The Whisky Topic
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@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
I sniped myself. Now I am reading a lot about very bad whisky. This is gold.
Interesting how corn syrup and soy sauce are considered to be related products…
Each civilization is perhaps defined by a liquid. All the British isles are defined by whisky although England is tending towards sherry. The United States, corn syrup. Canada, maple syrup. China, soy sauce.
Did you think the theme was the five fingers? No-one's had five fingers in millions of years!
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@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
England is tending towards
sherryginFTFY
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@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
I sniped myself. Now I am reading a lot about very bad whisky. This is gold.
Interesting how corn syrup and soy sauce are considered to be related products…
Machine learning. People who buy whisky are likely to also buy bread.
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TIL:
Most of the world uses 700 ml as its standard spirits bottle size, rather than the 750 ml bottle that’s been the requirement in the U.S. With 700 ml spirits bottles now allowed, along with a few other sizes, whisky drinkers may soon be looking at a wider array of options on the shelf.
The 700 ml is especially relevant to American scotch fans, who have long missed out on rare or highly allocated whiskies because, for many companies, the extra cost of producing and filling a different-sized bottle wasn’t worth it on such a small scale.
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@boomzilla vs
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@boomzilla I guess it's, been a good run, as it were. Shaving the whiskey bottle sizes, though... it's over, it's all over, stockpile edged weapons and precious metals.
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@Gribnit looks like it's time to stock up, though:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/whisky-tariffs-suspended-us
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I live in Kentucky now, and bourbon distilleries are plentiful, but I don't normally drink bourbon. Does anyone have any recommendations for someone who would normally drink single-malt scotch?
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@antiquarian I would recommend a single-malt scotch.
ed. ob.
Oban, Ed? Sure. Oban.
ed. -.-
Uh... oh. Find you a moonshiner. Then, jack you a sherry barrel. Mix, and wait.
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@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
Find you a moonshiner.
There's a distillery about an hour away that has moonshine. They do tours. I'm planning a trip Saturday.
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@antiquarian I always get my wife a variety of those little bottles of liquor. Last couple of years I've gotten this (among others):
Tennessee, but very good stuff. Granted, pretty low proof.
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@boomzilla said in The Whisky Topic:
@antiquarian ... little bottles of liquor. ...
... pretty low proof.
I dunno about 50ml bottles. The hangover is part of the overall critical qualia.
Also, isn't that technically schnapps?
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@Gribnit eh, this stuff is just fun things to have to try. Our livers are mostly experienced enough that hangovers aren't much of a thing, but for that we have our favorite bulk liquors.
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@boomzilla ... fair. Barely.
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@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla ... fair.
BarelyBarley.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla ... fair.
BarelyBarley.That's corn.
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INB4 Nope you drink it
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About time we resurrected this thread!!
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@boomzilla "Quality product prepared with great care from natural resources". But it does look like a product for those who value quantity over quality.
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@PleegWat said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla "Quality product prepared with great care from natural resources". But it does look like a product for those who value quantity over quality.
Probably made from whatever happens to be left in the barrels after bottling. Yes, it is whisky, but...
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@dkf Go on. Don’t leave us hanging
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@DogsB said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla said in The Whisky Topic:
INB4 Nope you drink it
I’m not that desperate… yet.
The architect called. He wants to do a full redesign.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Whisky Topic:
@DogsB said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla said in The Whisky Topic:
INB4 Nope you drink it
I’m not that desperate… yet.
The architect called. He wants to do a full redesign.
In JavaScript, calling a fortran backend.
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@Benjamin-Hall the Fortran part at least will be more sane than the JavaScript part.
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@Arantor said in The Whisky Topic:
@Benjamin-Hall the Fortran part at least will be more sane than the JavaScript part.
Indeed! It's very stable. Just be sure to think of your front end in terms of crystals, b/c there will be no backend changes.
now will you drink it?
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@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
now will you drink it?
That depends, do I have to write the Fortran part and/or the JavaScript part?
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@Arantor said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
now will you drink it?
That depends, do I have to write the Fortran part and/or the JavaScript part?
Wdym "write" the Fortran part? Just make sure it stays running.
In case it helps, I checked the LD50 and drinking that all will kill you, assuming you weigh less than maybe 300 lbs.
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@Arantor said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
now will you drink it?
That depends, do I have to write the Fortran part and/or the JavaScript part?
The JavaScript. The fortran and apis will be written by ol spectateswamp. In VBasic 6, transferred to fortran by lowest bidder outsourced contractors.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Whisky Topic:
@Arantor said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
now will you drink it?
That depends, do I have to write the Fortran part and/or the JavaScript part?
The JavaScript. The fortran and apis will be written by ol spectateswamp. In VBasic 6, transferred to fortran by lowest bidder outsourced contractors.
Why not have him just write a FORTRAN77 interpreter in VB6? Think of the savings!
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@PleegWat said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla "Quality product prepared with great care from natural resources". But it does look like a product for those who value quantity over quality.
Oh no: you do not tell us the main point.
The text is actually in DUTCH!
That's the reason why sane people should avoid it.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Whisky Topic:
@PleegWat said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla "Quality product prepared with great care from natural resources". But it does look like a product for those who value quantity over quality.
Oh no: you do not tell us the main point.
The text is actually in DUTCH!
That's the reason why sane people should avoid it.It's Dutch not Flemish.
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@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
Probably made from whatever happens to be left in the barrels after bottling. Yes, it is whisky, but...
I have a bottle of whisky that we use only for cooking. We bought the cheapest one of the store, because why buy anything else for that?
I was once curious and wondered what it actually tasted.
We still only use that bottle exclusively for cooking. I think I would drink brake fluid before drinking that whisky.
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@remi said in The Whisky Topic:
I think I would drink brake fluid before drinking that whisky.
If it's that bad you probably shouldn't be cooking with it either, and your food would taste better if you used something less awful.
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@Arantor said in The Whisky Topic:
That depends, do I have to write the Fortran part and/or the JavaScript part?
One of your managers read somewhere that every language was designed to be interoperable with C so you are actually going to write a translation layer between the Fortran and the Javascript in C using an undocumented compiler the CTO found on an old floppy disc that he claimed worked really well back in the day.
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@antiquarian I agree, and there were a couple of dishes where the whisky was expected to bring something (as opposed to just one spoonful in a big cake where it could be any alcohol to give a bit of heat) and where the result wasn't really impressive. I'm starting to think it really was a bad idea to buy the cheapest one. But now that I have it, I've got to use it, and I'm not gonna use an expensive vintage whisky to flambe a pancake!
maybe I can recoup the cost by making an online auction of the TD and get , and a few others in a bidding war?
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@remi said in The Whisky Topic:
But now that I have it, I've got to use it, and I'm not gonna use an expensive vintage whisky to flambe a pancake!
You could save it for visitors you don't like that much. Or should that go in the evil ideas thread?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Whisky Topic:
@PleegWat said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla "Quality product prepared with great care from natural resources". But it does look like a product for those who value quantity over quality.
Oh no: you do not tell us the main point.
The text is actually in DUTCH!
That's the reason why sane people should avoid it.What's wrong with jenever?
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@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Whisky Topic:
@PleegWat said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla "Quality product prepared with great care from natural resources". But it does look like a product for those who value quantity over quality.
Oh no: you do not tell us the main point.
The text is actually in DUTCH!
That's the reason why sane people should avoid it.What's wrong with jenever?
jenever can tell.
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@antiquarian said in The Whisky Topic:
You could save it for visitors you don't like that much. Or should that go in the evil ideas thread?
Probably a flawed idea overall, because if there's someone that I don't like to the point of being willing to serve this this, then they are very unlikely to be invited in my house, and it's even less likely that I'd be willing to serve them a drink.
Though that reminds me of another story.
My father always was on good terms with his mother-in-law (my grandmother), but he probably never really loved her. Just... got on reasonably well, but that's all. One day during the holidays when my grandmother was with us, the choice on the table was between a very cheap and basic sparkling wine (not bad, but really average), and a vintage dessert wine (Sauternes, probably at least 10 or 15 years old).
My father was serving and explaining the difference between the two (that is, that the Sauternes was much, much tastier than the sparkling wine!), and repeating for more or less everyone because in a party nobody ever listen and my father was quite patient. When it came to my grandmother, he just asked him "do you want the sparkling, or the flat, wine?" without any more details, as if that was the only relevant difference between the two.
That was a bit petty of him.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Whisky Topic:
@homoBalkanus said in The Whisky Topic:
@DogsB said in The Whisky Topic:
@boomzilla said in The Whisky Topic:
INB4 Nope you drink it
I’m not that desperate… yet.
The architect called. He wants to do a full redesign.
In JavaScript, calling a fortran backend.
Will they be communicating using SOAP? Or, even better, WS-SecureConversation? Being told you need to code that up in Fortran would be a very good reason to drink that whole container in a few minutes.
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@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Whisky Topic:
@Arantor said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
now will you drink it?
That depends, do I have to write the Fortran part and/or the JavaScript part?
The JavaScript. The fortran and apis will be written by ol spectateswamp. In VBasic 6, transferred to fortran by lowest bidder outsourced contractors.
Why not have him just write a FORTRAN77 interpreter in VB6? Think of the savings!
RatFor.NET - For the win!
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@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
Will they be communicating using SOAP? Or, even better, WS-SecureConversation? Being told you need to code that up in Fortran
NO BACKEND CHANGES. It's like people forgot that CGI exists, yeesh.
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@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
Will they be communicating using SOAP? Or, even better, WS-SecureConversation? Being told you need to code that up in Fortran
NO BACKEND CHANGES. It's like people forgot that CGI exists, yeesh.
That's OK. The new middleware layer is to be written in FORTRAN as well, in order to leverage existing expertise with it within the company.
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@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
@Gribnit said in The Whisky Topic:
@dkf said in The Whisky Topic:
Will they be communicating using SOAP? Or, even better, WS-SecureConversation? Being told you need to code that up in Fortran
NO BACKEND CHANGES. It's like people forgot that CGI exists, yeesh.
That's OK. The new middleware layer is to be written in FORTRAN as well, in order to leverage existing expertise with it within the company.
As long as they can remember what goes in which columns, I don't care how the
cardscalls get there. Just be sure your FEDs know the difference between monoclinic and orthorhombic.it's MILSPEC this way.
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@remi said in The Whisky Topic:
@antiquarian I agree, and there were a couple of dishes where the whisky was expected to bring something (as opposed to just one spoonful in a big cake where it could be any alcohol to give a bit of heat) and where the result wasn't really impressive. I'm starting to think it really was a bad idea to buy the cheapest one. But now that I have it, I've got to use it, and I'm not gonna use an expensive vintage whisky to flambe a pancake!
maybe I can recoup the cost by making an online auction of the TD and get , and a few others in a bidding war?
Oh, flambe. Well, three months back I visited Normandy - we have some good friends of the family there and also visited their friends. Normandy being Normandy, this means that everyone brought out their own Calvados (some were older than me).
You really noticed whose father (or grandfather) was skilled in distilling. One particular specimen was very much the opposite of "good" - you probably were lucky not to go blind.
I described its aftertaste as "tasting like my chemistry lab smells". Burning that stuff was probably the best you could do with it.
Side note which you probably already know: Never let a French man do the barbecue. The result is either "kissed by the flame" or black as your heart. There will be no middle ground.