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 […]
Forty Creek Confederation Oak Reserve with Steve
Thanks to Covid, the old hopper is starting to empty a bit. This review is of a bottle from last Christmas’ staff exchange, finally seeing the light of day. No […]
Bearface 7y Triple Oak Canadian Whisky with Steve, Bengt, Brad & Chris
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 […]
Black Cellar Whisky Oak Aged Shiraz-Cabarnet Blend #5 with Davey
We don’t usually do wine here on iScotch but my buddy Davey started working at the Wine… Shop? Store? Wine Bunker..? Nono, the Wine-o-Rama, in the Sobey’s on Metcalfe. He […]
Compass Box Oak Cross with Dan
Compass Box Oak Cross – named for the American and French oaks used to re-age whiskies from three distilleries. I could go into more detail but sometimes too many things […]
Thornbridge Eldon Oak Infused Imperial Stout with Davey
Thornbridge Eldon Oak Infused Imperial Stout, a Dickensian(*) name to be sure. Thornbridge Brewery is in the UK and the names of their beers seem to indicate an affinity for […]
Glenfiddich 14y Rich Oak with Dan for World Whisky Day
Happy World Whisky Day, iScotch readers! Did you know, iScotch and World Whisky Day started in the same year? 2012 was an eventful, if largely sucktacular, year. Anyway, happy world […]
Steel & Oak Flight with Devin & Baby Groot
The pride of New Westminster, Steel & Oak. And who better to enjoy it with than my brother in law Devin and my new nephew Baby Groot! We’ve had a […]
66 Gilead Wild Oak with Dan & Ryan
66 Gilead Wild Oak, a new Ontario whisky from Prince Edward County. Yay for whisky from within 300 kilometres from home! Thanks to Brad for picking this up on a […]
Innis & Gunn Fired Oak Scotch Ale with Davey & Steve
This summer’s limited edition from Innis & Gunn: the Fired Oak Scotch Ale, named for the charred American oak barrels used in aging. Scotch ale sits in that end of beer […]
Steel & Oak Dark Lager with Dan
Aw yeah, another hand-smuggled interprovincial beer delivery from Devin in BC! Always appreciated, the beer gift is. We’ve had a Steel & Oak before, their smoked Hefeweizen, which was […]
Innis & Gunn White Oak Wheat Beer with Dan, Goran & Steve
The last of the new Innis & Gunn (for now) is their White Oak Wheat Beer. This is.. well, it’s a wheat beer over white oak, but maybe you figured […]
Amrut Single Malt with Davey
I have been travelling a lot lately. Michigan, Cambridge Bay, Vancouver, and this past week I added Jasper. In two days I head to Thunder Bay. Aside from seeing some […]
Trafalgar Mighty Oak Imperial Oaked Brown Ale
It’s been a while since we’ve had a new cask aged beer, especially one not from Innis & Gunn. It’s also been a while since I did a solo review, […]
Innis & Gunn Rare Oak Pale Ale with Davey
Woohoo! First new Innis & Gunn since September! Innis & Gunn Rare Oak Pale Ale is a weird one for sure. I’m not usually a fan of pale ales due […]
Innis & Gunn Toasted Oak IPA with Dan & Ryan
The first out of the Summer Mixed Pack, the Innis & Gunn Toasted Oak IPA! Always great to see a new Innis & Gunn. There’s a nice amount of information […]
Updated! Steel & Oak Smoked Hefenweizen with Devin & Jono
Hand delivered from British Columbia! Which is technically illegal, if you can believe that. You can’t transport alcohol between provinces – which means every time I slip over the river […]
Deanston Single Malt Scotch with Dan, Ryan, Goran & Bowick
Deanston. Haven’t heard or seen much of this brand since starting this blog, so I decided to grab it when it showed up at the LCBO. We do it so […]
BattleScotch! The Glenlivet 12y v The Glenlivet 15y French Oak Reserve with Ryan & Goran
You knew it was going to happen. You knew as soon as you saw us review the second Glenlivet, you knew “they’re gonna BattleScotch! the 12y and the 15y, I […]
The Glenlivet 15y French Oak Reserve with Dan, Goran & MC The Actual MC
Celebration whisky is always good. Dan & Laura gave Ryan this bottle to say thanks for Being the MC at their wedding reception. He did a good job, and a […]
Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve Limited Edition No. 4 Oak Aged Ale with Dan & Goran
There are times when I’ll cop to being suckered by marketing. Big velvety blue box, OAK AGED emblazoned on the side, gold leaf script fonts, damn son, two please. While […]
Innis & Gunn Cask Aged Beer
Man, I cannot get enough of this stuff. Aged in casks of other booze, Innis & Gunn beer takes on a lot of really interesting flavours. I’ve tried four of […]
MacAllan 12y Sherry Oak with Katherine
Yay for surprise scotch presents! Katherine grabbed this for me a few weeks ago so obviously I had to get her help for the review. You may recognize MacAllan as […]
