remind me never to come to one of your parties *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 22/10/2011 01:38:52 PM 113 Views
Don't worry. It's against Tim's morals to buy crap whisky. *NM* Rebekah - 24/10/2011 01:23:17 PM 120 Views
Cash bar isn't any more appealing *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 24/10/2011 01:54:47 PM 113 Views
Touché. *NM* Rebekah - 24/10/2011 05:09:56 PM 114 Views
One of the best nights of drinking I've had concluded with whiskey. Ghavrel - 22/10/2011 01:22:40 AM 272 Views
whiskey is heavenly- and tequila is utopia. and that is the fucking truth. *NM* StarrBecca - 22/10/2011 02:27:31 AM 136 Views
I suspect Tim has the right of it. Joel - 22/10/2011 04:28:32 AM 394 Views
Re: I suspect Tim has the right of it. kHz1000 - 23/10/2011 01:01:00 PM 381 Views
You can always go for Everclear; it only smells like ethanol. Joel - 23/10/2011 11:07:21 PM 416 Views
It's truly a wonderful substance. I like bourbon, myself. *NM* Panorphaeon - 22/10/2011 04:34:25 AM 129 Views
it's b/c you mixed too many different liquors. live and learn; *NM* Aeryn - 22/10/2011 08:46:03 AM 111 Views
Yes. This. *NM* Tom - 23/10/2011 04:19:13 AM 113 Views
um, no, water of life, thanks very much. clearly you're either too young or it was cheap whisky *NM* temeraire - 22/10/2011 05:31:50 PM 119 Views
Very early this morning I had a shot of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel. Palatine - 23/10/2011 08:15:18 PM 254 Views
straight is the only way I can drink sour mash *NM* random thoughts - 24/10/2011 03:43:29 PM 110 Views
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