A Slow Pour – Time to Relax
Hello, sippers! I hope you are all keeping well in these challenging times, you and your loved ones are healthy, and your financial situations are secure.
I decided I would hop on today with the thought there may be a fair number of you confined to your homes and may be lacking things to do… Let’s share a slow pour – it’s time to relax…
To those of you who know my dad and me, you’ll know that we both enjoy our bourbon, and we strive to post at least three reviews a week (one from him, two from yours truly) amidst casual sipping.
Surprisingly, for us, there has been a lack of those reviews, and I do want to assure you that those goals are not abandoned and more reviews are coming. Not only have there been a lack of reviews written, but we haven’t been partaking in casual pours and sips so much either, especially since my younger sister was dismissed from university early, due to the virus. Naturally, there has been a fair amount of chaos, confusion, and stress regarding her unanticipated return, change in status to permanent stay, and what the rest of her semester is going to look like.
However, adjustments have been slowly made and as she goes to resume her classes and studies online, the family has been falling into a routine of sorts. My dad still is working, and the rest of the family is at home. We still get groceries. We watch YouTube and have the Pandora app on our Blu-Ray.
There’s also been a lot of game playing! Whether it’s Scrabble or Go Fish or Rummy 500, we’ve found ways to entertain ourselves. Last night, our bird even flew from her cage to join the whole family for a game of UNO. (That’s her on the table below.)
It is during such games when my dad and I feel the most comfortable pouring a dram and sitting back to enjoy the moment. The atmosphere is light; we’re laughing; we’re having FUN.
I am by no means a trained medical doctor or psychologist, but should you reach for a pour in these times, please make it a happy experience. Turn off the news for a moment, get off social media, set down the phone, and put on an old family favorite movie. For us, it was Vin Diesel’s The Pacifier even though my sister and I are both in our twenties, and yes, we still laughed a bunch. Test your skills at an old video game! We’ve been playing a lot of golf and Frisbee golf on our ancient Wii from 2007 that miraculously still works. And lots of Mario Kart too.
Yes, I realize that this post isn’t intensely whiskey related, rather whiskey influenced. Whether it is a pandemic or not, whiskey should always, in my book, be a relaxing and responsible “pause” button where you can enjoy the moment and the company. And it seems to me that many of us are in great need of a pause. So dig out what I call an “old friend bottle” (Eagle Rare, Dry Fly 101, and Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch are always reliable for me) or maybe allow yourself to reach for that unicorn you’ve been saving. Enjoy a contented and peaceful pause – not a panicked and stressed one.
Keep the pours slow, and make sure you have plenty of laughter to go along with them, whether it’s with the immediate family you’re isolated with, or at your pet’s antics, or at one of the many comedians on Netflix. I think you’ll find plenty of things to laugh about, and who knows? You may even make some great memories to look back on once this is all over!
Leave us a reply to tell us what you’ve been up to and what lucky whiskey you’ve been taking your pauses with! Any good games or movies you’ve been playing and watching to go along with your pour? Let us know!
A Slow Pour – Time to Relax
Written by Hannah Dawson
WhiskeyfortheAges.com editor
Featured Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash
Others in the Slow Pour Series:
A Slow Pour – The Empty Bottle
A Slow Pour – Time Capsules
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