Glen Breton Rare 19 Ice Cask Strength Single Malt

So in our group, I’m at the heart of an odd, but fun situation. Anyone who has either drank with me or have read my mystery reviews knows I am bad at them. Also anyone who knows me knows that I speak with confidence when discussing anything, because I worked in marketing, and literally if […]

Teeling 9 Single Cask Port Cask [Re-review]

So I’m at the Teeling distillery. A year ago. And I have a choice between a few single casks they have. Two of them are fill your own bottles. That’s exciting. I want to do that. I’ve never done that. I’ve been around when someone else did that, sure, but I’ve never done it. So […]

Glen Garioch 15: The Renaissance – Chapter I [For Real this Time]

Thanks to /u/throzen for bringing this dram to our latest tasting (that I’ve written up). So I’m in a bar in Dublin a year ago, and they don’t have the Irish whiskey I wanted. So I order a Scotch. The bartender isn’t that well trained. Based on the alcohol percentage, and me being very full (food […]

Ben Nevis 18 The Maltman

Thanks to /u/boyd86 for bringing this dram to our latest tasting (that I’ve written up). I will now try and explain the current situation of buying alcohol in Ontario. Please don’t leave. (cue Bush clip of “Please clap” here). I’m topical. Okay, so back in 1916, Ontario kept up it’s Tsundere love of the US by […]

Macallan Select Oak [RE-REVIEW]

Thanks to scotchguy_to for sharing this sample! So I’m at this tasting. And if you’re ever at a tasting, with people who understand how to do tastings right, you’ll have a whisky to open up your taste buds. Which for me means something inexpensive, and typically a Speyside. And to help out my writing, I […]

Ardbeg 23 Darkness! Oloroso Cask Finish

Welcome to the current ongoing series I’m calling “I’m Ar-begging you to stop making these puns”, in which I review all of the Ardbeg samples I’ve had sitting around, unreviewed. So far in my reviews of older 90s Ardbeg samples, all of them have been ex-bourbon casks. And that’s not a bad thing. Currently sherry […]

Ardbeg 23 1991 Douglas Laing Director’s Cut

Welcome to the current ongoing series I’m calling “I’m Ar-begging you to stop making these puns”, in which I review all of the Ardbeg samples I’ve had sitting around, unreviewed. Alright, so we have more early 90s Ardbeg, this time one sourced by Doulas Laing as part of their Director’s Cut series. For those of […]

Ardbeg 22 1993 Cadenhead’s Single Cask

Welcome to the current ongoing series I’m calling “I’m Ar-begging you to stop making these puns”, in which I review all of the Ardbeg samples I’ve had sitting around, unreviewed. Alright, so I’ve now had Ardbeg from the mid 90s that was in a single cask, and from the mid 90s that was vatted together […]

Ardbeg 21

Welcome to a new series I’m calling “I’m Ar-begging you to stop making these puns”, in which I review all of the Ardbeg samples I’ve had sitting around, unreviewed. We continue with Ardbeg from the 1990s. This time, though, we have an original bottling from the company itself. The last time there was an Ardbeg 21 like […]

Ardbeg 18 1993 Master of Malt Single Cask

Welcome to a new series I’m calling “I’m Ar-begging you to stop making these puns”, in which I review all of the Ardbeg samples I’ve had sitting around, unreviewed. When discussing Ardbeg, there’s certainly a line drawn in the sand. You have the 1970s whisky, back before they were reopened, which is legendary. Which I […]