So, what are you drinking now?

@Hewie I'm a more generous marker with a dram in hand. It's better for my students. I get a tad peeved when my students write an essay on the October Crisis (aka the FLQ crisis) and the Oka crisis yet they don't know when the War Measures Act was used.....even though we've discussed it in class, watched a documentary on it, debated it etc... Ardbeg and Laphroaig take the edge off.

@OdysseusUnbound I've tried peated malts for work accompaniment. I find them too distracting (in a good way)

@OdysseusUnbound I would be curious to learn about the view you have on these crisis. One of the most educative experience for a "Québécois" is to listen on any given night to the News in French than in English. So is the comparison of the French and English Canadian History books. If only I was able to get a Kornog whisky and one Chapter of the English Co to go with this debate...

My dram last night was a Glen Scotia 12, disco cow edition. Nice, easy, tasty enough, simple. Very little in the way of fruits or peat. Just straight-up scotch single malt, if we can allow for such a designation.

Those who read my posts about the blind Campbeltown vote-off that I staged for my club a couple month ago might remember that this was one of the contenders. And it didn't win, so here it is on my personal shelf instead. Since then, it's been my easy bottle to just grab & drink lately without too much ceremony or ado. It's about half-gone already (very fast for me), and I might just need to apply the brakes a bit—my intention is for it to last until my birthday in December, when I plan to open a 22-year IB Glen Scotia that I've been saving for a few years now.

I hear the new OB range is really good, especially the new 15 (but I'll always miss the disco cows). Anybody had that new 15 yet?

@Robert99 I think it would be interesting to compare perspectives in English and French. Having lived through that but too young to understand anything except mail boxes blowing up...

Maybe when you're in town we can discuss over a good dram..

@Nozinan Throw in the Indigenous version of history and you would have three distinctly different perspectives.

@Robert99 Je suis Franco-ontarien, donc mon opinion n’est peut-être pas celle de la majorité des Ontariens. Par contre, j’encourage mes élèves à consulter diverses sources afin de se former une opinion éclairée. Malheureusement, c’est rare que les élèves y mettent l’effort nécessaire.

@BlueNote And I’ve got ancestors from all sides (mainly French, but there’s some Scottish and Anishinaabe in there) so I have to argue with myself on which is the “fairest” and most accurate interpretation. I find myself exhausting to be around.

@Nozinan That's a wonderful idea. You have lived in three different languages that gives some insight few have.

@OdysseusUnbound Étant un francophone amateur de whisky et jouant au curling, je ne suis pas le Québécois typique. J'ai tendance à avoir une vision socio- économique de l'histoire avec un peu de géopolitique. Ce serait intéressant de pouvoir échanger en buvant un bon whisky.

@Robert99 @OdysseusUnbound

Je pense que nous avons tous les trois besoin d'en discuter plus, dans une salle pleine de whisky ...

A windy, rainy night is perfect for a Whisky. Drinking a recently opened bottle; Girvan 31 year (May 1984) Cask Strength Single Barrel (SMWS G7.10) Lowland Grain. "The Texan tea party". Just getting to know this one and it is really opening up quite nicely. Spicy (like a Rye Whisky) and vanilla (like a bourbon). A big and flavorful dram.

I'm taking the same approach with Wiser's Legacy as I did with Dissertation. I want to get to know it a few times and do a review, and I want to decide if it's an expression (now fading into history) I want to bunker up. The nose is fabulous.

If I had started with these Wiser's expressions before Scotch I may well have stayed there...

Tonight, the final dram of an Arran 13 yr (May '01) from a 2nd fill Oloroso Sherry Hogshead from Single Cask Nation. Cask #102. 1 of 329 bottles. Really going to miss this one. So good.

Sticking with the sherry theme, Laphroaig 18 year (1998) Single Sherry Butt cask hand-filled at the distillery (04/16) 250 ml bottle

@bwmccoy must have been a big dram...that bottle looked pretty full...

@bwmccoy Yum!

@Nozinan - I just couldn't bring myself to post a picture of an empty bottle.

@BlueNote - They both were very yummy!

@bwmccoy Well, I hope that means you have a spare bottle if you enjoyed it that much.

I am very much enjoying my CS SMWS 12 YO Arran, close shave from a tipsy barber.

Just to be clear though, I mean since opening it almost 2 years ago I've been enjoying it. I am currently working and not enjoying any spirits...

@Nozinan Me too, but we are both enjoying them vicariously via Connosr.

@BlueNote Ah, but here my work day is done....you still have 2.5h.

But I won't get to dram for a few hours yet, if at all tonight

Onto my 2nd bottle of Wiser's Dissertation. Won't be the last drink of the night!

@Nozinan I work mainly from home, so quitting time is whenever I decide I'm finished for the day or fed up with whatever I'm doing. It's now 6:20 Pacific time, I will now pour a small measure of Springbank 15 and contemplate what I might follow up with. Whatever it is, I feel the need for peat. TGIF. Cheers.

Moved onto Eagle Rare 10. Watching "Long Time Running"

And finished with Wiser's One Fifty.

@boatracer how was that? It's one I never got to try.

@Nozinan it's good, I would say it is between the Legacy and Dissertation. More bite than the Legacy, but less intense than Dissertation. I've got another one in reserve. Probably won't open it right away, but I'm not the collector type so it will get drank eventually.

@boatracer Interesting, in the background I see the same Benromach 10, Redbreast 12 CS and Deanston 10 CS PX that are in my cabinet.

I hope you enjoy them well...

@Nozinan there is a reason they are up top, don't have to worry about those pesky cabinet doors keeping me from my whisky.

Just having a dram pf Oban DE 1997-2012 from abottle that have been opened for close to 4 years and still is 35% full. Spice, pepper, cantaloup, vanilla and ice mint, but the mouth feel thinner.

@Robert99_ cantaloupe pairs nicely with prosciutto.