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Aberlour Distillery Tour

Our trip to Aberlour distillery in Speyside and their tasting.

Edradour distillery, close to Edinburgh and Glasgow, wonderful whisky.

Macallan Distillery’s Six Pillars tour and tasting

Our trip to Lagavulin for the Sensory Tour

A review of our Laphroaig Distillery tour and tasting

A review of our Bruichladdich Warehouse tour - Highly recommend

A one-man show well worth the short ride from SF

Our visit to the very traditional Hawaiian Shochu Company

Hawaiian agricole rum distillery with emphasis on sustainability

Mad scientists of alcohol

The Cooking Banana Cocktail
2021-02-13
Plantains are never the stars of the show. The starchy cooking bananas are a lot like the malt that makes malt whisky. It takes a process to turn sweet. […]
Review #122: Nikka Coffey Gin
2021-01-02
Nikka Coffey Gin comes from the same massive Coffey […]
Review #121: Glengoyne 21
2021-01-01
We liked the Glengoyne 10 so much we grabbed a bottle of its older brother. The 21 is aged in ex-sherry, and you get plenty of it on the nose and palate. […]
Review #120: Plantation Panama Old Reserve
2020-12-25
Plantation rum from Panama, aged for 10 years in ex-bourbon, and finished in ex-Cognac. […]
Last Rites Cocktail
2020-12-24
The Last Rites is only lightly sweet, and has that indescribable funk from passionfruit. […]
Rum Review #119: Plantation Fiji 2009
2020-12-12
Plantation rum from the island of Fiji.ged 7 years in ex-bourbon in the tropics, and 2 years in ex-cognac in the tropics. […]
Review #118: Plantation 5 Year
2020-11-28
Plantation hails from the island of Barbados the […]
Review #117: Game of Thrones “House Lannister” Lagavulin
2020-11-25
4/10. Nose: Smoke, banana bread, pink, short lived bubble gum that you get at a ballpark. Palate: Honey, astringently oaky, smoke and waves of banana bread. […]