Actually Ice chills the liquor and suppresses the flavors. You should never drink good whiskey with ice for the same reason you should never drink good red wine chilled. Bad whiskey and bad red whine you shouldn't drink.
Paul Stenquist wrote: > I always drink blends with ice. The scots drink their whiskey with a > bit of water added. It's basically the same effect. I do generally > drink single malts straight up, but not always. The notion that > scotch has to be drunk "neat" is a pretension that the scots don't > share. > Paul > On Dec 28, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Frits Wüthrich wrote: > > >> On Friday 28 December 2007 02:46, keith_w wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> I remember trying to get a good pour in Australia bars. If one >>>> ordered a scotch on the rocks, the result was wet ice cubes. We >>>> tried >>>> doubles. Not much better. To get a pour anything like one gets in >>>> the >>>> states, the order was "a quadruple scotch on the rocks, please." >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>> I don't know... >>> >>> Sounds much like London bars to me! >>> >>> and that was at LEAST 7 years ago! >>> >>> Yuk! >>> >>> keith whaley >>> >> Why would anuone want to pollute their scotch with ice cubes, or >> anything >> else? >> -- >> Frits Wüthrich >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. >> > > > -- I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world -- Anonymous -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
