lagavulin tasting

[orangerful]

So, we are fans of the television show Parks and Recreation (even though Leslie Knope and librarians don't get along)



But if you have watched the show, you will know that Ron Swanson (played by Nick Offerman) LOVES a very specific kind of whisky/scotch called Lagavulin.



Nick Offerman actually loves Lagavulin and this was written into the character of Ron Swanson so, yeah Swanson/Offerman - who is the character? I don't even know!!!

We decided we wanted to try it. So we split the cost with friends (it's $80/bottle, so we decided we'd go halvsies as two couples).

It was very oak-y. It spent 16 years in a barrel so that makes sense. It tastes like the barrel, like, you could taste the fire roasted wood chips. It wasn't my favorite scotch that I've ever had. I think I prefer Jameson.

Very cool experience to try it though! I did get a little bit too tipsy and drop a glass so OOPS! I switched to a plastic cup after that (though I also switched to water for about an hour too). Between the four of us, the entire bottle was gone in a matter of hours.

Comments

[angrboda]

I don't think I'll tell Husband about this, whisky lover that he is. I think he might faint. He'll have a bottle like that for a year, to be sipped and savoured rather than quaffed. :)

(Also, Jameson is Irish.)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

It *should* have been something kept for a year but as this was an experiment, that did not happen LOL. Our bottle of Woodford Reserve and Jameson should last awhile, we knew we liked those and bought nice big bottles for ourselves as presents awhile ago.

I'm new to all the booze terms and tend to interchange the "Scotch" and "Whisky" (and "Whiskey" as I've seen it both ways). I guess I just think of "Scotch" the liquor as a homophone to "Scotch" as in, from Scotland. LOL. My faux pas!

[gillo]

Whiskey is Irish, whisky is Scotch. On the whole, things and people from Scotland are Scots or Scottish - Scotch is a term that tends to be reserved for the drink and certain foods (Scotch eggs, scotch pies etc.)

[angrboda]

I don't even like it myself at all. But with a father and a husband who's keen, you wind up absorbing a surprising amount of knowledge. :p Husband tried to make me taste a bit of one of his once. It was a very unpleasant experience. I do like sniffing it, though, when he's having a glass. For years I've spent a lot of time around Steepster.com, which is a site for tea enthusiasts. Whether you're trying to analyse notes in tea or in booze, it's really the same thing you're doing. I don't really use Steepster anymore though, as I found the compulsive need to analyse and write a post was killing my enjoyment of just a good cup of tea.

I think wether it's spelled with an e in it or not depends on where it's from. Husband spells it without so I tend to follow his lead. And also that scotch = the drink, but from Scotland in general, it would be Scottish. These are the sorts of things you pick up unwillingly when living with an enthusiast, LOL!