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Black Friday 2021, 22yo, 49.2% – The Whisky Exchange
At The Whisky Exchange, they’ve become quite adept at creating traditions. Apart from hosting some festivals, they also release some very special limited releases that I always look forward to. The same is true for their Fine Christmas Malt, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Friday, Speyside, The Whisky Exchange
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Closing the door on 2020
Fair warning: I’m going to ramble. Let’s do some reviewing of 2020, shall we? Of course, there’s a million other pages out there doing that, going on about how Corona affected their lives and their livelihood and such. I’m not … Continue reading
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De Struise Brouwers, anno 2020
When I started drinking craft beers some years ago, De Struise Brouwers were right at the top of everyone’s list. They made innovative beers that broke the Belgian mould (The Belgian Mould being Blonde, Double, Tripel, sometimes a Quadrupel). They … Continue reading
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Tagged Beer, Belgium, Blonde, Drinks & Gifts, IPA, Saison, Stout, Struise Brouwers
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Talisker 15, 57.3% – Diageo Special Releases 2019
The Diageo Special Releases are always a thing to look forward to as summer approaches. As in, that’s generally when the announcement happens or there is some marketing leak in which they releases are listed. When it happened last year, … Continue reading
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Tagged Diageo, Diageo Special Releases, Islands, Skye, Talisker
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Glen Moray 24, 1992-2017, 50.9% – Cadenhead
Glen Moray is one of those distilleries that make an amazing spirit, but in their own releases there’s often so much done to it, that it loses its greatness. A quick search on the internet reveals there’s a Cabernet, Sherry, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992, Bourbon Cask, Cadenhead, Elgin, Glen Moray, Small Batch, Speyside
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Michter’s King Tutankhamun , 43%
My friend MvZ is quite a fan of old stuff. He wrote for the magazine of the Usquebaugh Society on the topic of old bourbon and old Irish whiskey. Luckily, he was also kind enough to trade some samples with … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, Bourbon, Kentucky, Michter's, USA
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Inchgower 1985-2005, 20yo, 60.8% – Usquebaugh Society
A few years ago when I was still a member of the Usquebaugh Society, a few of the older club bottlings popped up at some whisky shops in The Netherlands. There was a Clynelish, I believe a Caol Ila (which … Continue reading
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Tagged 1985, Highlands, Inchgower, Usquebaugh Society
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The state of the samples – 2020 edition
Last year I wrote a post about the rather insane amount of samples I had knocking about my whisky shelf, in my tiny home office. I found some gems pushed to the back by newer additions and finished these over … Continue reading
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A beer and cheese tasting with Fromagerie Abraham Kef and De Kromme Haring
Last Friday the missus and I went to a beer and cheese tasting in Amsterdam, hosted by Fromagerie Kef, with beers from De Kromme Haring. Now I know the cheese parlor for their epic cheeses which JK and I used … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Beer, Cheese, De Kromme Haring, Fromagerie Abraham Kef, Pairing, Tasting
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Glentauchers 20, 50.9% – Chorlton Whisky
Chorlton, honestly, sounds like the polite English version of barfing, but apart from that, I had never heard of this whisky brand, and until I found these tasting notes and looked up more information on the bottling, I had once … Continue reading
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