seela
Quark Thief
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Not even a little picture of people picking cherries?
No, sorry! I will support your better inpulses.
*sitting on hands in solidarity*
Well I stopped sitting on my hands. I blame gin.
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Not even a little picture of people picking cherries?
No, sorry! I will support your better inpulses.
*sitting on hands in solidarity*
Well I stopped sitting on my hands. I blame gin.
Do we need a fire extinguisher?
Making carnitas, mango salsa and guacamole and listening to the From dusk till dawn soundtrack so no gin here. Considering a marguarita.

Yes. I mean, it's such an inflammable topic.
Your dinner sounds great. I had leftover thai red curry.

It'll be a long work day, and only a month and a half until freedom. Thinking of maybe ordering 2 nice bottles of whisky for the end of the work contract. Funny thing, you would think drinking mainly whisky makes one a drunk and is expensive, but I drink so little that it's less expensive than beer ha. And lovely deep flavours as well![]()
I've never gotten into gin except for the occasional gin and tonic. I haven't had the chance to try many gins though.
Thinking of getting something by Bowmore and/or Bunnahabhain since I haven't really tried their stuff and I'm an Islay guy. What's your favorite?

From Islay I love Ardbeg the most. Supernova is just exquisite, peaty and full of bang but also round. Currently have open a bottle of Lagavulin quarter cask double matured and that's very good too. Laphroaig is also high on my list. And Bruichladdich, love the saltiness.
I've also developed a taste for Campbeltown whiskies, like Glen Scotia. The style tends to be quite fruity and oily, pretty distinct.
From highlands I've recently enjoyed Deansto's marsala finished whisky.
All in all, I like whisky and now I'm craving it and I really shouldn't, considering I already had a stupidly strong GT yesterday.![]()

We have similar taste I believe. Ardbeg is really good, the 10 year is just classic. And I assume you mean Laphroaig quarter cask? I've never seen a Lagavulin quarter, but whisky options here are quite limited. Only tried the Port Charlotte by Bruichladdich but it's good!
For Highlands I like Oban quite a bit. Marsala finished sounds lovely though. I like some sherry finishes as well. The Glenlivet Nadurra was great for that. Sorry to have aggravated your craving![]()

Oops sorry. I edited that quarter cask in afterwards and put it in the wrong spot. It was supposed to be Lagavulin double matured and Laphroaig quarter cask, exactly as you suspected.
Oban is nice too. And Glenmorangie is one of my faves as well.
I have a skype date to speak various languages tonight so maybe I'll have a bit of whisky to sip while on the call. To get the languages roll off my tongue more easily.![]()
Lagavulin is easily one of my favs. Have two distiller's edition, the 16 and the 8. Didn't like the 8 as much though.
Glenmorangie has been on my "to try" list for a long time! And I hope you have fun on the skype date, and just a weeeeee dram does help loosen up. I honestly don't like drinking enough to be tipsy haha.
Hah! I think I admire the nails more than the whiskey.
I understand both whiskey and whisky spellings are correct. I also think we hashed out this point in a prior year.

I hope you enjoyed that. It is wonderful.
My everyday tipple is Laphroaig either Quarter Cask or 10 year old.
Supercollider: after a nasty project that ate my entire summer a couple of years ago, I treated myself to a bottle of 18 year old Laphroaig, which I shared with the whisky-loving friends I had to miss while i was deep in the job.
Might be a suitable idea forthe end of this mess we're all in...
Aye was exactly thinking about something like that. Getting more Bowmore and/or Bunnahabhain to try. Perhaps it'll be possible to go out to this tiny little whisky bar when there's few people with a good friend of mine. I think they have around 100 whiskies so it's fun to get to try bottles that are too expensive to buy otherwise. Octomore was delicious, but that price point is insane.
Isn't whisky only for scotch while whiskey is everything else?
Mmm, booze talk at 8 am and my mouth is drooling. I think I'd make a very good alcoholic... Is that alarming?
The nails are fun! They're a crazy bright fuchsia, although it doesn't really come across in the pic very well. So bright that it makes me feel a little bit over aware of my hands all the time, which made me think of how this could work nicely in BDSM play, which made me feel all the feels. I keep running the nails all over my body. No one wanted to know that but there it is.
Aaaaaanyway, whisky, whiskey. There's some Irish/Scottish spelling thing going on and you're supposed to use one for the Scottish and one for the Irish forms of liquid heaven, but personally I just use whatever, I'm a rebel like that you know. Besides, what are we supposed to use for the rest of the world? Like stuff from Japan, Sweden or the US?

Those places are the best. Especially if they are the kind where you can tell them a bit of what you already like and they can recommend some new adventures.Aye was exactly thinking about something like that. Getting more Bowmore and/or Bunnahabhain to try. Perhaps it'll be possible to go out to this tiny little whisky bar when there's few people with a good friend of mine. I think they have around 100 whiskies so it's fun to get to try bottles that are too expensive to buy otherwise. Octomore was delicious, but that price point is insane.
Isn't whisky only for scotch while whiskey is everything else?
For the swedish one, feel free to just call it sprit, said with a gothenburgish day labouring at the docks rolling r and drawn out i. I![]()

You philistine!!!! (only joking)
Yeah I tend to use just whisky too when writing. It's quite useful to know when buying stuff though. I tried this juniper-based Swedish whisky. It's very different than the usual peat but it's quite beautiful in its own way.
Oh I know exactly how that sounds from your description! I want to go to Gothenburg now.
PS: 5/12 in the word quiz today, but the correct answers were all words that I knew and was sure of, all my random guesses were wrong.
I've been saying for years that I don't need a sugar daddy, but I do need a whisky daddy who buys me drams of tasty tipple that I can't justify buying myself. 50 euros for 2 cl is kind of a lot, so I need a whisky daddy to give me more whisky experiences.
O, Whisky Daddy, where art thou?
The Mackmyra I guess? It’s not bad at all. I just don’t think it’s good enough to justify the price. I like the artisanal almost artsy thing they’ve got going and their marketing skills are top of the line, but in the end I’d rather let that money go to some of the local micro breweries.
I’d like to try their gin some time though.
I’d happily meet you there.
I was there for a night out last summer. We went to Gyllene Prag and had great czech food and Urquell Tankovna.
The #242? There was one word I’ve honestly never heard before. The one that meant pillow?! Trying to figure the etymology there. I didn’t fall into any of the traps this time though. They are really diabolical with their multiple choice to the point that they sometimes confuse me with words I know.
Can’t help you with the whisky daddy issue. I can however recommend something like this:
http://kopparverketwhisky.se/kommande-provningar/491-kalender-2021.html

Aye was exactly thinking about something like that. Getting more Bowmore and/or Bunnahabhain to try. Perhaps it'll be possible to go out to this tiny little whisky bar when there's few people with a good friend of mine. I think they have around 100 whiskies so it's fun to get to try bottles that are too expensive to buy otherwise. Octomore was delicious, but that price point is insane.
Isn't whisky only for scotch while whiskey is everything else?