A nice drink.....

[Bentley Bullet]

Wine is for yuppies and sissies and southern softies. Whisky and beer are best.

Meths?

The yuppies in Woodlands drink Meths.

[IDM]

I never in my life thought I would see yuppies and Woodlands used in the same sentence!!

[idler]

Shouldn't you be sipping that wine Bob?
I thought only peasants like me swig wine for fun (Zinfandel usually).
Got a nice Chateau Neuf-du-Pape to go with today's beef though.
That will be sipped. 😉🍷
All the best for the new year.

Idler, only last week I drank the best Zinfandel (or just about any other red) I have ever tasted... Kendall-Jackson - Mendocino County 2010 (California).  Say what you like about the Yanks, they make some fantastic red wines.

I'll give it a try. I like Blossom Hill, Sutter Home, Gallo etc.
Trouble is it goes down like pop. Just back from local though, a pint of Black Sheep Blitzen, Wychwood White Witch, Saltaire Blonde and Harvey's Old Ale.
You'll be pleased to know me and my mate have now solved all problems for both Doncaster Rovers and Bradford City.
Ps there is a very strong rumour that Bradford City are signing Ched Evans next week. Heard it from three or four sources in Bradford, also David Nugent supposedly going there.

[BobG]

Has anybody ever tried something called Haig Club Clubman? Somebody bought me a bottle for Crimbo. Apparently it's a "single grain Scotch whisky" which is sufficently obscure to make me extremely suspicious. It comes in a peculiar blue bottle too.

Why they can't buy me some more Laphroaig I don't know. 90% of the people on this planet know I drink the stuff.

Cheers

BobG

[turnbull for england]

Bought the father in law a bottle for his birthday tomorrow,  still tastes like fisons made it to me

[BobG]

Thanks. You're the first person I've ever heard of who's seen or tasted this Haig stuff. "Single grain" really sounds very suspicious. Why isn't it 'single malt'? Why isn't it 'blended'? What is it?!

BobG

[knockers]

It's funded by David beckham and Simon fuller.
Sounds like more of a mixer drink. Check out their website, bob

[The Red Baron]

Has anybody ever tried something called Haig Club Clubman? Somebody bought me a bottle for Crimbo. Apparently it's a "single grain Scotch whisky" which is sufficently obscure to make me extremely suspicious. It comes in a peculiar blue bottle too.

Why they can't buy me some more Laphroaig I don't know. 90% of the people on this planet know I drink the stuff.

Cheers

BobG

Obviously the adverts with David Beckham worked for someone.

I'd be inclined to hang onto it till some local good cause is looking for tombola prizes. Not for the connoisseur.

[BobG]

Thank you chaps I'd never heard of the stuff. And seeing it described on the label as 'single grain Scotch whisky' struck me as being completely bizarre. I'll leave it where it is then. Out of sight... Not fit to stand along with my collection of good stuff

Cheers Knockers, John

Bob

Later: I've been browsing some whisky websites. There's not very much good being said about the stuff. I think your suggestion, John, is a winner. Oh. I have learned a bit about grain whisky though.

[RobTheRover]

Talking of collections,  I have 2 bottles of Wallace Single Malt Liquer.  Look it up. The recipe was a closely guarded secret,  and some soppy bugger lost it. They tried for a couple of years to recreate it and couldn't so decided to stop trying. This stuff is written about by whiskey lovers with a tear in their eye now. Kind of "I've got half a bottle left,  so I'm allowing myself one glass at Christmas each year"  stuff. I daren't open it.

[Al4475]

The first cold pint of 1879 in 2017 has just landed on the table - very nice it is too!

[RobTheRover]

You in the BVB Al? Will join you in an hour or so.

[Mike_F]

I've ploughed my way through a bottle of Dalwhinnie Winter's Gold over Xmas. Those Highland malts are so easily quaffable, I could happily get through a bottle a week.

I tried a snifter of The Haig Club (original, not the cheaper Clubman variant) at a friend's house on the 28th and I was not at all impressed. It looked a bit like Glenmorangie when I poured it but the aroma and taste were reminiscent of a not particularly good brandy. I wouldn't thank you for a bottle and it retails for around £40!

[Not Now Kato]

Has anybody ever tried something called Haig Club Clubman? Somebody bought me a bottle for Crimbo. Apparently it's a "single grain Scotch whisky" which is sufficently obscure to make me extremely suspicious. It comes in a peculiar blue bottle too.

Why they can't buy me some more Laphroaig I don't know. 90% of the people on this planet know I drink the stuff.

Cheers

BobG

Single Grain doesn't have to be obscure to be special though Bob  This 23 year old Single Grain is suspiciously spectacular 
 

 
 
Though I guess the mass produced stuff like Haig Club would fall into the former category.   

[BobG]

Thanks Kato. I'm learning something here. I'd never come across single grain before so this is all new to me.

BobG