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Topic	As a whisky drinker, who has only had mainstream beers and hated them...
OhhhJa 01/28/20 6:39:18 PM #76:	adjl posted... Uhh, good whiskey also has flavours that only come through when you dilute it a bit. Especially for stuff that's bottled closer to cask strength (60% or so), adding the water helps to redistribute the ethanol in the solution, bringing the alcohol-soluble phenolic compounds that are responsible for a lot of whiskey's unique flavours closer to the air-drink interface and allowing them to be more readily smelled and tasted. Depending on the whiskey in question, it can change the flavour quite dramatically, and often for the better. That's not to say drowning the whiskey in water is reasonable, since then you do dilute it too much to taste anything more subtle, but you should always try a few different levels of dilution whenever you try a new whiskey to figure out what works best for your personal tastes. Suggesting that dilution is unilaterally bad is just plain wrong. Make any argument you want but if you buy an expensive bottle of whiskey and proceed to mix it with anything you're a moron and you are wasting your money and any avid whiskey drinker would agree with me If you've got a ton of money to blow and want to do that then more power to you but it's really stupid to get anything more than well whiskey if you're mixing it with anything <cite>OhhhJa posted [p:933615171] in As a whisk... [t:78363035]...</cite> <quote>adjl posted... </cite> <quote>Uhh, good whiskey also has flavours that only come through when you dilute it a bit. Especially for stuff that's bottled closer to cask strength (60% or so), adding the water helps to redistribute the ethanol in the solution, bringing the alcohol-soluble phenolic compounds that are responsible for a lot of whiskey's unique flavours closer to the air-drink interface and allowing them to be more readily smelled and tasted. Depending on the whiskey in question, it can change the flavour quite dramatically, and often for the better. That's not to say drowning the whiskey in water is reasonable, since then you do dilute it too much to taste anything more subtle, but you should always try a few different levels of dilution whenever you try a new whiskey to figure out what works best for your personal tastes. Suggesting that dilution is unilaterally bad is just plain wrong.</quote>Make any argument you want but if you buy an expensive bottle of whiskey and proceed to mix it with anything you're a moron and you are wasting your money and any avid whiskey drinker would agree with me If you've got a ton of money to blow and want to do that then more power to you but it's really stupid to get anything more than well whiskey if you're mixing it with anything </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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