Thread: Scotch/whiskey of the day

The most interesting thing about it is the alleged manliness.

If I'm at a pub or a bar that has a good single malt selection, I'll often buy a whisky but I've never had anyone be like 'woah, is that a whisky?! You're a beast, man!' At best it'll be 'you want a what?' Or 'wtf is that? Are you drinking your weird drinks again?'

Even from so-called whisky drinkers: 'what are you having?'

'Um, I'll have a highland park 12 - I'm sure I saw a bottle.'

'What the hell is that?'

'Uh, whisky...'

'Right, whatever, what's wrong with Bell's and coke?'

Funnily enough, I once had to point out to the guy behind the bar that the bottle had a cork, not a screw cap. That was after I stood there for about a minute while he kept twisting the thing with no success! Shows how little people know even when they work with the stuff!

I also had a friend, who claims to enjoy a good whisk(e)y as his drink of choice, tell me that he'd discovered that Grant's is the best whisky to have with vimto.