Black Maple Hill NAS

It was a dark, lightning dotted night. The rain fell with a purpose to wound, as it danced in the wind, slapping against the chemist’s bare arms. His horses stirred, agitated by the weather, yet he pushed forward along the slanting dirt road. Among the black maple trees, on this lone hill in the deserted […]

Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel

Thanks to /u/CalZeta for a swap of this nice swig of bourbon. It’s that time of year when everything seems to be happening all at once. I look at the news and it’s pretty rough. I look at the leaves and they are pretty rough. I look at the fact I need to be studying for […]

Ardmore Traditional Cask Peated

So there’s my wife, after a weekend of debauchery in Las Vegas (seeing shows and fun events), tired out of her skull, after playing video poker for hours, lack of sleep and lack of food, trying to find anything on my list of whisky to bring back from the states. And the Airport has none […]

Elijah Craig 12 / Barrel Proof Batch #1

Ever make a swap agreement and then realize you’re out of bottles? And you live in a country where Boston Bottles are somehow hard as heck to get in? Well, I do, and that’s why I’m currently jumping up in reviews all of a sudden. And that’s why I’m going to take a week to […]

Springbank 10 100 Proof / Springbank 12 Cask Strength

So, continuing with my pilgrimage of Campbeltown only until I’ve reviewed them all (or at least most of them), we come to the Cask Strength Springbanks. Springbank is the distillery that comes to mind when someone talks about Campbeltown. A smarter man would have done it first, to get it out of the way, however […]

Macallan Fine Oak 21 [Mystery Review]

So it’s mystery dram time, and /u/helodriver87, who I assume combines rivers with helod, a semi-famous League of Legions player, has sent me a pretty sweet dram. Thank you sir! At least, I’m hoping. He could have sent me poison. But to believe that, you’d have to strain your imagination, because why would I post […]

Hazelburn 8 & 12

So it’s the days leading up to Thanksgiving.. Wait, no it isn’t, I blabbered on about Thanksgiving two reviews ago… oh damn, I got these out of order. Whatever, not like anyone follows them chronologically. That and I do enjoy a pulp style story. So it’s the day… wait, no, go back further. So I’m […]

Old Fitzgerald 1849

Alright, time to get back to Earth on my /r/bourbon reviews, and do something not so… out there or special or some such silliness. Thanks to /u/calzeta for the dram! And today, for this review, we have a wheater. Much beloved by Dave Broom and Jim Murray (in the past), Old Fitzgerald 1849 is bottled by Heaven […]

High West Midwinter Nights Dram – Act 1

Do I have to do a preamble to this one? I mean, unless you’re really, really new to this subreddit, you’ve heard everything about High West Midwinter Nights Dram – Act 1 over and over again. Finished in French Oak Barrels and Port pipes. It’s a rye from Utah. It was originally the Rendezvous Rye […]

Jameson Select Reserve Small Batch

It was a busy weekend. Well, kinda busy. Okay, I took a long weekend and went back to my University city to relive a weekend of debauchery and fun. Windsor’s good for that. And I decided to drink heavily (see picture), much like what /u/texacer told me to do. What’s that? Oh, he told me not […]