{"id":84,"date":"2010-05-13T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irohit.com\/diary\/index.php\/2010\/05\/13\/kop-marta-drink-anyone\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T03:18:02","slug":"kop-marta-drink-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/kop-marta-drink-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Kop marta – drink anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBeer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.\u201d This is a very famous quote by Benjamin Franklin. I know it\u2019s true. I have never felt sad after a few drinks with a few friends. I love my drinks. I know of many who feel the same. Of course, there are just too many instances where people just go overboard and become embarrassment. Definitely not<\/strong> cool!<\/p>\n

I love my drinks. I started young, thanks to my dad. No, he didn’t pour a glass for me. I used to sip from my dad’s glass. I started with scotch, the one by Johnnie Walker<\/a>, I think. Now generally in a lifecycle of a typical drinker, that\u2019s the good expensive stuff. Luckily not for me. I started with scotch. As I passed out of college I shifted on beer, made sense for it’s cheap. Than on Bacardi<\/a>, then for some time on vodka, then on some mixtures, not cocktails, but mixtures for whatever was available. The one that I remember is vodka with orange juice and then a dash of coca cola. We named it ‘Dirty’, because it looked like dirt in a glass, and we loved it. We tried with whisky, once in a while but could never get around it’s taste. This tryst with whisky continued for a while until I stumbled upon Jack Daniel and coke<\/a>. Now that\u2019s a match made in heaven. Adding coca-cola to whisky opened the doors to the enchanting and mysterious world of whiskies. The sweetness of the coke overpowered the bitter taste. A real connoisseur would be disgusted, but hey, I wanted to develop the palette for this. I tried the local Indian whiskies with coca cola. Royal Challenge…Signature…Antiquity…Teachers. I developed a hang of the bitter taste. As I got bold, it changed to club soda. And that\u2019s where I am. Ofcourse, all along the way, Kingfisher beer has been one constant that has never gone against my taste buds.<\/p>\n

All was well until I stumbled upon the new world of single malts. To the people used to blended scotch, single malts may sound rather boring, I mean why stick to a single malt, when you can have multiple blended to perfection, but today I am convinced that single malts is where one can separate boys from the man. My very close pal and me on the spur of the moment, bought a Glenmorangie<\/a>. And after one sip, boys became man. Till that day, a whisky was all about its smoothness, after that, our vocabulary expanded to texture, smoky, fruity, palette, warmth, woody, finish. Today after many a tasting of the malts, I have concluded that a blended scotch can only vary on the smoothness unless you are an expert, which I am certainly not one, with JW Blue Label being the smoothest, but it\u2019s when one delves in world of the single malts that one discovers the soul, the character. <\/p>\n

PS- Kop is goan for a drink.. kop marta is asking if he would like to have a drink…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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