Glenlivet's marketing stunt: whiskey in lozenge form

From White People Twitter:

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Seems to me that this would work better with Sambuca.

Edit: I can’t spell.

Sambuca is for dark bar room fire eating.

Gonna leave this right here:

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If a young child sees their parents consume a whisky pod, might they be more likely to try to eat a Tide pod? Monkey see, monkey do?

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You might be able to if you try. I once saw someone fill their mouth with whiskey and then proceed to drink it in sips on a long walk.

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Marketing hyperbole aside, this isn’t a new product for store shelves. It’s a limited time “tasting experience” offered by one (1) fancy cocktail bar in New York.

I’ll take “Things that went viral because people share without reading” for 500, Alex.

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Thanks, but that still doesn’t clear up whether we are supposed to put them in our mouths or in our butts.

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“Or”?

I thought that’s why they came in threes.

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Third one goes in the ear.

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Thank you for anticipating my follow-up question.

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Does no one actually read the promo material?

The Glenlivet Capsule Collection will only be available at Tayēr (Tayēr + Elementary, Old Street, London) and served as an amuse-bouche on arrival throughout this year’s London Cocktail Week (4th – 13th October), the city’s celebration of perfectly mixed cocktail innovations.

The capsules:

Citrus:

The Citrus Capsule blends vibrant bergamot, zesty grapefruit and almond with pepper and the warmth of The Glenlivet’s Founder’s Reserve.

Ingredients:

The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve
Lemon Distillate
Fino Sherry
Lillet
Bergamot Cordial

Wood:

The Wood Capsule combines The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve with powerful woody notes of cedar and sandalwood, as well as tannins of nutty oloroso.

Ingredients:

The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve
Sandalwood Distillate
Tayēr Aged Aquavit
Oloroso
Rosso Vermouth
Cedarwood Cordial

Spice:

The Spice Capsule blends the rich full bodied notes of The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve with base note of vetiver, dark walnut bitter, leather and tobacco.

Ingredients:

The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve
Muyu Vetiver Gris
Oloroso Sherry
Raspberry Verjus
Black Walnut Bitters
Paychaud’s Bitters

This is so far from “add-a-drop-of-water” whisky-snob territory that such complaints are utterly laughable.

Precisely.

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Alright, which goes where?

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Just go for it; The Glenlivet will tell you if you need to switch. :wink:

All of those sound like (perhaps needlessly complicated) recipes for a Rob Roy cocktail.

Which a good single-malt whisky would be wasted on; blended whisky is fine for that.

(Although Glenlivet isn’t really a good single malt. Laphroaig or Talisker would be more to my taste.)

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The game store/restaurant/bar we frequent has a port affogato I keep meaning to try.

Also we spent a good portion of our D&D session this weekend joking about using these as suppositories. I am playing a drunken master monk so it was… sort of relevant.

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Those are artisanal Rob Roy-inspired craft cocktails, don’cha know. :smile:

Perhaps. But I don’t have any blends on hand, I fear

Well, sure, if I had some Glenlivet, it’s probably the first thing I’d dump into a cocktail. :wink:

Ah, you like the peaty ones, do you?

I confess, first time I ever had Lapfrog, I told the bottle’s owner I was afraid his whisky had gone bad.
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More of a Highland Malts sort myself. But different strokes, eh? You bring yours, I’ll bring mine, and we’ll sample both

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