Norway
Linie
No
No
A fine Norwegian aquavit aged in a fabulous and unusual manner; Linie is taken in sherry casks for a four month quest, sailing to Australia and back again before bottling. This results in many changes of temperature, speeding up the maturation in a very curious way!
Place the bottle in your freezer--not in a room temperature bar. Enjoye a shot with some good food or sip on it's own. As a certified single malt Scotish wisky taster, but a rum fanatic, I must say that as a single shot--I prefer Linie Aquavit. In particularly if it is cold outside.
No - You do not sip it or mix it or whatever. Aquavit is traditionally used whith heavy food, such as pork bellies. Drink chilled together whith cold beer, then You will get the full potentional. The exeption is Løytens Non Plus Ultra - that you drink with coffee in stead of Cognac.
Purchased 3 samples of this and I'm quite content to leave this one to the Nordic population so that should sum up my review in a nut shell for you all ! It's sort of I between new make spirit and car wind screen washer fluid !
This method of maturation isn't quite so unusual. It was used by Teacher's in 1887 to create their 'Australian Bonded Whisky': the barrels of Scotch were used as ballast on ships travelling to and from Australia.
It melted my floor and killed my friend and made my bowels explode. Do not drink.
