Anyone who drinks Scots Whisky in a cocktail is...just...weird.
It’s like coffee that way, dilute it too much and it’s awful.
Once, when I was a stupid teenager we mixed it with Root Beer...Once.
Anyone who drinks Scotch Whiskey in a cocktail is a lout or a dandy and should be shunned.
There really is something to adding a bit of water though.
When I was a young man I tended bar part-time in Los Angeles. Usually the customers wanted beer or rum and coke or the cocktails that were in vogue at the time (i.e., Tequila Sunrise, Singapore Sling, Grasshoppers; this was the 1970s, by the way).
One day a guy came in with his date and she ordered a Grasshopper (very popular with the ladies back then) and he ordered — are you sitting down? — Chivas and tomato juice, tall, no ice. I was tempted to throw him out of the bar.
Agreed. It's like mixing a fine wine with Gatorade.
I drink it with a single cube of ice. Maybe two.
“Anyone who drinks Scots Whisky in a cocktail is...just...weird.”
When I was in Buenos Aires, I went to a steak house that served something called a Don Pedro. It was a scotch over ice cream deal with a little cocoa powder added. The dang thing cost more than my steak.