An easy going blog for easy going malts
Sometimes I buy a bottle and look forward to opening it. On opening I savor and taste each dram enjoying noticing the changes in the whisky as the bottle goes down. This time I missed out of that opportunity. More on that later… The Distillery The ardmore distillery is a large Victorian distillery in the […]
Coming from Kilmarnock Johnnie Walker whisky was a name I was always familiar with but yet knew nothing about. Very much in the same vein as people who happen to be born on Islay yet don’t care much for whisky I suppose. Anyway, the Green label was always the expression people got excited about. It […]
Last weekend I managed to take in a tour at the Deanston distillery. It was only at the National Whisky Festival in July that I tried a Deanston for the first time. It was the 18 year old expression and it lived up to my expectations. I am a big fan of the craft style […]
The Octomore brand is the most heavily peated range of whiskies which Bruichladdich currently bottle. There are two stories circulating about the Octomore origins. The first being that the barley is peated to at least 80ppm (Octo). The second and correct story is the name comes from the Octomore farm owned by James Brown and […]
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