I do enjoy a bit of Laphroaig (and can get a bottle of cask strength for about £25 Tesco) but on the whole I prefer Irish whiskey to Scotch. Bushmills or a bottle of Redbreast are my tipples of choice if I can get them.
Also, I think Absinthe is an exception to the general rule that you should drink good spirits straight. That stuff was made to be diluted about 3/4, 4/5 with water and the whole sugar thing. I've drunk quite a bit of it (hooray never having a historic ban on it) and there's an interesting variety, especially as the historic producing countries in Europe are lifting their bans and production is restarting. There's a massive difference between the French and Bohemian style but there's also Swiss absinthes (closer to French but not quite the same) as well as (generally a bit crappy) Spanish Absenta. However drinking the good stuff is really expensive and the really cheap stuff is generally a bad idea (especially if you're in Prague or somewhere and thus it hasn't been checked for export). Hell a large part of the reason it was banned in the first place was because so much of the stuff being sold in France had Meths or industrial dyes in it to save money.
Also fun trivia, a large factor in Absinthe being banned in the states was that it was acceptable for women to drink, hence it destroyed the moral character of the nation.
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I smuggled some 160 proof Spanish Absinthe into the country a couple of days ago. I think I'll stick it in a cabinet and try and forget about it, I'm not ready to go blind just yet.
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I smuggled some 160 proof Spanish Absinthe into the country a couple of days ago. I think I'll stick it in a cabinet and try and forget about it, I'm not ready to go blind just yet.
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Tesco) but on the whole I prefer Irish whiskey to Scotch. Bushmills or a bottle of Redbreast are my tipples of choice if I can get them.