# Single Malt **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-malt/999652 **Category:** Cafe Society **Tags:** liquor-alcohol **Created:** [March 31, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-malt/999652 "2024-03-31T21:31:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 14
### Author: ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train) #### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-malt/999652/14 "2024-04-03T16:58:46Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > If you ever ask for Scotch in a bar, make sure to specify a brand or you will end up with Johnny Walker. Nasty, nasty stuff. If you are just asking for “Scotch” in a bar, you are going to get whatever cheap crap is in the well; probably J&B or Dewers; maybe a really high class bar will have Walker Red Label as their ‘well’ Scotch, which is pretty rough but suitable as a mixer. If you are ordering Scotch or any other liquor ‘neat’, ‘on the rocks’, or in a fine cocktail like a Rob Roy or a Manhattan, then you should specify the label. Ditto for (gin) Martinis and anything else where the flavor of the liquor comes through. [People who order “whiskey” in a bar deserve what they get, especially in the post-modern anti-consumer apocalypse of _Star Trek_.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-a-d-a-closed-environmental-system/943723/54) Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-malt/999652)._