Adopt me please.
How is japanese whiskey ?
I can't get it anywhere here, just the usual suspects and I was always pretty curious.
oh it's very good indeed. I for one was so surprised that it was so good.
Been only drinking Belgian beer, Irish and Scottish whiskey since I found most of the alternatives dreadfully boring in taste and quality I did not give it much thought when the club decided to host a tasting just specifically for Japanese and Chinese.
Really, I had to admit to myself that I was to narrow minded(Man I wish I had come to that realisation a decade prior), soured by some bad examples and judged the distilleries as a whole. The Suntory Yamazaki in that picture is really good. At first I thought it might have been to sweet but the flowery taste and it's lightness grew on me and was definitely something I bought again, even though my elitism nearly took over when I saw it was "just 12" years old. Remember, narrow minded.
I would also like to recommend the Hakushu single malt(also just a babby) A Perfect smoky whisky for beginners, I think, it was smoky but mild enough so that my partner at the time didn't feel like killing themselves ^^
But they had one whisky, a holy grail, well above anything Ardbog(Ardbeg), Well above the normal Lagavuli but a few steps below the Octomore. And it drives me crazy that no one can remember it's name, and the "moon runes" as my friends called it was so complexed that no one bothered to try and remember it, the stroke count was insane, but the servers where really careful with this clay pot and barely even served us a cl worth as it was just for taste.
All I can remember is it's taste, it was really smoky but not in the tarry way, just a sliver of sweetness ran in the background, perhaps cherry, a kinda thick fragrance that stayed in the air and even overpowered the old man sweat, heavily peated perhaps. But no one of us can remember it's name. Not even sure if it was something old or new, if it was just a test or something. Man I really need to suck it up and go talk to the wicked witch and see if she is willing to share the connections she used to get them here.
And now I'm in the mode for some real mescal for some stupid reason. 2 Gusanos worth.
Sorry to bug but the snake whiskey/vine, have you ever tried importing it? Bringing it yourself that is. I have always lost them in the toll :/ Sometimes I get it, but never the ones with snakes -.-