Look, you try crafting a puzzle designed to keep 400 geeks busy for 6 hours - even when they're working together - and tell me you won't need a day of bacchanalian unwinding.
See the shirt she's wearing? It once enabled us to skip the line for Space Mountain. This was ages ago, before my girlfriend had gotten me into Doctor Who, before the first thing you saw when you stepped into Hot Topic was Tardis-themed merchandise, when Whovians could still be all hipster about it. A sympathetic Cast Member saw her shirt and said "Alons-y" and handed her a pass that enabled us to skip the Space Mountain queue.
Today I checked off the Scotch Whisky Flight. J-Bomb happened to know that if it's Scotch you don't put the letter 'e' in whisky; and she doesn't even drink it.
The word whisky comes from the gaelic "uisce beatha" which means "water of life."
Carthay's Scotch Whisky flight consists of the following:
1. Johnnie Walker Green Blended Malt.
2. Oban 14 Yr Old Single Malt.
3. The Glenlivet 19 Yr Old Single Malt.
Whisky flights come with a glass of water. Our host on this day was under the impression it merely acts as a palette cleanser. A previous host - the one who served me my first flight ages ago - suggested that if one adds drops of water to the whisky it "opens it up" and broadens the flavor. In sampling this flight I acted upon the assumption that adding dihydrogen monoxide drops after the first sip adds texture to the experience.
I scribbled things in an attempt to create what passes, in my imagination, for tasting notes. Transcribed in all their horrific verbatim they read:
1. Peaty. Not too much burn. Gentle heat. Drops: take the edge off the peatiness.
2. This one immediately makes me smile. Balance and smoothness.
3. Very smooth, nothing to complain about, but not as much luster and spirit as the Oban.
The word whisky comes from the gaelic "uisce beatha" which means "water of life."
Carthay's Scotch Whisky flight consists of the following:
1. Johnnie Walker Green Blended Malt.
2. Oban 14 Yr Old Single Malt.
3. The Glenlivet 19 Yr Old Single Malt.
Whisky flights come with a glass of water. Our host on this day was under the impression it merely acts as a palette cleanser. A previous host - the one who served me my first flight ages ago - suggested that if one adds drops of water to the whisky it "opens it up" and broadens the flavor. In sampling this flight I acted upon the assumption that adding dihydrogen monoxide drops after the first sip adds texture to the experience.
I scribbled things in an attempt to create what passes, in my imagination, for tasting notes. Transcribed in all their horrific verbatim they read:
1. Peaty. Not too much burn. Gentle heat. Drops: take the edge off the peatiness.
2. This one immediately makes me smile. Balance and smoothness.
3. Very smooth, nothing to complain about, but not as much luster and spirit as the Oban.
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