Apparently Thursday nights night ride will involve my mate providing socially distanced (Speyside) whisky*, wondering what to take along as a snack to accompany it?
*Too cold for beers, not cold enough for hot chocolate laced with something warming.
Scotch egg.
Mince pie for the win
Dark chocolate (70% ish), preferably with salted caramel bits in it.
Or mince pies.
We have a box of "salted caramel crumble" mince pies that might work then. I wasn't sure something sweet would go too well.
A second whiskey?
correct procedure is -
1. Line mouth with sip of whisky
2. Take bite of mince pie
3. Return to 1
16” tandoori munchie box
Rum and raisin fudge
I think to accompany your choice Perchy I'd have the somelier select 8 Ace.
Some irn bru chews bars, just remember to book a dentist appointment for the next day
Chilli beef jerky for the savoury course.
Mince pie for pudding.
There is only one* answer to this. Shortbread.
Nice enough (and absorbent) without taking over your taste buds. Anything too strongly flavoured and you might as well switch your Speyside for a nice bottle of Bell's.
(* - arguably two, but oatcakes aren't everyone's cup of thing.)
As Cougar suggests, oatcakes are the whisky connoisseur's choice, they cleanse the palate to allow full appreciation of the dram.
The correct answer is a tunnocks caramel wafer.
Although if there happens to be a kebab shop nearby Perchy has made a strong second option.
Home made shortbread, it's dead easy, make it in shape of bike wheels and mark spokes on the top.
Or any other home made slab of cake.
Fruitcake/Christmas cake.
78g bag of pickled onion Space Raiders. Can usualy be had for £1.
Box of Pie d’Angloys in the jersey pocket. Slip a few choice crackers under the lid and laccy-band the shebang.
*edit +1 for Space Raiders, except I choose beef flavour. Many times superior in every way to certain greasy foot-shaped monstery snacks 👽
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Fruit cake/ Christmas cake for me too. Or mince pies. But not of the mega sweet variety.
Oat cakes or shortbread too.
Anything more flavoursome or sweeter and the whisky is no longer the star of the show. Also anything high in fat (like cheese) would be a no for me too.
Also anything high in fat (like cheese) would be a no for me too.
So good with oatcakes 😉
Scotch eggs, obviously. It's handy snack *and* a substantial meal. Get in aboot it.
Essentially anything that can mask the taste of such a disgusting so called beverage.
Whisky is boggin.
*edit +1 for Space Raiders, except I choose beef flavour. Many times superior in every way to certain greasy foot-shaped monstery snacks
I have beef flavour with beer as they are not as strong, the whiskey needs an in your face snack to stand up to it. Definatly agree on monster munch, they've never been the same since the pickled onion flavour changed from red bags.
Also anything high in fat (like cheese) would be a no for me too.
I thought fatty things lined the mouth a bit and took away some of the alchohol's potency, allowing you to enjoy the flavours more?
Pretty sure I had a somelier demonstrate this to me by tasting a strong Malbec before and after a bit of steak (in the interests of science, it's a tough life etc).
A speyside I'd be looking at something lightly salted but not too fatty, rice cakes or the like.
If it's a cask strength a bit of fat won't go amiss so salted pistachios. Or salt and pepper cashews. Just don't wipe your finger in the dusty stuff at the bottom until you've finished your dram.
So good with oatcakes
Well an oatcake is less than half the fat content of cheese, so yes.
Maybe it's a bit more nuanced - whisky is clean, crisp and sharp and (imo) does no belong with anything clawing and dairy.
A handful of jelly babies in a jar, that you then drink whisky out of.
Balvenie is my whisky of choice so Medjool dates, oatcakes, strong cheddar or home made tea loaf (pick one)
Make some granary toast and butter it, cut and loosely wrap in kitchen roll to stop the crumbs going everywhere.
Double butter if you want to go full Nigella
A handful of jelly babies in a jar, that you then drink whisky out of.
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Either Shortbread as above, or Hotel Chocolate Salt Caramel Puddles. They're a perfect accompaniment to a Hibiki 17.
As a Speysider on Speyside who regularly takes a good dram out for our Tuesday night rides the correct answer is pork scratchings.
Here you go - all you need to take is a tub of salt, a bag of sugar, some bitter herbs, stock cubes and half a lemon. Then you'll be covered for all eventualities.