Bowmore 25y “Opportunity Cost” @ The Blackbird
Ahh travelling. A thing we did. For work or visiting, who knew how much we’d miss simply not being in the place where we are… in… from… at. (A […]
Windswept Brewing Company The Wolf of Glen Moray Port Cask Aged Dark Scottish Ale with Dan
A beer in a tube! You know we’re suckers for literally anything in a tube – beers, whiskies, potato chips,.. tennis balls, uh public transit.. etc. Straight from the north.. […]
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! […]
Five Hundred! The 500th Article (That Boutique-y Whisky Company/Drinks By The Dram Advent/Holiday Calendar Teaser)
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 […]
Balvenie 17y DoubleWood with Dan
The Balvenie 17y DoubleWood. This is one of those stop and appreciate whiskies that doesn’t come along very often. This whisky is “change the frame” good. You remember the run […]
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 […]
Teaser Tuesday! Compass Box
EVERYONE’S FAVOURITE THING – THE WHISKY SAMPLER. This time 5! FIVE! F!VE! whiskies! 4 new reviews, a Round 2! and a BattleScotch! The whole kajimmy! Stay tuned for Asyla, Hedonism, […]
The Deveron 12y with Dan
A Highland single malt from Bacardi by way of Dewar’s, from the Macduff Distillery: The Deveron 12y. This is one of three expressions launched in 2015, a new line from […]
Pre-Canada Day Round 2! The Liquormen’s Ol Dirty Canadian Whisky with Dan & Bowick
The LCBO is still open and you can still go pick up party fuel for Canada Day tomorrow. With that in mind and in the vein of a public service […]
The Ardmore Legacy with Dan
Once again, it’s been a while since we had a single malt scotch, the whisky after which the site is named. This happens, of course, because other whiskies, spirits & […]
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 […]
Round 2! The Glenrothes Select Reserve with Dan & Ryan
Late night, late post! Just a quick Round 2 of one of our all time faves, the Glenrothes Select Reserve. 351st article, that’s kind of crazy. This introductory bottle from a […]
BattleScotch! The Dalmore with Goran & Dan
We haven’t done a BattleScotch in a long time, and this is the perfect set up. Since The Dalmore is so iterative, it will be interesting to see how their […]
The Dalmore 18y with Dan & Goran
The last of the new stuff, the last of the Dalmore Vial Sampler. The Dalmore 18y. Briefly, since we’ve been here before, this appears to be of the same origin […]
Round 2! The Dalmore 15y with Dan & Goran
Dalmore number three, the 15y! This was actually one of the very first iScotch reviews, and one of the earliest whiskies in my whiskiography. Interesting to see that my opinion […]
The Dalmore Gran Reserva with Dan & Goran
Folks I am me some hella tired. this review will be suffering from a lack of sleep and the concomitant neurological impairment. i appear to bee overcompensating and undercapitalizing. Gran […]
The Dalmore 12y with Dan & Goran
It has been a *long* time since our last Dalmore – fully four and a half years now. A Round 2 of the 15y is up next week, but this […]
The Ileach Peated Islay Single Malt with Dan, Steve & Goran
Pretty rare these days that we review an actually Scotch whisky. Prices have been on the climb for a while as various shortages are made up or actually occur. Because of […]
Glenlivet Master Distiller’s Reserve On A Plane
I found this Glenlivet expression, the Master Distiller’s Reserve, on an Air Canada flight last night. I thought I was just getting the 12y, a nice little cap off to […]
The Big Three Hundo
300 posts on iscotch.ca. That’s pretty crazy. Granted, they’re not all bottles of single malt scotch – the brand got watered down early and often, that’s for sure. Over the […]
BattleScotch Royale! The English Whisky Co with Dan, Goran, Steve, Matt & Brian
You knew it had to happen. We haven’t had a setup for a proper BattleScotch! Royale this good for a while now. Obviously we had to pit the contents of […]
The English Whisky Co Chapter Ten Sherry Finish with Dan, Goran, Steve, Julia, Brian & Matt
The last of the limey bastards, Chapter Ten from The English Whisky Co is their sherry cask bottling. They’ve used Olorosso casks, which we first heard of from an Innis […]
