Lamest Tasting Ever

Back when I was interested in meeting people who shared my interests in fine conversation and whisky, my friends Samantha and Iggy supplied some great advice: sign-up on the websites of various whisky producers to get invited to free tasting events. I signed up with a favorite, Laphroaig, which netted me a small plot of land somewhere in Glasgow and a certificate stating this fact, but little else. Then today I got an email promoting a “live online whisky tasting.” Which as near as I can tell does not involve drinking whisky but instant-messaging about it. That’s like giving a starving man a cookbook.