Kudos to Brother Bluff who threw a great meeting on Saturday, October 28th. Definitely one to remember…<\/p>\n
The topic was essentially marrying sushi and single malt whisky. I have a number of notes piecing many things together from the meeting, so Brothers, please feel free to edit anything I have written here.<\/p>\n
Bluff’s Theorem – Pair a like whisky with a like sushi – (e.g. a whisky with iodine characteristics may pair well with an iodine nigiri)<\/p>\n
Bop’s Law – Pairings will differ along the color spectrum of sushi – from mollusk (translucent) to tuna (red)<\/p>\n
Irving\/Lakeview Thesis – Balancing the strengths of the whisky\/sushi with opposing strengths of the sushi\/whisky leads to an excellent marriage<\/p>\n
Some pairing findings:<\/p>\n
Mollusk paired well with Lowland- in this case Linlithgow 28 (Blackadder bottling)
\nBalvenie and Balblair tested well within the group across the entire sushi color spectrum
\nMoon River roll (shrimp tempura with jalape\u00c3\u00b1o) paired very well with Balblair 16 (which was deemed to be a great whisky by the majority)
\nInside – Out Dragon Roll = Ardbeg 1977
\nIrving just didn’t like the rainbow roll so didn’t really pair it.
\nThe scallop nigiri was the bomb!!! <\/p>\n
Lineup:<\/p>\n
Balblair 16
\nBalvenie 12 – Doublewood
\nArdbeg 1977
\nLinlithgow 28 – Blackadder bottling
\nLedaig 20
\nGlen Elgin – Cask Strength
\nother?<\/p>\n
Sushi:<\/p>\n
Scallop nigiri
\nToro nigiri
\nred snapper nigiri
\nclam nigiri
\ninside out dragon roll
\nmoon river roll
\nspicy tuna roll
\nother?<\/p>\n
Other considerations from the group:<\/p>\n
More discussion \/ homework needed around the boon years of the 1890’s from a whisky perspective
\nOFFICIALLY – What are the 3 oldest distilleries?
\nWhen cutting a cask strength whisky, is there an official cut %? If so, what is the source?
\nGroup needs to further define Islay more granularly given its broad acceptance.
\nGroup needs to do a bar tour to determine which establishments have the best whisky selections in town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kudos to Brother Bluff who threw a great meeting on Saturday, October 28th. Definitely one to remember… The topic was essentially marrying sushi and single malt whisky. I have a number of notes piecing many things together from the meeting, so Brothers, please feel free to edit anything I have written here. Bluff’s Theorem – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}