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I am clearing out a cupboard. I used to have a dram with my dad but as he's not around and I don't know anyone to give these to I was wondering if anyone here would like them. There's an unopened Laphroaig 10yo, a half-full Macallan 10yo, a half-full Knockando bottled in 1990 and the dregs of a Scapa 12yo. I would swap for a reasonable 25mm road tyre.
Whisky by Cycling Mollie, on Flickr
I would take them but don't like to have whisky in the house as I just drink it ...
That being said I will take it if noone else does.
Gatorskin 25mm?
A Gatorskin would do nicely ARobComp. Maybe you could lock the whisky away until Hogmanay.
yeah - I'm terrible at measuring it out - I think that's my problem. A wee dram when I get home at the end of a long day turns into 3 hours of whisky soaked sofa daydreaming. ..
That's a pair of Gatorskins at least.
Very good selection. You can't actually get that macallan anymore as they have tinkered. Shame as it was the best. I do not like the laphroig. I have a couple of Gatorskins, not new, one in fair Nick but happy to let Arobcomp exercise restraint.
Happy with one. I can't sell it on eBay or Gumtree and I think it has a limited life span in the bottle anyway.
Insto, if you think it's worth more then please make me an offer. I genuinely have no idea what a bottle of whisky costs. I was given all these either as gifts or for fixing people's computers. There were several SMWS bottles of single cask stuff but they are gone.
Oh I used to love a Laphroig. And Scapa is veritable nectar.
However I've given up on drinking spirits these days.
I would agree with Insto, that wee collection is worth considerably more than one Gatorskin, albeit that most of the bottles have been opened.
Maybe you should just invite some friends round for a whisky tasting evening? Burns Night still some time off, but could present an opportunity to give the whisky a good send off.
you should reserve at least one of the open ones for use in marmalade...maybe we should do a CCE own label next year?
@SRD, sacrilege! For culinary purposes, using a single malt is a waste. Just pick up a cheap supermarché blended "cooking whisky" for such purposes.
I may no longer imbibe the hard stuff, but still believe it ought to be treated with respect!
At most a supermarket own label malt. Co-op Islay malt is fine for cooking (and actually not a bad, if not a great, malt in its own right).
sacrilege? only 50ml per batch. completely different effect depending on what you use.
bell's is fine, but we've enjoyed old pulteney and poit dhubh more.
been meaning to try something smokier though, if anyone wants to donate a snart of the laphroig
Not sacrilege at all. If you use cooking whisky you'll get a marmalade with a hint of cooking whisky. If you use a single malt, you will get a veritable king (or queen) of marmalades.
Islays work a treat. I've made batches of marmalade with Bowmore (good) and Caol Ila cask strength (frankly superb) and as SRD says you only need 50ml per batch - in fact, I think I had 50ml in a double batch which produced something like 4 Kilner jars.
The Laphroaig would make a good marmalade.
What a dreadful waste of a decenrt single malt, is all I can say. Colour me appalled... ;-)
Half an hour's drinking pleasure vs a couple of month's tasty breakfasts - the choice is yours. ;o)
What a bunch of alkies. I wonder if I can get a chainring in exchange for the enormous bale of cannabis I found on the beach last week?
So if I made a batch of CCE marmalade with the profits going to pay for our server upgrade....
Alkies? I probably shouldn't mention the beer then.
@SRD Yum...
(You're not in need of jam jars, are you? I have stopped collecting them and just put them in the glass recycling these days, but we do like a little bit of jam/marmelade/honey in the fimm household so I can start collecting again if you (or anyone else) would like me to...)
fimm - if you ever get widemouthed jars - such as those that bonne maman jam and salsa from lupe pintos comes in - i'd be very happy to receive those :)
I had a jar crisis with my bramble jelly this year. I had just short of 4 kilos of fruit as had help picking from younger and older generations of Gembos. My mum had brought extra jars but they were mostly Nick nack jars that would have been fine for everyone getting a smallot if we were short of fruit. As SRD and PS point out the CCE jam jar of choice is wide mouthed. I froze some juice and two cartons of jelly. Anyway if we are going for a jamboree I can bring bramble jelly.
Worryingly douglas carswell is allegedly a jam maker. Tory jam. Mine is formerly left wing now labour jelly
Talking of jars, I'm looking forward to rinsing Wednesday night's hotel of its tiny jam jars, as I reckon they'll be ideal for DIY baby mush.
The Whole Food's olive tapenade jars would also be the correct size, but I eat that stuff dangerously fast.
Yes or English Provender caramelised onion which is basically very lovely chutney. Small jar two quid, my mum will eat it all in one sitting.
Darkerside - frozen cubes of baby mush for first born for sure. Hours of peeling and cooking pears then freezing them then defrosting them to produce stuff Heinz used to do (Apple sauce). We persevered with baby no 2, mostly carrots then supplemented with organix jars which made all sorts of claims - butternut squash etc but turned out mostly carrots as friend pointed out they thought the boy was a bit orange and maybe had jaundice which the GP sent us to sick kids about (eyes were clear blue so in Sick kids for two mins after we waited to see medic).
I now officially detest Heston Blumenthal's Earl Grey and Lemon Gin. I will never get Sunday back.
Bonne Maman jars are the dope. I got no brambles this year.
Bone maman jam also dope. In super-u you get the full range including myrtille which is super dope.
Given l'homme du train extension I will bring labour partisan west rigg bramble jelly to PY at Halloween for IWRATS. However, if we open it furtively it can be spread around. Arf Arf.The early shift there would still allow you to be at work at usual time.
I used to frequent the International Bar and there was an old guy in there would sell you sausage meat under the table. Ok for the vleeseter but not the veggie. Though I liked the blitz spirit of the exchanges even if the old guy was a bit crumpled.
@gembo Seconded on the English Provender, their Moroccan Spiced Chutney is also spot on.
@geordiefatbloke - I will look out for that. Their very lazy chillies and very lazy ginger also good and last a lot longer than their chutneys.
Chilli jam is another condiment I like with cauldron tofu pieces, cranberry sauce and white bread on Boxing Day. You can of course swap the tofu pieces for Turkey.
@gembo: we've got some glorified ice cube trays for storage; jars would more be for transport out and about. The plastic jobs we've got turn out not to be leak-proof...
@everyone else. Are we still talking about jam? I had no idea there was such a condiment underworld.
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