What is in your cup?

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by cromag

I know exactly how your pool feels!

My sincere sympathies! I hope that you recover as well as it has.

Finishing off the night with more of the faux San Pellegrino. I must hoard my single malts right now, since the pool pump, the new crown, and the new head gasket on the car are all unexpected expenses. What I have must last until the end of January, at least, so I'll be rationing the Talisker.

[pdurrant]

Cold Coke Zero

[CRussel]

Sigh. Just as I thought I'd have a day off with nothing more urgent than dredging the two slabs of bacon I have curing and reading a good book, a job I agreed to do in a moment of weakness, came in, only 3 weeks late. There goes my weekend.

Peet's Major Dickason's Blend coffee.

[Difflugia]

Wagh Bakri Pure Darjeeling

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by CRussel

My sincere sympathies! I hope that you recover as well as it has.

Finishing off the night with more of the faux San Pellegrino. I must hoard my single malts right now, since the pool pump, the new crown, and the new head gasket on the car are all unexpected expenses. What I have must last until the end of January, at least, so I'll be rationing the Talisker.

Sending Santa a letter requesting a Talisker drop in your chimney!

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Sending Santa a letter requesting a Talisker drop in your chimney!

Now THAT'S a Santa I could appreciate! Worst part about this temporary hold on new single malts is that BC just got in a shipment of Octomore 6.1. I'd have tried to convince SWMBO that I was entitled to that for xmas, but the timing just isn't going to work out.

OCTOMORE SUPER HEAVILY PEATED WHISKY

Spoiler:

IT STARTED OUT AS A LATE NIGHT "WHAT IF?" IDEA AFTER A FEW DRAMS. WHAT IF WE DISTILLED THE MOST HEAVILY-PEATED BARLEY HUMANLY POSSIBLE, IN THE TALL, NARROW-NECKED BRUICHLADDICH STILLS?
THE LEGENDARY OCTOMORE, NAMED FOR JAMES BROWN’S FARM ABOVE PORT CHARLOTTE, THIS IS A DRAM THAT HAS TAKEN THE WORLD BY STORM.
The world's most heavily peated single malt has had a brobdingnagian effect on a world aching for a challenge to comfortable convention. An esoteric series of numbered, experimental, mostly very limited releases, has fatally undermined the assumption that the quality of Scotch whisky is simply a function of its age.

Clinging to the hill high above Port Charlotte on the Rhinns of Islay is the enigma that is Octomore Farm, for Octomore too once housed a distillery. Even older than the beautiful village it overlooks, Octomore is a throwback to the days of fierce independence, when self sufficiency was the only option, and the legality of distillation itself still a revolutionary concept.

The men who tended the fires at Octomore would have grown the barley on their land, and cut the peat from their banks. The distillery burst into life in the distant days of 1816, long before the Clyde puffers were bringing coal in from Glasgow, and burnt brightly for a few short years. The spirit they produced would also have been heavily peated, and sold very young to a market keen to experience the unique flavours that emerge from this extraordinary island. We are confident they would have saluted Octomore today. The iron fist in the velvet glove.

THE WORLD'S MOST HEAVILY PEATED WHISKY, THIS IS THE SIXTH EDITION OF THE UBER-EXPERIMENTAL CULT OCTOMORE.

Titanic amounts of peat but with a light, delicate complexity and a beguiling finesse. Young, yet eminently mature, it defies us. It remains an enigma. We embrace that.

Here, we pay tribute to its pedigree, to the land from which it came and the raw materials that gave it life: Octomore Scottish Barley.

We believe challenging convention matters.

CHARACTER
Magnificently muscular. Most heavily peated malts are so dry and phenolic there is little else to spark the senses, not so this young warrior who arouses pride and passion, transporting you to that most famous rock in the Atlantic ocean – Islay – the beating heart of the Hebrides.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Now THAT'S a Santa I could appreciate! Worst part about this temporary hold on new single malts is that BC just got in a shipment of Octomore 6.1. I'd have tried to convince SWMBO that I was entitled to that for xmas, but the timing just isn't going to work out.

OCTOMORE SUPER HEAVILY PEATED WHISKY

Spoiler:

IT STARTED OUT AS A LATE NIGHT "WHAT IF?" IDEA AFTER A FEW DRAMS. WHAT IF WE DISTILLED THE MOST HEAVILY-PEATED BARLEY HUMANLY POSSIBLE, IN THE TALL, NARROW-NECKED BRUICHLADDICH STILLS?
THE LEGENDARY OCTOMORE, NAMED FOR JAMES BROWN’S FARM ABOVE PORT CHARLOTTE, THIS IS A DRAM THAT HAS TAKEN THE WORLD BY STORM.
The world's most heavily peated single malt has had a brobdingnagian effect on a world aching for a challenge to comfortable convention. An esoteric series of numbered, experimental, mostly very limited releases, has fatally undermined the assumption that the quality of Scotch whisky is simply a function of its age.

Clinging to the hill high above Port Charlotte on the Rhinns of Islay is the enigma that is Octomore Farm, for Octomore too once housed a distillery. Even older than the beautiful village it overlooks, Octomore is a throwback to the days of fierce independence, when self sufficiency was the only option, and the legality of distillation itself still a revolutionary concept.

The men who tended the fires at Octomore would have grown the barley on their land, and cut the peat from their banks. The distillery burst into life in the distant days of 1816, long before the Clyde puffers were bringing coal in from Glasgow, and burnt brightly for a few short years. The spirit they produced would also have been heavily peated, and sold very young to a market keen to experience the unique flavours that emerge from this extraordinary island. We are confident they would have saluted Octomore today. The iron fist in the velvet glove.

THE WORLD'S MOST HEAVILY PEATED WHISKY, THIS IS THE SIXTH EDITION OF THE UBER-EXPERIMENTAL CULT OCTOMORE.

Titanic amounts of peat but with a light, delicate complexity and a beguiling finesse. Young, yet eminently mature, it defies us. It remains an enigma. We embrace that.

Here, we pay tribute to its pedigree, to the land from which it came and the raw materials that gave it life: Octomore Scottish Barley.

We believe challenging convention matters.

CHARACTER
Magnificently muscular. Most heavily peated malts are so dry and phenolic there is little else to spark the senses, not so this young warrior who arouses pride and passion, transporting you to that most famous rock in the Atlantic ocean – Islay – the beating heart of the Hebrides.

I treated myself to a bottle of Octomore ... it is truly peated malt heaven ... I sip a wee dram every now and then - it's pricey!

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I treated myself to a bottle of Octomore ... it is truly peated malt heaven ... I sip a wee dram every now and then - it's pricey!

Indeed, it's _quite_ pricey here. Which Octomore do you have? The only one here is the 6.1 Scottish Barley. It's actually fairly young, but I wouldn't let that stop me.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Indeed, it's _quite_ pricey here. Which Octomore do you have? The only one here is the 6.1 Scottish Barley. It's actually fairly young, but I wouldn't let that stop me.

That's what's in my cabinet - aged only 5 years ... but packs quite the punch ... I remember blanching at the check-out counter ... so I have resolved to stretch out my enjoyment of it ...
I hope your fortunes allow you to acquire a bottle this holiday season ...

[GraceKrispy]

Dr. Pepper 10

[CRussel]

Headed off to the office for a couple of days. Tomorrow is a private showing of Star Wars, to which my boss has also invited a couple of hundred local disadvantaged kids, but counts as our official xmas party. Works for me. But meanwhile, I need to do some work around that to deal with some lingering issues and to save me a trip in early January. Might still have to go in by the end of January, but I'm avoiding it as much as possible.

A large mug of Peet's Major Dickason's Blend coffee this morning.

[cromag]

Third mug of tea.

[CRussel]

Cranberry juice.

[wodin]

Peet's Major Dickason's Blend

[CRussel]

This morning was hotel coffee <shudder>, followed by Diet Coke. I feel totally bleh. But it will get better. Just as soon as I get home!