An easy going blog for easy going malts
Day 14 initially I thought was a repeat of a bottle I tried in a tweet tasting. The labels on the Boutique-y bottles are cool and remember able. This is a great trick but with so many releases now they aren’t unique to each batch so when I see that horse-y label I originally though […]
After a brief intermission for a trip to Good Spirits I am back on the Advent articles. The 13th day brings a very well aged single malt. This time it is from Ben Nevis which is a distillery I have only tried one bottle of and never owned one. The Ben Nevis 10 Year Old […]
Day 12 already and we are half way through the run up to Christmas. It always surprises me how quickly Christmas goes in now. It’s probably a lot to do with working so intensely through December but each year I want to slow down and savour the moment but as yet its never came to […]
Speyburn is another distillery which I haven’t tried. That is one of the reasons why I enjoy this little Christmas traditions. The other is well just the anticipation of a new untried sample each day. What will it be and how will it taste. Will I want a full bottle or will I feel its […]
So we have tried a blended whisky and then a blended malt in the last two days. The last avenue to go down would be a single grain whisky. This is a similar idea to a single malt in that it is the produce of a single distillery. The obvious difference being rather than malted […]
Malt blends or “Pure” malts as they used to be called before the term was banned contain a number of whiskies from distilleries which only produce malt whisky using pot stills and malted barley. The Malt Blend All hail the teaspoon! The label on the sample today is all about the teaspoon. The teaspoon is […]
At just the moment I caught up with the advent calendar at the start of the week I fell behind again! Regardless, I left this off feeling like we had a glut of samples which were all very same-y. The 9th day has changed all that with a 22 year old blended whisky. Blended whiskies […]
At the end of the first week we end with a Royal Brackla single cask which is the first batch that Boutique-y have bottled. There is an official 12 year old from Diageo which I thought I had tried but it seems not. I think I was getting confused with another Royal distillery. Royal Lochnagar. […]
Nearly the end of the first week and we have had some highlights. Those have been at the start of the week and I must say the end of the week has been a slog. Hopefully week two will have better things but until then lets get on with the show. The Distillery Auchroisk is […]
Yesterday after 11 years the Teaninich hadn’t spent much of that time maturing. Moving on to the 5th day and hopefully there has been some activity in over two decades. Blair Athol is a distillery which I have had a decent amount of success with. There is hope then that this will be another of […]
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