Free Saturday?
Do you partake of the water of life?
Al Higgins writes:
I thought your readers might like to know about an event we are holding this Saturday in the Printworks at Dublin Castle. Whiskey Live Dublin is Ireland’s biggest whiskey event with the chance to try over 300 whiskeys from 45 different producers around the world. There will be many new and hard to find whiskeys available for sampling along with some special masterclasses from Teeling Whiskey Distillery and Powers.
There will also be cocktails, food and whiskey pairings and the chance to meet the makers of Ireland’s finest beverages.
It is a non-profit event organised by us here at the Celtic Whiskey Shop. Last year we raised over €10,000 for Down Syndrome Dublin and we hope to beat that this year.The event runs in two sessions. One from 1.30pm-5pm and one from 6pm-9.30pm.We would like to offer Broadsheet.ie readers the chance to win one (yes one!) pair of tickets for the afternoon session. To enter, just complete this sentence:
‘My first ever whiskey was________________and it made me feel___________________’
“My first ever whiskey was one I robbed and it made me feel my cousin”.
Good grief. There’s no winning against that.
…winner!
Made me lol
Wahey! :)
My first ever whiskey was a baby power i snaked out of me granda’s cabinet to have on the bus on the way into town. and it made me feel like chatting up this gorgeous looking girdl dancing around her handbag. Her name was Noreen, but i now call her “the wife”!!
She lucked out with you eh?
My first ever whiskey was risky, and it made me feel frisky.
Alcohol, yay!
‘My first ever whiskey was Haig and it made me feel Vague.’
My first ever whiskey was Jemmy,
Mum gave it me coz I was phlegmy,
It made me feel grand,
A cured man – In command!
But my eyes resembled Buscemi’s!
My first ever whiskey was a poitin my grandfather had gotten years ago when he was in the army, and it made me feel like my insides wanted to burst into flames.
Poitin isn’t whiskey
I can’t wait for the day when events like this will be found as untasteful as Dublin Castle hosting a Rare Tobaccos From Around The Globe.
Just stop
My first ever whiskey was on my soother and it made me sleep like a baby…. thanks Ma
My first ever whiskey was a glass of Laphroaig,
It made me feel like I’d swallowed some bog.
It tasted like turf soaked in neat TCP,
But I’d try it again if the tickets were free.
Laphroaig tastes of smoke and it is delicious
My first ever whiskey was at 10.30pm and it made me feel like Pat Ingoldsby on laughing gas.
Whiskey brings you back to your childhood bed at 5am. Even though your family haven’t owned the house since 1999.
I don’t want the prize anyway, give it to someone else.
My first ever whiskey was mixed with gin, vodka, sherry, rum and brandy and it made me feel like an Irish king at the local teenage disco…..for about 10 minutes
My first ever whiskey was rubbed on my chest, & it made me feel my chest.
My first whiskey was given to me as a baby, my parent’s being believers in the Hot Whiskey method of curing colds from an early age, and it made me feel sleepy and warm and cosy and sleep well.
It also started my lifelong love for whiskey :)
Whiskey made me beat up all my siblings and now my children.
My first whisky was scotch
And it made me feel top notch
I drank several more
Then woke up on the floor
All smelly and soaked round my crotch
My first ever whiskey was a large glass of Paddy, neat, at the age of 16, during lunchtime from school, and it made me feel sick, which I got, during P.E.
My first ever whiskey was given to me by my grandmother when I was 5 as relief for a stomach bug and it made me feel deeply uncomfortable that she thought it was appropriate to treat illness in children with potent alcohol.
I probably should have read the other entries before posting this. Dang.
That settles it.
MoyestwithExcitement is Jonotti having a go at parodying the other side of the argument for a while. Good job, in fairness.
I’ve got my own internet admirer! Yay! This is a happy day. I should celebrate it with a whiskey. Ideally free whiskey. Hiiiiiint.
My first ever taste of whiskey was Drambui and it made me feel Scottish – ‘Oh, I’ll take the high road and you take the low…………’
My first ever whiskey was Johnny Walker and it made me feel jolly awkward.
My first ever whiskey was piss
And it made me feel just like this:
Excited, confused,
Ill, abused,
Drunk, in a funk, need to kiss.
My first ever whiskey was in a glass and it made me feel nobody. Whiskey can’t make you feel anyone, but it can help by making you much more alluring to the opposite sex…
(I haven’t looked up what alluring means in a dictionary)
‘My first ever whiskey was Bushmills and it made me feel very very light headed and unable to walk.
My first ever whiskey was a Jemmy on ice and it made me feel both naughty and nice.
My first ever whiskey was a hot Tullamore Dew and it made me feel good enough to forget my flu’
My first ever whiskey was made with liquid fire and distilled virgins tears and aged for a thousand years in the depths of a volcano and it made me feel like Thor himself would beg for 5 minutes of my company.
My first whiskey was hot, soaked into a tissue and applied to a sore tooth at age 3. It made me feel like sucking all the whiskey out of the tissue.
My first ever whiskey was a Gentlemen jack,
it made me feel good, so I never looked back,
before you say “wait, that’s a bourbon! don’t trick me!”
Don’t be silly, its a Tennessee whiskey!
My first ever whiskey was aged slightly older than me, it was the day of my confirmation and I had just taken “the pledge”. It made me feel quite tipsy, my father roll around laughing, my mother scolding him and warning me she’d tell the Pope…I drifted into a drunken sleep that night begging my mam not to tell the Pope!
It still gets mentioned at any family events…I need these tickets to help black out the memories!
My first whiskey was a naggin of Jameson down by the river with “the lads”. It briefly made me feel like a man, but then I went home and got sick in front of my parents.
‘My first ever whiskey was mixed with vodka, Baileys, Hennessy and whatever else I could find to fill the jam jar ……………and it made me feel like I was a God for about twenty minutes then it got really, really messy, to say the least.
I was caught too…. put too much water in the vodka, damn it !
I don’t drink any more though, and sure it’s no wonder with a history starting out like that :)
Never give up.
My first ever whiskey was a mouthful of Jemmy I snaked from my dad’s bottle in the drinks cabinet to compensate for my lack of funds to go knacker drinking and merry myself up prior to heading out to the evenings underage adventure.
I gagged on a whole mouthful (obviously) and immediately threw up on the kitchen floor, dropping the bottle, smashing it and alerting my parents to the situation… Grounded for a month – Made me feel like I owe my dad some whiskey….
My first whiskey was in Dublin Castle and it made me feel like I’d just signed off on some death warrants for uppity Irish rebels.
my first ever whiskey was a paddy I robbed off my grandad and it made me feel too close to the anna livia fountain
the flousy
‘My first ever whiskey was blackbush and it made me feel a lovely rush’
You can’t beat a glass of Shirley Bassey.
My first ever whiskey was Kentucky Bourbon and it made me feel like Richard Burton.
Any winner picked on this?