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 […]
Glenmorangie 10y Original with Dan
The first bottle out of the Discovery Pack is the big bottle of Glenmorangie 10y. Since the three sample bottles are all based on this scotch aged an additional 2 […]
Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Dan
Yay! More bourbon! Weird name tho, I don’t know how you trace a buffalo. This appears to be a case of giving the marketing people free license – Buffalo Trace […]
Bruichladdich 12y 2nd Edition
Just a quick review of a surprise scotch I wasn’t expecting to get to try! Had a great dinner with some friends and after some lovely seafood and salad, the […]
Make’r Easy with Mom, Dad & Dev – Beyond The Pale Part 4 of 3
Last week Beyond The Pale tweeted that they were releasing a Maker’s Mark cask-aged version of their Easy brew at noon on Saturday. I was out front at about quarter-to […]
Glenfiddich 12y with Dan & Ryan
This is a bit of a finally for me. I’ve had about four bottles of this and haven’t gotten around to writing a review. It’s like going to a sci […]
Maker’s Mark Aged Beyond The Pale with Trevor & Steph (part 3 of An Evening Beyond The Pale)
Part 3 of 3! Yay, finishing something! Take THAT, high school guidance counselor! Anyway, we’re wrapping up An Evening Beyond The Pale with, well, the whole point of this exercise. […]
Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky with Trevor & Steph (part 2 of An Evening Beyond The Pale)
If you’re going to taste a couple of beers, and then taste those same beers after they’ve been aged in Maker’s Mark bourbon barrels, it makes a little sense to, […]
Beyond The Pale with Trevor & Steph
Okay, so this review is actually three reviews. Or five. Or one review interrupted part-way through with another review. It’ll all make sense as you read it. Beyond the Pale […]
Elijah Craig 12y Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Dan & Alex
Another case of a splash of water making all the difference. And it’s another case of a slightly overproofed spirit. It’s possible that my tongue has become accustomed to the […]
Penderyn Single Malt Peated Welsh Whisky with Dan
Our first Welsh whisky! Penderyn offers a number of different spirits, and their whisky line is pretty complete with some award winning wine-cask aged whiskies. This particular bottle was a […]
Ungava Gin with Nearly Everyone
I think I know what both my readers are thinking to themselves. They’re thinking “pretty sure I’m at iSCOTCH, pretty sure I type that in/clicked that bookmark. so what the […]
The Peat Monster with Dan
Doing the background research for this bottle got me a little frustrated. I think I’m getting some traffic from the States these days, so for the benefit of you and […]
Caol Ila 12y with Dan
The unpronounceable Caol Ila (allegedly either ‘cool eye-la’ or ‘cull eela’ depending where you look) is another Malts.com brand, the web presence that covers Talisker, Dalwhinnie, Oban, Lagavulin and a […]
J&B Justerini & Brooks Rare Blended Scotch Whisky with Dan
“J&B is the worst” – Ryan. I’m going to start by telling you how bad J&B tastes, because if it tasted good, it might be possible to excuse the rest […]
Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey with Dan
Another bourbon! Bulleit is a Diageo brand, allegedly based on a 150 year old recipe that includes rye and barley malt in the make. It is not a particularly complicated […]
Basil Hayden’s 8y Kentucky Straight Bourbon with Dan
Staying in the USA for a little bit. The lineage here is a bit thick: Basil Hayden’s only web presence is as part of The Original Small Batch Bourbon Collection […]
Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine with Dan & Ryan
First off – big thanks to my buddy Jono for bringing this back from one of his trips America-ward. I asked him to grab me some interesting American booze and […]
Mackmyra First Edition with Dan & Ryan
Still whisky, wrong country. Mackmyra is from Sweden, a country I assumed only drank vodka and snow melt, but what do I know. As we can tell from the spelling, […]
Bowmore 18y with Ryan
Last of the wee Bowmores. For reference, 50ml is enough for two tasters or one actual drink. Keep that in mind if you’re thinking of buying the Bowmore Collection – […]
Bowmore 15y Darkest with Ryan
First of the micro reviews. Not that they’re shorter (they really couldn’t be, I’m phoning this shit in pretty hard already), they’re just reviews of tiny bottles of Bowmore that […]
Bowmore Surf with Dan, Goran, Ryan & Val
Bowmore is one of my favourite scotches. Peaty and complicated, even the budget 12y tastes amazing given the price on the bottle. The Bowmore Surf is allegedly not available in […]
Wiser’s De Luxe with Dan
Wiser’s De Luxe is apparently not the most budget member of the Wiser’s family, which is kind of terrifying. We reviewed the Small Batch which is allegedly of higher quality […]
