Comments on: The Macallan Ice Ball Serve

By: James Yardley

James Yardley — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:00:09 +0000

I had one of these last night during my annual visit to the Hawksmoor after reading this post.

I asked for the Macallan, but they didn’t have any, so they offered me any whisky from their selection, along with the ice sphere.

Highland Park was available, so I had one of these, but at £15.50, it was no where near worth it and I didn’t feel the ice was “that special.”

Sadly, the Hawksmoor has gone down in my estimation as well. We have been going as I say annually for 3 years now, its too commercial and too big now and the service suffers because of this.

By: Chris Matchett

Chris Matchett — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:51:23 +0000

http://richchestmat.tumblr.com/post/479850447/bowmore-whiskey-in-a-yoshitomo-nara-tumbler-with
I had to show off my own rokku and nara tumbler…

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:33:08 +0000

@Chris – not old over here, especially not with the giant copper blocks, hence my excitement – one of the reasons Tokyo is on my visit list is the awesomeness of the theatre at some of the bars. Scotch on za rokku isn’t my thing, but I’ll happily watch someone carve something out of ice to stick in my drink…

By: Chris Matchett

Chris Matchett — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:54:04 +0000

Old ice technique is old. This is the standard way of drinking whiskey ‘rockku de’ in Japan. Here’s a pic of a yamazaki in a whiskey bar from 2005. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=64718&l=bc0200b9d7&id=103347801
I now have the equipment to make these at home. And by equipment I mean an icecube mould in the shape of two half spheres. See centre top of this pic http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=871844&l=15b52827c9&id=1033478013
Only issue is that it doesn’t fit in a proper whiskey glass and I have to use it with my Yoshitomo Nara tumbler.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:26:28 +0000

It’d be bad-ass at parties though.