Solstice

[muninnhuginn]

Greetings from two ravens and far too much Highland Park plus Ginger Wine!

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[akicif.livejournal.com]

And solstice greetings to you and yours, too.

Mixing Good Malt with ginger wine, though? Tsk. Of course, I can imagine that Highland Park may well be the nearest you have "in house" to a suitable mixing whisky (no-one at Schloss Raven being Grouse drinkers as far as I know). Alternatively, maybe you were alternating the beverages, in which csase I owe you a double apology.

On the other hand, once in a while an Irish coffee made with Blue Mountain and Bushmills Malt beats the ordinary kind hollow, so why not make a whisky mac with the good stuff?

[subtext - on the way back from the pub tonight I had my first glass of 'plain' Bushmills in some years, and had quite forgotten how good it could be]

Bad, bad ravens!

[muninnhuginn]

No cooking whisky in house. Only whisky (scotch or otherwi se) on shelf was the said, abused,HP. No we were mixing the ginger wine (not Stones' even, but a fake we'd bought for jam making with the HP). Sign of our current inpecunious state that we've not rmstocked with scotch for at least twelve months.

Re: Bad, bad ravens!

[akicif.livejournal.com]

As long as it tasted nice and did the job... tigermoth (who Doesn't Drink Whisky) finds the effectiveness of a hot toddy for cold-curing purposes to be directly proportional to how good the whisky is (makes sense) and how long it's been boiled for (aaargghhhh!!).

We've not bought new supplies of whisky in over a year, either. Howeever, we were very lucky (in one sense) yesterday when looking for the Stroh I'd carefully put aside to aid in making my seasonal mulled wine (for taking up a Hill in a flask to watch the Hogmanay Fireworks with). Didn't find the Stroh (unfair, I suppose, to suspect friends of teenage offspring), but did find two bottles of malt - one 17yo Ardbeg (leaving present from my last job, so it's been sitting at the back of a wardrobe since March) and a "Madeira" finished Glenmorangie (part of a three for two deal before the millennium). Quite a pleasant surprise!

[muninnhuginn]

We regarded scotch as just a cure for toothache for years, and then aa a rather pleasant way to clear the sinuses (we'll still happily sniff other people's drinks when we're not indulging ourselves). It was generally only Teachers, though.

Glad you found the extra supplies. We've just emptied the cupboard under the stairs (single-handed: we're beginning to understand who really cares about scotch round here!) to get at a new bottle of the Arran Founders' Reserve so the pickings won't be as slim. Deciding at the same time that those last bottles of Whitbread's Celebration Ale will be getting beyond their sell-by dates by now and might as well be drunk up over Xmas.

We've Stroh to spare, though it's been tempting to make Stroh butter rather than rum (especially as we can't get Jefferson's any more) for our breakfast toast.