(21) Tennessee at Kentucky, Sat. at 7pm on ESPN

I'm glad we caught the vols early.

 

Gosh, what a silly take. Try to keep it simple. "A" comes first in the alphabet and "U" is MUCH later. We try to maintain a sense of decorum around here. None of that inane stuff...

 

You and your scotch. Bourbon is the only liquor which originated in America. It is America's liquor.

I don't believe the colonials who originated it were soft, but the British wankers who drank Scotch sure were.

I can't abide Scotch. I hadn't drank it in a decade or more, but I went to a cigar/Scotch tasting a month ago. Supposedly fine Scotch. I took one sip, gagged, and spit it out. Seriously.

Why anyone would want to soak peat moss, cow manure, and pine bark in alcohol and drink it is beyond me.

 

Don't like Scotch?



Don't try Haggis. Trust me.

 

Scotch, an aquired taste, not my first choice. But have indulged in my day a bit.

 

It seems Vols play better later in the year
Kentucky early

 

I drink bourbon or rye out in the wild more often because it's usually the better deal, but I vastly prefer 100% malted barley (single, pure, or vatted) whisk(e)y from most anywhere to bourbon, be that scotch, Bushmills 10 year, or Japanese whisky.

Favorite bourbon I've had is the 2009 BTAC William Larue Weller, and god knows I drank enough of it at the time. Prefered that even to the Stitzel-Weller Pappy stuff back then. If it came down to having to pick one as the only thing I could drink for the rest of my life, I'd take probably at least 10 scotches that are all still under $100 a bottle over that 09 WLW, and that's far and away my favorite bourbon.

Generally, when I hear people criticize the smoke and/or phenol character of scotch, that is a dead giveaway that they haven't really had much scotch, as there are quite a lot of scotches without either of those flavors because they aren't aged near the sea, and peat is not used in their production.

Also, Brits (at least the English variety) weren't drinking scotch in the 1700s (it was barely a very small commercial industry in the 18th Century), but the Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish were sure as hell trying to figure out how to make their native spirits here. It's not for nothing that Appalachia ended up the home of American whiskey production or that most American whiskey still contains 5-15% barley in the mashbill.

The English started drinking scotch in the 1880s in earnest when the phylloxera crisis cratered wine production in Europe. Whisk(e)y from Ireland and Scotland became a popular replacement and then kind of stuck.

Sorry to get completely off topic, but I find discussion of the whisk(e)y coming from these states far more interesting than the football and took the bait.

 

I’m just messing around. I like Bourbon. I have extended family in Scotland, so it’s part of us.

Not all Scotch is peaty. Unfortunately a lot of people’s first experience with Scotch is something too peaty and then they give up. Some really great smooth Scotches out there. I think Auchentoshan 12 is a good try for bourbon lovers. Glenmorangie 10 is what I usually recommend for first timers.

 

Vols have been playing better later in the year and telling everyone "Good thing you caught us early!" for at least 30 years.

 

I mentioned it back when we played them. The loss to UK said more about us as a team than how good they are. Their ceiling is 9 wins MAYBE 10 if things fall right. They will lose another 2 games, maybe 3 and be right where they always are. That's who they are. Us on the other hand has a much higher ceiling but we just aren't very deep or experienced right now. That can change. That is why they treat us like it's their super bowl becuase they know that right now we are beatable. Won't last forever.

 

I hear Stoops is a hell of a coach.

 

Who would pay a head coach nine million a year for a 6 or 7 win season? Kentucky!

 

My take was quite witty.

You know I’m right

 

So was my reply. Well, it was if you think quirky.

 

I heard that it is an acquired taste. I’m at Year 45 and still haven’t acquired it

 

Not for everybody that's for sure.

 

Meanwhile, can someone please post the Lulu and Junior pictures from both the UK and UT fans at the game.

 

Whats wrong with that? We pay our loser of a basketball coach much more for much less results than that!!