What has your "friend" been up to?
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My friend, to be clear, does not discount Irish whiskey, he just never buys it. He is not too keen on that from the US of Trump or its overflow to the north, but has had Yamazaki and greatly enjoyed it. He has also enjoyed Kavalan, from Taiwan. One of his favourites remains Swedish Mackmyra, but he is open to trying anything from most places. My friend's friend spends much time in Nepal and recently attended one of my friend's whisky appreciation nights with some Nepalese rum. It should have carried a health warning, and was hastily relegated to the household cleaning cupboard.
In lockdown my friend is diligently working through his whisky collection "to make some room in the cupboard".
In lockdown my friend is diligently working through his whisky collection "to make some room in the cupboard".
My friend has just stepped down off a chair he was using to reach higher places than normal whilst cleaning, straight into the bucket of hot soapy water he was also using. My friend is thankful that he wasn't wearing socks or shoes at the time but is still annoyed with the amount of water he managed to splash everywhere!!!
ElectricSoup said:
My friend, being a deviant, has a couple of bottles of Welsh whisky. It is purported to be very good.
If it's Penderyn, it's excellent although a rare purchase for my friend as the bottle is exceptionally tall and doesn't fit in his drinks cabinet. My friend is eagerly awaiting the end of the year so the first batch of Aber Falls whisky can be released.
Turbobanana said:
ElectricSoup said:
My friend, being a deviant, has a couple of bottles of Welsh whisky. It is purported to be very good.
If it's Penderyn, it's excellent although a rare purchase for my friend as the bottle is exceptionally tall and doesn't fit in his drinks cabinet. My friend is eagerly awaiting the end of the year so the first batch of Aber Falls whisky can be released.
My friend had a knackered clutch and had another mate give him a tow. First corner, CLICK, went the steering lock, keys in pocket. . 
He also wrote off a TVR Tuscan because he was in the wrong gear and lost it all because he wanted to listen to the NOISE.
He was once taken to hospital in California with a suspected stroke. After he was discharged that evening and returned to his hotel, the bar man said, "Stroke! no way man, it was the 4 bottles of red wine you had last night".
He also gave his shoes away to street sleeper in Key West on the way back to his hotel after Sloppy Joe's had closed, couldn't find his hotel and it started raining.
He also wrote off a TVR Tuscan because he was in the wrong gear and lost it all because he wanted to listen to the NOISE.
He was once taken to hospital in California with a suspected stroke. After he was discharged that evening and returned to his hotel, the bar man said, "Stroke! no way man, it was the 4 bottles of red wine you had last night".
He also gave his shoes away to street sleeper in Key West on the way back to his hotel after Sloppy Joe's had closed, couldn't find his hotel and it started raining.
Edited by so called on Thursday 21st May 15:53
This dead dude is the Hon Patron of this thread -
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I ask you all to raise a glass to Uncle Bunky. May he rest in chaos.
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I ask you all to raise a glass to Uncle Bunky. May he rest in chaos.
Breadvan72 said:
Your friend has just won the last five pages of this thread. He belongs here! The shoes bit shows that he has a good heart, for all his lairy ways.
He also got into a boozy fight in a hotel bar in Philadelphia which resulted in a glass gumball machine toppling on to the floor, smashing and releasing ca10,000 gumballs which made it difficult for said pugilists to stand.I cannot be quite sure whether or not my friend concluded that bombing a whole baggie of ...., a popular but not strictly lawful recreational substance in one go in the back of a taxi on the way to dinner was a good idea or a bad idea. The lady he was with at the time says that it was a bad idea, but my friend is vague on the subject. My friend is less vague about the nice New Yorkers he once met at a beach bar who had a toothpaste tube with them that was full of... not tooothpaste. He says that he would rather be with those people than with the finest people in the World, but he says the same about you lot.
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 21st May 16:16
ElectricSoup said:
Turbobanana said:
ElectricSoup said:
My friend, being a deviant, has a couple of bottles of Welsh whisky. It is purported to be very good.
If it's Penderyn, it's excellent although a rare purchase for my friend as the bottle is exceptionally tall and doesn't fit in his drinks cabinet. My friend is eagerly awaiting the end of the year so the first batch of Aber Falls whisky can be released.
There's a number of 'flavours' based on what barrels it's been in. It's very good whiskey
Inspirational.
My friend is not a fan of bourbon after a night in a Czechoslovakian hostelrie. It started out ok, everyone was friendly and lots of beer was drunk but then the barman appeared with a bottle of whisky "This my friend Johnny Walker...". Once that was done and they'd toasted everything and everyone, including the Queen he disappeared for a moment and returned with "This my friend Wild Turkey, not such good friend."
My friend's friend threw up in the night and was surprisingly chipper in the morning. My friend, not so much, and he struggled not to throw up when breakfast of liver soup appeared. It looked like pond water with grease and goose s
t floating in it, and didn't smell much better.
My friend wished he was dead and tried to navigate while his friend drove the whole day.
My friend is not a fan of bourbon after a night in a Czechoslovakian hostelrie. It started out ok, everyone was friendly and lots of beer was drunk but then the barman appeared with a bottle of whisky "This my friend Johnny Walker...". Once that was done and they'd toasted everything and everyone, including the Queen he disappeared for a moment and returned with "This my friend Wild Turkey, not such good friend."
My friend's friend threw up in the night and was surprisingly chipper in the morning. My friend, not so much, and he struggled not to throw up when breakfast of liver soup appeared. It looked like pond water with grease and goose s
t floating in it, and didn't smell much better.My friend wished he was dead and tried to navigate while his friend drove the whole day.
ElectricSoup said:
Turbobanana said:
ElectricSoup said:
My friend, being a deviant, has a couple of bottles of Welsh whisky. It is purported to be very good.
If it's Penderyn, it's excellent although a rare purchase for my friend as the bottle is exceptionally tall and doesn't fit in his drinks cabinet. My friend is eagerly awaiting the end of the year so the first batch of Aber Falls whisky can be released.
Someone's 'Friend' has been filming himself doing 202mph in an Audi RS6...
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vaud said:
ElectricSoup said:
Turbobanana said:
ElectricSoup said:
My friend, being a deviant, has a couple of bottles of Welsh whisky. It is purported to be very good.
If it's Penderyn, it's excellent although a rare purchase for my friend as the bottle is exceptionally tall and doesn't fit in his drinks cabinet. My friend is eagerly awaiting the end of the year so the first batch of Aber Falls whisky can be released.
Firstly, my friend sympathises with those who feel a little worse for wear after one sip too many of a distilled beverage.
My friend has many times suffered from appalling hangovers, often wishing to be pronounced dead to end the horrors. One memorable occasion was honking his guts up repeatedly just prior to taking part in the new year's day parade in London. He felt like a pale, walking corpse. He never learns his lesson, and there have been plenty.
My friend doesn't remember a lot of japes whilst under the influence, but does acknowledge a liking for bonfires when a suitable situation presents.
My friends weakness is whisky, (he likes the taste) and whilst partaking of a great many varieties from the usual distilleries in Scotlandshire, he is also fond of trying new too, be they American rye, Welsh or Irish offerings.
He has managed to gather or sample a few more unusual examples over the last few years too.
Mackmyra is delicious, but my friend feels aggrieved at the cost of a bottle currently.
There's a half consumed bottle of Hammer Head in the whisky stash, from the Czech Republic. It was bought to commemorate the passing of my friends grandfather at the ripe old age of 97.
A bottle of Sullivans Cove Tasmanian whisky bought on his last trip to Australia. It could be best described as 'heavily oaked' so much so its akin to chewing on a pencil, and very nice it is too.
A bottle of Tenjaku blended Japanese whisky which his generous parents sent some pennies for as a recent birthday gift. It was on offer in an orange supermarket.
He also has a bottle of 16 year old New Zealand collection from the Dunedin distillery - created before it was bought out by fosters and dismantled and sold off. This was purchased by my friends ex-wife, likely to help ease her conscience as she had been doing the dirty on my friend.
He has never opened it as he didn't fancy allowing the feeling of being bought off by her. He has decided to keep it safely until his son reaches 21 (14 years from now) whereby the son will have the choice of opening it and sharing a few drams with dad, or selling it for what will likely be a tidy sum.
My friend wonders if Mosel whisky counts?
Although it is technically grappa, it was still mighty tasty.
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