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Skriven 2009-01-19 13:44:03 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 19788 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: Re: scotch
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-=> Quoting hap newsom to Nancy Backus on 17 Jan 09  08:56:08 <=-

 hn> Hey Nancy!
 -> 
 ->  ->  hn> You lucky rascal! I usually look for a new scotch to taste
 ->  ->  hn> at a bar, if I like it, I'll go looking for a bottle. I
 ->  ->  hn> need to start keeping a log book of my tastings though!
 ->  -> 
 ->  -> I'd guess that would be a good idea, unless your memory is a lot better
 ->  -> than mine... ;)  Especially if you taste a number of them... :)
 ->  ->
 ->  hn> I try to! I tend to lke Islay malts quite a bit
 ->  hn> and they are from near the sea and have 
 ->  hn> that influence. 
 ->  
 -> I thought I remembered that you liked those.. :)
 -> 
 hn> Indeed I do! (grin)
 
 ->  ->  -> With two brothers willing to be adventurous, and share with 
 ->  ->  -> me, I can leave more of the risks to them... (G)  I also let
 ->  ->  -> them buy the higher priced spreads...  (G)
 ->  ->  hn> Smart girl! I'm not that lucky!
 ->  -> There are a FEW advantages to being the oldest in a large family... ;)
 ->  hn> Hey, I'm the oldest in a large family too!
 -> How many in yours?  Eight kids here, six girls, two boys (#6 and 8).
 ->
 hn> Not THAT big! (grin) 4 kids, but my mom
 hn> is one of 13 kids, so I have always had
 hn> tons of relatives! (grin)

4 kids isn't all that big... although I'll admit, with today's even
smaller families, 4 or 5 sure seems bigger than it used to... :)  I also
have to admit that your mom's family has us beat... (G)  Both my parents
were the oldest of three, but my dad's mom was the oldest of eight, all
girls.  The other 3 families were 5 or less...  Go back farther, though,
and there are a number of really large families, like your mom's and
bigger...  (G)

 ->  hn> But I live on the west coast, they all
 ->  hn> live on the east coast!
 -> Ah, that could be a deterrent...  We're all on the east coast, though
 -> across a wide segment thereof, as the older of the brothers is down on
 -> the border of Virginia and Tennessee...  only one of the siblings not
 -> here is across the sea in Great Britain, so we rarely see her.
 ->
 hn> I have a sister in Knoxville, and one
 hn> in South Carolina. I'm on the west
 hn> coast and quite happy with the miles
 hn> in between me and them (grin)

Hmmm...  ;)   We've generally all gotten along pretty well... and enjoy
spending time together when we can work it out.  We do try to all get
together for Christmas (not all can make it, though), and likewise, for
a week of camping together in the summer....  Gives the cousins a chance
to know each other better, too...  Now that the kids are growing up to
have families of their own, we've got 4 generations getting together...
and LOTS of people...  (G)
 
 ->  ->  hn> Usually does! (grin) Have you tried Laphroaig yet?
 ->  -> Not sure.  I had a friend do a private tasting for me, and that could
 ->  -> have been one of them...  But, since I didn't keep a log of MY
tastings,
 ->  -> I really don't remember.... only thing I remember from it was that
 ->  -> nothing I tasted was any better than my Macallan...  (BG)  Is that one
 ->  -> of the peaty ones?
 ->  hn> Pretty much, smokey and peaty with overtones of the sea!
 -> I thought so.  Since I really am not fond of peaty at all (or smokey
 -> either, for that matter), I probably wouldn't care much for it.  Given
 -> the chance to taste, I might still do, though... :)
 ->
 hn> You'll never know if you don't try em! 

Maybe... although peaty scotch has become a bit more like beer, so far
anything I've tried I haven't liked...  I've wondered if that might be
part of what contributed to my not liking the blended ones...
 
 -> Once when I was in Scotland, I bought a map that showed all the
 -> different distilleries and went somewhat into which single malts were
 -> produced where... still have it somewhere... :)
 -> 
 hn> When I was in Scotland I tried to drink
 hn> the distillaries dry...never managed though
 hn> (at least as much as I can remember!)

I imagine you didn't...  they're still producing...  (G)
But, I see you put forth a mighty manly effort!  :)

ttyl         neb

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