o I figured I would make a thread about one of my favorite things to do - have a wee dram of Scotland's finest aqua vitae!
Come to think of it, I kind of got into Scotch and other whiskies similarly to how I got into heavy metal. First, the opportunity presented itself, second I started with the mild stuff (mild as in alcohol in general) and worked my way up, then I went head on into becoming a connoisseur!
My very first drink of Scotch was a couple months after I turned 21. For starters, I'm one of those "weird people" that actually waited until I was of legal age to drink. I started off with a Miller lite but only had two thirds of the cup because it tasted like shit. My second drink was Captain Morgan and cranberry, which wasn't too bad. Every now and then I would have a drink, I think my first taste of any kind of whisky was Jim Beam and coke. Most often I drank toward the beginning of any kind of music show or other event, and that would be the only drink I'd have for the whole night. I always made it a point to try something different and one day at a hockey game I ordered a Dewar's.
I happened to like it, because it had a flavor I never felt on my palate before yet once I did I liked it. That year I partook in a lot of Johnny Walker, which is decent enough, but it's been quite a long time since I had anything Dewar's or Johnny Walker, or any blended Scotch in general. Because one day I decided to get myself a single malt - Oban 14-year! What a treat that was! How I came to decide on that particular whisky? I went online and looked at reviews, came across a site that had some creatively written reviews of various kinds of alcohol. It was called Booze Bashers. Oban's flagship expression had a very glowing review on the site, in fact it was the highest rated Scotch on the whole blog. I tried The MacAllan and Glenfiddich at times - in one case I got a couple miniature bottles to put in a cooler for a road-game bus trip I was going to. Not driving for a while and most of the fellow bus passengers brought alcohol aboard so why not freeze a couple mini-Scotches and drink straight from the bottle? That was fun. Glenfiddich was actually at a bar of a music venue near Harrisburg, the place was actually quite upscale considering I was there to see some death metal bands (like Fruit of the Doom).
