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06-06-2011, 01:59 PM
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Bourbon Drinking Glassware...?
Any recommendations?
When I pour myself a shot or 2 over a few icecubes it looks like a raindrop in the bottom of a typical 8-10oz "rocks glass"... I have a couple of Belgian beer 'snifters' but those are 8oz too... So, fellow bourboners... what to do?
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06-06-2011, 02:09 PM
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I really like the heavy glass tumblers you get with Wild Turkey at Christmastime. I'm down to my last 2, so I'll have to buy more this December. Trouble is, the wife likes them as water glasses and they get broken. I wonder how she'd feel if I started drinking my bourbon in her crystal champagne flutes and breaking them?
Best not to find out. These things have a way of never being equal.
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06-06-2011, 02:19 PM
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Heavy rocks glasses, or if it's a really special pour that I'm drinking neat and want to really savor the nose, I'll use a smallish snifter.
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06-06-2011, 02:54 PM
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I've been googling around for 4oz glasses... and not finding them...
What's a "heavy rocks glass"? Oddest thing I found googling - bourbon stones? little rocks, I guess, that you put in your bourbon?? odd concept, that...
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06-06-2011, 02:59 PM
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You need a whisky (whiskey) or Scotch "nosing" glass.
Just wish some maker would make them affordable.
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06-06-2011, 03:08 PM
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Drinking it as it pours or with just a drop or two of water? I'd suggest either a decent Cognac glass (moderately long stem, bowl at the bottom and an outwardly flared rim) or a proper whisky tasting glass such as the Glencairn.
On the rock(s)? I find the Glencairn Canadian whisky glass works really well in this instance (once again, a nice wide bowl at the bottom and an outwardly flared shape toward the rim). Failing that, a quality spirits tumbler.
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06-06-2011, 03:13 PM
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Quote:
Chill without watering down.
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06-07-2011, 03:08 AM
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Did you ever study the physics of changing the phase of matter, solid liquid, liquid gas, and so forth? it requires a set amount of energy to raise any material 1 degree per kilogram. That will remain pretty constant all the way through the range of absolute zero to normal room temperature. When you reach the discrete melting point of that material, which for water, is approximately 1 degree, it requires a set amount of energy, per kilogram, to break the bonds that hold it in a solid phase. Only when the bonds are broken on every molecule, and it has become liquid, will it start warming at a constant rate of change. Take a pot of water, and you can bring it to near boil in 5 minutes, with 5 minutes worth of gas. To take all of that water through the change of phase, it will take an hour or two worth of gas, and in the process, it will have only gone up 1 degree. A melting ice cube absorbs a whole lot of heat. a cube of granite, that same size, absorbs only a small fraction of that heat. Buy the cute little plastic cubes that are filled with water and shaped like fruits. That will cool better than rocks. |
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06-06-2011, 05:24 PM
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06-06-2011, 06:02 PM
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Set of 4 Glencairn glasses for $32 is a deal.
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