Category Archives: – News and Announcements

Just a quick update on the Special Releases from Diageo for this autumn. It seems I have to sell another kidney to get a sip of all of them. Bottle-Share anyone? I can try to get them all if enough … Continue reading →

The PBSD, as I’ve just named it, is a drink that does hommage to the paxerette sherry casks of the 1960’s and 70’s. What is paxerette, I hear you ask. In short it’s a sherry reduction smeared on the inside … Continue reading →

Ah, Glenturret. Home of The Famous Grouse and its experience. I don’t know all that much about this distillery apart from the fact that it’s a small one in the Scottish Highlands. There isn’t much info on the website about … Continue reading →

Not the distillery but the whisky itself. Usually I have some more information in the title, like age and bottler. None of that is available here. Today’s whisky is the regular € 25 bottle of Tamdhu, no age, distillery bottling. … Continue reading →

As far as I know Sestante is a bottler of old. When you hear the name it usually together with a certain amount of reverence and awe. Not strange, if you look at the average scores on WhiskyBase.com or the … Continue reading →

Balmenach is a very unknown and unexplored distillery for me. There are almost no official bottlings, apart from some very old ones and a Flora & Fauna edition from 2010. My first one was a Blackadder bottling that I tasted … Continue reading →

I have been brewing my own beer for about half a year now. The idea behind it was to create something. To make something out of materials and be happy about it. So far I’ve come to a varying set … Continue reading →

Blackadder is one of my earliest ‘favorites’. Nowadays it has declined in personal popularity for a number of reasons. One of them is that the bottlings are very good, or heavily alcoholic with loads of heat and ethanol. I’m not … Continue reading →

That’s a mouth full! A miniature of a blended Scotch bottled in my year of birth. That’s the only reason I picked it up. Usually I’m not a big fan of blended Scotch and while that sounds very arrogant, it’s … Continue reading →

That’s one of the strangest titles ever to start a whisky review with. It says absolutely nothing, apart from the smoke thing. Anyway, Whisky Castle is a Swiss distiller from Elfingen and they’ve been producing whisky for a couple of … Continue reading →