Inverhouse at $14
Cutty Sark at $36
Ann Marie and I did a scotch taste test arranged by Elizabeth. She has only bought Cutty Sark and Elizabeth got her a birthday present of a bottle and I added two nice glasses from the flea market.
So, with my purchase of the Inverhouse Plaid, we had two bottles of scotch in the house and decided to set up a taste test.
All in all each of us tasted 6 glasses and independently evaluated them. So that is 12 tastings and only 2 times each were we correct, 4 out of 12. The math suggests 6 out of 12 on average and there should be more right answers if this matters at all.
I am not suggesting that other scotch drinkers could not have done better. But I don't buy scotch for other scotch drinkers, nor does Ann Marie. So for us, it seems like saving $22 a bottle by buying the Inverhouse Plaid would be a good decision.
All the left overs went into my Vernor's diet drink so I'm feeling all this scotch.
I remember back decades ago I set up a taste test for Chuck who thought he could tell Budweiser and who hated Milwalkee. Without labels on the bottles he could not tell which was which and in fact picked the Milwalkee as Bud the majority of times. I did the same thing at a bar with Michelob, but all those guys picked the Michelob easily. It was a no brainer.
Neither Ann Marie nor I noticed anything very distinctive at all in our tastings. We never felt like we were very sure. Nice for a frugal guy to find out how wrong he judged the tastes. I won't even bother with Dewar's again now that I know the Inverhouse fits my needs.
Cutty Sark at $36
Ann Marie and I did a scotch taste test arranged by Elizabeth. She has only bought Cutty Sark and Elizabeth got her a birthday present of a bottle and I added two nice glasses from the flea market.
So, with my purchase of the Inverhouse Plaid, we had two bottles of scotch in the house and decided to set up a taste test.
All in all each of us tasted 6 glasses and independently evaluated them. So that is 12 tastings and only 2 times each were we correct, 4 out of 12. The math suggests 6 out of 12 on average and there should be more right answers if this matters at all.
I am not suggesting that other scotch drinkers could not have done better. But I don't buy scotch for other scotch drinkers, nor does Ann Marie. So for us, it seems like saving $22 a bottle by buying the Inverhouse Plaid would be a good decision.
All the left overs went into my Vernor's diet drink so I'm feeling all this scotch.
I remember back decades ago I set up a taste test for Chuck who thought he could tell Budweiser and who hated Milwalkee. Without labels on the bottles he could not tell which was which and in fact picked the Milwalkee as Bud the majority of times. I did the same thing at a bar with Michelob, but all those guys picked the Michelob easily. It was a no brainer.
Neither Ann Marie nor I noticed anything very distinctive at all in our tastings. We never felt like we were very sure. Nice for a frugal guy to find out how wrong he judged the tastes. I won't even bother with Dewar's again now that I know the Inverhouse fits my needs.
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