Category Archives: – Blended Whisky
Campbeltown Loch 30, 40%
Several years ago I bought this bottle after tasting it and mistaking it for a single malt. I’d like to say I’ve come a long way since then, but I guess that’s just wishful thinking. In this case I feel … Continue reading
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Tagged Blended Whisky, Campbeltown, Campbeltown Loch, Springbank. J&A Mitchell
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Peat Monster, 46% – Compass Box
The third and final Compass Box whisky for a little while, unless I suddenly pop open my bottle of Hedonism. I don’t see that happening anytime soon though. Mostly because I’m still in the process of decreasing the amount of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blended Malt, Compass Box, Islands, Islay, Peat Monster, Speyside
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The Lost Distilleries Blend, Batch 4, 50.9% – The Blended Whisky Company/Master of Malt
As I’ve said plenty of times before, Master of Malt is not only a shop but also a bottler. Although, between the stuff they produce, have produced and bottle under one of their labels, you’d start to think it’s the … Continue reading
Bottoms Up!
Tonight a couple of friends and I are going to try and get my open-bottle-count down somewhat. Since I’ve been trying to do this on my own last year I found that a) it doesn’t work that well, and b) … Continue reading
Posted in - American Whiskey, - Blended Whisky, - Japanese Whisky, - World Whisky, Compass Box, GlenDronach, Glenfarclas, Hazelburn, Jim Beam, Karuizawa, Knob Creek, Lagavulin, Old Potrero, Port Ellen
Tagged 18th Century Style, Anchor Brewery, Blended Whisky, Campbeltown, Compass Box, CV, Douglas Laing, Elements of Islay, GlenDronach, Glenfarclas, Great King Street, Hazelburn, Highlands, Islay, Japan, Jim Beam, Kamiasobi, Karuizawa, Kentucky, Knob Creek, Lagavulin, Noh, Number One Drinks, Old Potrero, Port Ellen, Provenance, Rye, San Francisco, Speciality Drinks Limited, Speyside, Springbank, Straight Bourbon, The Ultimate, The Whisky Exchange, Van Wees
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Hankey Bannister Heritage Blend, 46%
Hankey Bannister is a brand of blended whiskies inspired by recipes from a century ago. Of course, this is what all smaller brands of blended whiskies proclaim and they can, since there is almost no one who can verify whether … Continue reading
A Surprise tasting at De Whiskykoning (1/2)
Last Friday I went all the way to De Whiskykoning in Den Bosch for a whisky event. The so called ‘surprise tasting’. Not that the tasting itself was a surprise, but nobody knew what we were going to taste. Of … Continue reading
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Maltstock – Cadenhead Masterclass with Mark Watt
The third Masterclass I went for was my number one choice of the bunch. Cadenhead. The independent bottler has been off the radar in The Netherlands for the biggest part of the past decade since their shop in Amsterdam went … Continue reading
Posted in - Blended Whisky, - Grain Whisky, Bruichladdich, Cameronbridge, Invergordon, Mortlach
Tagged Bruichladdich, Cadenhead, Cameronbridge, Grain Whisky, Invergordon, Islay, Mark Watt, Mortlach, Speyside
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Shai’s go at Whiskyblender ‘Glenbordelyhaz’
Whiskyblender is a website where you can blend your own whisky, according to a number of set parameters. You can choose six whiskies to mix and how much of that stuff you’d like to order (who goes anything less than … Continue reading
Malt Fascination 