Millstone 20 1996 Virgin Oak

Thanks to /u/devoz for the sample. Virgin oak whiskies and I aren’t on each other’s Xmas card list. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying I don’t fuck with them, but I don’t go out of my way to fuck with them. First off if you think slivers in your hand are painful… oh, we’re not going […]

Millstone Oloroso Sherry Special No.9

Thanks to /u/boyd86 for sharing this dram. There was a time where, if you drank whisky, statistically it was made in Ireland. Scotch wasn’t as big. And there was a time where if you drank Scotch it was a single malt (statistically) and underage or a blend, depending on the decade. We don’t know the next big […]

Millstone 100 Rye [Re-Review]

Ten days in. To the Advent Calendar. One of those things people usually post as they drink, but I’m all like “that’s too much, I’m busy” and did it two months later because I’m behind and stuff. So this is Advent Dram #10. I’ve had some close guesses on these mystery drams. However, my wife […]

Millstone 12 Oloroso Sherry Cask

Thanks to the Toronto Whisky Society for hosting this event, and to /u/devoz for picking out the lineup. Final whisky of this tasting. And here I am, ready to sit back… Oh, what? We had a last minute cancellation from the person who was going to explain Millstone and I have to explain it now? […]

Millstone 100% Rye Single Cask 1577

Thanks to /u/devoz for sharing a sample of this whisky. The Netherlands. Not so much a place people think of when one says “Whisky Maker”. Usually a place one thinks of if I mentioned, for instance, social tolerance or perhaps tulip crash or even “Holland”, if you’re nasty. However those people aren’t including Zuidam Distillers. Originally started […]

Millstone 100 Rye

Das is some vet friggin whisky Gast! Chillen man, I’m going to lay it all down. Don’t get your Kut all worked up! Well there’s my attempt to learn Netherland slang. Anything else is pretty messed up and I’m pretty sure I fucked up “kut” up there. What? Oh, yeah, I’m here to review whisky […]

Millstone Lightly Peated

A country’s heritage is a hard thing for me to grasp. On the one hand, I love the idea of different communities taking up ideas they have cultivated, thus avoiding a homogenous collective that could miss better or different ways of doing things. On the other hand, I see the results of blind devotion to […]