Jim Beam Red Stag Hardcore Cider

Thank you to… damn, didn’t write it down. Sorry about that. Some guy gave me this. He didn’t want anything back. Said it was bad. I’ve said, multiple times, that if someone releases something and calls it a whiskey, I’ll review it. Recently I’ve had quite a few whiskies from different distilleries that most people […]

Last Straw Darker Side of the Moonshine

Thanks to /u/devoz for the sample. I think. North of me, in a magical place that grew out of grass fields, is a place called Vaughan. And much like the spelling of that, which all us white folks assume is an Ojibwa word, when it’s actually named after a British guy. And of course, being […]

Benrinnes SMWS 36.96 “Chocolate Cake Cookie”

Looked at my upcoming samples I was planning on reviewing. Came to a conclusion: I was about to review some whiskies that may lower my overall numbers, if you catch my drift. Suffice to say, I also had a first-fill 9 year old Benrinnes that was aching for it. Granted I sound like a Catholic […]

BenRiach 6 part Odds and Ends

Hey, I haven’t done a multi part review in awhile. Why not another BenRiach one? I enjoy BenRiach. So much so that I recently realized, through bottle splits, bottle purchases, and in one case a sample purchase, I had 6 BenRiach whiskies sitting around, ready for a Odds and Ends review. As such, I’ll be […]

Caol Ila 18 1993 A.D. Rattray

Thanks to /u/devoz for the first sip of this and the subsequent swap of a sample because I was much, much too burned out to review it properly at the time. I had drank so much that my tasting tongue (as opposed to my lovin tongue or my speakin tongue) was dead. I quickly made a […]

Ardmore SMWS 66.82 “Gritty turned Pretty”

Thanks to /u/boyd86 for sharing a sample of this dram. Starting to see vapour trails at this point. However my tongue still works, which my wife is happy about. Ardmore. It feels like just a few weeks ago that I was recommending Ardmore to someone. I may have been drinking and forgot their name. Not where […]

Longrow 13 Springbank Society Bottling

Thanks to /u/xile_ for the last surprise dram of the evening. So here we are. I’m already lost on two other mysteries. Both were immediately guessed correctly by the other two “completely in the dark” reviewers. Now there were two of us completely in the dark with no guesses yet. Oh, and I had drank quite […]

Brora 20 1982 Rare Malt

Thanks to /u/xile_ for sharing a dram of this one. Hey, look, it’s my birth year. Last year I decided, through no sense of my own or my finances (especially not my finances) that I’d do some samples of whiskies that were distilled in my birth year. 1982. I know, you’re thinking: I’ve seen /u/TOModera before, […]

Bunnahabhain 16 Old Particular

So I showed up with this. And it was the worst of the night. Thank fuck I brought homemade cookies or I’d be out. And vegan gluten free banana bread (it really did taste better than that statement makes it sound, I swear). I have a soft spot for IB Bunnahabhain. Personally have enjoyed them […]

Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye 2011

Thanks to /u/devoz for this mystery dram. At this point the alcohol has kicked in. My bravado is up. I’m feeling confident like I haven’t felt before. And then someone mentions up next, we have a mystery dram. My eyes constantly dart back and forth when a Mystery dram is brought up. I’m utter shit at […]