"Johnny Walker - black label, or Chivas Regal.... Jack Daniels or Jim Beam." ROFL
Blends can be okay for the price other times its just firewater and gut rot.
Freedom will know but for anyone else blended whisky is a blend of different malt whiskies
and grain whiskies, its usually cheap. (blends used to be the bread and butter, only now
are single malts really at the forefront)
Blended whisky is more for mixing with soda/cola ect but better blends can be sipped;
use a rather cheap blend when mixing because the flavour gets diluted anyway.
Single malts are more for people who want to have a taste experience or are really into whisky;
these you drink neat or with a tiny bit of water to "open" the whisky as they say.
I wouldn't break open a single malt for getting drunk on, I would just buy a blend for that.
Single malts are more for tasting. Never pay more for a blend than a single malt, that's the
problem with say Johnnie Walker Black Label sometimes they can be as expensive as a cheap
malt.
Johnnie Walker is a bit overated imo, its more of a brand and name than anything else.
Its nice and certainly does the job its just the price you have to watch for. Churchill and
Richard Nixon where pretty famous Johnnie Walker drinkers. Black and Green Label are nice
for sipping as far as a blends go but the Blue Label is totally over rated. Green Label is all
blended malts and Black Label is a combination of malt and grain whiskies.
Greens better but for a blend Black Label is a nice sipping whisky.
Single malt is difficult for some people to get into as it has a lot of different styles;
Irish whiskey tends to be smooth.
Blends like Chivas Regal and Johnnie Walker are mass marketed.
Mainly its people who dont really taste whisky but want a whisky brand to stick too.
Jack D is okay its a bit like firewater so you have to mix it, depends on if its on special offer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3eBU_6oz0&feature=relmfu
This guy Ralphy does good whisky reviews, i learnt a lot from his videos.
I've been reading The Scotch Whisky Book by Mark Skipworth it goes into detail about distilling and the history of whisky,
the different types of whisky in Scotland,
half the book has notes with pictures of various whiskies some are not in production anymore.
EDIT: Ive tried to edit that down and format the text, i had to just hit return key to get the paragraph sizes right. I wish you could do that in the edit function. You get lines that are massive if you write a paragraph depending on screen size and res.