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Yesterday I was trying to post my vote at the last minute when my network connection died on me. So, in the end I didn’t fill in my sample for that night. This was a bummer since I was on … Continue reading →

A somewhat educated guess was what I did yesterday with this Talisker. The recently released OMC bottling with the name of the distillery on it was something that came to mind. Not that I have tasted that one, but I … Continue reading →

What I know now, is that I am getting worse at this everyday, and apparently, I am better when I have a cold! We’re over 2/3 of the competition, only four samples left, but I haven’t even gotten a fifth … Continue reading →

Another ‘educated’ guess. Another sample that I could not pinpoint to a distillery, not even to a region. I started to get specifics from what I smelled and tasted to try and deduce a distillery, region or anything. Considering specific … Continue reading →

Yesterday I was initially planning to co-host a whisky tasting for my previous job at Interactive Studios. But halfway through the week with many deadlines and two days of working 12 hours I didn’t really feel like going at all … Continue reading →

I’m still having a massive cold so if my guesses and taste descriptions below are way off, you know how it happened! This whisky was a cask strength one, that I got straigt away but apart from that I coulnd’t … Continue reading →

And with that, I don’t necessarily mean THE GlenDronach 18, but just some bottling around that age not at cask strength. And again, I was failing big time. I guessed GlenDronach because it was a sherry bottling and the Highlands … Continue reading →

This time, my guess was almost as random as it could be. I didn’t expect to be able to taste the sample yesterday evening, so I tasted it the night before. Only I forgot to remember facts about ABV and … Continue reading →

Another wild guess, but an educated one in this case. I thought to recognize the sample based on rather specific flavours. I still hope to catch up a little bit by scoring a decent amount of points on one or … Continue reading →