I saw this one in Tesco at £10.48 a bottle. That is definitely 'redeye' price. It's cheaper than Bells, and Bells is worse than Toilet Duck. You heard it here first - whisky is cheaper than toilet cleaner. Yes, it's an outright lie, but so is 'alcohol is cheaper than water' (bottled water is 15p for 2 litres, find me any sort of booze cheaper than that and you're my friend for life). and 'passive smoking is real'. I expect the Mail will soon headline 'Whisky cheaper than toilet cleaner' - although the Mirror might get it first. They've visited.
At that price I thought I'd give it a go. It's a cheap blend so it won't come close to the Ardbeg or the Singleton or their like. It's not bad though. It doesn't have the 'burn' of Bells and it's really quite pleasant.
I'd put it alongside Black Bottle, Whyte and MacKay and Grant's Ale Cask. If you fancy a tipple and don't want to lash out on the ever-increasing prices of the malts, Clan MacGregor is pretty good.
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I can still remember the afterburn of my first ever swig of Bells, mind you, I can also remember my first few days of smoking tobacco when it actually felt good rather than just quelling the need for a cigarette.
I have given up buying whisky for home consumption, as I found one glass all too easily led to drinking half the bottle. But, when I did buy it, I always found Stewart's Cream of the Barley a very smooth and palatable blend.
Banned - I have to admit, I still smoke because I like it. My experience was the other way around.
I used to smoke small cigars when camping to keep the flies away. Then I thought I'd try cheaper cigarettes. I bought a pack of ten from a machine outside Local Shop (in those days it was out all night and nobody cared who used it).
I smoked one, stuck the rest in a dry-stone wall, lit them and watched them burn away.
Then I discovered roll-ups and moved on. I still don't like the readymades.
Curmudgeon - the first glass destroys your self-control so it's best not too have too much in the house at any one time.
Stewart's Cream of the barley is a favourite of Smoky-Drinky nights. Interesting square bottle, too.
Remember this?
Government Health Warning
Due to increasing products liability litigation, alcohol producers have accepted the Medical Association's suggestion that the following warning labels be placed on all alcohol containers:
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a wanker.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SMASH YOUR HEAD IN.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that ex-lovers really are waiting for you to phone them at 4 in the morning.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your trousers.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with members of the opposite sex without spitting.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you have mystical Kung Fu powers.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary whose species and/or name you can't remember.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, more handsome and smarter than some really, really big guy named FRANZ.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe you are invisible.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.
WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause an influx in the time-space continuum,whereby small (and sometimes large) gaps of time may seem to literally disappear.
This is so close to believeable that it's scary
http://manwiddicombe.blogspot.com/2010/05/planning-to-drink-makes-you-utterly.html
Report in todays Telegraph (thursday) that those who drink two to tree glasses of wine in the evening are healthier than teetotallers, no surprises there, except that the report was allowd to surface.
I'd put it alongside Black Bottle, Whyte and MacKay and Grant's Ale Cask.
In that case it might make a decent "camping whisky" and so I will have to give it a go.
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