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(The Scotsman) Interesting It's painful enough to see boneheads ruin malt whisky with too much water; now scientists warn the distilleries themselves may have several billion gallons too much seawater added   (scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com) divider line 60
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bingethinker [TotalFark] 2007-12-15 09:28:52 PM  
If you put water in a single malt, you should be waterboarded.

 
dj_bigbird [TotalFark] 2007-12-15 09:45:04 PM  
Meh...a tiny bit of water (a few drops per dram) is quite acceptable. At least, that's what the William Grant & Sons brand ambassador (a personal friend of mine) says. In fact, it makes a huge difference in some whiskys to open up the flavor. But a scotch & water is definitely evil.

 
strangeguitar 2007-12-15 10:30:32 PM  
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Doesn't stop him.

 
BooBoo23 [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 12:29:13 AM  
"In the worst-case scenario, they will have to relocate distilleries to higher ground. In other cases they might have to move warehouses where whisky is maturing in a sort of phased withdrawal."

Withdrawing the distilleries will only encourage the global warming.

 
AntonSzandorLaVey [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 05:25:29 AM  
1. Pick anything near coast
2. Write article saying they're in danger due to global warming
3. Profit

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 06:11:48 AM  
AntonSzandorLaVey: 1. Pick anything near coast
2. Write article saying they're in danger due to global warming
3. Profit


Yeah. I'm worried about all the pizza places near the beach. Some of them are pretty good.

 
MudGuster 2007-12-16 06:39:02 AM  
Looks like my good friends Jack, Evan, Johnny & Jimmy will be with me 'til the bitter end.

/helluva way to go tho

 
nick4753 [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 06:47:25 AM  
BooBoo23: Withdrawing the distilleries will only encourage the global warming.

Win

 
xebeche_tzu 2007-12-16 06:50:17 AM  
Had some of this tonight. Simply amazing stuff. I've eaten honeycomb straight from the hive, and this is what it tastes like. Switched back to the Johnny Walker Black (it's too sweet to get drunk on) and then started brushing this stuff on some chicken I was bbqing. The neighbors came over. From both sides.

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Cornwell [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 06:53:04 AM  
dj_bigbird: Meh...a tiny bit of water (a few drops per dram) is quite acceptable. At least, that's what the William Grant & Sons brand ambassador (a personal friend of mine) says. In fact, it makes a huge difference in some whiskys to open up the flavor. But a scotch & water is definitely evil.

If you're drinking Talisker, that's a good idea. If you're drinking Glenkinchie, don't even botter.

Some whiskys open up quite a lot under heat as well. Serving something like Cragganmore in a glass heated to roughly 50 celcius, does miracles for its taste.

The true crime is to bring a cube of ice within throwing distance of anything but that corn-moonshine called bourbon.

 
MudGuster 2007-12-16 06:55:30 AM  
It takes a whole lot of liquer to like her,
that's why I drink all the time.
When I'm all liquered up, I like her just fine!

/or was that lick her?

 
slave2grind 2007-12-16 06:59:13 AM  
OH NOES!!!
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!


/suckers

 
No Catchy Nickname 2007-12-16 07:18:45 AM  
"Others like Bunnahabhain have got a beach right in front of them and could also be in danger of flooding.

I love this whisky, but it's a bugger to try ordering after you've had a few.

 
beanx [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 07:27:58 AM  
I just came to say that i LOVE scotch.

Springbank, particularly.

 
ArtemisGoldfish 2007-12-16 07:39:00 AM  
It's not Brews, It's GROG.

 
r1niceboy 2007-12-16 07:40:10 AM  
A teaspoonful and a half is ideal for the peatier malts, and some of the lowlands malts dont need any water. I once read of a distillery being engulfed by fire and the firemen using so much water to put it out they flooded the cellars. None of the casks were breached. I'm not worried about flooding, for their cellared casks. some might not be moved without damaging the aging, which would be sad.

As long as the Barr's Irn Bru factory remains safe I'll be happy.

www.rampantscotland.com

 
Whatthefark 2007-12-16 07:47:29 AM  
There is nothing wrong with adding a little water to a single malt. It can enhance the flavor of some. Always use cold to room temp filtered or pure mineral water, never tap water. Ice is a personal preference, I don't like it in my single malts.

When you add water (preferably at room-temperature) in different stages, you'll find that some single malts are best experienced neat, while others require different amounts of water to flourish. Some malts require no more than a teardrop, while others only open up after nearly being drowned.

 
Goofball_Jones 2007-12-16 07:56:26 AM  
xebeche_tzu: Had some of this tonight. Simply amazing stuff. I've eaten honeycomb straight from the hive, and this is what it tastes like. Switched back to the Johnny Walker Black (it's too sweet to get drunk on) and then started brushing this stuff on some chicken I was bbqing. The neighbors came over. From both sides.

What an interesting and engaging story. You should be a writer.

So how did it end? We're all dying to know!

 
Farker Soze 2007-12-16 08:01:07 AM  
I like mixing a shot of single malt in a glass of Dr. Pepper.

 
xebeche_tzu 2007-12-16 08:10:12 AM  
Goofball_Jones
So how did it end? We're all dying to know!


Sarcasm detected. They complained about the noise last night, ate my chicken, drank my scotch, smoked my weed, and went home.

 
Nanookanano 2007-12-16 08:22:16 AM  
Scottish news media on global warming:

Distilleries threatened!

Oh yes, also peoples homes and land - yadda, yadda, yadda.


/you just can't make this stuff up, folks

 
love-m'-beer [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 08:35:02 AM  
Scotch? Meh.

What about real whisky?

www.readeroffers.ie

 
walnuts55 [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 08:49:46 AM  
The only friend a good scotch needs is two ice cubes.

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 09:06:16 AM  
walnuts55: The only friend a good scotch needs is two ice cubes.

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kroonermanblack 2007-12-16 09:16:31 AM  
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: walnuts55: The only friend a good scotch needs is two ice cubes.

Allright, I'll admit it, I laughed at that.

 
PortWineBoy 2007-12-16 09:20:15 AM  
love-m'-beer: Scotch? Meh.

What about real whisky?


That would be a whiskey

 
PortWineBoy 2007-12-16 09:21:47 AM  
walnuts55: The only friend a good scotch needs is two ice cubes.

with friends like you, who needs enemies?

No ice cubes!!

 
ph0rk 2007-12-16 09:22:56 AM  
Cornwell:

The true crime is to bring a cube of ice within throwing distance of anything but that corn-moonshine called bourbon.


Talk smack about bourbon at your peril, carpetbagger.

 
worthlessjuan 2007-12-16 09:30:55 AM  
Un-Farking-believable . . . . someone connected the global warming myth into single-malt scotch . . . .

Islay, an island, maker of goodness, global warming my ass.

 
Stryyder 2007-12-16 09:32:31 AM  
These are the kind of articles farkers will be bringing out 20 years from now when they start saying the next ice age is coming again....

 
lostcat 2007-12-16 09:33:36 AM  
That headline made my grammar bone ache.

 
TownDrunk 2007-12-16 09:37:58 AM  
Single Malts seem to open up when mixed with gatorade.

 
JeffMD 2007-12-16 09:39:40 AM  
I prefer something a little thicker anyways..

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frangelico_y_flamingo 2007-12-16 09:40:47 AM  
AntonSzandorLaVey: 1. Pick anything near coast
2. Write article saying they're in danger due to global warming
3. Profit


Agreed.

Everybody panic! Only twenty years left to install a pump in the cellar!

 
ilxixiixs 2007-12-16 09:48:10 AM  
Now that it's personal, I'm like all against global warming too. Jeebus, don't fark with the whiskey.

Let us prey (on those less worthy),

O almighty Al what would you have us do? Lead us to the Utopia that you and your party of the heavenly host has always had in mind for us. Deliver us from Bush and bring us to a world without sea water.

Ahem,

 
yakmans_dad 2007-12-16 10:23:52 AM  
You can actually do some math here.

There's an estimated 20m rise of sea level from the melting of Greenland and the West Antarctic ice shelf. Melt times are currently estimated at multiple hundreds of years. But make it 1000 to make it easy to calculate. 20m x 100 = 2000 cm. 2000 cm/1000 = 2cm per year.

Some Hebridean islands are rocky. Some have fields that encroach right on the beach. 2cm per year would be about 8" of elevation in a decade. Some of those island distilleries will be menaced soon. 20-30 years. Others could possibly outlast the popularity of Scotch whisky.

 
signaljammer 2007-12-16 10:27:52 AM  
Branch water from a limestone environment for me, thanks.

 
flaming99 2007-12-16 10:32:06 AM  
As scotch lover, people like subbie really cheese me off. If I pay $50 for a bottle of Balvenie I will drink it any way I damn well please and who are you to tell me what it the 'right way'?

Whiskey snobs are more pathetic than wine snobs.

 
Pegasus_CAG 2007-12-16 10:36:57 AM  
Well, it's a good thing that the Bourbon distilleries are safely in central Kentucky then.

 
illiterate_chimp 2007-12-16 10:50:09 AM  
fi.somethingawful.com
Global Warming: now its personal

 
mossman1 2007-12-16 10:52:07 AM  
Ardbeg! Bottled smoke ftw.

 
illiterate_chimp 2007-12-16 10:56:59 AM  
love-m'-beer 2007-12-16 08:35:02 AM
Scotch? Meh.

What about real whisky?


Sucks to your Irish whiskey.
And sucks to your asmar piggy.

SCOTLAND FOREVER!

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 11:00:56 AM  
PortWineBoy: with friends like you, who needs enemies?

No ice cubes!!


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Renaissance Man 2007-12-16 11:32:17 AM  
Depending on the Scotch, adding 1/3 to 1/2 as much water makes a world of difference.

After all, unless you're drinking cask strength, your whisky has already been cut with water.

Repeat after me: water for scotch, ice for bourbon/George Dickel.

/unless you don't trust the bartender to get it right. Then you drink it neat.
//mmmm whisk(e)y

 
keiverarrow [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 11:55:41 AM  
that article was stupid

 
mybad 2007-12-16 12:30:55 PM  
Where do I send all my money? this sounds serious. Can I just pick my favorite distillery and send them a little to move it back a few feet?

 
DangerousDave 2007-12-16 12:51:21 PM  
Renaissance Man: Ice is for cheap bourbon like Jim Beam or Old Grand Dad. Good bourbon should be drunk in the same manner as single malt scotch. Putting an ice cube into a glass of Jefferson Reserve should be criminal. Weller and the other 107 proof bourbons do well with a small amount of spring water.

I like to carry Makers Mark on hiking trips. It's quite tasty with a little bit of filtered spring water.

 
Jon Snow [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 01:18:38 PM  
Cornwell: The true crime is to bring a cube of ice within throwing distance of anything but that corn-moonshine called bourbon.

Small batch, aged, straight rye bourbon is one of the best things our country has ever produced.

 
memilkisyummy 2007-12-16 01:27:24 PM  
Has anyone ever had Buckshot? They stopped making it but damn, that was some good whiskey. I'm not a big whiskey drinker but I would drink that.

My grandfather lived on that stuff and was quite ticked off when it went away. He stocked up from every liquor store and distributor who would sell him their remaining stock.

 
chenry 2007-12-16 02:18:33 PM  
As long as Obans survives, I'm fine!

 
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