Teaser – Penderyn Miniature Selection
Thanks to @mittenstrings and her recent scholastic voyages we have a trio of welsh Penderyn whiskies to try. We’ve seen the Peated before, so we’ll focus on the Sherrywood and […]
BattleScotch! Three Ships v Phillips Union with Dan & Goran
For the sake of transparency, there were some serious protestations from The Inebriatti on this pairing, arguments that we were pitting four kinds of whisk(e)y against each other simultaneously; that […]
BattleScotch! Talisker Distiller’s Edition v Talisker 57° with Ryan
Long time readers of iScotch will know that we (I) am huge Talisker fan. I’ve tried 4 different expressions and will try everything I can get my hands on for […]
Battlescotch! Jura Superstition v Jura Origin 10y with Dan, Goran & Ryan
BattleScotch 2! Jura Superstition v Jura 10y Origin! This format was fun last time so we’re doing it again! But the formatting sucked last time so we’re going to try […]
Three Ships Premium Select Whisky 5y with Dan & Goran
We’re doing a brief detour again, this time into what we’re calling Transnational Blends territory, because we like throwing around big words we’re only probably using properly. This particular international […]
Robert Burns Blended Scotch Whisky with Dan
Another visitor from New Brunswick, second to last of east coast interlopers. Nothing quite like attaching a national poet‘s name to your product to drag in the ex-pat dollars and […]
Innis & Gunn Scottish Pale Ale with Ryan
Another tasty new Innis & Gunn brew. Good and light for summer, while retaining the classic I&G robustness. It’s a push towards the craft beer hoppiness, but manages to provide […]
Innis & Gunn Canadian Cherrywood Finish with Ryan
Another year, another Innis & Gunn Canadian edition. This time, they haven’t tied it to Canada Day, which widens their sales window significantly. The guy at the LCBO mentioned large […]
Chivas Regal 12y Blended Scotch Whisky with Dan & Ryan
A fine blend. Chivas Regal 12y is the bottom of the line entry from Chivas, a blender that also offers 18y and 21y blended expressions. They appear to be based […]
Johnnie Walker Black Label 12y with Goran & Ryan
We need to start with a bit of a come-clean about Johnnie Walker. None of us get it. We don’t get why JW is considered a great drink, let alone […]
Jameson Irish Whiskey with Goran & Ryan
Just a quick few words today on a old soldier. Jameson Irish Whisky has been around forever, for good reason. While nothing outstanding, this is a good whiskey for the […]
BattleScotch! McClelland’s Speyside v McClelland’s Islay with Dan, Ryan & Bowick
Our 100th post, so it’s time to do something new. In BattleScotch! we pit two or more bottles related by either obvious elements or esoteric justifications against each other in […]
McClelland’s Speyside Single Malt Scotch with Steph
Here we have McClelland’s Speyside, brother from another region to their Islay bottling. McClelland’s range is pretty reasonably priced, so it’s not too much of a hardship to give it […]
McClelland’s Islay Single Malt Whisky with Dan & Ryan
McClelland’s is not a distillery, so this is a little different from what we’ve been looking at so far. They are a bottler, as near as I can tell, who […]
The Arran Malt 10y with Steph
Awesome! Surprise scotch! One of Steph’s friends picked this up in the home country and brought it back for us. Arran is one of the islands off western Scotland, in […]
Radical Road Canny Man Scotch Cask Aged Beer with Dan, Ryan & Goran
Picked up these two bottles of Radical Road Canny Man scotch whisky cask aged beers. Radical Road’s web presence seems to be limited to a Twitter account, so I can’t […]
Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey with Dan & Ryan
A twisty irish bottle, not usually a good sign. A website with lots of videos and drink recipes is also never a good sign. Especially when I can’t *find* this […]
Great King St Blended Scotch with Dan & Ryan
Great King St is another Compass Box whisky, like the Peat Monster we reviewed earlier in which I complain about being unable to order liquor to Ontario because our bureaucracy […]
Innis & Gunn Original in a can
Let’s call this a PSA. Loyal readers will know I’m a big fan of most of Innis & Gunn’s cask-aged beer. I think they were the first non-whisk(e)y thing I […]
The Glenlivet 12y with Dan & Ryan
The Glenlivet. Another fairly glaring absence from our testing roles, finally remedied! The Glenlivet is an elder, storied distillery. I would tell you more about it but I can’t type […]
Grant’s Family Reserve Blended Scotch Whisky with Dan, Ryan & Goran
Yeah… Grant’s. To be fair, this is their entry scotch. But it does set off a few specific warning bells: blend, twist off, website mentions mixing, etc. Not that there’s […]
Glenmorangie 12y Lasanta with Dan
Okay. Last of the Glenmorangies. Pretty sick of typing Glenmorangie. Only 5 minutes left to get this post up so here goes. Lasanta aged in sherry casks. Which means I […]
Glenmorangie 12y Nectar d’Or with Dan
The next sampler out of the Glenmorangie Discovery Pack is the 12y Nectar d’Or, aged in Sauternes casks. What is Sauternes? you might ask. Totally legit, so did I. Sauternes […]
Glenmorangie 12y Quinta Ruban with Dan
There’s only so much you can write about one scotch distiller and I feel like I’ve covered anything worth mentioning in the last two posts, so instead I thought I’d […]
