uisge beatha
Sep. 3rd, 2009 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyOur dear friend Keith Stokes posted this morning on the KDL list that there was to be a free Bushmills tasting at Raglan Road this evening (no linky, as the RR site is a] really annoying and, numero two-o]* only mentions the branch in Orlando, FL). So Rohanna and I headed down there with alacrity (but not Dragonet, who was working out at the RenFest site on making the booth where she will be working for the next seven weekends look appropriately rustic without actually being a danger to themselves and others).
Two very nice gentlemen from the local distributor who handles the importation of Irish potables (among other beverages). They had samples of Bushmills, Black Bush (neither a euphemism nor a political statement) and the ten and sixteen year old single malts. All were, of course, wonderful. The tasting was held in a snug where Raglan Road has their whisky safes (rentable lockboxes where one can store one's perferred tipple). Rohanna and I regaled the gents with tales of our trip to Ireland and her turn as an official whisky taster during the Jameson's distillery tour. At one point, I asked if they had tried the special 400th anniversary blend Bushmills issued last year, and they proceeded to bring a bottle of "The 1608" out of one of the safes and ask if we'd like a taste.
OMFGWTFBBQLSMFT. That was one of the finest blended whisky I have had the privilege to sample, and right up there with Middleton's. Ro wants a bottle, of course. If we can find one. Nom, nom.
*Props to the late, lamented Molly Ivins
Two very nice gentlemen from the local distributor who handles the importation of Irish potables (among other beverages). They had samples of Bushmills, Black Bush (neither a euphemism nor a political statement) and the ten and sixteen year old single malts. All were, of course, wonderful. The tasting was held in a snug where Raglan Road has their whisky safes (rentable lockboxes where one can store one's perferred tipple). Rohanna and I regaled the gents with tales of our trip to Ireland and her turn as an official whisky taster during the Jameson's distillery tour. At one point, I asked if they had tried the special 400th anniversary blend Bushmills issued last year, and they proceeded to bring a bottle of "The 1608" out of one of the safes and ask if we'd like a taste.
OMFGWTFBBQLSMFT. That was one of the finest blended whisky I have had the privilege to sample, and right up there with Middleton's. Ro wants a bottle, of course. If we can find one. Nom, nom.
*Props to the late, lamented Molly Ivins