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matt222
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 Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:32 pm Post subject: Aerator ? |
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A friend has recently purchased a spirit aerator / enhancer and lent it to me for an evening.
His opinion was that it smoothed and improved the whisky. I put a glass of 12 year Highland Park through it and felt it took something away - as if it had been watered down - not impressed.
Never heard or read of anyone enthusing about these gadgets - any opinions? |
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Andy M
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| My opinion is that it would do nothing but i havent tried it. I really dont see how it would improve your whisky, i would think it is a gimmick which probably doesnt do what it claims. |
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James T
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| I cant see this doing anything, i cant see any contraption being able to put air into the whisky and the air staying there, nonsense i think, i agree with Andy M it is a gimmick that probably wont work and is more likely to reduce your enjoyment by passing your whisky through it. I will do it the old fashioned way, swirl my whisky around my glass increasing the aromas omitted from the whisky clinging to the side of the glass. |
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albo
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***?
That about sums up my feelings on the subject. |
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Quaich1
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The only aerators I use are to keep minnows alive in the pail when I'm fishing.
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albo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Quaich1 wrote: | The only aerators I use are to keep minnows alive in the pail when I'm fishing.
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What do you generally fish for Murray? Your twitter pic looks a fairly sizable catch! |
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Quaich1
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| albo wrote: | | Quaich1 wrote: | The only aerators I use are to keep minnows alive in the pail when I'm fishing.
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What do you generally fish for Murray? Your twitter pic looks a fairly sizable catch! |
Alun, my prime game is King Salmon, 20 to over 30 pounds. These fish hit the line like a freight train and can take out 300 feet of line in 10 seconds. My reels are special with 1200 feet of line-very high test. It's like having a jeep on the end of your line. My record is 30 plus pounds, 4 feet long and a girth of 19 inches. After one of these, scotch is more to repair the body than for taste.
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albo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Quaich1 wrote: | | albo wrote: | | Quaich1 wrote: | The only aerators I use are to keep minnows alive in the pail when I'm fishing.
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What do you generally fish for Murray? Your twitter pic looks a fairly sizable catch! |
Alun, my prime game is King Salmon, 20 to over 30 pounds. These fish hit the line like a freight train and can take out 300 feet of line in 10 seconds. My reels are special with 1200 feet of line-very high test. It's like having a jeep on the end of your line. My record is 30 plus pounds, 4 feet long and a girth of 19 inches. After one of these, scotch is more to repair the body than for taste.
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Nice. I've done some fishing in my dim and distant past though not a great deal. Some pond fishing for carp, tench, perch etc and some fly fishing for trout. To be fair my father is a fisherman rather than I, my fishing exploits were ask with him. I just didn't take to it. |
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opelfruit
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| Quaich1 wrote: | | .....is 30 plus pounds, 4 feet long and a girth of 19 inches. |
That sounds just like my manhood, but I dont dangle it in rivers...well, not very often anyway.
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chrisg
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| opelfruit wrote: | | Quaich1 wrote: | | .....is 30 plus pounds, 4 feet long and a girth of 19 inches. |
That sounds just like my manhood, but I dont dangle it in rivers...well, not very often anyway. |
I suspect one of you is telling tall tales  |
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matt222
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| As I suspected, you all think its nonsense - me too! |
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GBrough
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Aerators are a tricky idea, for red wines they are supposed to improve them. Yet we also know that red wine can be greatly diminished with oxidation, I have had a nice bottle of red become disgusting in the matter of an hour and a half. For whisky you do not want the body to become thinner, for some regions that could cause a serious change to the flavors and just the level of enjoyment we get out of the whisky itself. So to sum everything up avoid them, a waste of money.
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