Drinks

This page is an assortment of my bar preferences, usually for my own reference when I find myself at one.

Beer

Ranked styles

1. Pepper
2. Esb
3. Smoked / rauchbier
4. Dark lagers
   1. Schwarzbier
   2. Bock / dopplebock
   3. Dunkel
5. Brown
6. Reds
   1. Amber
   2. Scotch ale
   3. Altbier
7. Porter
8. Kolsch
9. Stout
10. IPA
11. Not usually interested
    1. Lager
    2. Wheat
    3. Hefeweizen

Link to style overviews

Some specific great beers

• Tank 7 farmhouse saison
• Brewery Bhavana mingle sour IPA
• New Belgium 1554
• Bells two hearted

Scotch

Current rotation

• Dalwhinnie 15 (for Hiking 2026)
• Glenfiddich 12 (at Xmas 2023)
• Glenmorangie 12 (at Xgiv 2024)

Have tried

• Aberfeldy 12
• Ardbeg “wee beastie”
• Balvinie 12
• Glenfiddich 18
• Glenlivet 12
• Glenmorangie 10
• Highland park 10
• Jura 10
• Lagavulin 18
• Laphroaig “cairdeas”
• Loch Lomond 12
• Oban ?
• Old Pulteney 12
• Talisker “storm”

Distilleries visited

• Glenfiddich
• Oban
• Speyside cooperage

Cocktails

1. Old fashioned
2. Amaretto sour
3. Whiskey sour
   • 3-2-1 of whisky-lemon-syrup

“Barbados” seems to be the best variety of rum

Wine

Styles

• Nero d’Avola (in the Italy/piedmont section)
• Temranillo
• Petitie sirah
• Pinot noir, sometimes