Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: A day or two at Dramfest https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100967#post100967 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100967#post100967 didn't wank on too much about how the whiskies tasted. He gave a vague impression, but left it for you to want to experiment. I spent $500 bucks at the whisky shop by Covent Garden… ]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:04:10 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100420#post100420 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100420#post100420 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:45 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100419#post100419 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100419#post100419

I could buy *2* bottles!

On my way. :)

]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:38:22 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100406#post100406 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100406#post100406 I've kepy special bottles for years&years – sounds like it will be that way if I can lay my tentacles on a bottle of Port Ellen-

(sometimes sniffing – or a tiny sip – is enough...)

]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:21:55 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100405#post100405 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100405#post100405 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:19:21 +1300 Peter Ashby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100404#post100404 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100404#post100404 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:15:52 +1300 Peter Ashby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100402#post100402 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100402#post100402 @Islander

Yep, I noticed the water jug: sometimes it was outadetap/chlorinated

Nothing wrong with that. I remember when the Scotch Malt Whisky Society opened its member's rooms in London they said a dram would cost more than in Edinburgh because the London tap water was not suitable and they had…

]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:09:42 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100400#post100400 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100400#post100400 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:29:24 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100397#post100397 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100397#post100397 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:56 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100392#post100392 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100392#post100392 Thank you Raffe Smith – that is now on my 'to obtain' booklist.

And Sacha – Port Ellen is now top of my list of new joys to try – thankyou both!

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:42:48 +1300 Ben Austin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100389#post100389 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100389#post100389 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:29:19 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100387#post100387 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100387#post100387

just having heard screams of
disagreement & "Waste!" in the background

What, you could hear me from here? – even though I'm a fan o salmon too.

To my taste, Port Ellen is the dram I've loved the most so far – more than Springbank 25 and the lovely Lagavulin.

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:20:40 +1300 Raffe Smith https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100386#post100386 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100386#post100386 I can recommend an excellent book on whisky: Peat, Smoke & Spirit by Andrew Jefford.

The book uses whisky as an axis to look at the history, geography, culture, flora and fauna of Islay – essentially it is a very good piece of travel writing. Chapters on each distillery are interspersed…

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:18:39 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100385#post100385 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100385#post100385 Uh, highly tech. query Peter – maybe better addressed to your wife?

That's *white* pepper?

(And a really good Lagavulin or Talisker – just having heard screams of
disagreement & "Waste!" in the background – is a perfect enhancment to such a good rich fish like salm n...)

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:05:08 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100384#post100384 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100384#post100384 Peter – 3 things:

I am obliged for your wife's salmon & whisky cream recipe! The salmon run (in at the lagoon mouth, up through Zala's Creek, into MacDonalds where the redds are constructed) is just about over but I know there are some fresh steaks around-

my Nanna, Orkney Islander…

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:47:53 +1300 Peter Ashby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100380#post100380 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100380#post100380 Oh and you can cook with it too. My wife's pan fried salmon with whisky cream sauce:

Pepper well a salmon steak per person then fry quickly in butter. Remove and keep warm then to the pan add some double cream and mix in with the butter and bits. The…

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:11:15 +1300 Peter Ashby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100378#post100378 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100378#post100378 Banks's book is a crock of sh*t. There is hardly anything about the whisky in it just how much fun he has drinking it with his friends. He tells you how many bottles of Glenfiddich he puts in his boot to drive home but not how they taste.

Kyle, and…

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:07:24 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100358#post100358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100358#post100358 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:20:09 +1300 Jeremy Andrew https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100353#post100353 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100353#post100353

Author Ian Banks loved the drink enough to travel the whole of Scotland in search of the perfect "dram".

And apparently lost an i in the process...

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:58:23 +1300 Kari Hammond https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100123#post100123 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100123#post100123 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:31:51 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100106#post100106 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100106#post100106 Ah, but Kyle, you get to sample the whisky's progress for its entire life in the cask. That must be satisfying.

Very young good whiskies (and there are more of them about) can be fun: no complexity, but quite a bit of clarity.

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:12:42 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100102#post100102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100102#post100102

It's something Lumsden and his team have to work on every day, even if, technically, they won't see the true fruits of their labour until a good decade afterwards.

Must be difficult to employ a distiller.

Q: So, you've been working at Joe Bloggs Distillery for eight years now. How's…

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:09:21 +1300 Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100055#post100055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100055#post100055 I am reminded of a quote attributed to the English poet, John Keats who I had previously thought rather effete ...

His remark, on first tasting whisky, was
"this is smart stuff".

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:22:32 +1300 Eoin Ryan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100044#post100044 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100044#post100044 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:06:52 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100043#post100043 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-day-or-two-at-dramfest/?p=100043#post100043 Discussion from blog post.

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