Right .. I'm awake now... and no hangover...


Raggy.. when I was a teenager and starting to drink in local pubs.. something like Bells or Teachers was about all they had on the optics.
Same in family drinks cupboards..
I drank it, but at the cost of terrible indigestion..

So the only spirits I drank until my 30s was vodka or bacardi.

Then in the 1990s Tesco started doing really good deals on a variety of single malts,
I risked trying, and was in heaven.
Glorious stuff.
So every Xmas drinking season the wife let me stock up 3 or 4 different bottles of malt.
.. and it made buying xmas presents for me that much easier for her.

.. and I'd have a cheap bottle of rot gut supermarket own brand for mixing in tea

But in the last few years the price of malts in local supermarkets seems to have rocketed upwardly out of control.

So in recent years I was lucky if I had only 2 bottles.

One theory I heard somewhere is the Chinese are now buying so much,
the demand has pushed up UK prices...
[any economists want to debate that...]

Anyway, money was tight this xmas so I could only have the cheapest single malt in Tesco..

It was absolutely effin vile..
For the first time in my life I had discovered a malt that was near undrinkable.

So The wife took pity, saw litre bottles of Teachers were on cut price offer
and let me have one for mixing with tea and fizzy pops.

To my surprise Teachers in the 21st century was actually not that unpleasant and I could drink it neat without indigestion.

I was allowed one more bottle for New Years ever, but Tesco had run out,
but had cut price litres of Bells instead.

Same surprisingly positive result....

Yesterday I saw Famous Grouse at the same price as Bells, so I gave it a try out of curiosity..

Honestly not that bad if you are too skint for an old favourite single malt.


As for whiskey or whisky ???

Considering how many glasses I drank before taking a break to start this thread
it's amazing I spelled anything right....!!!!! 😜

Oh, and my still feels a bit better than before I took the medication..........

The wife comes home friday...