whisky

Royal Challenge Indian/Scottish Whisky Blend with Dan

iscotch 4 July No Comments

2 minutes

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, Indians and Scots do mix. […]

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Aberlour 12y with Dan & Goran

iscotch 23 May No Comments

2 minutes

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 day. So far, we’ve been […]

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Advent 06: Ardmore 10y Batch 5 with Dan

iscotch 11 April No Comments

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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 the fifth batch. Is that […]

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Advent 05: Aberlour 6y Batch 8 with Dan

iscotch 28 March No Comments

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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 distillery we don’t get much […]

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Advent 04: Dufftown 10y Batch 4 with Dan

iscotch 14 March No Comments

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Advent Number Four! Dufftown, home of Duff Breweries, offers a 10y whisky. I’ve never had a Dufftown before because I didn’t think it was real. It sounds like a fake whisky from a cartoon. What […]

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Advent 03: Bunnahabhain 10y Batch 14 with Dan

iscotch 29 February No Comments

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The third tiny bottle of Christ’s bl- I mean – Christmas Advent Holiday Year Ender Boutique-y Whisky things is the Bunnahabhain 10y Batch 14. I dunno what happened to batches 0-13. Also worth noting there […]

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Five Hundred! The 500th Article (That Boutique-y Whisky Company/Drinks By The Dram Advent/Holiday Calendar Teaser)

iscotch 28 December No Comments

2 minutes

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 drunken New Year’s. This is […]

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Sortilege Maple Syrup Whisky Liqueur

iscotch 14 December 2 Comments

1 minute

Happy holidays! One of 12-15 traditional drinking seasons. For some reason the cold makes us more agreeable to sticky, rich and cloying sweets, treats and meats. Might be an evolutionary thing we inherited from our […]

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Caldera Hurricane 5 with Steve & Matt (maybe)

iscotch 7 December No Comments

2 minutes

Sometimes I forget things. Things like, where did this whisky come from, and, who are M and St in the tasting notes. According to the website, Caldera Hurricane 5 Canadian whisky is grown, distilled and […]

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BattleScotch! Canadian B’s Edition (Bearface v Barnburner) with Steve, Bengt, Brad & Chris

iscotch 16 November No Comments

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Video BattleScotch! nose Simon – Barnburner Steve – Barnburner Chris – Barnburner neat Simon – Barnburner Steve – Barnburner Chris – Bearface 7y finish Simon – Barnburner Steve – Barnburner Chris – […]

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Bearface 7y Triple Oak Canadian Whisky with Steve, Bengt, Brad & Chris

iscotch 9 November No Comments

2 minutes

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 this company buys, blends and […]

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Barnburner Small Batch Ontario Whisky with Steve, Bengt, Brad, Chris & Junior

iscotch 2 November 1 Comment

2 minutes

Video Review! Barnburner Ontario Whisky from Maverick Distillery. This was a sleeper – probably one of the best tasting budget Canadian whiskies I’ve had, and I’m super judgey of Canadian whiskies. Here’s more of what […]

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Tomatin Cù Bòcan with Dan

iscotch 26 October No Comments

2 minutes

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 this one translates to something […]

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Johnnie Walker 18y Ultimate with Brad, Chris & Junior

iscotch 24 August No Comments

2 minutes

Going to kick it off with the video review again: Here’s the written review. Not too much more I can say about Johnnie Walker, other than that this is the 18y and it is […]

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Round 2! Johnnie Walker 12y Black Label with Brad, Chris & Junior

iscotch 3 August 1 Comment

2 minutes

This one we’ve done before, so I’ll keep it brief this time around. First up out of the Johnnie Walker set is arguably my favourite, the 12y Black Label. The second from the bottom of […]

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The Singleton 12y Dufftown Single Malt Scotch Whisky in an Air Canada Lounge

iscotch 22 June 2 Comments

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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 this relic of a grandfather’s […]

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The Lunar Rogue Pub with Hillary

iscotch 1 June 1 Comment

3 minutes

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 seafood, New Brunswick. My local […]

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BattleScotch! Tomatin Second Edition with Dan

iscotch 25 May No Comments

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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. This second edition pitted the […]

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Tomatin 14y Port Casks with Dan

iscotch 11 May No Comments

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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 straight to the notes. Here’s […]

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Tomatin 12y Bourbon & Sherry Casks with Dan

iscotch 4 May 1 Comment

2 minutes

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, they’re both terrible names but […]

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Glengoyne 18y with Dan, Bowick & Steph

iscotch 20 April No Comments

2 minutes

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 […]

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Old St. Andrews Clubhouse Blended Scotch Whisky in Victoria

iscotch 23 March No Comments

2 minutes

Old St. Andrews Clubhouse Blended Scotch. Here’s some notes I took in a hotel during a work trip to Victoria: it comes in a golf ball, i hate it already served in a plastic cup […]

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Black Cellar Whisky Oak Aged Shiraz-Cabarnet Blend #5 with Davey

iscotch 9 March No Comments

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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 gave me some great recommendations […]

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Nirasaki Blended Japanese Whisky with Dan & Goran

iscotch 5 January 1 Comment

2 minutes

Happy New Year! To celebrate: Nirasaki Blended Japanese Whisky. I won’t bother rehashing the story of Japanese whisky (check past posts), except to say that Japanese whisky is largely either Nikka or Suntory. So far […]

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