> My bourbon drinking friends think it is unethical to add water or ice. The local bourbon groups on Facebook will roast someone with ice or water in their glass.

Which is funny, because if you visit any distillery or talk to industry experts (I'm friends with one of them), they'll say that you should drink it however you enjoy it most.

Of course they want to you to drink it however you like, the more you drink the more money they make.

Some orange oil spritz and a couple dashes of bitters is the right kind of old fashioned.

Anyone that roasts someone for the way they like to drink are already wrong, but with whiskey it’s just idiotic. Nearly every whiskey is better with some water on it.

I’ve recently got into car communities and they are the most snobbiest of snobs I’ve ever met. God forbid you buy a car you enjoy. That’s not the right color/leather/wheels/transmission/tunable/mileage/year/suspension etc., how could you ever drive it?

"They're an Icelandic heavy metal brass band specializing in traditional polkas. You've probably never heard of them."

Performative whiskey nerds are really dumb about dilution (I'm setting off Kasey, across the thread, by roasting people for how they drink). Cask strength whiskey isn't sold that way because it tastes better (it doesn't --- past some threshold and all the extra alcohol is doing is anesthetizing your tongue), but rather so that the customer is paying for more whiskey and less water. You're supposed to dilute it. It's like saying the right way to drink orange juice is to sip the concentrate.