Laphroaig 16 1995 Signatory Cask Strength

Thanks to /u/xile_ for sharing a dram of this one with us. Distilleries go in ebbs and flows. You have periods where they rise up, and periods where they fall down. If you’re a bourbon fan, this may seem like an odd situation. You haven’t had the downturn yet, and seemingly, like the housing boom and […]

Laphroaig 11 2014 Dun Bheaghan

Thanks to /u/devoz for sharing a dram of this one. The last tasting… wait, let me rephrase that: The last tasting I was able to write down had a rarity at it: A random Laphroaig sitting out that I hadn’t gotten to. Don’t let me say I’m somehow king of reviewing Laphroaig. I’m far and away […]

Laphroaig Cairdeas 2015 (200th anniversary edition)

So… hey, I own this and haven’t reviewed it. I’m special, with a capital dumb. And it’s not like it was jammed in the back of the whisky cabinet (which I’d show a picture if it wasn’t both deep (teehee), black, and not well lit, thus making it unphotogenic). Right up front. But what is Laphroaig […]

Laphroaig SMWS 29.159 “Anyone for cricket?”

Thanks to /u/twiddleDD for this sample. This is yet another continuation of my ongoing series that I’m calling “Scotch Malts, Wife’s Selection”, in which my wife goes through my backlog of SMWS (Scotch Malt Whisky Society) samples that I haven’t reviewed yet, pours them blind, and then I review it blind. When I was in school, I […]

Laphroaig 25 2008

Finally we’re onto my entry for the Laphroaig series, “To Quaff a Laphroaig”. We all had Laphroaigs, we all had time, we opened them up, and then drank them. Not at once though, because that would be silly. I’m not the kind of whisky drinker who typically buys high end whisky. I wish I was: […]

Laphroaig 18 1987 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Thanks to /u/Devoz for sharing a dram of this with me. Second and last IB of the Laphroaig of my current series, “To Quaff a Laphroaig”. We all had Laphroaigs, we all had time, we opened them up, and then drank them. Not at once though, because that would be silly. If you saw my last […]

Laphroaig 18 1989 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Thanks to /u/xile_ for sharing a sample of this whisky. First IB of the Laphroaig of my current series, “To Quaff a Laphroaig”. We all had Laphroaigs, we all had time, we opened them up, and then drank them. Not at once though, because that would be silly. Laphroaig 18 1989 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask comes […]

Laphroaig 18 [Re-Review]

Thanks to /u/Throzen for sharing a dram of this one. Nostalgia is a set of rose coloured glasses that will forever poison the past with sugar. It makes us second guess if things were really better, or perhaps not. So when people discuss, with sadness, the discontinued Laphroaig 18 versus the Laphroaig 15 which replaced it. However I […]

Laphroaig Lore

It came to our attention that a bunch of us own Laphroaig bottles. So we decided to have a tasting, and thus I ended up with a new, impromptu series I’m calling “To Quaff a Laphroaig”, because I can’t figure out a pun. So to start up the tasting, we began with Laphroaig Lore. This new […]

Laphroaig 32

Thanks to /u/xile_ for bringing this bottle to the end of year tasting. Laphroaig 32. The name says it all. You really don’t need to know too much more. I say to someone “Hey, you want a Laphroaig?” and they say “Sure”, if I say 32 years, they really don’t care the situation. I could […]