Kurayoshi Distillery’s The Matsui Single Malt Mizunara Cask Japanese Whisky
Ending a six month drought with a dram to slake your thirst. From the Kurayoshi distillery in Tottori prefecture by way of a wonderful birthday present comes The Matsui […]
Advent Week 2! Benrinnes 11y, Cameronbridge 27y, Craigellachie 10y, Fettercairn 11y, Glen Elgin 12y, Glengoyne 9y & Glentauchers 10y
Still working my way through the Advent Calendar from That Boutique-y Whisky Company. It was pointed out that maybe publishing 24 different reviews for bottles you can’t buy was less […]
Royal Challenge Indian/Scottish Whisky Blend with Dan
Royal Challenge, and bud it’s a challenge. A challenge to sniff, a challenge to drink and a challenge to understand how it even happened in the first place. Well, culturally, […]
St George Spirits Single Malt California Whiskey in Boston
Oh America. You are in a world of shit these days. Covid, police brutality, protests, that guy you elected, that website he likes, that website he hates, and we’re heading […]
Aberlour 12y with Dan & Goran
Aberlour 12y. We’re gaining familiarity with this distiller, having tried the 10y and the 6y from the Advent calendar. We even pitted one against a McClelland’s way back in the […]
Advent 07! Auchroisk 12y Batch 7
Advent mini bottle number seven! It’s the unpronounceable Auchroisk, and if you make that noise in the grocery store now, you’ll be asked to leave. #CovidJokes Who are <Scottish barfing […]
Advent 06: Ardmore 10y Batch 5 with Dan
The sixth tiny bottle from the medium box of big flavours. Pay me to write, you jags! Here we have a hobo’s tear worth of Ardmore 10y, of which is […]
Advent 05: Aberlour 6y Batch 8 with Dan
The fifth of advent, a 40 full of cheer. Corona got you trapped inside, why not drink a whole box of whisky. What could possibly go wrong? Aberlour is a […]
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! […]
Tomatin Cù Bòcan with Dan
We have done so many Tomatin – this is number seven – at this point there’s not a lot to say. Tomatin Cù Bòcan – near as I can tell […]
Naked Grouse Blended Scotch with Holly, Trevor & Dan
Another Grouse, this time Naked – The Naked Grouse. Why Naked? Why not, exclaims the website nakedgrouse.com, which doesn’t appear to be part of the Famous Grouse site. In fact […]
The Singleton 12y Dufftown Single Malt Scotch Whisky in an Air Canada Lounge
The Singleton 12y Dufftown Single Malt Scotch Whisky. A rogue’s smile and an upgraded ticket got me into the Air Canada lounge in Winnipeg (mostly the ticket), where I found […]
The Lunar Rogue Pub with Hillary
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 […]
BattleScotch! Tomatin Second Edition with Dan
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. […]
Tomatin Cask Strength Bourbon & Sherry Casks with Dan
Here we go, third and final Twomatronic entry: Tomatin Cask Strength Bourbon & Sherry Casks! We’re in the home stretch now! Best part is even the Throwback Thursdays are stuck […]
Tomatin 14y Port Casks with Dan
Second bottle out of the box, second week of Twomatin – Tomatin 14y Port Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky. We’ve had a lot of Tomatins already so let’s just jump […]
Tomatin 12y Bourbon & Sherry Casks with Dan
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, […]
Teaser Tuesday! Twomatin Teaser (Tomatin Month 2)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Teaser Tuesday! Glengoyne Gift Collection
Coming up! A whole month of Glengoyne! Stayed tuned for 3 reviews and a good ol’ BattleScotch! WOO!
BattleScotch! Compass Box Edition with Dan
Not every one has the time or budget to buy selections of tiny whiskies and write down their subjective impressions – no, as a busy working non-layabout mortal on the […]
