Whiskey Conundrum

Sir Osis of Liver.

Why do Irish people give Whiskey as a gift at christmas?Is it peculiar to Ireland?

I'm looking at 7 bottles of the uisce beatha that I've got this week from various associates as a christmas box and I hate the sh1te.

Chances are I'll get a few more before the week is out.

WTF am I going to do with up to a dozen bottles of firewater?

I'm a beer drinker.

thee glitz

Did you get some Jameson? Throw it in with a mixer you like and it'll give it a bit of kick.

Oryx

Just tell us where you live. We'll bring ice

Peregrine

I can take them off your hands.

It's probably not good for the aul cirrhosis of liver anyway.

suicide_circus

We're gonna sit here while you drink every last bottle, young man

Sir Osis of Liver.

thee glitz wrote: »

Did you get some Jameson? Throw it in with a mixer you like and it'll give it a bit of kick.

Jameson,Paddy,Powers,Bushmills.
All the brand names are represented.
Like I said I hate the sh1te.

The Moldy Gowl

You could do a really nice deed and give some away to your fellow boardsies who like whiskey.

Whiskey is lovely.

gandalf

You can give it to someone who likes Whiskey......LIKE ME!

jamesbere

Throw the paddy's down the sink, awful stuff.

Mena

Whisky or Whiskey?

The Backwards Man

I used to run a bar and nightclub and every single rep, every single fcuking one of them, used to give me a bottle of whiskey of Christmas. I says to one, I'm after buying ten pallets of spirits off you, do you not think I see enough of the stuff, can you not give me a nice fleece jacket or a golf umbrella? He just shrugged, the bastard.

BoJack Horseman

businesses exchange them often, amongst clients & contacts etc....

Usually amongst males....

The boxes usually re-gifted in a large scale pass-the-parcel.

The Moldy Gowl

Mena wrote: »

Whisky or Whiskey?

Can't beat a scotch.

SEPT 23 1989

Drink a few bottles tonight beer drinker and by Christmas day you will look and feel like an American soldier who did a couple of tours in vietnam

DEFTLEFTHAND

Fcukers only give me cheap bottles of wine.

LETHAL LADY

Make 4000 whiskey cakes.

The Moldy Gowl

I never get free whiskey. It's not fair.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

Can't beat a scotch.

Is that not sacrilege around these parts?

webpal

I have to agree Sir, I hate the stuff and only drink beer. That's all I've drank since I started. Guess what all my friends gave me for a significant birthday? Yep whiskey. A €15 box of carlsberg would have been lovely! Just pass it on or do an oul switcheroo and pass it back.

The Moldy Gowl

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Is that not sacrilege around these parts?

Only for the silly billies. Scotch is lovely.

Bought a fancy dan bottle last month and was the best drink I had.

Fleawuss

I think these Xmas bottles of whiskey have been circulating eternally like some alcoholic version of Groundhog Day. I just remove any little gift tag from the wrapping and pass them on: postmen, low level business contacts etc. I expect some of them have passed through my hands 3 or 4 times at this stage!:pac:

buried

I got 5 bottles of Jameson from my suppliers this year, last few years I usually got 4 bottles of white wine p!ss vinegar and 1 bottle of powers. The good times must be back! Having one of the Jameson bottles right now with some ginger ale, ice and lime whilst listening to some music! Merry Christmas everybody!

Banjo String

I'm quite partial to the odd whisky, beer is my drink of choice, but there's something about nursing a tumbler of whiskey on a winters night with a good movie on the box.

Jameson would my first preference.

The Moldy Gowl

Banjo String wrote: »

I'm quite partial to the odd whisky, beer is my drink of choice, but there's something about nursing a tumbler of whiskey on a winters night with a good move on the box.

Jameson would my first preference.

Speaking my language, drink it straight as well.

The Moldy Gowl

Seriously, where do ye get these bottles from.

I want in on this circle of whiskey.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

Seriously, where do ye get these bottles from.

I want in on this circle of whiskey.

The Backwards Man

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

Seriously, where do ye get these bottles from.

I want in on this circle of whiskey.

You have to sell your soul to the demons of either middle management or entrepreneurship. Free whiskey doesn't come cheap.

Laphroaig52

jamesbere wrote: »

Throw the paddy's down the sink, awful stuff.

What?
You're cracked.

awec

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Jameson,Paddy,Powers,Bushmills.
All the brand names are represented.
Like I said I hate the sh1te.

Use the Powers and Paddy with a mixer, don't waste the Jameson or Bush with any though.

The Moldy Gowl

Laphroaig52 wrote: »

What?
You're cracked.

Great username. Love a good smokey scotch.

Paramite Pie

It's kinda weird and selective actually - if I gifted someone vodka I'd worry I was implying they were an alcho or a party animal.

But whiskey is a sophisticated drink - for someone who likes an evening tipple by the fireplace pontificating over the works of Joyce or Wilde. Or something.

Oafley Jones

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

Only for the silly billies. Scotch is lovely.

Bought a fancy dan bottle last month and was the best drink I had.

Just finished a glass of Lagavulin, while playing The Witcher 3.

Edited for the post above.

The Moldy Gowl

I'll tell ye what. Ye are all pricks.
Hadn't planned to want a drink tonight and here I am at exactly 10pm dying for whiskey.

Bastards.

Sir Osis of Liver.

As someone said earlier,I would much rather a box of cheap beer.

I'm not really the sitting by the fireside,while discussing poetry,whiskey sipping type.

I come from a long line of lager louts.

Summer wind

I love Jack Daniels and Coke. Every Christmas I give my neighbors a nice bottle of whiskey and a tub of roses. You gotta spread the joy and be merry:)

roy rodgers

Count your self lucky.
A well known builders supplier we use, gave us a tesco bottle of white wine (one) we spent over 600k with them this year.

meeeeh

With suppliers I know very quickly how big customer we are. Brandy from those who like or screw us the most, whiskey for middle importance and then wine or calendars and nothing from some.

We actually gave out hampers this year to some more important customers and to some where we would usually have to give three or four bottles. Whiskey or brandy to old school crowd. We have a small number of big customers and you have to do something.

The Backwards Man

roy rodgers wrote: »

Count your self lucky.
A well known builders supplier we use, gave us a tesco bottle of white wine (one) we spent over 600k with them this year.

There's your problem right there, owe them 600k and you get the good stuff!:pac:

buried

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

As someone said earlier,I would much rather a box of cheap beer.

I'm not really the sitting by the fireside,while discussing poetry,whiskey sipping type.

I come from a long line of lager louts.

Bait down the nearest all night, petrol station, centra/spar all night hypermarket and get yourself a few bottles of ginger ale, ice, drinking straws and mix all them into the Jameson and stick this set on the background. I'm having one of the best Christmas party boogie nights ever with this whole concoction

ArtyM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

can you not give me a nice fleece jacket or a golf umbrella? He just shrugged, the bastard.

Are those euphemisms?
Cause they sound like euphemisms.

The Backwards Man

ArtyM wrote: »

Are those euphemisms?
Cause they sound like euphemisms.

Nope. Examples of high quality merchandise from drink's suppliers that last longer than a wet night in February

mad m

OP, I know your pain. Pain in the arse it is getting 150 euro one for all voucher from contractors....it's a right pain as most shops won't take them:)

awec

Summer wind wrote: »

I love Jack Daniels and Coke. Every Christmas I give my neighbors a nice bottle of whiskey and a tub of roses. You gotta spread the joy and be merry:)

Burying JD in coke is about the only way you can drink it. Way too sweet, it's more like sweet water than actual whiskey.

Zaph

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

businesses exchange them often, amongst clients & contacts etc....

Usually amongst males....

I used to work in a team of three, myself and two women. Every year one client would send us a bottle each. It used to drive the two women mad that I'd get a bottle of some sort of spirits and they'd always get one of those gift sets of a bottle of Baileys with a couple of glasses. They both hated Baileys and would have preferred to get the same as I got. It did cheer them up one year when I got the Baileys too, but then none of us got anything any year after that. The Baileys was obviously their way of weaning me off the decent stuff.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Just a thought,but would any of the supermarkets exchange whiskey for slabs of beer?

Azalea

I wouldn't mind getting a bunch of bottles of whiskey. I hardly ever drink it but I'm sure a few glasses of it with ice and a mixer are very nice. Hot whiskeys are very nice too. And some of the bottles could be "re-gifted".

GAAman

4 pages in and not one mention of Glenfiddich, for shame lads.....

One cube of ice, nothing even resembling a mixer!

Zaph

GAAman wrote: »

4 pages in and not one mention of Glenfiddich, for shame lads.....

One cube of ice, nothing even resembling a mixer!

An ice cube in my whiskey constitutes a mixer as far as I'm concerned.

siblers

For anyone who has never really tried or gotten into whiskey, try some Jameson and gingerale, it's the drink of champions.

The Moldy Gowl

Zaph wrote: »

An ice cube in my whiskey constitutes a mixer as far as I'm concerned.

A glass, in my books is a mixer.
Straight from the bottle.

The Moldy Gowl

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Just a thought,but would any of the supermarkets exchange whiskey for slabs of beer?

No. Unless you have the receipt.


But honestly, give them to people who don't get free bottles of whiskey if you won't drink them, especially the younger lads in work or any cousins or whoever.
Sure **** it, if you don't know anyone, do a raffle on boards and we pay for postage.