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 […]
Jim Beam Original Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Ryan & Goran
Sometimes there isn’t much to say about a bourbon. Allegedly Jim Beam is the world’s best selling bourbon, oops, sorry, “Number 1” bourbon. “Best selling” is something that could be […]
Highball Collective Green Tea Infused Rye & Ginger with Ryan
Having a scotch blog isn’t all decades-old drams and scantily clad whiskeyettes doing suggestive dances in your face while you wax poetic on the emotional evocativeness of different phenols 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 […]
Wild Turkey 81 Kentucky Straight Bourbon with Dan
Back in bourbon country. I am developing a fondness for the matured southern dram, that’s for sure. Wild Turkey 81 is… getting there. I wasn’t blown away, but there was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Sour Mash with Dan & Ryan
Not much to say about Jack Daniel’s that you haven’t already thrown up in an alley, praying for death. They make Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, which legally is just bourbon […]
Buffalo Trace White Dog Mash #1 with Ryan & Dan
Just a head’s up. After this review, we’re taking a break from un-aged whisk(e)y for a while. A long while. It tends to be the palate equivalent of seeing the […]
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 […]
Canadian Club Premium with Dan & Ryan
This appeared in my whisky case after a party, and has been staring at me ever since. “I’m a classic” i keep hearing, “I’m so popular!” “I’m a staple!” That […]
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 […]
Dillon’s White Rye with Dan, Ryan & Goran
An honest to god rye. Dillon’s White Rye is unaged, so it’s not legally a whisky, but it’s way more of a rye than anything called “Canadian Whisky”. If you […]
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 […]
Forty Creek Premium Barrel Select with Dan & Ryan
Oh man. Forty Creek – a blast from the past. You might be asking, dude, why? Why? WHY? It has at least three strikes: “Canadian Whisky” (which as we know […]
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 […]
