The Black Bottle

[Smellydog]

It would be easier to go buy a bottle of bells really!
You enjoy it buddy. But save some of that Jura or taliska for carburettor cleaning!

 

[Bo Diddley]

Where’s the shite and where’s the waste? It’s all gonna end up in the same place.

Ever thought of a career as a poet or rapper?

 

[Foxyboy43]

Ever thought of a career as a poet or rapper?

Now that is very funny, in fact very, very funny.
I now have to remove shredded wheat and milk shrapnel from my Ipad screen!

 

[Stalker62]

But save some of that Jura or taliska (sic) for carburettor cleaning!

£6,500 a bottle.

A much more 'drinkable' £37 a bottle...

£2.90

 

[stubear]

This is basically the booze version of perpetual stew right?

 

[StoatallyDifferent]

It would be easier to go buy a bottle of bells really!
You enjoy it buddy. But save some of that Jura or taliska for carburettor cleaning!

How very dare you Sir! I save the Bells for guests I don’t like and keep it in a single malt bottle

 

[Island]

I can’t remember where I got this idea, but apparently it is a thing.

I’m a disciple of the single malt, this year I’ve been running a black bottle. Every bottle of whisky I buy, a 50ml measure goes into the Black Bottle. No thought goes into it, if I buy it, it goes in the bottle. So the blend is quite… unique.

So far my black bottle contains:

Talisker dark storm
Glenlivet 12
Bowmore 12
Singleton 12
Talisker 10
Highland Park 10
Ben Bracken 19
Jura 14
Big Peat! (Ok, it’s a blend, sue me!)
Cardhu Gold Reserve
Aberlour 12

It actually tastes pretty damn good. Looking to drop a few sherry bombs in there too, think Glenfarclas 15.

Anyone doing anything similar? What’s in yours and how is it? (Picture may be blurry for obvious reasons)

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I am pretty sure we used to do this as youngsters raiding our parents drinks cabinets before going to a party.

It did the job it was intended to do, but I cannot ever remember it being particularly pleasant....

 

[Dave31]

have the true taste of Scotland but cheaper by just buying a bottle of bucky (buckfast)

Had it once. Worst hangover I've ever had...

 

[Sellars]

Where’s the shite and where’s the waste? It’s all gonna end up in the same place.

Obviously I’ve struck a nerve with some of you delicate souls. Whisky is whisky, it’s to be enjoyed. You should try it sometime.

I agree, once you've bought it, it's yours to do with what you will. All the great blends were and are made by folk mixing stuff up and some blends are better than some malts. I appreciate it is all down to personal taste. A suggestion I'd make is to get a small barrel for mixing instead of a bottle then whatever you put in it continues to mature, assuming it last that long. I've been doing that with an oak barrel for 35 years and it gets mostly blends and occasionally malts I'm not enjoying. The resultant blend goes down just fine. PS I'd never put Talisker in the barrel, the 10 year old is a favourite of mine.

 

[VSS]

Used to do similar during the years that I lived on a small offshore island. There were a few self-catering holiday lets, and one unwritten island rule was that departing visitors do not take any surplus food or drink off the island at the end of their stay - they leave it to be shared amongst the island residents. Often there was a drop of scotch left in a bottle for us to enjoy, so we poured them all in to one big bottle which, by the end of the summer season, was pretty full. In the autumn, on the day the last visitors of the year departed, we'd crack open the bottle and have a bit of a session.

 

[Smellydog]

PS I'd never put Talisker in the barrel, the 10 year old is a favourite of mine.

Thought for a second your was going to say it rots the barrel!

 

[camodog]

Perfect for this application.....

 

[Koenig]

By rights this experiment should be a vile brew…..but, it is after all, an experiment. Might turn out OK.

 

[sagittariun]

Where’s the shite and where’s the waste? It’s all gonna end up in the same place.

Obviously I’ve struck a nerve with some of you delicate souls. Whisky is whisky, it’s to be enjoyed. You should try it sometime.

That's my problem, I do try, I do enjoy, all too much

 

[StoatallyDifferent]

I agree, once you've bought it, it's yours to do with what you will. All the great blends were and are made by folk mixing stuff up and some blends are better than some malts. I appreciate it is all down to personal taste. A suggestion I'd make is to get a small barrel for mixing instead of a bottle then whatever you put in it continues to mature, assuming it last that long. I've been doing that with an oak barrel for 35 years and it gets mostly blends and occasionally malts I'm not enjoying. The resultant blend goes down just fine. PS I'd never put Talisker in the barrel, the 10 year old is a favourite of mine.

Great minds think alike. Talisker 10 is also one of my favourite drams.

 

[Island]

Used to do similar during the years that I lived on a small offshore island. There were a few self-catering holiday lets, and one unwritten island rule was that departing visitors do not take any surplus food or drink off the island at the end of their stay - they leave it to be shared amongst the island residents. Often there was a drop of scotch left in a bottle for us to enjoy, so we poured them all in to one big bottle which, by the end of the summer season, was pretty full. In the autumn, on the day the last visitors of the year departed, we'd crack open the bottle and have a bit of a session.

I am assuming that we share the Celtic definition of the above?

Messy was it....?

 

[VSS]

I am assuming that we share the Celtic definition of the above?

Messy was it....?

Messy? I'm afraid you've lost me there.
Session = a bit of a booze up, usually accompanied by spontaneous live music. Are there other definitions?

 

[Miki]

Where’s the shite and where’s the waste? It’s all gonna end up in the same place.

Obviously I’ve struck a nerve with some of you delicate souls. Whisky is whisky, it’s to be enjoyed. You should try it sometime.

I do ....

 

[nic531]

so what mixers do you have with your single malts?
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running away and hiding as fast as i can I like a whisky as long as it not a totally peaty taste, but for my sins i really like Bushmills Port cask from the steamboat collection - so damn smooth

 

[Miki]

so what mixers do you have with your single malts?
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I've sent you a handgrenade small metal mixer bottle in the post, please step into a small place and pull the pin