The Malt Nuts gathering to do a Ledaig tasting has become a yearly tradition. Though this year, unfortunately, I had to opt to do the second (digital) version because of a scheduling conflict. Luckily that option is still open, though who knows for how much longer. This is why the photos below don’t look like […]
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Benriach Smoke Season is the release-sister to the Malting Season and like that release, its name is a nod to the history of the distillery itself. Back in ye-olden days of whisky production, HVAC systems didn’t exist, so when barley was dried, to halt the malting process, fire and smoke were employed. Peated whisky was […]
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The new Benriach Malting Season is a nod to the period of time (1900-1965) when the Benriach distillery was closed for distilling, but kept its floor malting up and running. During this time Benriach was mostly malting for its original namesake, Longmorn. Like other early distilleries created during the late 19th century, its founder, John […]
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A week after our Peated Bruichladdich Part 1, we gathered for Part 2. And like last time we all arrived with our samples in tow and after the usual hi-hello pleasantries we got down to business. Just like we’re about to do with this recap. I mean it, no long preamble or anything. We all […]
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This tasting started life as a virtual event. I’d broken down all the bottles for this, and part 2, into sample bottles and we were all prepared to have these two epic tastings take place on Zoom. And then everyone started to get vaccinated. So we punted them a few months further out and did […]
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This is the latest release of the Benromach 10 Years. Apparently, the formulation had a bit of a tweaking and I was asked if I wanted to try the latest version and give my thoughts on it. I enjoyed the previous release well enough, so I said “sure”. Thrilling back story to this review eh? […]
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the Paul John Christmas Edition 2021 is out! This marks the fourth release of this whisky, but only the third that’s made its way to the USA. Due to a snafu, 2018 never made it here and instead was enjoyed, a lot, throughout Europe and the UK. […]
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Over the course of two nights, the Malt Nuts and the SCWC joined forces with the Milk and Honey distillery to taste through a massive chunk of what they’ve released to-date. There are some indies, early releases and small releases we didn’t have, but on the whole, we covered a large chunk of what’s been […]
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Cold-weather is setting in and with its arrival comes the annual releases, like this Little Book Chapter 5 “The Invitation”. Headed up by Freddie Noe, this whiskey has quickly become an anticipated yearly release. Not just because it’s usually pretty good, not just because it gets some good marketing, but because we’re all curious what […]
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I love seeing products like this Wonderland Cask Strength Blend of Straight Whiskeys in the market. It’s not a new idea to take whiskey from other distilleries and blend them to create something new, the whole Scotch industry is built on it, but it is fairly new in America… kinda. More like a modern resurgence […]
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