Scotch tasting. What munchie food to pair with?

On Christmas eve afternoon, I’m going to one of my accounts, and we’re going to drink scotch. I’m bringing a Balvenie 12. John will have a Laphroaig 10 year old.What munchies go well with scotch?

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Best bits for scotch are Nuts lightly toasted, or Smoked salmon and bagles with small amounts of cream cheese or none at all and on crip breads. I also like rice to allow you to really taste through the differences in each offering

That’s one of the most beautiful sentences I’ve read in a long time. So powerful, yet so moving.

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Years ago, we enjoyed a glass of Lagavulin at 10:00am. My customer enjoys this, and not the grape. It’s become a holiday tradition. What’s so bad.

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Smoked salmon came to my mind, too. Enjoy and report!

I have been drinking Scotch for about 40 years and I don’t think it ever occurred to me to have smoked salmon with it. Thanks for the idea. On reflection, the “terroir” is right since that is certainly something a Scotsman would be likely to have around (as opposed to, say, mangoes).

I think when I am drinking serious Scotch I mostly eat -nothing- but sometimes nuts or crackers or perhaps a nibble of cheese.

You don’t mean lox, right, you mean the crumbly-textured cooked stuff?

Followup…

The Laphroaig is a slightly smoother (and cheaper) version of the Lagavulin. Oh so good.

We snacked on crackers, cheese and olives (after we initially did a tasting).

I like them both, but would have described Laphroig as a somewhat less civilized and more extreme version of Lagavullin. They have somewhat different flavor profiles, Laphroig more iodine, Lagavullin more smokey peat.

-Al

I was serving smoked salmon with Champagne as an appetizer last night and I brought up this discussion. Naturally I had to run down to the cellar for a bottle of Talisker, which did indeed go very well with the fish.

The flaky kind or lox like? I think either would do. Smokiness is key. I have enjoyed my 15 year old Glenlivet (French Oak barrel) with roasted almonds. Simple pleasures.

Happy New Year!!!

Flaky. We love the Costco stuff with a chunk of peppered salmon and a chunk of plain smoked.

You slice it thin with a sharp serrated knife – people can decorate a cracker and get a nice little blast of that good flavor. The Scotch was disappointing at first because it was at cellar temp and too cold.