Bourbon

Founder’s Original Seville Orange Bourbon Sour with Dan & Steve

iscotch 16 May No Comments

2 minutes

Founder’s premixed drinks were the find of last summer. Easy as beer but not beer; cold, refreshing, Canadian, great. So as we head into the Summer of Isolation If You’re Not An Idiot, I figured […]

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Collective Arts Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter Art Print 2019 with Dan

iscotch 21 March No Comments

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This year’s Collective Arts print tube is a Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter, something a little different. The print is a bird motif from Kait Cooper, check out her stuff and maybe buy something. You can […]

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Advent 01: Reservoir Distillery Bourbon 2y Batch 1 with Dan

iscotch 1 February No Comments

2 minutes

Loyal readers will remember I picked up the Boutique-Whisky Company’s Whisky Holiday/Advent Calendar and posted about it just before New Year’s. Well, at 24 to get through, we figured we should get started. You’ll see […]

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Robbie Burns Day Review! Innis & Gunn Vanishing Point 03 with Mike & Davey

iscotch 25 January No Comments

2 minutes

Happy Robbie Burns Day! I know, I know… reviewing a beer on Robbie Burns Day?! But I don’t have any *Scotch* scotch posts ready in the hopper – bourbon, yes, Irish, yes, gin, yes, and […]

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Five Hundred! The 500th Article (That Boutique-y Whisky Company/Drinks By The Dram Advent/Holiday Calendar Teaser)

iscotch 28 December No Comments

2 minutes

Here at iScotch we’d like to wish you all a very happy holidays, merry Christmas, festive Kwanzaa, chappy Chanukah, feisty Festivus or an unrelenting Yule. Oh yeah and a happy drunken New Year’s. This is […]

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Crown Royal Bourbon Mash aka Blender’s Mash with Steph, Matt & Marie-Michèle

iscotch 30 November No Comments

2 minutes

Interesting story on this one. Crown Royal released the bottle as Bourbon Mash (seen here because we got the hookup), a Canadian whisky made in Canada using a typical Bourbon mashbill. And since a Scottish […]

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Bearface 7y Triple Oak Canadian Whisky with Steve, Bengt, Brad & Chris

iscotch 9 November No Comments

2 minutes

Video Review! Bearface is a somehow new 7y Canadian whiskey. I’m being facetious – you can do that by buying other people’s at least 7y whisky. It looks like this company buys, blends and […]

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That Time I Drank 21 Whiskeys With Dan

iscotch 12 October 1 Comment

2 minutes

A recent very excellent birth day present, two tickets to Whiskey Ottawa, thanks Hillary! A massive event with a good 3-400 people and looooots of different whiskeys and whiskies. So much scotch, such tiny glasses. […]

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Glenfiddich 19y Age of Discovery with Holly, Trevor, Steve & Dan

iscotch 5 October No Comments

2 minutes

After doing a bunch of these reviews (like… a bunch), you can sort of perceive bigger trends. Like how for a bourbon, you need either a year or a cork, and preferably both. How Irish […]

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BattleScotch! Clyde May’s Official Alabama State Spirit Edition with Bengt, Brad & Chris

iscotch 28 September No Comments

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Another Video BattleScotch! Okay so those were… weird. Which of Alabama’s Official State Spirit did the iSiLive team prefer? Here’s the chart: nose Simon – Bourbon Bengt – Alabama Style Whiskey Brad – Bourbon […]

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Clyde May’s Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Bengt, Brad & Chris

iscotch 21 September No Comments

2 minutes

VIDEO! VIDEO! VIDEO! Clyde Who? Straight What? Bourbon… from where? ANSWER: Clyde May’s Straight Bourbon from Alabama. What do those things mean again? Bourbon: from America, with 51% corn in the original mash. Straight Bourbon: […]

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Teaser Tuesday! Clyde May’s Alabama Whiskeys

iscotch 10 September No Comments

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I was down in the states visiting family and friends, and we stopped in a small (giant) liquor store in… I would say Massachusetts if I don’t know how to spell it. But yeah, a […]

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Dominion City Brewing Between Two Evils Imperial Stout with Davey

iscotch 29 June No Comments

1 minute

Dominion City Brewing in Ottawa does a lot of interesting stuff, but Davey and I couldn’t agree on whether this was one of them. As stouts go, it’s great for people who don’t like stouts. […]

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Wild Turkey Longbranch with Davey

iscotch 15 June No Comments

1 minute

Quick review this week, Wild Turkey Longbranch Bourbon! Small batch bourbon made with weird woods! How much do you trust the “small batch” label from a large distiller tho? I dunno. Here’s what we thought: […]

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Collective Arts Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Porter with Devin

iscotch 8 June 1 Comment

2 minutes

This one is going to be a very short review. We had this beer with Christmas dinner (not quite 6 months ago), so we weren’t able to take traditional notes. I was hoping for something […]

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The Lunar Rogue Pub with Hillary

iscotch 1 June 1 Comment

3 minutes

It’s been an interesting spring, and May 2-4 weekend found yours truly ping-ponging around The Drive-Thru Province, traditional home of the Irving family, land of seafood, craft beer and more seafood, New Brunswick. My local […]

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BattleScotch! Tomatin Second Edition with Dan

iscotch 25 May No Comments

1 minute

BattleScotch! Tomatin Second Edition. Or the TwoMaytin Edition. You know what that means! It means we’re almost done this month & can go back to our regularly scheduled random nonsense. This second edition pitted the […]

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Tomatin 12y Bourbon & Sherry Casks with Dan

iscotch 4 May 1 Comment

2 minutes

May is Twomatin month, or the second Tomatin month, which I guess we could have also called ToMaytin now that I think about it a little bit longer. No worries, they’re both terrible names but […]

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Teaser Tuesday! Twomatin Teaser (Tomatin Month 2)

iscotch 30 April No Comments

1 minute

Aw yeah, another whole month with the same whisky, and a second time! May is Tomatin Month 2, come on back every Saturday for the same superficial analysis and redundant flavour words you’ve come to […]

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Larceny Kentucky Straight Bourbon with Dan

iscotch 9 February No Comments

1 minute

Another Heaven Hill bourbon to add to the wall – Larceny Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. You know what’s cool? Crime. Crime is cool. Name things after crimes. This bourbon’s distinction is that it swaps rye […]

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Innis & Gunn Vanishing Point VP02 with Dan, Dad & Steph

iscotch 15 December No Comments

2 minutes

Most completistisming going one here. We had the VP01. So therefore we must have Innis & Gunn’s Vanishing Point VP02 or how will we know.. anything? How will we know we even exist unless we […]

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Premix Party – Barchef & Founder’s Original

iscotch 29 September 1 Comment

3 minutes

This one’s going to be a little messy. Steph, Dan & I reviewed the Founder’s Original – Dan discovered he does not like Old Fashioneds and bowed out of the Barchef review – fair dinkum. […]

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Dr James Crow’s Old Crow Kentucky Bourbon with Dan

iscotch 22 June No Comments

2 minutes

A border-crossing friend snagged this.. um.. testament to budgetary discretion. Dr James Crow’s Old Crow Kentucky Bourbon is available at Duty Free shops and still manages to only be $8usd. Which is made further amazing […]

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Innis & Gunn Vanishing Point VP01 Imperial Stout with Dan, Ryan, Adrian & Bowick

iscotch 12 May 2 Comments

2 minutes

Innis & Gunn are known for trying stuff, different combinations, interpretations etc. They’ve launched a new line called Vanishing Point, which is: the point at which the skills and passion of our brewers converge with […]

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