Firing squad

@Wodha Great discussion I'm going to go with Octomore. Yea make ths state pay for it, I'll go out with a bang. :)

Geez, @Wodha! What manner of Procrustean bed have you here constructed?!?

I see two approaches one can take here: 1) either drink something so sublime that your body dematerialises into the ethers prior to the bullets hitting you, or 2) drink something so foul that you wish you were dead, and the bullets would be inconsequential compared to the pain of the whisky. In the former case I would drink 1967 40 yo Duncan Taylor Springbank malt. In the latter case, choose your own Poison! For me almost any heavily over-oxidised crap would do.

Haha! Ok @Victor I'll approach this the same way. 1) probably Yamazaki 25. 2) Suntory Red, easily the most vile whisky I have come across yet!

Interesting scenario. A whole bottle? I would definitely want my whisky journey to end with a bang and not a whimper, so I would want something that doesn't need much time to open up. I also wouldn't anything too complex, as the proposed situation itself would not be conducive to a thoughtful tasting.

Like the death row inmates who order fried chicken and mashed potatoes for their last meal, I think that I would want something not too complicated but comforting. Laphroaig Quarter Cask it is.
(But Wodha: can I have a meal as well? If so, I also want a three pound lobster.)

Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch 3 for me please. Best whisky I have had to date.

The most potent liquid laxative known to mankind...If "the man" is gonna take me out - then I'm gonna make a big mess for them to clean up - lol.

I'm afraid that if I chose some "dream dram" -- say, a 1972 Brora or a 40-year-old Glenfarclas -- I'd break down like Susan Hayward and start bawling "I want to live!"

So I might go with a Loch Dhu and say, "Let's just get it the hell over with."

"To drown in a vat of whisky. Death, where is thy sting?" - W.C. Fields

You guys are killing me. lol

(30 year old Jura)

@Wodha: An easy one for me! 1956 Talisker 18yo. As far as I could glean, not many bottles and they were all the so-called 'Pints' (actually 13 1/3 fl.oz. 1/2 bottles or 375ml. in today's jargon) -This is my 'Holy Grail Whisky' and 2 half bottles lasted me a very long time.

I'd like to see it again, you bet, but that wont happen, now! I've got some Samoroli Cask Springbank, though; is it OK to BYO. to the big day?

I'm not partial to really really old scotches. They usually get too wood-intensive for me. This said, I would probably order the Glenfarclas 40 if it was the last thing I would ever taste.

To go along with my bottle of scotch, I would ask for a pitcher of filtered water, along with a glass and a teaspoon. I always do like having a nice room temperature water with my scotch. I would add a little of it to the scotch, and I would also enjoy drinking it on the side.

@FMichael don't really see the angle. your mess will happen naturally anyway after you pass...literally.

as for the question, think I'll take a Balvenie 40 -- only since I've never had it. But I'd take a Macallan 18 for a cheaper (sort of) sure bet.

I went to hit thumbs up for @onibubba but accidentally hit the thumbs down. I would also go the balvenie tun 1401. Iv only had batch 5 but they all seem to be of the highest quality based on reviews, so I will be flexible and say any batch would do..

@jnaks Eventually it does - however I prefer more of an immediate effect.

Ah what the hell, If I'm going out I'll go out in big way and say Dalmore Trinitas. So I can go out with the most over-hyped and over-priced bottle.

Without ever tasting it, at 71,4% George T Stagg should at least cut the nerves a bit

Since I enjoy Laphroaig, Im thinking maybe the 18 or the 25 year variant. A smokey way in for a smokey way out.

I'd have to fire up some recently tasted old rip van winkle 15 again it was amazing unlike the death that would follow in @Wodha example

My dear departed grandmother's new make eau-de-vie... that stuff could pickle a cadaver...considering the circumstances, totally appropriate.

Something cask strength with a very high ABV, like Octomore or A'bunadh. Maybe if you had enough good booze in your veins it would overpower the chemicals they shoot into you and you'd live to drink again after you got rid of the massive hangover you'd have. Might not work so well if they were frying you though.

Kilchoman 50 years old!

I would have to end it in style! A nice old, well aged Macallan or Highland Park, with a succulent juicy steak/lobster dinner, with all the fixins. I would likely drink the entire bottle, get nice and numb before the painful infliction of the firing squad. They can burry me with my hands grasping the bottle. I'm sure you all can tell that I have given this some detailed thought! :)

@OldJas brilliant!

I'd have to tell the warden (Worden?) to dispatch one of the guards to a small farm south of Luxembourg (city) to procure a bottle of homemade Framboise. It and a dozen appropriate, small glasses would need to rest in a freezer for a few days. A fresh, frosty glass for each shot of the elixir.

Reckon--due to the heinousness of my crime--I know where I'd be headed next. One large exhale upon my arrival there should be sufficient to fuel the fires for a good long time.