A question on scotch

[I_am_not_mafia]

For cheap inebriation with minimal regrets, someone once recommended to me sending cheap vodka through a Brita filter...

This needs to be done.

Science, bitches.

Though I think filtering through charcoal might be more effective.

Oooo.... A competing hypothesis.   Now it really needs to be done.   I wonder if we can get some government funding?

You also need to test running it under pressure through a reverse osmosis unit.

And need some consistent way of measuring a hangover.

I can supply the reverse osmosis unit but someone else would have to supply the klaxon.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Glen Livet and Glenmorangie are good value 12 year olds. I buy them interchangeably.

Just make sure to pronounce Glen Morangie correctly, soft G and do not emphasise any vowels. My brother once pronounced it Glen M'rangee. Think of it more like Glen orangey but one word with an M in the middle.

I used to drink a lot of Islay (pronounced eye la) whiskies but they started giving me a headache even before I finished the dram.

Do not mix with ice cubes made from water outside of the local area where it was produced unless you have purified it first by running through a reverse osmosis unit. It's the water that makes the difference. I don't even put ice cubes from Edinburgh tap water in it. Instead I freeze the glass in my freezer and have that cool down the whisky.

Highland water is lovely. I could drink it all day. It's the peat in the water supply that help makes the beer and whisky so nice. Apparently the climate also makes a big difference as well to the taste of matured whisky. Once in the 19th C a distiller made two casks of whisky from the same batch and sent one cask over to America to mature for many years. Then it was bottled and sent back and it tasted completely different.

[Pyrrho]

Would you fucking alkies stop posting booze threads in the philosophy forum, please!

Now, if you want to talk about porn or sports, then count me in.

You obviously have not given proper attention to the study of philosophy.  If you did, you would see the connection.

But if it helps, we can start by observing the fact that there is not even one great philosopher in the entire history of philosophy who did not drink.  And when we look at lesser philosophers, most of them drank as well.

If you feel the need for articles on the connection between drinking and philosophy:

https://alcoholanddrugshistorysociety.fi...-24-21.pdf

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archiv...le/381908/

Those are just a couple of samples of articles one can find online about the connection between philosophy and drinking.  I recommend doing some online searching for more articles on the connection.  Preferably, with a glass close at hand.

[Pyrrho]

I don't drink sctoch. 


...this stuff, however. Personally prefer vodka. 

You know, I had forgotten about that one, even though you conveniently posted a picture.  I rather liked it at its price point when I had it before.  If I did not have five others at present, I might go out and buy a bottle, though on the other hand, maybe now is the right time in order to do comparisons.  I will have to think about that a bit, though maybe I will wait until I am nearing the end of one of my current bottles and then get one, if I remember.

[Pyrrho]

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Do not mix with ice cubes made from water outside of the local area where it was produced unless you have purified it first by running through a reverse osmosis unit. It's the water that makes the difference.
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I never contaminate my scotch with foreign substances like water.  I drink it straight, at room temperature, the way god intended.

If it is not good that way, I don't want to drink it.