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By @Nozinan @Nozinan on 20th Jan 2017, show post

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@paddockjudge
paddockjudge replied

@Robert99 I believe an honest pot still rye can win over the toughest of single malt snobs.

6 years ago 2Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

Still recovering from Saturday night's marathon, and on call tonight, and tomorrow it's dinner at my mom's so not sure when my next dram will be. I was just logging 2 samples that @Talexander was kind enough to drop off yesterday afternoon - when my brain was niot yet up to the task. One of them is Johnnie Walker Island Green. Now I'm not known to be a JW fan but I do like the Green and I've been thwarted several times in my attempt to get a bottle of this to try so I'm very thankful... and that is what tonight's dram would be if I were having a dram.

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Robert99
Robert99 replied

@Nozinan I am with you brother, still recovering.

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

Annual winter staff party. I saw a couple of Scotches behind the bar that looked interesting (but nothing in the "must try" category). Had club soda, then water, then something that tasted like green tea.

Got stopped by the R.I.D.E. programme on the way home.

Lucky me...

6 years ago 2Who liked this?

@BlueNote
BlueNote replied

@Nozinan 'Tis the season. Best behaviour called for.

6 years ago 0

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

Tim Horton's Coffee.

Just discovered that in response to the increase in minimum wage in Ontario, the company is cancelling paid breaks and scaling back employee benefits (all while raising prices last year).

Too bad I can't use scotch as an eye opener in the am...

6 years ago 2Who liked this?

@paddockjudge
paddockjudge replied

@Nozinan .... and their tens of millions of takeout cups are not recyclable.... but their paper cups do make for a great disguise when being a Connosrist at public gatherings. I have a sleeve of them in my vehicle.

6 years ago 3Who liked this?

@OdysseusUnbound

@Nozinan I agree with the sentiment, but I believe it is the ONE location in Cobourg that is doing that whole “screw our employees” thing. I could be mistaken though.

6 years ago 0

@BlueNote
BlueNote replied

@paddockjudge Good idea. Much more discreet than a fancy titanium hip flask. innocent

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@BlueNote
BlueNote replied

Juiceless January. No booze for a month.

6 years ago 0

@OdysseusUnbound

Yeah, I can’t (won’t?) go totally boozeless, but cutting back for sure.

6 years ago 0

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

Any whisky tonight.

Just finished a long week. Still have to chart.

And of course, I have caught my daughter's cold... no smelling or tasting this weekend barring a miracle.

6 years ago 0

@Hewie
Hewie replied

@Nozinan tough week - upward and onward from here. Maybe a medicinal dram is in order when you are able.

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@Hewie maybe Sunday night, to celebrate the last day I own my old house. Or Monday, after work, when I see the proceeds in my account...

6 years ago 2Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

Gotta cold. Can't really smell.

If I were drinking something it would need to be fitting to celebrate / comemmorate the last day we own our old house. Just finished cleaning it up and taking everything out today.

Lots of memories... sniff (that's my cold).

I think it would be Legacy...

6 years ago 2Who liked this?

@RianC
RianC replied

Barely touched a drop all weekend due to heartburn! Annoying, but I'm sure my liver will be glad of the respite.

6 years ago 0

@cricklewood
cricklewood replied

As per my post in resolution, I've donned my running tights and hit the snowy pavement, cut down portions and carb intake. I've decided to save my dramming for the weekends for now until I'm well ensconced in my routine.

Translation, I'm tired, crabby, always hungry, my legs are stiff and the cabinet whispers sweet nothings everytime I walk by.

6 years ago 3Who liked this?

@BlueNote
BlueNote replied

@cricklewood I know how you feel, brother. I'm looking forward to February 1st.

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@cricklewood
cricklewood replied

@BlueNote, true I shouldn't complain, some, like yourself, have taken a whole month.

Courage mon ami!

6 years ago 0

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

Friday night, no whisky since Sunday. I was really looking forward to sharing a dram with my uncle at his place tonight, but his doctor has told him to avoid alcohol for a couple of weeks (some tests?). By the time I get home, I'm exhausted. I'm now on 1/4 the am caffeine that I usually drink - tomorrow is my last day then nothing for 3 weeks minimum. I find I get sleepy earlier in the evening. So I just don't have the energy to pour myself a dram and drink it.

If this doesn't solve itself soon, I may have to rethink weaning myself from caffeine.

6 years ago 0

TheHolyDram replied

On my side of spectator, there is dominant factors for what I choose or don't. Just like the price and the content or availability. And for that matter it makes the choices even more difficult because there is a lot of good one in the same price bracket. I am not talking about my utmost dream liquid that I can't afford but only what suit for a day dram. I'm simply not having JWB

6 years ago 0

@MadSingleMalt

Laphroaig 18. I just gave away the last dram or two in the heel to a friend who was lamenting its retirement.

6 years ago 0

@fiddich1980
fiddich1980 replied

Happy Chinese New Year to those members who celebrate it on this site. I've been tempted to pick up a bottle of Moutai for the occasion. However, when I think back nostalgic to my early drinking days and my experience with Moutai. I know that somethings should never be revisited.

6 years ago 2Who liked this?

@fiddich1980
fiddich1980 replied

@MadSingleMalt From memory: A gift from my elder brother The pretty present box, red silk lining, inset with a grey clay bottle, label with a red star, black an yellow strips and two metal cups set on three legs. Colour: clear liquid Nose: petrol fumes, jet fuel, pure alcohol Taste: bad Chinese cooking wine, mineral spirits (used to clean poly urethane) kerosene fuel Finish: Hot hot, burning throat, chemical fumes, warming stomach (not in a good way). More like the lining of your stomach is being desolved.astonished

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@MadSingleMalt

That good, huh? wink

Bad Chinese cooking wine sounds like the clincher to me!

6 years ago 0

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