Question--what is the correct way to drink good scotch according to the

[mistertrickster]

connosieurs? On the rocks? Mixed with soda water? Mixed with still water? Or neat at room temperature?

[soothsayer]

1. Scotch always requires a splash of water to open it up. Try it

before, and then with even a tiny splash, and you will see the flavor bloom.

[eyepaddle]

2. I just wish to second what soothsayer said! nt

[Freebird12004]

3. Scotch Mist

short glass filled with crushed ice and scotch is my favorite or scotch and still water, preferably bottled water to avoid additives like chlorine

[Trajan]

4. That is like asking ....

"How do you want that steak cooked ? " ....

Obviously, the 'rules' of Scotch usage can be as subjective as any Art ...

Mine ? ... I prefer a soda and ice some days, just ice and water on others ....

Not that I drink much, mind you, but Scotch is always my first choice ... No matter how it is prepared ...

[tjwmason]

7. Nothing subjective about it

Just like when they ask 'how do you want that steak cooked?' one has to respond 'blue or preferably still twitching'; so too one HAS to drink whisky (I mean the real stuff not blends) with just a splash of still water.

[BlueManDude]

5. small ice cubes. when they begin to melt

things get very good. laphroaig is a terrific (if a little pricy) single malt.

[mistertrickster]

6. Great, thanks all--I got given some 15 yr old Balvenie the other week

and wanted to drink it right, heh.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

8. Scotch Question

I was given a bottle of Dewar's that is probably twenty years old. It has been opened.

Drink it or flush it?

[miss_kitty]

9. drink it

then flush it. Flush only the parts you drank.

Or send it to my house. I'll tell ya if it's any good...

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

10. I was wondering...

if having been exposed to air would have made it turn -- no idea with regard to the chemistry of hard liquor.

[Technowitch]

12. Flush it. The alcohol has probably long since evaporated.

Plus Dewars is garbage anyhow.

:D

[Technowitch]

11. Straight up or with a small splash of spring-water

My preference is to drink good single-malt scotch in a snifter, although there are those who prefer a low glass or even one of those weird oblong ones.

Room temperature, absolutely.

And laddie? If it's not single-malt, it's not good scotch at all.

-Technowitch
"An Irishwoman who does enjoy good scotch"