Round 2! Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie Unpeated
We’ve had more than a few Brookladdies now, and we tend to like em. Sometimes people read the blog and get us things we like. So we review them again! nose Simon – burnt wood, […]
Reviews with Stephanie
Crown Royal Bourbon Mash aka Blender’s Mash with Steph, Matt & Marie-Michèle
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 […]
BattleScotch! Glengoyne Edition with Dan, Steph & Bowick
And finally, as a last hurrah for the Glengoyne Discovery Gift Taste Sampler Set Collection we come to the traditional BattleScotch!, to be observed WITH the camelcase AND the punctuation as spelling. Because we’re from […]
Glengoyne 18y with Dan, Bowick & Steph
I know, I know. It’s 4/20. It’s the first 4/20 since legalization. I was in a band with a song called four20. Where is the weed whisky or ihash.ca or whisky barrel aged weed (patent […]
Glengoyne 15y with Dan, Bowick & Steph
Our second swing at the Glengoyne Gift Collection is the 15y. Glengoyne suggest a rather elaborate range of flavours are present in this dram, I’m not so sure. The label details are also quite different […]
Glengoyne 12y with Dan, Steph & Bowick
Glengoyne! A highland Single Malt Scotch that we’ve only seen a little of before. A quirk of geography puts the Glengoyne stills in the Highlands while the maturing happens all the way (across the street) […]
Powers Gold Label with Steph
Every year like clockwork March stumbles in from the cold and delivers Irish Stereotype Reinforcement Day to warm the cockles of your projectile vomiting heart. St Paddy’s Day in North America has as much to […]
Sleeman Sparkling Ale with Stephanie
Another holiday bottle where you pay more for extra packaging! It’s okay – I’m using it as a riser for my scotch display back row now. Sleeman Sparkling Ale was released to celebrate the 30th […]
Aviation Gin with Mum, Brenna & Steph
Aviation Gin, The American Gin Owned By A Canadian. So says the video spot starring & voiced by the professionally handsome recent gin brand purchaser, Ryan Reynolds: It works because really, all any of us […]
Innis & Gunn Vanishing Point VP02 with Dan, Dad & Steph
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 […]
Rodenbach Vintage 2015 Oak Foeder Aged Red Ale with Steph
Beer from Belgium! I thought they were supposed to be good at this? Rodenbach is a brewery in Roeselare, a city in West Flanders, and we all know what Homer said about Flanders in… uh, […]
Odd Society Wallflower Oaken Gin with Steph
Odd Society Wallflower Oaken Gin. 100% British Columbian grown gin, aged in oak barrels. A pretty interesting idea. One issue we see a lot with craft gins is the mash/swamp factor. That same sort of […]
Premix Party – Barchef & Founder’s Original
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. […]
Great Lakes Brewery 30th Anniversary Bourbon Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout with Steph
Another big bottled, high abv, milestone-celebrating weird beer here, with a twist – it’s actually good! A lot of times these large format beers can be.. um.. challenging. A lot of hops to make big […]
Cameron’s Brewing Where The Buffalo Roam Barley Wine with Steph
Man, am I a sucker for packaging. I think it stems from being a deeply superficial person, pun intended superficially. I will 100% cop to the gold label grabbing me on this one(*) – it […]
Luck O’ The Irish: Paddy Old Irish Whiskey with Steph
BAM. Perfect timing. Because the key to a good whiskey review is all in your calendar alignments. Paddy Old Irish Whiskey, ON St Paddy’s Day. Could you ask for anything more? Ever? No I think […]
Birthday Scotch Review – Dun Bheagan 8y Islay Hogshead
Spending 36 on the beach with the dog. Steph kindly handed me this bottle on my way west and I’ve had a fair portion watching the dog chase beach rabbits. Customary back story which i […]
McClelland’s Speyside Single Malt Scotch with Steph
Here we have McClelland’s Speyside, brother from another region to their Islay bottling. McClelland’s range is pretty reasonably priced, so it’s not too much of a hardship to give it a go. It’s not amazing […]
The Arran Malt 10y with Steph
Awesome! Surprise scotch! One of Steph’s friends picked this up in the home country and brought it back for us. Arran is one of the islands off western Scotland, in the same neighbor hood as […]
Maker’s Mark Aged Beyond The Pale with Trevor & Steph (part 3 of An Evening Beyond The Pale)
Part 3 of 3! Yay, finishing something! Take THAT, high school guidance counselor! Anyway, we’re wrapping up An Evening Beyond The Pale with, well, the whole point of this exercise. I mean we’ve saved the […]
Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky with Trevor & Steph (part 2 of An Evening Beyond The Pale)
If you’re going to taste a couple of beers, and then taste those same beers after they’ve been aged in Maker’s Mark bourbon barrels, it makes a little sense to, y’know… maybe see what the […]
Beyond The Pale with Trevor & Steph
Okay, so this review is actually three reviews. Or five. Or one review interrupted part-way through with another review. It’ll all make sense as you read it. Beyond the Pale is an Ottawa-local brewer, sitting […]
Ungava Gin with Nearly Everyone
I think I know what both my readers are thinking to themselves. They’re thinking “pretty sure I’m at iSCOTCH, pretty sure I type that in/clicked that bookmark. so what the hell, guy, why am I […]
