NEW MEMBERS - INTRODUCTION AREA

[bredman]

Привет. Меня зовут Игорь. Я из Беларусь. Я интересуюсь виски 2 года.

Anatoli Boukreev is a hero. I don't know if he's Russian Or Belorussian, but welcome.

[Theus]

Sorry)))
Hello. My name is Igor. I am from Belarus. I am interested in whiskey 2 years

Welcome Igor!
Just interested in whiskey or in Single Malts too?

[well-sherried]

Hello all,

Kevin, errrr.. well-sherried here.

Live in the Atlanta area, originally from the Boston area.

As I said on my profile, had a bad experience with 7&7's 30 years ago and hadn't touched whiskey or thought about drinking it until about a year ago when I tried my first single malt - - The Balvenie 12 DW.

I've taken a liking to the malts, tried a few and believe it or not, vacationing in Scotland in a few months.

So I'm trying to come up the learning curve and have already been lurking here in the background for a month. I'll be posting here and there real soon.

Regards,

Kevin

[dramtastic]

Welcome Kevin, woops, I mean well-sherried.

[pkt77242]

Hello all,

Kevin, errrr.. well-sherried here.

Live in the Atlanta area, originally from the Boston area.

As I said on my profile, had a bad experience with 7&7's 30 years ago and hadn't touched whiskey or thought about drinking it until about a year ago when I tried my first single malt - - The Balvenie 12 DW.

I've taken a liking to the malts, tried a few and believe it or not, vacationing in Scotland in a few months.

So I'm trying to come up the learning curve and have already been lurking here in the background for a month. I'll be posting here and there real soon.

Regards,

Kevin

Welcome Kevin, hope you enjoy your time here.

[Ganga]

Welcome Kevin. Please come join in one of the live tastings. You will be able to at least ask some questions of the denizens about some of the whiskies being tried.

[John Barleycorn]

welcome to the forum Kevin.

Cheers John

[beastiealice]

hi im a new member but i not a whisky drinker i was looking how to get a bottle of whisky valued, it belonged to my grandad, i thought i may find a valuer on here?
beastiealice,

[Ganga]

Alice, I would recommend that you get some photos of the bottle. There is a forum here where you can ask for advice on the value of the bottle. At worst, we may point you in a direction to get better information.

[Drammed]

welcome Kevin

[Lefty]

My first post... Hello!

I'm Iain, I live in rural Aberdeenshire, on the eastern edge of Speyside, very close to Ardmore, GlenDronach and Glen Garioch.

I've been drinkign whisky for about 15 years and have built up a bit of a collection. I buy to drink rather than invest...

I started a blog on the 1st January, I have a different dram every day and write some basic tasting notes about it.

http://www.dramperday.wordpress.com

I'd welcome any feedback, even criticisim (but preferably constructive!).

Slainte!

[John Barleycorn]

Welcome to the forum Iain

Cheers John

[Ganga]

My first post... Hello!

I'm Iain, I live in rural Aberdeenshire, on the eastern edge of Speyside, very close to Ardmore, GlenDronach and Glen Garioch.

I've been drinkign whisky for about 15 years and have built up a bit of a collection. I buy to drink rather than invest...

I started a blog on the 1st January, I have a different dram every day and write some basic tasting notes about it.

http://www.dramperday.wordpress.com

I'd welcome any feedback, even criticisim (but preferably constructive!).

Slainte!

Welcome Iain.

Constructive criticism. I read through more than a dozen. And while I may agree or disagree with your thoughts I do have one criticism. I would love to know what glass you are using when dramming? Is it always the same? Is it the one in the picture?

I ask because I have found that my enjoyment of a whisky varies by changing glassware and that the maximum enjoyment is not always in the same style glass. An example was this weekend when I really found the Wellers Centennial 10 bourbon to be much more enjoyable in a large brandy glass than in a glencairn. However, some of the higher abv whiskies just get too intense in the big bowl.

Again, welcome aboard.

[Lefty]

Thanks very much. Yes, the glass you see is what I'm drinking from and usually with varying quantities of water.

I agree that certain whiskies suit different glasses, I vary between a large tumbler, glencairn (I have a few different sizes and shapes of these) and small wine glasses (almost like large port goblets actually).

[awhiskeydrink]

Hi Everyone,

Just enjoy sippin' scotch & bourbon on the weekends. I write reviews with my buddy from grad school for fun. I was just looking for like minded people. Looking forward to reading/talking about whisk(e)y .

Cheers,
Swift
awhiskeydrink

[Oldgold]

Hello!

I am Malcolm, and have just joined. I spent a few minutes looking through the posts here and, finding them to be friendly and welcoming, decided to give it a go. I may not post too frequently (busy doing lots of things) but will do my best. Cheers to all!

[Drammed]

Welcome Swift and Malcolm. Pull up a chair and stay a while.

Cheers

[Ganga]

A big welcome to Swift and Malcom. As Drammed alludes, we'd love for to come in and participate.

[John Barleycorn]

Welcome Swift and Malcom. Pour yourselves a dram and unwind.

Cheers John

[pkt77242]

Welcome Iain, Swift and Malcolm. I hope you enjoy your time here and hope you join us for our monthly live tastings.

[Lefty]

Thank you!

[whitehead_paul89]

Hello, i'm new to this forum and glad i enjoyed some great amazing things on here & on this website

[Ganga]

Welcome Paul.

[jlstuht]

Hi all! Been reading the forums for about a year now and finally got around to registering. I'm in Madison, WI, USA and am a retired recording engineer/producer. Visited the Highlands for the first time last year and had such a great time, we're headed back in 2012. Going to hit the islands and some of the areas we missed last time around.

Been enjoying Scotch whisky since my college days (back in the Stone Age - 1960's), but just began collecting more than a bottle here and there after our trip where we sampled as many different labels as we dared. (Was a driving trip, so had to be careful. Driving on the left was not that hard to get used to but definitely didn't want to temp fate by drinking until we had reached our evening destinations.)

Jim S

[MontyPeculiar]

Hi - another new member here. Been lurking for a few months, but thought it was time to take the plunge. I'm very much a newbie as far as whisky is concerned, and loving the journey so far!

[John Barleycorn]

A big welcome to Paul and Jim.

Cheers John

[John Barleycorn]

Sorry, I nearly missed you there Monty. Welcome to the forum. Glad you've taken the plunge, hope you didn't find the water too cold.

Cheers John

[Ganga]

Welcome to the forums Jim and Monty. Hope you have a good time here.

[andyt]

A warm welcome to all the new members.

[pkt77242]

Welcome Jim, Monty and Paul

[jazzbutcher]

Hi folks, I've just joined, just posted a reply to someone, want to be active, love whisky, live in Tansley near Matlock, born in Kirkcaldy in the Kingdom of Fife, I hate whisky snobs with a vengance, love people who drink it cause it's fantasticly varied, tried almost all I can get my sweaty mitts on, but love Mortlach 15 year old, it just gets caught on the cusp of pefection, still lively, stimulates conversation, full of flavour and probably the best I've tasted so far. Had a Japanese one the other week, Yamazaki 10 year old and jesus they got the Island thing right, couldn't believe they could make this in Japan. I also like the cheap bottles of Tobermory and Laidaig, that sort of seaweed taste is weird but familiar. Anyway, hope someone replies. Paul

[Ganga]

Welcome Paul. I do hope to see you active on the forums.

[Muskrat Portage]

Wonderful! A bunch of new and iterested members. Welcome to the forums and FYI, Ganga is a lot of fun to "play with". He makes the live tastings very interesting and active.

You all will enjoy yourselves and may inadvertently learn somethign new nearly every time you log on.

Musky
aka Muskrat Portage

[Muskrat Portage]

Gotta use spell check I guess. that's twice I've misspelled "something" tonight. "iterested" I think I'll just igore.

[Dibs]

Hello everyone,
I'd like to introduce myself.
My name is Duane and I'm from West Yorkshire in the UK.I'm 37 and am married with a son.
I've been drinking whisky for quite a long time but have decided to try investing in it now.I've read a lot of posts on this forum and found that there are a lot of very helpful people on here giving great advice.
I hope to learn more about the whisky i'm drinking and pick up suggestions as to collecting so that some day it may be me giving the advice to new comers like me.
Looking forward to being part of this great forum
Duane.