What is the difference between Scotch and Bourbon?

Bretrick said:
What is Southern Comfort?
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Southern Comfort is an American fruit-flavored liqueur, originally created in 1874 by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in New Orleans. Blending whiskey with stone fruits and spices, it features a sweet, mellow profile. It is commonly used in cocktails like the Alabama Slammer, with popular pairings including cola, lemonade, or orange juice.
 
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MACKTEXAS said:
It wasn't clear what you were referring to. I do not attach positives to my previous drinking either. They were outweighed by the negatives, but that does not make me immune from returning to alcohol since it was once a daily event and a significant problem in my life. Some who abused alcohol stay off, then get the idea they are fully recovered and can handle a drink now and then. If they try doing that, they may end up in worse shape the second time around - and that is what I was referring to.
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I have always told people that I never had a drink I didn't like. Having said that, I quit drinking January 2nd of 1997. I had a drink of Scotch when I got home from work. Made supper for my wife and I then cleaned up and got my wife ready for bed. She had MS. After I put her to bed I turned the tv on and poured another Scotch. When that was gone I poured the last of that bottle into my glass, took a sip and poured the rest in the sink. Haven't touched a drop ever since and don't miss it. There was still more left in the bar.
 
BeefStu said:
I have always told people that I never had a drink I didn't like. Having said that, I quit drinking January 2nd of 1997. I had a drink of Scotch when I got home from work. Made supper for my wife and I then cleaned up and got my wife ready for bed. She had MS. After I put her to bed I turned the tv on and poured another Scotch. When that was gone I poured the last of that bottle into my glass, took a sip and poured the rest in the sink. Haven't touched a drop ever since and don't miss it. There was still more left in the bar.
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I can recall many nights when alcohol made me absent from my family, since I was in my own world, or tuning out the world. I do not recall the date I took my last drink (over 12 years ago) or a specific event that made me do it - I just became determined that it had to happen. I was tired and no longer got the buzz that felt good. Like most other people who have suffered from addiction problems, I'm not perfect and have my times of temptation which I don't mind admitting to because I am human. But I can also be a very self-determined person, which has served me well.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I can recall many nights when alcohol made me absent from my family, since I was in my own world, or tuning out the world. I do not recall the date I took my last drink (over 12 years ago) or a specific event that made me do it - I just became determined that it had to happen. I was tired and no longer got the buzz that felt good. Like most other people who have suffered from addiction problems, I'm not perfect and have my times of temptation which I don't mind admitting to because I am human. But I can also be a very self-determined person, which has served me well.
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At the time, I felt like I was using alcohol as a crutch. I used to drink socially, and because I liked it. This was a pretty rough part of my life, watching someone I loved being gradually taken away from me and as much as I thought it was a crutch to cope with what was happening I somehow realized that night that it was not a very strong crutch and eventually was going to fail and let me come crashing down to the point that I may never get back up from. In early March of that year my wife's family convinced me to have her placed in Long Term Care. That was probably the worst day of my life.
 
horseless carriage said:
Scotch can be aged in various used barrels (e.g., sherry or bourbon casks). Bourbon must be aged in new, charred oak containers. Scotch often features smoky, earthy, or rich savoury notes (due to peat). Bourbon generally has a sweeter, smoother profile with notes of vanilla, caramel, and oak, owing to the high corn content and new barrels.
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You mentioned the thing that comes to mind first for me for scotch, peat. However in looking it up I learned for the first time there are unpeated scotches. I thought it was a requirement. The peat is used while malting the barley when it is dried over peat fires giving it the peat smoke flavors. I love that in the scotches I enjoy.

I prefer scotch to bourbon overall but enjoy them both from time to time. I'll usually drink scotch neat (no mixer, or ice) and I usually have bourbon in mixed cocktails.
 
My sister loves scotch. Well, these days she doesn't drink a lot but she always loved a good scotch.

For me give me bourbon. A Southern Comfort Old Fashioned Sweet is my go to predinner drink if out. Two at most generally. :)

I have never made them at home, I'd be in trouble if I did I think. Plus with the booze, the mix, the bitters, the fruit, that's a lot to always have on hand.

Southern Comfort isn't the only be all end all, I'll take others but it's very good in an Old Fashioned Sweet. Imo anyhow.
 
I prefer my liquor and wine straight. Never could get into the wine cooler or cocktail drinks. My mother was a functional alcoholic so I don't drink much, but when I do I prefer high-quality alcohol - no point in drinking occasionally and wasting time on bad liquor/wine, LOL!

Prefer bourbon over Scotch, but that's because the first bourbon I ever drank was Pappy Van Winkle 21-yr old Reserve. This was back it was a mere $75/bottle and from true Stitzel-Weller stock, instead of the $3-4K range it now sells for (despite the retail price being only $320). MAGNIFICENT is the only word for it. Full of corn flavor and aroma, dark and rich, and a finish that goes on forever. Wowie!

Enjoyed that for a few years before bourbon suddenly became the "in" thing and prices shot up to ridiculous levels. Now nouveau riche idiots buy it to make Cosmopolitans.....yeeeeccccccchhhhhhh!

I switched to Jefferson, but even that has gone down in quality as prices have risen. I hoard my last two older bottles of Jefferson like gold šŸ˜‹. Lighter than Pappy, but with same long, beautiful finish.

A friend loved Scotch, especially peaty ones, so I was able to taste some really good stuff like Macallan 18. FYI if you don't like "peat" and smoky flavors, Japanese whiskeys are lovely - smooth and clean. Not cheap, but beautifully balanced.

I was playing around with rums for a short while, but then a friend went to Cuba during that brief period (2014) when it was legalized. I told him to buy me the most expensive rum he could find at the ORIGINAL Bacardi rum facility, which Bacardi abandoned when the Castro regime took over to operate it.

He came back with a bottle of a rich, dark, absolutely incredible rum that left Myers and Gosling dark rums in the dust. It was fabulous!!

Then he confessed to me that it was the mid-priced rum, and it cost him...$15. The top-priced rum was $20 and he thought that was higher than he should spend.

I had just spent over a hundred bucks on a special limited edition of Ron Zacapa rum. Needless to say I wanted to buy him a plane ticket and send him back to Cuba to buy a case of the $20 rum - or maybe two cases!
 
I've had some of the best tequilas ever made. What most Americans think of as tequila is a joke. A good one is a drink to be appreciated and sipped. Not slammed.

If talking, aged or pricey things whether wine, tequila, rum, scotch and more...

For the average drink though I like the Southern Comfort Old Fashioned Sweet. Oh I'll take others if I'm in some other state where they have it aged in barrels... TN, KY... If I go out to dinner around here? Yeah, it will likely be Southern Comfort.

How about cheese? I've had some of the most aged that one can imagine. Or aged steaks.

But I sure don't live these things every day, have them every day. Buy them every day.

Still taking bourbon over scotch which is the topic of the thread but was honest and don't think I've ever had scotch lol. Sister loved it though as I said. And she worked in the big city which is probably where she got the scotch thing lol.

But yes, there are better types of everything, OR things that some think are just because they are pricier.

And yes, all things should be in moderation. If an alcohol problem in the family. Or none at all.
 
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