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Morning Glory said:
What is a whisky stone?
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Here's my whiskey stones story:

Before his liver issues, my brother drank a lot of bourbon. Morning, noon, and night, always bourbon and cola. Never seen without a drink in his hand.

Now Lee is one of those guys, when he's into something, he's into it all the way, so he had all manner of accoutrements, like special glasses and stirring spoons and decanters and all that - all the stuff that makes a hobby fun.

But he didn't have any whiskey stones.

I'd see them advertised in magazines and catalogs and such, and I'd say, "I'm going to get some of these for Lee one of these days..." - but I never did.

Then, in 2018, we went to Ireland, and we planned to go to Bushmills for a tasting and they have a big shop there as well. And some of the whiskey stones I've seen have been made of marble...Connemara marble! Hey, I'll finally get those whiskey stones!

Got to the shop, looked all around at all the whiskey-related paraphernalia, but I couldn't find any stones. None at all, couldn't even find a place for them where they'd normally stock them. Surely, a distillery in Ireland would have Irish marble whiskey stones, right? All the discerning whiskey drinkers use them, according to the catalogs.

"Um, excuse me," I asked one of the older gentlemen working the floor, "Can you tell me where your whiskey stones are?"

"What? What's a whiskey stone?"

"You know, little cubes of stones, like marble or soapstone, you put in your whiskey to keep it cold and it never melts, like ice cubes do. Whiskey stones!"

"Lad, anyone putting rocks in their whiskey probably has rocks in their head as well. Catherine! This fellow wants to know if we have rocks! To put in his whiskey!"

<Look on Catherine's face: :eek:>

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TastyReuben said:
Here's my whiskey stones story:

Before his liver issues, my brother drank a lot of bourbon. Morning, noon, and night, always bourbon and cola. Never seen without a drink in his hand.

Now Lee is one of those guys, when he's into something, he's into it all the way, so he had all manner of accoutrements, like special glasses and stirring spoons and decanters and all that - all the stuff that makes a hobby fun.

But he didn't have any whiskey stones.

I'd see them advertised in magazines and catalogs and such, and I'd say, "I'm going to get some of these for Lee one of these days..." - but I never did.

Then, in 2018, we went to Ireland, and we planned to go to Bushmills for a tasting and they have a big shop there as well. And some of the whiskey stones I've seen have been made of marble...Connemara marble! Hey, I'll finally get those whiskey stones!

Got to the shop, looked all around at all the whiskey-related paraphernalia, but I couldn't find any stones. None at all, couldn't even find a place for them where they'd normally stock them. Surely, a distillery in Ireland would have Irish marble whiskey stones, right? All the discerning whiskey drinkers use them, according to the catalogs.

"Um, excuse me," I asked one of the older gentlemen working the floor, "Can you tell me where your whiskey stones are?"

"What? What's a whiskey stone?"

"You know, little cubes of stones, like marble or soapstone, you put in your whiskey to keep it cold and it never melts, like ice cubes do. Whiskey stones!"

"Lad, anyone putting rocks in their whiskey probably has rocks in their head as well. Catherine! This fellow wants to know if we have rocks! To put in his whiskey!"

<Look on Catherine's face: :eek:>

:laugh:
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It may be another case of "this is what they do in ---------. The best selling rum in the US (perhaps the world) is Bacardi. But, it you go to Puerto Rico, where Bacardi is made, it is considered the cheap swill that homeless drunks drink. When I went to Mexico (not a tourist resort), none of the bars had Corona beer.

I've encountered similar instances in my trips to Europe, where what someone thought we Americans ate/drank something most of us wouldn't touch.

I can just see a couple of budding entrepreneurs with a bunch of rocks and drinking whiskey, and "Ding!" a tradition was born. :laugh:

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