Top 10: Christmas Gifts for Whiskey Lovers 2024

[@colourlessbluethings]

Planning a beer equivalent?

[@TheCrumbyBeard]

Wednesday if I get my act together! 🤣

[@billyboy9810]

The Classic Laddie and Eagle are classic everyday drams and I love them. I love a really good old fashioned cocktail so good crystal rocks glasses are a great gift. Good bitters are also a must and I really enjoy great cocktail cherries. I always get socks or kegs but what the hell.

[@TheCrumbyBeard]

Haha! Hopefully this video will help a few people sway away from the traditional sock-giving routine. Cheers!

[@HawkerPaul]

I can thoroughly recommend you get yourself a Stolzle Lausitz nosing glass Tom. I've got Copitas, Glencairns, Norlan, I even got the Bunnah big wibbly wobbly glasses (free from Master of Malt on a Bunnah 12 Cask Strength offer), and the Stolze for me is perfect. Lovely to hold, great to look at your whisky in, and its a superb glass for nosing. (those bunnah glasses are also fabulous for nosing believe it or not given how wide they are at the top) Now there's an idea for a video Tom.... testing whisky glasses. It amazing how different a whisky can change between glassware especially in aromas. I used to subscribe to whisky me and meet up with a couple of friends once a month. It was good while it lasted, but every now and then we'd have a disappointing month, so now instead we each put £30 a month into the pot and choose between ourselves for the next purchase, or we might build the pot up a month or 2 for something more special.

[@TheCrumbyBeard]

Are the Stolzle Lausitz really that much better than the Glencairns? Based on shape I feel like they'd be very similar! Comparing glassware has been a video idea for a while now - just for whatever reason keeps getting pushed back. I'll get on it soon! Great idea re: mates meet-up and splitting the cost of a bottle. I don't know enough whisky lovers locally to do it but it sounds a fantastic idea. I don't get too put-off by my Whisky Me duds as I tend to keep any for a few months anyway and then take them on holiday so I never know which dropped when unless I go back and look it up!

[@HawkerPaul]

@@TheCrumbyBeard I certainly think they are Tom. They are much nicer to hold both to drink from and to look at the whisky. Aroma seems better to me too being more bulbous bottom compared to glencairns and copitas. They're like the best of both worlds between a copita and a glencairn as I do like a shingle with a stemmed glass. 🍷🍷🍷

[@ilcorvo9559]

Agree with you on the cocktail route into whisk(e)y Question on the ice maker; to be honest I rarely drink whiskey with ice but I do use it for other cocktails and occasionally an old fashioned. Have you tried these ice makers and do they produce clear ice? as I have tried a fair few moulds and they’re always imperfect. I watch videos of these Japanese bar tenders and they always cut these awesome ice chunks and it makes me jealous!

[@TheCrumbyBeard]

I've tried making my own from scratch from a large block, and I've seen the product of the ice make trays (I don't have one though, as I'd rarely used it and struggle for the freezer space). I've seen very similar results from what I'd deem practical. It's also about slowing down the rate of freeze in some cases so the effectiveness of all methods is down to the freezer used etc. If you want perfection, you have to do it DIY, freezer a block, inside a cooler, inside a freezer for days. If you're happy with someone that's better than a regular ice-cube tray, then those moulds do a good job of that for the price.