Jameson Black Barrel with Dan & Ryan
A slightly odd bottle this time. Some Jameson Black Barrel arrived in a covert container on the doorstep, a sample from somebody’s stash. Thanks, generous stranger! Jameson is an Irish […]
Corner Creek Kentucky Bourbon with Virginia, Dan, Goran & Steve
Corner Creek Kentucky Bourbon, the first bourbon bottler we’ve sampled. Same as with scotch, some companies distill, some buy and blend, and some buy and bottle. This is the latter. […]
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey with Dan
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. This is essentially an American Highland Malt – clean river water & mountain grown barley make it sound like it could come from a loch as […]
Round 2! Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Finish with Dan & Julia
A quick Round 2! today for the always excellent Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Finish. We first did this expression a little over a year ago, and it only appears […]
Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select with Matt, Marie-Michèle & Julia
Jack Daniel’s. You know it, you’ve had it. But you may not have had this. As the name suggests, this is bottled from a single barrel of Jack Daniel’s […]
Round 2! Writer’s Tears with Matt & Brian
Round 2! Where we revisit bottles from the past for another taste and see how they stand up! I got this bottle for Matt’s housewarming… that I missed. But I […]
Evan Williams Extra Aged with Dan, Steve & Alex
Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Extra Aged. What is it with bourbons and using their full name? Must be an American thing. There’s another Evan Quentin Williams the fourth or whatever […]
Traverse City Whiskey Company 4y Straight Bourbon with Dan & Julia
The second review from my business trip to Michigan! I was going to be pretty disappointed if I didn’t find something local in MI, USA. It’s a working state, and […]
2 Gingers with Dan
We haven’t had an Irish whiskey in a while (wait.. fact check…woah). We haven’t actually had anything from Ireland since May, and no irish whiskeys for a year and three […]
Gentleman Jack Rare Tennessee Whiskey with Davey & Alex
Gentleman Jack Rare Tennessee Whiskey. Why is it a Gentleman and what makes it rare? Let’s investigate! The main selling difference between Gentleman Jack and his dirt common cousin regular […]
Blanton’s Single Barrel with Goran & Davey
Blanton’s Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. This has been on the to-try list for a while now, so this was a great Christmas present. Great bottle. Good website. Excellent […]
Koval Single Barrel Millet Whiskey with Dan & Goran
Welcome to 2015. This year will mark 3 years of iScotch, and there’s a good chance we’ll cross 300 posts and a million views this year too. And what better […]
Knob Creek Straight Rye with Dan & Ryan
Return to Knob Country! Wow, that sounds like the name of a porn. Back to back Knobs here at-nope. Um… We’re busy Knobbing away-no. In the middle of a good […]
Knob Creek 9y Single Barrel Reserve with Dan
Back to the creek best known for its knobs. That is a terrible intro, so let me try again. Knob Creek! Single Barrel! 120 Proofs! All the proofs! We’ve had […]
Eagle Rare 10y with Ryan
Eagle Rare 10y. It’s got eagles, and it’s rare. ‘Murica. Eagle Rare is part of the Beam group, and is distilled in the same place as Buffalo Trace. We gave […]
Bulleit Rye Whiskey with Dan, Ryan & Davey
Bulleit Rye Whiskey. Because when you make okay bourbon, why not try okaying at other things too? While it doesn’t mention in what type of wood this whiskey was aged […]
Fighting Cock 6y with Dan, Goran, Ryan & Davey
Fighting Cock 6y Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Really, how could we not. This amazingly-named bourbon comes to us from Heaven Hill Distillery by way of the SAQ in Sherbrooke. We’ve […]
Jim Beam 6y Black with Dan, Goran & Ryan
Taking a brief break from the flavoured kids and getting back with a classic, Jim Beam. The Jim Beam Black is a 6y bourbon.. or 8, depending where and when […]
Red Stag Kentucky Black Cherry Bourbon Whiskey with Dan & Goran
We’re riding the line between Weirdosland and Flavoured Country right now, and this week we wander into Black Cherry gulch. Gulch being apt as it’s the grossest sounding place name […]
Updated! Dry Fly Washington Wheat Whiskey with Dan, Ryan & Goran
As you know if you’ve read any of our previous 200-some-odd posts, here at iScotch we are novelty junkies. We love new, weird ways of making whiskey. We’re going to […]
Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Finish with Dan & Ryan
Sometimes St Paddy’s Day is actually St Paddy’s Week, because we love to reinforce European ethnic stereotypes whenever and wherever possible. And what better way to lower liver function as […]
Oola Distillery Waitsburg Bourbon with Devin, Jono, Ryan, Dan & Goran
Christmas Washington Bourbon! Thanks Devin & Brenna! Oola Distillery hails from the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, what reads like a fairly gentrified area of the downtown, central to […]
Widow Jane 7y Straight Bourbon with Goran, Ryan, Sarah, Dan & Matt
The first of the Christmas present whiskies, thanks Ross! Widow Jane is a Brooklyn, New York distiller, and the name comes from the mine where they draw their water. At […]
Wild Turkey Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey with Dan, Ryan & Goran
Continued attempts by team iScotch to find a rye we can actually get behind – Dan is probably our most rye-positive member while Ryan ironically insists no good rye exists. […]
