Drinking Whiskey, Step By Step

I've been trying to write more often, but I'm not quite managing to pull my main project together. For the moment, I've been writing whatever strikes my fancy, preferably visceral, description-heavy pieces. Such as this step-by-step description of drinking and tasting whiskey.

(Fun fact: I was using cheap whiskey for this, so you could probably use Control-F to make this about Listerine, too!)

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Take a sip. It starts with the crackle of pop rocks, spreading through the amber and fizzing away like fireworks. Stir it, and the sparks catch into a Listerene burn. The pocket of air at the roof of your mouth gets colder and colder, as the numbness spreads from the whiskey.

Blind-firing neurons start carving trenches across your tongue as your heartbeat rises, your taste buds caught between the whiskey tide and the hammering pulse. Finally, your tongue starts to pull, to twist, with the burning subsiding into a slow pressure that inverts the tip of your tongue.

Swallow, and feel the ridges along the roof of your mouth, slick with relief. They’re cast into sharp profile by your pulse, still heavy in your mouth. Open and breathe, the air hot as it races through the cavern of your jaw, and your eyes droop as you exhale.

Now. Eye the glass again.