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Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Is that Penderyn? I have a bottle myself, very nice it is too.

 
Silas



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes, thats the stuff, needs a drop of water in it!

 
Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Silas wrote:
Yes, thats the stuff, needs a drop of water in it!


Absolutely, my preferred way of drinking whiskey, although I used to be an ice man.

 
Silas



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'll pretend I didn't read that bit about the ice!

 
Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

used to , quite some time ago before I developed a palate, and was still drinking cold tea.

 
Silas



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I notice you spelled it Whiskey, which I would normally assume to be correct as only whisky from scotland is spelt without the 'e'. However, I notice on the bottle and blurb on the welsh stuff is is also spelt whisky.

Any ideas?

 
Gervase



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I had some Welsh single malt once which was called metheglin rather than whisk(e)y. They probably put the 'e' in to piss off the Jocks and to hit the American market!

 
Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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Whisky may mean Scotch whisky to most of the world's population, but it is often wrongly substituted by the spelling whiskey, or even mis-spelt: wiskey, wisky. Much of this misunderstanding originates from the fact that there are a number of countries that distil their own whiskies (or whiskeys). Scotch whisky is by far and away the largest selling and most renowned; however, local spirits distilled in Ireland, Japan, Canada, America and India are also known as whiskey (whisky).

Scotch Whisky is always spelt without an 'e', be it Single Malt Whisky or Blended Scotch Whisky On occasions, particularly in the United States, Blended Scotch Whiskies will be shortened and asked for as Scotch.

Japanese Whisky, Canadian Whisky and Indian Whisky are also spelt without an 'e'. It is believed that Japanese Whisky is spelt this way as a result of Japan's first whisky distillers learning their trade in Scotland, in the early 1920's, thereafter adopting the Scottish convention. Canadian and Indian Whiskies, it is thought, in a similar vein embraced the spelling when they were part of the British Empire.

Historically, Irish Whiskey distillers inserted an 'e' to their spelling to differentiate their product from Scotch Whisky. American Whiskeys, both Bourbon and Rye, have in general taken-up the insertion of an 'e'. Though, as you would expect in this vast country with much Scottish ancestry, there are some distillers whom prefer to adopt the Scottish practice.

The word Whisky originates from the Scots Gaelic word Uisge Beatha: meaning the water of life, which was been Anglicised over time to Whiskybae. Finally being shorten to Whisky.

Uisge Beathe (or Usquebaugh in the Scots English spelling). itself is believed to a Celtic translation of the ancient Latin acqua vitae (water of life).


I would suggest that the last paragraph is probably why they called it welsh whisky.

 
Bugs



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gervase wrote:
I had some Welsh single malt once which was called metheglin rather than whisk(e)y.


I thunk metheglin was flavoured mead? Or have I got that mixed up?

 
tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bugs wrote:
Gervase wrote:
I had some Welsh single malt once which was called metheglin rather than whisk(e)y.


I thunk metheglin was flavoured mead? Or have I got that mixed up?


Metheglin is definitely a herby/flavoured mead

 
Gervase



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:

Metheglin is definitely a herby/flavoured mead

Ah. I know it got me bladdered - which is probably why I can't remember what the bloody stuff actually was!

 
Mary-Jane



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gervase wrote:

Ah. I know it got me bladdered - which is probably why I can't remember what the bloody stuff actually was!


...and didn't we all know it at home?

When Gervase has been on the whisky, or similar, he starts sleep walking...or as Jack, our youngest, calls it "Whisky walking". This involves him staggering around the house at about 3.30 in the morning, imagining that he's plastering the walls and ceilings with a trowel and insisting (very loudly) that he knows exactly what he's doing, until I can coax him back to bed...whereby he passes out across it, face down and won't, or can't, move for several hours.

Last time was just before Christmas when two of our friends turned up from their smallholding in Ireland, with a bottle of whisky in hand. On that occasion I found Gervase downstairs in the the kitchen at 3am, insisting he was going to go outside to do some pointing up on the scaffolding. Hey ho.

I, of course, am a paragon of virtue by comparison.

 
Silas



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sounds perfectly normal to me. So what is your point?

 
Mary-Jane



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Silas wrote:
Sounds perfectly normal to me. So what is your point?


Like a pencil without lead Silas...it is pointless.

 
Gervase



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 06 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

But, to return to the topic, it's more fun in Wales!

 
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