Review #86: Ardbeg Kelpie
Okay, I’ll be honest: I have been searching for a bottle of this for a while. Every time I have tried to order it on a menu, the bartender will look around and then tell me that they are sorry, …
islay
Review #82: Peat’s Beast PX Cask Strength
We came across the Peat’s Beast whisky while travelling in Barcelona at the bar La Whiskeria. My wife is always up for anything new that is peated that she hasn’t tried, and the monster on the label jumped out at …
Drunk Uncle
Islay scotch and Cynar. Enough said.
Review #69: Rona’s Cask Port Charlotte 13 Year
This continues our series of whisky reviews that we wrote while touring some of the best scotch bars we have ever been to. The bar in question is the magical scotch treasure trove of Campbelltoun Loch, which is cluttered to …
Review #68: Golden Cask Port Ellen
This starts a series of whisky reviews we started while we were in Tokyo and Osaka, which have some of the most phenomenal scotch bars we have ever encountered. The bars are typically one-man shows that are a product of …
Douglas Cocktail
Peaty cocktail featuring Lagavulin 16 from L’Abbattoir
Review #67: Laphroaig Distillery Exclusive (2005 Bourbon to PX Cask)
As mentioned in Review #56 (Laphroaig 2011 Oloroso Sherry Cask from the distillery), we are now siphoning off the distillery miniatures that we bottled at the end of our Distillers Wares tour. I’m not usually a souvenir type of …
Review #65: Bowmore 18
We’re always on the hunt for difficult-to-procure bottles, but the Bowmore 18 is broadly available, if a little expensive. But to christian a new office, we needed a bottle and it was hard to pass up an opportunity to get …
Review #49: Laphroaig Triple Wood
Laphroaig was my gateway whisky – and also the way I discovered that I unequivocably love peat. We have been nursing this bottle steadily and the other night, we finally laid the bottle to rest.
The Triple Wood is a …
Review #31: Ardbeg Drum Committee
Review of Ardbeg's newest Drum Committee release from the 2019 Feis Islay festival. Delicious, albeit expensive, whisky.