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My bourbon drinking friends think it is unethical to add water or ice. The local bourbon groups on Facebook will roast someone with ice or water in their glass.
by wil421 4y ago
My bourbon drinking friends think it is unethical to add water or ice. The local bourbon groups on Facebook will roast someone with ice or water in their glass.
To me they open up in amazing ways with a splash of cold water or ice. Sometimes the oils in the bourbon will become very noticeable and change color if it’s very cold and it will change the test, for better or worse.
I love to squeeze orange rind (skin with no white part) and get the essential oils onto my whiskey and rub the peel on the rim. Opening a single barrel tonight now that you have me thinking about it.
Here’s an interesting video I found long ago about drinking scotch.[1]
[1] https://youtu.be/spvpK1S2J7c https://youtu.be/spvpK1S2J7c
- nerdponx 4y ago> My bourbon drinking friends think it is unethical to add water or ice. The local bourbon groups on Facebook will roast someone with ice or water in their glass. Which is funny, because if you visit any distillery or talk to industry experts (I'm friends with one of them), they'll say that you should drink it however you enjoy it most.
- dogsgobork 4y agoOf course they want to you to drink it however you like, the more you drink the more money they make.
- aintgonnatakeit 4y agoSome orange oil spritz and a couple dashes of bitters is the right kind of old fashioned.
- kasey_junk 4y agoAnyone that roasts someone for the way they like to drink are already wrong, but with whiskey it’s just idiotic. Nearly every whiskey is better with some water on it.
- wil421 4y agoI’ve recently got into car communities and they are the most snobbiest of snobs I’ve ever met. God forbid you buy a car you enjoy. That’s not the right color/leather/wheels/transmission/tunable/mileage/year/suspension etc., how could you ever drive it?
- LBJsPNS 4y ago"They're an Icelandic heavy metal brass band specializing in traditional polkas. You've probably never heard of them."
- tptacek 4y agoPerformative whiskey nerds are really dumb about dilution (I'm setting off Kasey, across the thread, by roasting people for how they drink). Cask strength whiskey isn't sold that way because it tastes better (it doesn't --- past some threshold and all the extra alcohol is doing is anesthetizing your tongue), but rather so that the customer is paying for more whiskey and less water. You're supposed to dilute it. It's like saying the right way to drink orange juice is to sip the concentrate.