lagavulin tasting
May. 8th, 2016 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulSo, 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.
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.
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Date: 2016-05-08 08:46 am (UTC)I suspect the strong flavour you could detect is what the Scots call peatiness, rather than oak. The whisky is matured in old sherry barrels, which is where they pick up the colour and some of the flavour notes. Personally I like Laphroaig, which has even more peat than Lagavulin.
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Date: 2016-05-10 01:50 pm (UTC)So, yeah, I guess I prefer Whisky to Scotch, and would prefer little to no peatiness.
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Date: 2016-05-10 09:19 pm (UTC)If you're not a fan of peatiness you'd probably enjoy some of the Strathspey malts more. Island malts tend on the whole to be peatier (Isla, Jura, Laphroiag...)
Back when we were newly-weds our nearest town of any interest was Lincoln, which had a fantastic shop devoted almost entirely to whisky. They offered tastings, and we learned fast.