![]() ![]() There’s a frugality to it his whisky choice would involve an affordability. I come from a big farming family and they enjoy a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned and a lot of domestic beer. My father is a big scotch fan and to this day it’s still the biggest treat for him, especially around the holidays or a birthday. When I think what I’d want in a flask when I’m out cutting firewood, it’s this profile. For me, I grew up in a house that had two wood-burning stoves. ![]() There is something really inscrutable about the way it taps into a sense of memory and comfort. There’s a smokiness there, which I think lends itself to a wood-burning fire and nice fuzzy memories. It depends on where I am, but when I'm around scotch, I say “Sláinte.” What do you say when you toast, by the way? It was just an absolute stroke of luck that he put it in my character Ron Swanson’s desk. So it was weird because it turned out Lagavulin was Mike Schur’s favorite as well. I probably didn’t have a lot of other whiskies between my first Lagavulin and when Parks and Rec started about 10 years later. I’ve had blends, but nothing ever stuck with me except that Lagavulin it has such an impactful flavor profile. $96 at Reserve Bar Credit: Ben Shakespeare Photography I was a theater actor and I didn’t know about good scotch, I just knew about whisky. It’s not like I was part of a culture where I was going out to bars and affording whatever I wanted. Oh, that was my age when I first tried it. When my friend got me my first glass of scotch, I was around 29. I was like, What is this, Paris?! It was incredible. When I finally moved to Chicago and became a theater actor, the fact that I could find a bar where I could get Guinness on tap was mind blowing. Those were the premium imports and other than that you just had the big brand domestic stuff this was in the 80s and 90s. It was an incredible luxury when I started drinking beer, because you had to drive a half an hour to a specific gas station to get a six pack of St. It’s easy to remember because I’m from a small town in Illinois and I was so culturally ignorant growing up. Nick Offerman: The weird thing is, it was actually Lagavulin 16. ![]() This conversation has been edited for clarity and length.Įsquire: Do you remember your first scotch? Over a glass of his very own libation, Offerman spoke to Esquire about topics one absolutely should-must?-speak about while swirling a glorious glass of brown-hued heaven: his passions, scotch, farm-culture, and the author Wendell Berry. Their latest creation, Lagavulin Offerman Edition: Charred Oak Cask, is a smokey scotch that Swanson himself would salivate over. The two have also partnered on a trio of limited edition bottles of Lagavulin that bear Offerman’s very name. So it’s no happy accident that a creative decision for his character has evolved into Offerman becoming a pitchman for scotch distillery Lagavulin. But it’s the scotch that burns, literally and figuratively, warmest in their bellies. Of course, they agree on much more: While wildly different personality-wise (the real Offerman is affable and open-minded compared to the stubborn-curmudgeon Swanson), both have an affinity for wood-working, nature, and steak. If there’s one thing Nick Offerman and Ron Swanson, his breakout-role on Parks and Recreation, can agree on it’s this: the inherent joy of kicking back a quality glass of scotch.
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