Irish Single Malt Extra Old Acla Selection / 27 Acla Selection

Thanks to /u/cake_my_day for pouring me these samples. There’s a lot of great reviewers on the internet. Something I envy, and attempted to do myself, is the idea of organizing one’s samples in order to have milestone reviews. You know what I’m talking about: Person posts their 20th review, cracks open a nice 20+ year Laphroaig, pats […]

Kavalan Solist ex-Oloroso Sherry Cask KavaFAN pick

Thanks to Forbiddenwaffle for pouring this sample for me. I’m still holding out hope that I find a Kavalan that beats out the best I’ve had. This isn’t something alone with Kavalan: Multiple distilleries, I’d argue all of them, have the top dram I’ve ever had and that’s a target. No one shows up to the Olympics […]

Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu IPA Cask Finish

Thanks to Bananavanman for sharing this dram with me. I got to ride on the Japanese whisky boat a tiny, tiny bit. Mostly due to awesome friends and dumb luck. If you haven’t, I’ll be the first to say the Amazing Japanese whiskies boat has sailed so far away it’s in whatever country you can imagine is […]

English Whisky Smokey / 11 North Star Burgundy

Thanks to /u/devoz for the sample of the North Star. It’s fair for some people to think that England, like Scotland or Ireland, should have some type of whisky background. They have lived beside these major whisky producing countries, created others like Canada or the US, and had royalty who has been purchasing and imbibing since they […]

Rozelieures Single Malt Peated Collection

Thanks to a close friend, Martha, for pouring me this sample. So I was at a tasting, in the before times, back when we all met up for such things. And where we will meet up again. It was the year where we did world whiskies, and one of the tasters brought Rozelieures Single Malt Peated […]

Teeling 10 2008 Single Cask

Thanks to /u/smoked_herring[+2] for this sample. As Teeling continues to grow and age it’s own whiskey, we’re going to see more of their whiskey in the mix and less of what they’ve sourced (which they haven’t officially disclosed, and I’m not going to mention since it always turns into a debate when I do). Part of me […]

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 […]

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 […]