Hello everyone! I hope you all had a nice Christmas and got everything you wanted. 
Tonight we'll be reviewing "Oban" as recommended by Ron's daughter. This morning we'll be taking a few questions from the mail bag.
Joe Bob from Atlanta Georgia asks: Twips I see that you spell whiskey without the e. Is that just a typo or is there some meaning behind it? Well Joe Bob your correct here in the United States whiskey is spelled with the e included. However in some countries including Scotland whisky is spelled without the e and since we are talking about scotch that's the way I spell it. Joe Bob I'm going to throw you an added tidbit. For years the New York Times spelled whiskey with an e regardless of the country it came from. This last year after being bombarded with letters from scotch drinkers they changed their policy and refer to scotch as "whisky." (It didn't hurt that Big Jim went down there wearing his kilt and looking like a Braveheart extra either!)
Brenda from Skowhegan Maine asks: Twips when was scotch first made? The first records of scotch go back to 1495 (although it could have been produced earlier of course) Friar John Cor of the Lindores Abbey in the Kingdom of Fife was the distiller.
Gerald from Mohave Valley Arizona asks: Twips whats your worst drinking experience? I've had a few but I would say the worst took place in college when some friends and I were drinking lots of root beer schnapps. I attempted to walk home afterwards and didn't make it. I fell asleep outside next to my dorm and woke up to find that I had been eaten by thousands of mosquitoes and was very hung over. I made it back to my room and my roommate took one look at me before bursting out laughing. I then went to the sink to wash my face and saw that a girl I had been talking to the night before had pierced my ear with one of her earrings...which was still there and appeared to be infected. Now nothing against you fellas that wear earrings but it's not my thing and it had to go...painfully I might add. All told it took me about 3 days to recover and I do not drink root beer schnapps to this day.
Thats all we have time for folks...remember we'll be kicking off the new year with our Oban review before getting down to the serious festivities!
As always thanks to our good friends at Argy's for hosting us.
Tonight we'll be reviewing "Oban" as recommended by Ron's daughter. This morning we'll be taking a few questions from the mail bag.
Joe Bob from Atlanta Georgia asks: Twips I see that you spell whiskey without the e. Is that just a typo or is there some meaning behind it? Well Joe Bob your correct here in the United States whiskey is spelled with the e included. However in some countries including Scotland whisky is spelled without the e and since we are talking about scotch that's the way I spell it. Joe Bob I'm going to throw you an added tidbit. For years the New York Times spelled whiskey with an e regardless of the country it came from. This last year after being bombarded with letters from scotch drinkers they changed their policy and refer to scotch as "whisky." (It didn't hurt that Big Jim went down there wearing his kilt and looking like a Braveheart extra either!)
Brenda from Skowhegan Maine asks: Twips when was scotch first made? The first records of scotch go back to 1495 (although it could have been produced earlier of course) Friar John Cor of the Lindores Abbey in the Kingdom of Fife was the distiller.
Gerald from Mohave Valley Arizona asks: Twips whats your worst drinking experience? I've had a few but I would say the worst took place in college when some friends and I were drinking lots of root beer schnapps. I attempted to walk home afterwards and didn't make it. I fell asleep outside next to my dorm and woke up to find that I had been eaten by thousands of mosquitoes and was very hung over. I made it back to my room and my roommate took one look at me before bursting out laughing. I then went to the sink to wash my face and saw that a girl I had been talking to the night before had pierced my ear with one of her earrings...which was still there and appeared to be infected. Now nothing against you fellas that wear earrings but it's not my thing and it had to go...painfully I might add. All told it took me about 3 days to recover and I do not drink root beer schnapps to this day.
Thats all we have time for folks...remember we'll be kicking off the new year with our Oban review before getting down to the serious festivities!
As always thanks to our good friends at Argy's for hosting us.
