Whisky with kimchi opened my nose

@NilsG My daughter hosted a Christmas eve gathering and she has a Japanese couple attend as well as a lady from Korea. It triggered my recollectionof my fondness for kimchi from my association with a number of Korean families, well over a decade ago.(My wife shared that there is a mason jar still around. It would be 10 years old, so I'm not sure if it still safe to try.)

Anyway, this a wonderful suggestion you have here, especially when a person is congested. The affect on whiskey tasting, I can't comment on. But I know where I can get my hands on some homemade kimchi. :0

@NilsG balvenie caribean cask goes well with green grapes and sausages. ^_^ i gotta try kimchi with scotch soon. but you know what would be awesome? if we were at an all-you-can-eat korean bbq place, munching on all types of food with japanese whisky!

@SlowPuffs I'd expect kimchi to go well with very smooth whiskies, a heavy smoky one would probably more compete with the spicyness rather than to complement it. But I'm just speculating, I haven't tried the combination again.

@BlisterOnABlaster dear friend! That would definitely be heaven for the taste buds. Unfortunately I have yet to find a Korean BBQ place with a good selection of whiskies, they usually just have that über-cheap stuff that's basically bitter vodka with caramel here. What about America?

By the way, I'm sure Balvenie sits nice with both grapes and sausages, but do grapes and sausages go well with each other?

@Nilagang baka,, i don't think green grapes and sausages go hand in hand. i usually have my whisky neat. but in a whisky event that i went to, there was food and what can i say....i'm a little food monster when it comes to drinking whisky. i just want to eat everything...juicy greasy burrito? DONE! . in this case, i saw some grapes and sausages on the platter, so i popped a grape in my mouth...sipped my whisky. then i took a swig of water and popped a sausage in my mouth (hmm that doesn't sound right) and sip my whisky...

as far as korean bbq and bad booze? my dear, disgooostinheimer, why don't you hide your ardbeg oooooo-gah-dal in your socks? roll like a ninja , man!

inconceivable (in reference to the film, a princess bride)!! connosr will not let me like my own comment!! ^_^ i suppose it refuses to let me honor my hood-ratty ways of smuggling good alcohol inside places. hmm

@BlissInABarrel They don't let you like your own comment, but I sure as hell can. ^^ I had to look up umami, but after reading the description, I think the word savoury is an adequate translation? Or am I wrong? Didn't know kimchi either, but Korean kitchen is not easily available here in Belgium to my knowledge.

I thought you have to learn to like yourself before you can like someone else...if you can't like your own posts then...wait, why do you try to like your own post hahaha?

I can roll like a Nilnja, but smuggling Ardbeg in my socks? I haven't reached that level of sneakyness.

Hello Master @Fons , I believe the term "umami" was introduced to USA in 2004. Umami is a term from Japan that is described as the 5th flavor, which means "savory" (yes, just like you said, boss!), meaty, etc. People state that your nose can detect over 10,000 different aromas, but in terms of sensing them on your tongue it is limited in comparison to your nose and it varies from culture to culture. the dutch have the term "hogo,' which means "rotting wood." then you go to somewhere in asia and they have descriptions for spice and heat. of course, the US government doesn't constitute heat and spice as flavour because different receptors of the brain respond to them different than sweet, sour, etc.

hope i'm not being redundant as you may have known all of these already. if so, oopsy, if not...then uh..i hope you found this interesting. ^^ cheerios. BTW, i always find your comments delightful. you are so funny! ^^