[MM-MALTS-L] Still here

[ron]

Hi Brian, hi all
Thanks for the reply. 
Haven't been to Pune, but I've spent quite a bit of time in other parts of India. My father in law claims (and possibly with good reason) that he has the best malt whisky collection in India. Our shared passion for malt was a swinging factor in the approval for me stealing his daughter (yes I brought him some good malts). If you are ever down the Bangalore/Bombay way I can find you a decent dram or two there.

Meantime my offer of a dram and a pakora stands for any list members coming by Rome in the near future

Slainte
Ron

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From: "Bushido" <professormalt at comcast.net>
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Hi Ron, 
  
I spent a week in Pune and I don't think any of the restaurants there had any malts to speak of.  We mostly drank tequila shots, which was surreal to me.  The most popular whisky is an unassuming blended, reminiscent of Ballentine's, called Black Dog. I did venture a try at the local "whisky" over the vigorous protests of our hosts, which was truly horrid.  Take one part sterno, two parts charcoal lighter fluid and add some weak black tea and you've got some approximation of the taste. 
  
Sounds like Jon has given you all the help you may need.  I thought I'd give you the in-country perspective. 
  
Sláinte, 
Brian 
  

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From:  mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net [mailto:mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net] On Behalf Of ron
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:51 AM
To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List
Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] Still here 
  
Glad the list is still alive if not kicking much. Pity I have to confess ignorance so soon: what does Dunlop have to do with Mackintyre descent? (Apologies if I am ruining a joke by asking it to be explained to me).

Here's a malt whisky question: not easy to pair malts with food at the best of times, but how about recommendations for suitable malt whiskies for with Indian food. I ask because I am currently helping to run an Indian restaurant and I want to develop the malts range we have, also bevause I have a friend here in Rome running 'whisky wine and words' which pairs whiskies with Italian food (mainly) and I want to interest her in our restaurant.

Slainte
Ron

> Hello Unc
>
> As I swooned with delight at the thought of being trapped in the 
> ionosphere
> swirling around this magnetic lady of your imagination (I shall call 
> her
> Aurora) I lifted the first dram from a newly opened bottle of Duncan 
> Taylor
> NC2 Glen Elgin 16 years old. I immediately awarded it 3 Michelin 
> Stars. Or
> perhaps 4 Firestone Stars or even 5 Dunlop Stars for those of 
> Mackintyre
> descent.
>
> Many years ago I had a bottle of Cadenhead's Longmorn that reminded 
> me more
> of the discarded pneumatics used as weights on a silage pit than the
> product of a malt distillery. This Glen Elgin is so sulfurous the 
> Longmorn
> seems more a distant memory of the perfume and petrol from a Blower 
> Bentley
> drifting around a tight curve compared with the flapping remanants 
> of a
> smoking rubber screeched from the wheel rims of an overloaded Mack 
> logging
> truck lugging 40 tonnes of radiata pine down to the pulp mill.
>
> Have Glen Elgin done away with copper stills or is the NC2 range the 
> bottom
> of the barrel? Anybody else tried this stuff?
>
> Peter Wood
>
>
>
>
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