Whiskey Conundrum

Oafley Jones · 18-12-2015 10:58PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:00PM

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. · 18-12-2015 11:03PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:04PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:11PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:20PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:21PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:22PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:29PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:34PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:38PM

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 · 18-12-2015 11:47PM

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 · 19-12-2015 12:18AM

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. · 19-12-2015 01:32AM

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

Azalea · 19-12-2015 01:54AM

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 · 19-12-2015 02:01AM

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

One cube of ice, nothing even resembling a mixer!

Zaph · 19-12-2015 02:07AM

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 · 19-12-2015 02:11AM

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 · 19-12-2015 02:31AM

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 · 19-12-2015 02:52AM

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.

dasdog · 19-12-2015 02:53AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Jameson,Paddy,Powers,Bushmills

That's like a €25 voucher for dunnes.

A present is supposed to be above regular expectations so a bottle of green spot and yellow spot to some family members.

J Mysterio · 19-12-2015 03:00AM

jamesbere wrote: »

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

Pssh

mada999 · 19-12-2015 03:11AM

Oryx wrote: »

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

ice ???????????????????????????????????????????

bodhrandude · 19-12-2015 04:29AM

You can't beat a good smoked malt from the Isle of Islay.

misstearheus · 19-12-2015 04:41AM

Used to work in a Wholesale. Oh man, the Xmas boxes, Wine, Whiskey, Chocolates, Biscuits, Boxes of Crisps.

syklops · 19-12-2015 05:42AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

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

I'll trade you a slab of beer for whiskey of a similar cost. Im in South Dublin.

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-12-2015 08:23AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

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

The high quality umbrella mightn't last a trip to the pub on a wet night in February...

siblers wrote: »

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

My grandmother used to drink whiskey with Miwadi orange. It was very sweet but any whiskey-hater in know who tried it, thought it was quite palatable.

I work for a company with 'ethics', so suppliers are told to only give diaries and calendars, or they risk lose our business. Anything bigger should be handed in (by us) to be raffled off between all employees. I've only forgotten to hand up a bottle of Hennessy so far this year, but there will be at least one or two more.

worded · 19-12-2015 08:46AM

Froze a bottle of Jameson and it was lovely.

Myself and a mate polished it at one sitting after it had been sitting around for 3 years !

There is something lovely about freezing cold whiskey with no mixer or added ice to change its taste

pickarooney · 19-12-2015 08:53AM

ArtyM wrote: »

Are those euphemisms?
Cause they sound like euphemisms.

I'll give you phemisms, if you know what I mean

BunkMoreland · 19-12-2015 09:15AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Jameson,Paddy,Powers,Bushmills.

Bushmills? But that's a protestant whiskey.

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