Here comes Ardbeg Rollercoaster!
Update (15/02/2010): High resolution photo and our review
Here it comes! The new Ardbeg is just round the corner. On February 15th Ardbeg Rollercoaster will be made available through the Ardbeg website. It is a vatting of 10 casks, one from each year between 1997 and 2006, put together co celebrate the tenth anniversary of the [...]
Shackleton didn’t want his whisky. Do you?
Something significant happened today. Scotch whisky made it to the headlines of news services worldwide. And not because Tiger Woods bought a nice bottle for his wife in the way of apology.
Kiwi snow-and-frost-lovers found and unearthed some MacKinlay’s blend from underneath Ernest Shackleton’s hut built and used by him in Antarctica during his failed South [...]
Why exactly is Smokehead so dear?
As I would imagine somebody will be quick enough to point out, this isn’t really a post with a point. It’s more of a musing, maybe a push for some discussion. I was looking at the price of Smokehead 18 year old yesterday and was struck by just how expensive it really is. In case [...]
Tags: Bowmore, Caol Ila, Ian MacLeod, Islay, Laphroaig 18, Port Askaig, price, single malt, Smokehead, Talisker, whisky, Whisky BlogWhisky Odyssey 2110
The hangover
I woke up this morning with very unpleasant symptoms; uncrunchable thirst, slight headache, dry skin, dodgy gut and garlic sauce aftertaste in my mouth to name but a few. I grew out of the I’m-never-drinking-again-style lines long time ago, so all I could say to myself when I opened one eye to confirm my [...]
A Quick Dram: Tamdhu 25yo
Tamdhu
25 years old
Speyside (sadly mothballing)
43% ABV
£80.71 from here
Colour: Orange Dawn
Nose: Apple pie dusted with brown and white sugar. Dash of hot Ribena weirdly. Estery notes, bananas and pineapples.
Palate: Quite different. A sweet ale flavour with a hoppy bitterness.
Finish: Caramel and black olives.
Overall: Inoffensive and, frankly, disappointing at this price.
Video: Black Art in The Albanach
Our second vlog entry. For much better quality, bigger player and rating/comment options view directly on YouTube.
And don’t forget to hit that HD button!
Someone got pissed off?
Persons with heart conditions and those who are currently within a granade-haul-distance from Downing Street in London (and happen to have a granade on them) are advised not to read this post.
Ever-reliable scotchwhisky.net reported that The Edrington Group’s chairman, Sir Ian Good got well pissed off when he found out that Gordon Brown had said [...]
Our Birthday Video
Here is our birthday video, as promsed. We will be posting every vlog entry here on the blog shortly (up to 24h) after it appears on YouTube. Why delayed? We are trying to encourage you to subscribe to our channel so that you can comment and shower us with beautiful red shiny stars… we are [...]
Tags: birthday, blog, Edinburgh, SMWS, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, video, vlog, whiskyLaunching a YouTube Channel!
Yup, that’s right. It does exactly what it says on the tin. You go to YouTube, subscribe and watch us doing stupid things with/after whisky. We are hoping to fire out a video every couple of days. If you don’t have a YouTube account, don’t worry - we’ll be posting the videos here as well… [...]
Tags: channel, Edinburgh, video, vlog, whisky, Whisky Blog, YouTubeJoe’s Whisky Experience
A long overdue report of Joe’s visit to The Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh after the massive £3m revamp… was it worth it?
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In general my whisky experience CV does not read well at all. Between pouring an entire glass full of Laphroaig when my dad invited me for a whisky at the tender age of [...]
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