Floki Icelandic 2017 Young Malt Sheep Dung Reserve

Thanks to /u/distillasian for the sample. When someone mentions Iceland, you don’t think of whisky. Probably because there’s only one distillery making whisky there. But it exists, and every so often it pops up. Someone brings in a sample of either young malt or actual whisky coming from the small nation. I enjoyed visiting Iceland. The food […]

Scapa SMWS 17.35 “Very fruity, very tasty”

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_To for sharing this with me. Scapa. How many Scapa have you had? Not many. Me too. They just don’t pop up. I’ve had maybe three (one of them was under a different name), and that’s nearly bragging country if I didn’t both have a safe way to be confident and viewing it as a […]

Johnnie Walker 10 Triple Grain American Oak / Johnnie Walker 10 Select Casks – Rye Cask Finish

Thanks to twiddleDD for these samples. I don’t avoid blends, I merely weep for their current state. I’ve said it before that grain whisky takes a long time to be flavourful. So when you then take said grain whisky and then mix it with a blend that has an age statement denoting that the required amount of […]

Hazelburn 14 Rum Single Cask

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for pouring me a dram. Rum Casks. Or as I call them, a trap. Look, you can argue however you like: Rum casks are variable, I’ve had few of them where the rum matured or rum finished just… completely shat the bed. To use the technical term. Enter Hazelburn 14 Rum Single Cask. Yes, that’s […]

Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey

Why do I do this? Why is it that every whiskey, and I mean every whiskey (you’re reading about a review of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, I don’t need to hammer this point) I drink requires a review? At this point I’ve accepted the fact that I drink to review, and not review to drink. It’s […]

3 Independently Bottled Auchentoshan Scotches

Among my whisky friends, who I used to have tastings with before these end times came upon us, I am known as one of two people who gush about Lowlands. And what Lowland can I afford without taking a mortgage? That’s right, Auchentoshan. But all of you have had Auchentoshan once or twice. And you’ll […]

Jefferson’s Ocean Aged at Sea KWM Single Barrel

My father handed me an empty bottle of bourbon. Which is a sentence that could start out saying I had a rough childhood, but isn’t. Please don’t infer that. My parents are amazing and I had a privileged life. So my father hands me an empty bourbon bottle and says “If you can ever find […]

Orphan Barrel Entrapment

Thanks to /u/EvilAFI for the sample. The Orphan Barrel series is an interesting idea: Simply put there’s older casks of whisk(e)y that are released. And the vast majority have been bourbons. Older than normal. Not too expensive, but kinda expensive. Barterhouse was the first one, and between the cool fox on the bottle and the actual tasting […]

Amrut Sherry Dennis Steckel Selection Blackadder / Amrut Madeira Finish

I have two friends who never, ever pass up an Amrut. The vast majority of my Amrut reviews come from them. As the company has grown, it’s been good times. We’ve seen more and more out. Dennis Steckel could tell you how many, given he has the largest collection out there. So many that Blackadder […]

J. P. Wiser’s 23 Cask Strength Blend

When I review other country’s whisky, the methods and ingredients used are brought up. We know that the still used has an effect, with pot stills versus column stills leading to different flavours. We know that malt has an impact versus grain. We know the malting heat source (peat smoke versus diesel or even sheep […]