Comments on: Best of: Through the Tasting Glass http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351 "Pleasingly Irreverent" Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:15:50 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Matt http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351&cpage=1#comment-854 Matt Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:17:04 +0000 http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351#comment-854 <p>Never mind the right glass. I have twice run into bartenders (granted at bars that are more restaurant focused) who are obviously so new in the game that they don’t know what neat is. </p> <p>Me: Glenfiddich neat please<br /> Bartender: Neat?<br /> Me: Yes, neat.<br /> Bartender: [looks quizzically at me]<br /> Me: You know just scotch, nothing else.<br /> Bartender: [continues to looks quizzically at me]<br /> Me: [seeing that I am getting no where] Straight up? (yes I know it’s not the same but I figured close enough at this point)<br /> Bartender: [continues to looks quizzically at me]<br /> Me: On the rocks…hold the rocks.<br /> Bartender: Just scotch?<br /> Me: Yes please.</p> <p>The bartender then proceeded to pour me a glass of scotch in a rocks glass to the point where the ice would come up to.</p> <p>Me: Can I get this in a to-go cup?</p> <p>I afterwards let her know that she had poured me eight of what I had ordered but thankfully she only charged me for one. </p> <p>This has actually happened to me twice.<br /> </p> Never mind the right glass. I have twice run into bartenders (granted at bars that are more restaurant focused) who are obviously so new in the game that they don’t know what neat is.

Me: Glenfiddich neat please
Bartender: Neat?
Me: Yes, neat.
Bartender: [looks quizzically at me]
Me: You know just scotch, nothing else.
Bartender: [continues to looks quizzically at me]
Me: [seeing that I am getting no where] Straight up? (yes I know it’s not the same but I figured close enough at this point)
Bartender: [continues to looks quizzically at me]
Me: On the rocks…hold the rocks.
Bartender: Just scotch?
Me: Yes please.

The bartender then proceeded to pour me a glass of scotch in a rocks glass to the point where the ice would come up to.

Me: Can I get this in a to-go cup?

I afterwards let her know that she had poured me eight of what I had ordered but thankfully she only charged me for one.

This has actually happened to me twice.

]]> By: Tom http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351&cpage=1#comment-853 Tom Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:34:13 +0000 http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351#comment-853 <p>I once ordered a malt in a Scottish restaurant in Lossiemouth. When the girl reached for a rocks glass, I insisted on a tulip shaped glass. She got one, poured in the malt, but it looked as if it wasn't enough. Girl in doubt poured on and on until it looked decently filled, leaving me with three drams in one :)</p> <p>(If only I had ordered something more exclusive, not that they had much, but anyway...)</p> I once ordered a malt in a Scottish restaurant in Lossiemouth. When the girl reached for a rocks glass, I insisted on a tulip shaped glass. She got one, poured in the malt, but it looked as if it wasn’t enough. Girl in doubt poured on and on until it looked decently filled, leaving me with three drams in one :)

(If only I had ordered something more exclusive, not that they had much, but anyway…)

]]> By: Derek http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351&cpage=1#comment-852 Derek Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:38:24 +0000 http://inebrio.com/thescotchblog/?p=351#comment-852 <p>I was "corrected" one night when I ordered a Glenfiddich as well. I replied with "You dont say Lotch Ness Monster". </p> I was “corrected” one night when I ordered a Glenfiddich as well. I replied with “You dont say Lotch Ness Monster”.

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