Incidentally, as a purist and a pedant, I should point out that the Scots spell their brew without an E. The Irish do use an E, and they were therefore probably the ones who invented bourbon. Of course, I may be wrong.....
I know the North American dialect often tends to deviate from English when it comes to spelling, but usually it is to omit unnecessary letters, not add them.
Coming on to water, whisky is one of the main justifications for buying expensive bottled water, or filtering your own. Here in London the water taste is so awful that it destroys the flavour of anything you put in it, whisky, tea, soup, you name it.
John
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:35:43 -0600, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Forbes"
Anyway, the point is that it is perfectly respectable in hotweather todrink BLENDED whisky mixed with water and ice. But nothing else.
I pass this on from a radio program I heard on Robbie Burns day. The CBC program "Ideas" was interviewing the distillers who make Scotch whiskey, and they all said to a man, that Scotch should be diluted with anywhere from 20% to 40% with water, or a similar volume of ice. They didn't seem to think it mattered much if the whiskey was malt or blended. After that, I started experimenting a bit with the concept. Some whiskeys like to be watered a wee bit, others a wee bit more.
If nothing else, the experimenting is fun.
William Robb
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