{"id":744,"date":"2008-11-25T22:59:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2008-11-25T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T04:09:35","slug":"laphroaig-quarter-cask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/laphroaig-quarter-cask\/","title":{"rendered":"Laphroaig Quarter Cask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/IMG_2744.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/79885-2\/IMG_2744.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 alt=\"Laphroaig Quarter Cask, 1L, purchased at the Duty Free shop in Heathrow Airport for \u00a330.99.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Save for an awful cold, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oyster_card\">Oyster Card<\/a>, some cash, a few receipts, and two packs of <strike>candy<\/strike> chocolate bars, this 1L bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask purchased at a Duty Free shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Heathrow_Airport\">Heathrow Airport<\/a> was the only real souvenir which I brought back from the UK. Cost was \u00a330.99, and with the ~1.58:1 exchange rate we received, the state minimum price of $54.98 for a 750mL, and a 6% sales tax, presuming the same size bottle was available, this cost 63% of what it would back here in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotch_whisky\">whisky<\/a>. Despite its higher alcohol content it&#8217;s not as potent of a flavor as I expected. It&#8217;s still nicely smoky, but there&#8217;s something much softer about it. I did mix it with about 40% water, and I may eventually work up to trying it neat, but that&#8217;s typically a stretch for Laphroaig. It&#8217;s almost always best with at least a small splash of water.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I should go fill out the form to claim my square foot of land on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islay\">Islay<\/a>. Maybe one day I&#8217;ll end up there and have a chance to collect rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save for an awful cold, an Oyster Card, some cash, a few receipts, and two packs of candy chocolate bars, this 1L bottle of Laphroaig&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/laphroaig-quarter-cask\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laphroaig Quarter Cask<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-food","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}