SkipG wrote:
I am not a scotch drinker but sure as hell would like to be. Just looks cool as hell, I may grow up one day and give it a go.
Question, was at a bar in a fine establishment a while back. Guy orders a scotch, don't remember what kind, just remember the bartender saying it was $60 a pour. The gentleman nodded and the bartender proceeded to pull this metal contraption and put a large block of ice in it and melted it down to a perfect sphere. He placed it in the glass and poured the scotch. What was that ritual all about?
Many drink scotch on the rocks. Many scotches and whiskeys need just a little bit of water to open them up and some people like them chilled. So, that's why the use of ice.
However, most bars have small ice cubes from ice machines. Those ice cubes melt too quickly and dilute the scotch. You don't want that. So, instead, you use a very large ice ball that chills the drink, but does not melt quickly and, thus, does not dilute the drink.
You can make a large ice ball using an ice mold that you fill with water and freeze. However, the "fancy" way to do it is put a block of ice in a press and melt it down to a ball. Certain metals react with ice and melts it without having to heat it up. You don't need to go through this process to get an ice ball, but it is part of the presentation.
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