Hey Guys welcome to Drinks Tube Rich here now we've all been there you've been given
a bottle of scotch and you're not entirely sure what to do with it well have no fear
I'm here to help I'm gonna show you three very simple things that you can do with that
bottle of whisky firstly it may seem obvious but I'm going to explain whisky and water
you wanna put a 50 ml measure of whisky into your glass and then top it up with just a
splash of water around about 3 parts whisky to 1 part water so what's happened in this
glass is you've lowered the APV releasing some of the more delicate fragrant lighter
flavour notes in this in this particular drink you've kind of got a soft sort of maltiness
a little bit of a light delicate citrusy flavour particularly orange and then this underlying
honey note and then on the pallet you've kind of got this lovely prickly almost ginger pepper kind of
finish to it what you can now do is manipulate those flavours a little bit further just buy
adding a few cubes of ice so just drop them in like that give it a little swirl of course
it chills the drink but it also compacts a lot of those flavours back into the glass
and if you're just getting into whisky that does also make it slightly easier to drink
so that's whisky on the rocks right variation number 2 a whisky mac this is 2 parts whisky
so that's 50 mls of whisky to 1 part, 25 mls of ginger wine now just like our whisky neat
we're gonna stir this down to give it some dilution plenty of ice give it a quick stir
and then to add a seasonal twist we're gonna add a little zest of clementine this is gonna
bring out a lot of those kind of citrusy flavours that we've been talking about in the whisky
neat, squeeze it gently over the top so there it is a seasonal twist on the whisky mac on
the nose you've got that clementine that's right there really citrusy then of your there's
that lovely soft sort of maltiness still there and those underlying notes of honey then on
the palet that gingeriness is really fresh crisp gingerness and of course it's a little
bit sweeter from the ginger wine but then that lovely soft kind of malty finish so there
it is a clementine whisky mac so variation number 3 it's a twist on one of my favourite
whisky drinks the buck highball so like the other two we start with 50 mls of whisky
so to our whisky we're gonna add the juice of half a lemon which is normally about 15
ml and then to give it a seasonal twist we're gonna add the juice of a clementine 15 ml
ice it up and give it a stir then to top this up with a dry ginger ale this is gonna bring
a little bit of sweetness to the drink and again reflect on those kind of gingery notes
that we picked up on in the whisky neat you then take a whole side of a lemon just peel
it like this a lovely long lemon zest which we're gonna squeeze gently over the top just
to release those aromatic oils over the top of the drink, use a knife to just push it
down inside the glass so a rather lovely garnish for a great little drink on the nose it's
obviously a little bit more citrusy and then on the palate it's really refreshing and it's
got that kind of fresh crisp zingy kind of sweetness to it from the ginger ale but those
clementine flavours really reflect the citrusy notes that we spotted in the whisky neat
as well and of course that lovely malty sort of honey flavour sort of running through it
as well a delicious little drink, so there you have it 3 interesting things to do with
that bottle of whisky, a whisky neat with water and a little bit of ice, a clementine
whisky mac and a seasonal twist on the buck highball and if you're interested in other
whisky drinks check out my whisky old fashioned, amazing classic whisky cocktail and of course
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