Or, translated, the car polish tasting. Not that it has anything to do with tasting car polish, but that’s just the name and business of the company that allows us to use their lunch room for a massive annual tasting. This always is the first national event for the Usquebaugh Society at which we meet up after the holidays.

This year, as was the deal last year, we also selected the club bottling that will be released somewhere during spring. Last year we had 3 drams of one distillery and selected the nicest Glenfarclas. This year we had 4 drams of different distilleries with rather different characters. My pick ended last and the one that was the favorite of the group had my third place, so I’m not sure I’m buying the 2012 version of …………. (I’m not sure if they want to announce it themselves…)

The rest of the afternoon was a BYO tasting at which everyone put their bottles on the pool table and you could just pick & pour. I didn’t taste many whiskies since I wasn’t feeling all that well. The nicest one being a 26 year old Glenesk by Duncan Taylor.

It was a terrific afternoon with many many friends and a really good chance to meet up with everyone! I also found out that many people were quite enthousiastic about a new Bottle-Share, so I might have to start thinking out a theme for it!