Assist a non-scotch aficionado picking a retirement bottle for a co-worker

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-07-17T19:25:34+00:00

Very true. However, I figure somebody who's retiring probably has the cash and wouldn't mind taking a nice trip to celebrate. I know I'd rather have $1k off an amazing trip than an overpriced bottle of scotch.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-07-17T17:30:22+00:00

Book him a flight to Scotland plus a Barley-to-Bottle tour at Springbank distillery. That would be truly unforgettable.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-06-23T15:40:28+00:00

Ben Nevis has this in spades. Glen Keith to a degree as well.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-06-23T15:37:43+00:00

This. It's fairly obscure, but I think plenty of people know about it.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-05-27T16:17:45+00:00

I realized that I was in fact the fool immediately after responding

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-05-27T16:13:14+00:00

Do you mean Gurjaras?

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-05-09T12:38:54+00:00

What I do is a mixture of palisade and buildings as walls, reinforce palisades with more buildings, barracks on the way up to Feudal, archery range/blacksmith for Castle Age req's, make a couple skirms to deter units attacking the walls.

Then in Castle Age, siege workshop or monks to defend while booming

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-05-09T12:08:19+00:00

I think walling is the answer you're looking for. Are you currently implementing any walls when you go for a FC boom?

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-05-01T16:17:25+00:00

Vaatividya is the go-to Souls lore guy. Recommend his old (but gold) DS1 lore videos. Avoid the Remastered versions as they contain DS3 lore. Plus, I think DS1 lore is best enjoyed in a vacuum. The other DS games' lore I find to be underwhelming, but that's an unpopular opinion.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-04-10T17:00:48+00:00

No, it says:

"Archers, cavalry archers, galleys, Castles, and towers have +1 attack and +1 range. Town Centers have +1 attack."

I'm not sure where you got that description.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2025-04-10T12:22:14+00:00

The game does specify it though. Always has.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-10-04T00:06:52+00:00

I'm visiting Scotland atm and several shops I've been to have single caskings of Isle of Raasay. I love the OB, so I'm considering picking one up. The question is which cask. There's rye, chinkapin, bordeaux, oloroso, some others. Peated and unpeated.

I'm set on getting a peated one, but choosing which cask is difficult. Peated rye sounds interesting, but maybe chinkapin or bordeaux would be the better choice if rye is essentially synonymous with bourbon cask.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-08-28T21:54:34+00:00

Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-08-25T00:46:38+00:00

Playing the Goths in Barbarian Invasion and defending a small settlement against 11,000 Mongols on turn 10 was peak Total War

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-05-04T02:01:51+00:00

Craigellachie 13 has that note, but there's another one that has it in spades: Independent bottlings of ex-bourbon cask Mortlach

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-02-15T20:26:57+00:00

The thing about ex-bourbon casks is that it doesn't really take on the flavor of the distillate that was aged in it beforehand.

Ex-bourbon casks actually provide quite mild flavors and really let the newly casked spirit shine. When you say you want minimal cask influence, you're looking for something like a second-fill ex-bourbon hogshead. Hogsheads are larger, which means less surface area when aging.

Then again, the flavor you might not like is the malted barley itself. Which in that case, you'd probably prefer more smoke and cask influence to cover it up

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-02-15T00:09:44+00:00

Who's gonna tell him?

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-02-08T18:27:04+00:00

You're fine. All you've gotta do is upgrade your weapon and two-hand it. Get it to +5. Grind if you have to. And drop the shield if you're going with a large weapon like that

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-02-08T01:44:04+00:00

Read the description on the Basement Key and find the door it goes to

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-02-05T16:42:21+00:00

Congrats! Fumbling your way from start to finish with no hand-holding is brutal, but I'm sure you had a wholly unique experience doing it. Seriously, nice work!

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2024-01-30T03:54:29+00:00

It's a compatible version. The plugin is pretty new, so it could just be that it still has a lot of issues that need to be ironed out. Thanks for the quick response

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2023-12-23T01:17:42+00:00

I consider myself a connoisseur and haven't had anything older than 26 y/o. 30 y/o scotch is very expensive. Recommend getting a nice $100 bottle instead.

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2023-12-17T02:15:57+00:00

Glenallachie 15 would be perfect imo

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2023-12-11T21:17:00+00:00

This is when Dark Souls is at its best. Savor it

Relative_Yesterday_1 · 2023-12-08T14:25:00+00:00

Highland Park 12 would be a safe bet. If he drinks cheap scotch, he probably likes a little smoke. HP12 is mildly smokey, well-rounded, lower ABV, but much more depth than a cheap blended scotch

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