Whisky

[Soren]

I figure among my fellow beer geeks there must be some whisky geeks as well!? I going on a small overseas trip tomorrow and was thinking I might pick up a bottle of duty free Scotch, to supplement my "collection" whcih currently include a Singleton 12 year and a Laphroaig 10 year cask-strength. I am by no means an expert but the latter is much more appaeling to me.

What are good bottles to look out for? It doesnt need to be super smoky like the laphroaig but I am a fan of big flavours. I would like to explore the universe of whisky further so if there is something that is pungent on other notes than smoke that would be interesting. To keep the missus happy I want to keep the price low, no more than $100.

Unfortunately www.ratewhisky.com does not exist...:)

[Christoph Meyer]

Yallo,

there's hardly anything better than (fruity NZ) beer and a (salty/peaty) whisky in my opinion, so I thought I'd plug that here as well as there might be a few people interested.

Since there wasn't any forum for NZ whisky heads, I decided to put one online as a central point and to share news, bottles & samples:
http://www.whiskyforum.co.nz
It can work like a charm with an active community and one gets regular chances to just try different bottlings without committing to a full bottle (which can be hit & miss as we probably all know... especially when it's about the more obscure small batch bottlings...).
Due to the nature of a forum though, there need to be people using it to form a community, so feel free to pass it on to whoever might be interested in such. All the sharing, swapping, buying & selling is private and based on trust and belief in the community and that people aren't in for it to screw others about, but it works in other countries really well, so why should it not in NZ I thought.
I put some suggestions for bottle-shares on as threads and added a thread for open bottles of mine and mini samples under the Samples section as well (which you only get access to when you register & agree to the terms of the website (= over 18)...), most of which you probably won't ever see again in NZ as all are fairly rare by now and I had them shipped over from friends in Europe.
So feel free to join in, spread the word, contribute & stuff!
Cheers & slainte.
c.