"Dear Liquor Stores: Since When Is "Peaty" A Taste?" "Is Cheap Gledinvelt Worth It?"

[DarkDrgon]

expensive whiskey is smoother, but warms you less.

Cheap whiskey makes you want to kill yourself and feel like your insides are on fire.

both are delicious

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Seil

As a whiskey drinker, I decided to ask a clerk if I should purchase it. She told me that its flavor was somewhat peaty, and smokey. Smoke is a gas, I believe, and my only experiences with peat have been with peat moss.

This is for you

[Seil]

I come from a small town with mom and pop stores. No one bullshits anyone else. We tolerate each other, but no one bull shits each other.

[Specterbane]

To answer the question. "Smokey" is just what people have been saying, and just how it sounds, it makes you taste the kinda smell you get from a camp fire. But with the taste of Whiskey being so strong it's actually just kind of an accent to it. Sort of like an aftertaste, at least that I've noticed.

*if you really want to taste smokey flavor try Lapsang souchong tea, that stuff would make a good run for a steak*

Peaty is hard to describe, but I think the best thing I can say is that Scotch tends to be a peaty drink. I don't really know how else to describe it, ask the people at the distributors if they could help you out a little more, or if they have whiskey tastings that you could be a part of.

[synkr0nized]

I don't care to enter into a discussion on the nuances of the words used to describe whiskeys, but I definitely have poured myself a glass in honor of this thread.

[Seil]

Bring Us More Beer

I myself am enjoying a local hefeweizen.

[Osterbaum]

A local canadian hefeweizen?

Originally Posted by SMB

My whiskey comes out of a bathtub- be glad for what you get

Do you bathe in it too?

[Rejected Again]

With antibacterial soap.

[krogothwolf]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

Do you bathe in it too?

That's a silly question to ask SMB

Man, if you're complaining how store describes a whiskey taste, pray to god you never have to listen to wine tasters describe the taste of wine. Jesus H Meister do they have weird ways to describe tastes.

[greed]

Pretty sure peaty is another way of saying an earthy taste. Think mushrooms. Or go dig a hole in your backyard. Deep enough to stand in. Stand in it. Sniff. That's a peaty smell. Now tranfer that to taste. Basically it's really really dry and kinda bitter.

Or maybe peaty is entriely different from earthy.

Originally Posted by krogothwolf

Jesus H Meister

Wasn't aware Meister had gone and achieved apotheosis. Or is this just some weird cult thing?