Why Can't Canadians Make Good Whisky?

[petros]

Why vodka? It's the cleanest liquor there is. It has zero tannins and tartrazine like everything else including wines. That's kind of backwards but everyone is created differently I suppose.


There is a CanCon member who has tried my vodka. I'd love to hear his comments but it's his choice as to whether or not he posts. I hope he does. If not I understand.

 

[karrie]

Ron perhaps? Lol

 

[petros]

Nope, even though he is local I've never met Ron. I have seen him driving his Dodge half car half van. I can't remember the model name.

I promised him first dibs on any deer carcasses for his monster dogs to devour from this year's hunt so perhaps I'll get the opportunity.

**update** it's a Chrysler PT Cruiser.

 

[JLM]

I can drink wine no problem, but am increasingly 'asthmatic' from almost all other drinks, vodka worst of all.

Yep, booze affects people differently, when I drink too much of it I get drunk!

I wish I could drink rye.

The tannins and tartrazine from the barrels gives me an anaphylactic reaction that gives me wicked chest and throat muscle cramps that hurts like hell. They are in everything but vodka.

I'm a vodka man and I make my own that is freakin' incredible and extremely clean.

No hangovers from methanol, isopropyl, formaldehyde or turpentine like low the grade commercial swill sold in bottles that some people think is "good".

There's no hard liquor like rum, actually it's the only one I enjoy, which is very seldom now. Hot with rum mix is best.

 

[hunboldt]

Nope, even though he is local I've never met Ron. I have seen him driving his Dodge half car half van. I can't remember the model name.

I promised him first dibs on any deer carcasses for his monster dogs to devour from this year's hunt so perhaps I'll get the opportunity.

**update** it's a Chrysler PT Cruiser.

its called a 'Thatcherwagon', if it has a Piece of plywood behind the drives seat, and th erest cut away with a cutting torch with a bad Harris tip...

Back on topic, are you moonshining Vodka off the back 40. Petros?

 

[petros]

Nope not moonshine, I do it in the daylight and yeah I sometimes use my own grain but prefer using fruit.

 

[Toro]

Which ones are you drinking?

Nice you see you around by the way Toro.

You came up in conversation recently

Don't believe them!

Macallan 12 is the house whisky in the Toro household, but I have bottles of all listed in the OP. I'll be buying an Oban 18, Glendronach 15, Clynelish 12 and Edradour 10 next month, all of which I've tried or have heard are good.

I'll say this - its damn expensive buying whisky in Canada! Macallan 12 is $100 a bottle in Canada. That's a crime! You can buy it for half that at Costco here. I don't know if I'd be laying out $100 a week for a bottle if I were back home. Heck, I might think that swill people call "rye" was good too! lol

It's just alcohol, with some colour and some flavour. The secret to a good drinking experiences is to ignore taste and concentrate on the buzz. Scotch reminds me of varsol.

That's because you're drinking swill, DB! Quality, my man. Quality. I won't drink crappy alcohol. I wouldn't drink at all if all I had was cooking beers, wines, etc., i.e. Bud, Johnnie Walker, etc.

When I was a kid, I didn't like the taste of alcohol but I like what it did to me. Now that I'm older, I like the taste of alcohol but I don't like what it does to me. I wish alcohol didn't make me drunk. I'd drink more of it!

 

[Blackleaf]

My late Scottish grandfather (him of the big house and servants in Kenya during the days of Empire) used to love his Bell's. He drank it mixed with that other great Scottish drink - Irn Bru.

On the floor of his bedroom at his home in Paisley there was, for years and years, a big orange stain on the carpet where he once vomited a lot of his Bell's/Irn Bru up on one of the many occasions that he was drunk.

 

[Cannuck]

I'm allergic to whiskey. Fifteen or twenty drinks and I wake up with a killer head ache the next morning

 

[captain morgan]

Since when am I a Democrat?


Never tried Gibson's and am not sure it's available here in Gopherland. I don't drink anymore so I'll take your word that it is a goody.

Gibsons isn't marketed the same as Crown, but it's a good rye by all I've spoken too. Too bad you can't try a nip

PS - I was just having a bit of fun with you too

I can drink wine no problem, but am increasingly 'asthmatic' from almost all other drinks, vodka worst of all.

The circumstance that you and Pete suffer from, is that common?

I know many people that have a poor reaction to wine (red mostly) as a result of the sulphites in it, but not so much reactions to hard liquor

 

[hunboldt]

Why vodka? It's the cleanest liquor there is. It has zero tannins and tartrazine like everything else including wines. That's kind of backwards but everyone is created differently I suppose.


There is a CanCon member who has tried my vodka. I'd love to hear his comments but it's his choice as to whether or not he posts. I hope he does. If not I understand.

Vodka was invented by Slavs so that they didn't have to wait for the Barrel to age:lol:

 

[Sons of Liberty]

Yuck, just plain yuck.

 

[#juan]

A few people know what good whiskey is:

Canadian Whisky » Alberta Premium 30 Year Old Limited Edition®

 

[Blackleaf]

Just to point out that whiskies made in Canada, Japan, Scotland, England and Wales are called "whisky".

Whiskeys produced in Ireland and the USA are called "whiskey".

So in the two main whisky areas - Scotland and Ireland - whisky is spelt "whisky" and "whiskey" respectively.

The word "whisky/whiskey" comes from the Irish Gaelic "uisce" and Scottish Gaelic "uisge" meaning "water".

By Canadian law Canadian whiskies must be produced and aged in Canada, be distilled from a fermented mash of cereal grain, be aged in wood barrels with a capacity limit of 700 litres (185 US gal; 154 imp gal) for not less than three years, and "possess the aroma, taste and character generally attributed to Canadian whisky".The terms "Canadian Whisky", "Rye Whisky", and "Canadian Rye Whisky" are legally indistinguishable in Canada and do not require any specific grain in their production. Canadian whiskies may contain caramel and flavouring in addition to the distilled mash spirits, and there is no maximum limit on the alcohol level of the distillation.To be exported under one of the "Canadian Whisky" designations, a whisky cannot contain more than 9.09% imported spirits.

 

[karrie]

The circumstance that you and Pete suffer from, is that common?

I know many people that have a poor reaction to wine (red mostly) as a result of the sulphites in it, but not so much reactions to hard liquor

I have a friend who like Pete can't drink anything but vodka, and another who reacts strongly to vodka, they get gaspy, out of breath, feeling like their chests are being sat on.

It's not something I've really looked into further, because, well, it just makes sense to stay away from the boozes that make you feel that way, yeah? lol.

 

[Kreskin]

I don't drink much at all anymore, except the occasional wine. I've never been a sparkling wine guy but do enjoy a wine that is made locally. Coastal Black sparkling blackberry. It's awesome.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Why can't Canadians make decent whiskies?

You've got to be working from an unrepresentative sample of the poorest quality stuff, like trying Johnny Walker Red and Teachers and deciding the Scots can't make decent stuff either. What have you tried?

 

[Spade]

Has he tried CC?

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Probably, CC has set itself up as the standard, but that's just marketing and it's not one of the better ones. As Blackleaf pointed out, no rye grain is required in the mash to be able to call something Canadian Rye Whisky, so a lot of them have corn and wheat and other such things in them. The best ones, like Forty Creek, are made with rye grain.

 

[JLM]

I know nothing about Whisky, but years ago "Something Special" was supposedly the epitome.