Favourite Beer

[robertlouis]

How about "Delerium Tremens" the name says it all. RL speaking of the WHW, starting in Milngavie, I vividly remember visitors in Glasgow asking for directions.
Fun part was they pronounced it wrong, something like Milngaffie instead of "Mulguy" so it took me a while to figure out they needed to go to the start of the WHW. As for single Malt, Highland Park 25yrs is to die for.

I'm suitably impressed on all counts, Jimme. Where are you from?

I've done the WHW three times and been alternately soaked, frozen, boiled and bitten to death by midges every time. Loved every minute (well, almost...).

Second and third times, started at the north end, as that seemed to make more sense.

Highland Park is a very fine malt. Have you visited the distillery on Orkney?

If I was pushed to a personal favourite, the Islays, both light and heavy, would all be in the mix, as would Glengoyne - local to Milngavie, but my choice would be 21-year old Springbank from Campbeltown.

[jimme747]

Sheanair was from Achnacarry, did WHW 5 times, once with 45 cdo, in one go no sleep. Don't get me started, Springbank is also on my list.
When celebrating with my buddie (also 45 cdo), we decided to do the Malt Whisky Trail by shanks's mare so we could drink a wee dram. Awesome.

[jimme747]

http://www.maltwhiskytrail.com/pages/view/the-trail

[robertlouis]

Sheanair was from Achnacarry, did WHW 5 times, once with 45 cdo, in one go no sleep. Don't get me started, Springbank is also on my list.
When celebrating with my buddie (also 45 cdo), we decided to do the Malt Whisky Trail by shanks's mare so we could drink a wee dram. Awesome.

I spent a memorable summer on Islay years ago, staying with a friend from uni whose family home was a half mediaeval tower house, half Georgian mansion overlooking the Atlantic. We got jobs with the council looking after the graveyards and spent the entire summer in a bucolic and alcoholic haze. No-one seemed to have to buy malt, there was always a bottle or two available, and drinking beer was viewed as a practice not dissimilar to homosexuality or a liking for any sport other than shinty. And the pubs never shut, because the cops were all in there, in or out of uniform.

My liver is still trying to recover after 20 years.

[jimme747]

Doing WHW from the North, would make sense, if lucky and the sun shines it will be in your face most of the time but better views ahead. Also hiking uphill or mountain (Devil's staircase), is easier on the knees and ankles rather then going down from FW.

[robertlouis]

Doing WHW from the North, would make sense, if lucky and the sun shines it will be in your face most of the time but better views ahead. Also hiking uphill or mountain (Devil's staircase), is easier on the knees and ankles rather then going down from FW.

Agreed, but I could and did fall asleep luxuriating in the bath each time I got back, in my parents' house in Milngavie.

Not quite the same in the YH at FW!

[jimme747]

Beer was for poofters, never went to Islay, will go soon lots of good dram and not far from Jura.

[jimme747]

That's cheating, under the stars, Kingshouse or Mamore Lodge was my choice.
Or just a dip in on of the Loch's.

[Luvs T Gyrls]

1-Molson
2-Guiness
3-Kulmbacher
4-PBR
5-Ba Moi Ba Export 33

[Prospero]

European - i LOVE Czech beer but as i had only one vote to cast it had to go to Guinness.