[Closed] Whiskey. How would you drink it?

no to coke.

Whisky Mac is the way to go.

Equal measures of Bells and Ginger wine (Crabbies if you can get it) and a bit of ice to cool.

[EDIT] - also, no 'e' in scottish whisky, whisk[b]e[/b]y is the irish stuff

Best way to drink bells is to pour some better whisky into the glass and throw the bells down the sink n

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Whiskey Mac +1

Ginger wine, what about ginger ale or is that the same thing?

Bell's is whisky (without the e as it's Scotch); as it's a blend no-one will get upset if you put coke in it, though as blends go, Bell's is pretty drinkable.

The only 'acceptable*' addition to a single malt whisky is water (which helps bring the flavour out); if you want to look like a real professional Highlander, you drink alternate sips of whisky & water.

Andy

*at the end of the day, it's your drink if you want to put ice or something else in it.

Bells - take a mouthful
Spray on window
Rub window until clean.

Less headaches if you drink good single malts.

Do what you like with Bells. Bailey Nicol Jarvie is quite a nice blended whisky.

Decent malt maybe a splash of water.

Cask strength malt always a splash of water.

Brown paper bag in an underpass.

Bells? Try it with Dr Pepper - like an alcopop for men.

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Hahaha, we've all done it.

OK whisky Snobs some people arnt as versed in drinking whisky as you are. I quite like the taste of Bells or Glenfiddich or JD or the like with coke and I dont want to 'learn' how to drink it starting with £50 bottles. I would rather progress onto that. At the moment when I drink it neat I get the rush of strength and flavour because I am not used to it.

Oh and for the classifides idea the last time I did that I ended up with a fishing scale and I dont even fish! Previously I brought a Toyota Celica on ebay!!

Mix it 1 part water 4 parts Bells, makes a great winter screen wash 😀

With mead 3 parts mead to one whisky

Truly it isn't about being a whisky snob.

There's less crap in a good single malt, and your body will thank you for the difference the next day.

I'm drinking Bells with lemonade out the fridge right now, lovely for a most the week drink, single malt at weekend 8)

for scotch, the best way is neat or with a tiny splash of water to open the flavours out - with ice you lose the heat and the flavours

bells is a blend as opposed to a single malt but it's not as bad as drac makes out, give it a go neat and see how you get on

Water it down a bit, even proper whisky drinkers do it.

Drac - that made me laugh! All down to personal taste and experience, not snobbery. I think there are better blends out there than Bells but if its what you've got it would be a shame to waste it. Drink it how you like but it would be a shame to mix a single malt with coke, but if that's what floats your boat, go to it.

No need to spend £50 on a bottle of single malt. Although it is more than possible!

I add water to my favourite Whisky, Glenmorangie, about a 3rd...
Some folk say no water some say must be with water,
There is no right or wrong way...personal choice
The choice is yours 😮

With your friends. Job done...

Coke? You might as well piss in it...

Told us at Glenmorangie distillery to add water. Bells is for adding to coffee or in a hot toddy. Which brings us onto which coffee should I add bells to. 😈

Bells. Mix with toilet water and flush.

I come from a family of free-range whisky distillers (granduncle jailed for it - MacKenzies, Gairloch) and we were always told not to touch the industrial stuff because it's bad for you, whereas proper stuff is good for you. Seems to have worked, most of that side of the family lived a long time. 🙂

If you like it drink it. Ive recently developed a liking for Royal Lochnagar and Springburn Madeira Wood Cask..

I'm with Seven on the whisky mac front, awesome drink this time of year, although I prefer stones ginger wine.

firstly its whisKY (anything with an E isnt from scotland)

as to how to enjoy it - however the X you want. For the cheaper blends i would add what ever mixer you want as straight it is likely to be a bit ropey.

I personally would get the Crabbies Ginger Wine and have it as whiskymac, Tried Bells neat and I found it to be unpleasant to my palate, Famous Grouse I dont mind.
My advice to get into all the diffrenet flavours is to get yourself a big big stock of minatures of all the single malts you can find from round the whisky map and taste as many back to back from all corners.
Ii was one of the highlights of my evenings on this years holiday in Scotland. (Along with getting along to the DH round at Fort William, and the wife thought staying at Glencoe was just for the scenery) 😆

J&B is very nice for a blend.

I have just been given a bottle of Bells and am wondering what the best way of getting rid of it is.

There I corrected it for you 🙂

Seriously I drink decent whiskey neat, room temp. I am afraid I try not to drink bells

I've just been given a bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask and It's really quite nice. It's the first whisky I've tried its a little strong neat but lots of flavour. Do you drink it with a bit of water or neat ? Tis jolly nice mind, I can kind of see what the fuss with whisky is about now 😉

Give the Bells as a Chrissy pressie and get yourself a good malt, can't stand that blended stuff.

I like blended with Old Jamaica ginger beer and malt (especially peaty ones like Lagavulin or Laphroaig)with a splash of coke 😳

Whisky Mack is the only way for Bells, Grants, Famous Grouse, any other Scottish blended whisky.
I'm not a whisky snob though and prefer Irish Whiskey (Bushmills Black Bush) to many Scottish Single Malts.

I like Bells. Neat or with an ice cube. Or with some water. Whatever, ENJOY!

From the man from Macallan's own mouth, he recommended a splash of water (1/5 to 1/4 of the whisky volume) to separate the various flavours a bit. That's how I like it.

From an ex colleague (a Scot, obviously) who knew his stuff, as he used to be head of quality at one of the larger single malt producers whose name escapes me. He also suggested water, but then also said that he didn't mind if you added coke, ginger, ice, lemonade.... as long as you were buying and drinking scotch as opposed to Irish or Bourbon or any other sort and keeping his old colleagues in a decent living.

Don't see why you'd drink Bells any different tbh; OK it's a blend but it's still a blend of whiskies, it's not a different drink entirely. And as most blends were conceived because a lot of single malts were too harsh, drinking a decent blended Scotch 'neat' might be an acclimatising step before stepping into the wider (and baffling) arena of 'proper' whisky.

I prefer Irish whiskey myself, but if i were to have a bottle of bells i'd drink it over ice in a tall glass with loads of soda water, lovely on a hot summers day. So save it until then and get a nice bottle of Bushmills single malt with just a splash of water at room temperature.

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not really, whisky (not that terrible whiskey stuff 😉 ) is made to be drank. Enjoy it how you like. I was at a distillery that makes 65 million litres of the stuff a year today...

I've always drunk it neat - although a splash of water can take the edge off, a good or a bad thing depending on the whisky. A bit more 'quaffable' though!

save it for cooking - put it in nice sauce, or a cake, or in a salad dressing

3 types of whisky.
Nice malt drunk neat.
Cheap eastern european/chinese paint stripper. 1" in pint glass. Same of Vimto. Fill with hot water. Wonderful in bath after cold wet sunday mroning ride when the wife is cooking a roast lunch. Or mix into home made wine to hide the taste.
"Decent " blends Never buy the muck but if given, pass on to Dad who isn't fussy or give the Vimto treatment

On a school night?

There's only one thing you should put it your whisky...more whisky.
But seeing it's Bells bosh some ice in there.

I used to enjoy sitting with a bar of Kendal mint cake and a bottle of Bells.

right im off to select something to drink - all your fault. AFTER ive finished drinking this innes and gunn.

Bells or other cooking whisky goes well with Irn Bru. Both your national drinks in the one glass!

A malt? With water or neat depending on the whisky and your taste. I had a drink at the Oban Distillery after fdoing a job there. The manager of the suggested mixing with a small amount of water.the best water to mix it with according to him is from the same source the distillery draws it's water.

Occasionally, some misguided fool buys me a bottle of Grants / Bells / Grouse. Not one to look a gift-horse in the mouth, I'll happily neck it with a bit of lemonade.

Any malts get a tiny wee drop of water to open them up. If I'm buying malts in a pub, I usually ask for a half pint of water and dispense the water myself - otherwise you run the risk of your nip getting drowned.

I mostly drink Islay malts, and thoroughly enjoy a Dalwhinnie now and then. Always neat, and usually with a pint of Bass or an espresso.

But when the cupboard is bare I sip Bells, neat, from a shot glass and to be honest, it's pretty good.

how would I drink it? Excessively I reckon!

Bells is a bit minging I reckon but it doesnae matter what it tastes like to me - it's you that'll be drinking it. Try mixing a few different things and see what you like. Ice, water, ginger ale, brandy (for indigestion), coke, lemonade, whatever.

If you're mixing with water then try adding a wee bit and tasting it and add more if it needs it. Don't just stick with a third or half-and half. It usually takes a good few drams to find the right tipping point. Sooner or later you'll start telling lies and calling old girlfriends and stop worrying about the drink.

Above all, dinnae let anyboy tell you what you should and shouldn't be doing with YOUR bottle of whisky. There's as much shite talked about it as there is in the fields.

Enjoy.

PS - top tip. If somebody uses the phrase "single malt" when whisky would do then they're probably a tit.

e.g. "I fancy a nice glass of single malt." = tit ;O)

Edit: ****in swear filter!

Living on Speyside and having friends in the many distilleries I can see or ride to from here I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert. Bells is fine in the same way that JD or Bacardi is fine. It gets you pished but is not enjoyable on its own. You need a mixer which might as well be coke as you have already dropped to the lowest level by having the crap in the first place.
A proper whisky should be taken with 1 lump of ice which you allow to melt before drinking, or if you are in a hurry then the same again in proper water. Tap water from anywhere south of Gretna will ruin it! To get the absolute best out of it you should spend at least 18 years eating deep fried pizzas, battered haggis and tablet to prepare your taste buds for it. The ability to kick off for no rational reason is also a requirement.

how about chivas regal at about 25 degrees ( aye the whisky not the air ....)

from an african bush bar* ... darent risk the ice for fear of dysentry !

* may not even have been chivas regal but the bottle said so given ive never had it before id never know the difference

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Straight if it's good.

Beer if it's not.

Mum always taught me to drink my whisky neat. Sometimes I prefer to take my tie off.

1) Whisky Mac is brilliant
2) Whisky Ging and ice is good if you don't have any Crabbies
3) If it's Hogmany, chuck shots down your throat and chase with ice-cold lager

Wake up new year's day, hungover and in a strange hotel room with a bad woman.

I gave it a go with some ginger ale and really like it. Not had chance to get any ginger wine yet. Is there much difference?

My old neighbour said to me. The only thing that mixes well with whisky .. is more whisky.

its advise I have always stuck with.

Ginger wine?? Did someone suggest that?

Yep first reply.

Raided the old mans drinks cabinet when I was a kid 13/14ish, drank half a bottle of Teachers. No more whiskey for me.

Contrary to popular belief there is nothing wrong with blended whisky, ok so bells isn't the best but it's ok. Blends are often easier drinking or more complete/rounded than single malts and can be way more pricey than many single malts. Mixers in posh blends or single malts is probably a waste as you miss the subtlety, but with inexpensive blends do what you like. For me I'd drink bells with a splash of water or 50% Ginger wine. Most importantly, drink it how you like it. One thing I've learned on the past 4 years of going to a whisky tasting club is that no two peoples' palettes are the same. i.e. The only thing that matters is whether you like it...

Bells is bad news, hangovers on it made my blood feel itchy. Gave it up long long ago.

There's different Whiskys for different situations but my favorite has got to be Suntory Yamazaki 12 year old. Lovely stuff.

Chuck the Bells in a few cocktails and pick yourself up something special, it's not a great deal more in terms of ££ but it's so much more in terms of taste.

One of the beauties of whiskys and whiskeys is that they are so varied but you won't like them all.

Went to a great whisky shop in Pitlochry that had many hundreds of them.

While I was in the area, I also went to the Blair Athol Distillery (home of Bells). Now I'm not a Bells fan, but when you did the distillery trip in the old days, they tell you about the 37 (I think that's the number) of single malts that go into Bells and you got your wee dram at the end of the trip. Both me and the Mrs chose different single malts, hoping that we could find something good to take home. What was a huge surprise was that they both tasted like Bells. As a result, we necked them and went to the Glenturret Distillery in Creif. Now that is a whisky or rather was, not had any since it was taken over by the Grouse people.

As for how I drink mine, with a drop of water or ice if it's whiskey.

Think I might have to go home and wake up my taste buds!!

Sorry, I forget to mention, if you want a great blended, try Chevas Regal.

coke, irn bru, ginger ale, lemonade, water, neat-whatever you like, it's your bottle.

Forget what all the 'single malt' snobs say. Most of them talk total mince.

bells is not to my taste but there's nowt wrong with good blended whisky. The vast majority of the production from most of the big 'single malt' distilleries is sold to make the more robust blends.

champagne is after all a blend of wines and it's pretty damned expensive....

whisky mack is the way ahead for you.

i'm typing this sat next to our whisky collection.....it's a little early in the day......i shouldn't really 😥

I have a friend who recommends whisky and red wine. Make sure both are cheap for max tramp points.

If anyone is interested, the shop in Pitlochry appears to be still there 12 years after my last visit. It is called Robertsons. I should have asked them to put a barrel down for me it might have been ready now

[url= http://homepages.which.net/~a.robertson/index.htm ]Robertsons Whisky Shop[/url]

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quote: Best way to drink bells is to pour some better whisky into the glass and throw the bells down the sink n.

absolutely spot on, of all blends Bells IMO is the worst. Despite enjoying lots of different malts I have never liked stuff like Bells, and if you`re statrting out on a whisky trail then Bells is a bad start point. Pass it on, try a blend such as Famous Grouse, or even a supermarket one (but not budget blends). Better still get a decent malt such as Glenmorangie / Macallan and then move on to real malts such as Talisker / Lagavulin, drunk neat of course.
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