Tasting Notes

was doing a little experiment

tasted whisky, three ways...

straight up

with water

with soda

the first two times there was a trend...

straight up tasted full bodied, numbed the tongue a bit, went down like a gale, strong and visible

with water it was mellow, still full bodied, maybe like when somebody turns the volume down on a song... its still the same, but u have to try harder, pay more attention...

then came the 'with soda'

oh boy...

i took a sip and it was like somebody just changed the record... it was a totally new song

it danced on my tongue, popped bubbles and took the whisky on a roller coaster...

different beat, maybe different genre, like u were listening to jazz and somebody just popped in a rock n roll tape..

btw, i did some more digging and it turns out soda isn't neutral in taste... the carbonate in the soda messes up the buds totally.

i just tasted soda, and u bet it tasted sour, kind of metallic sour...

yeah, of all things, sour!!

imagine what that sourness does to all the hard work that went into the malting and the distilling and the aging, all that dedication and patience, all that expertise...

now i am wondering.... i pay a few thousand for a whisky and a couple of tenners for a soda.... why then would i ever mix the two and let the vagabond run the show...

this is like somebody spent months planning the prom, got the girl, and when the moment came a hobo trooped in and took the dance...