An easy going blog for easy going malts
From one retailer owned brand to another today. The Element of Islay series is owned by the Whisky Exchange website this time. I really like the branding idea here which is a classic setup to make people want to collect. Most versions seem to sell out pretty fast and the first batches of each distillery […]
Yesterday I found out that Fox Fitzgerald own the Rest and Be Thankful brand. Today, I am letting the 2 people who read this blog and don’t know the owners of Boutique-y Whisky Co that it is in fact owned by the Master of Malt website. Branded towards the younger end of the whisky market […]
I like my peat whisky and I like to try new ones so this one sounds interesting. I have not heard of this before or the bottler Fox Fitzgerald so it has to be tried. The Bottler The Fox Fitzgerald company was founded in 2010 by Eamonn Jones and Aidan Smith which work as part […]
I quite like Laphroaig just now and certainly much more than I used to. The triple wood appears to be a marmite dram which equal numbers of disappointed and satisfied customers. The Triple Wood is a no age statement expression which was originally just for the travel retail sector. In the past I have always […]
This month’s sample from Whisky-Me is something very new and very rare from a new distillery in Perth Scotland. The Distillery The Strathearn distillery is a farm based distillery which is one of the newer and smaller whisky distilleries in Scotland. They also make gin and rum alongside distilling and maturing whisky. The distillery employ […]
The Connemara Peated was previously review by my brother. I got a sample of it recently so I thought it would be interesting to write my own review just to see how different two people can find the same whisky. The previous review is linked at Connemara Peated Single Malt Review Tasting Notes Colour – lemon […]
From widely available in every supermarket and corner shop to a bottle originally only available for one week in one shop on one island. Whisky is a broad church and whisky sales channels equally so. The Feis Ile is the Islay whisky festival on the Isle of Islay. Long before whisky festivals were so mainstream […]
We are taking things back to basics with this article. Many a whisky blog will contain articles about whiskies too rare/expensive/sold out/old for you to actually go out and buy so this is the tonic to soothe your soul. The standard Laphroaig 10 is a classic example of an ongoing core release which stamps the […]
One thing which is in short supply these days is a respectably priced single malt with a teenage age statement. You can’t blame the distilleries of course because who among us would ask for less than the going the rate for their work? So when you do find something older and priced in 2 figures […]
Jura recently released a statement that there entire core range was being discontinued. To many it was followed by a disappointing announcement that it was being replaced with other age stated products. Since the old stuff will be going cheap (even more than usual) soon to make way for new stock I thought it was […]
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