Beers of May

Posted on 1 June 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

May turned out to be an extremely beer-heavy month. The weather picked up in a couple of weekend, resulting in lots of barbecuing, and lots of beers to wash things down.

Going through my Untappd account, I found 44 unique beers for this overview. That also means there were some doubles, some that are not interesting at all and some I had so often before I don’t think I need to list them here.

Add to that that most of these beers are craft brews with higher ABVs, and it’s a miracle I never was drunk. Apparently I’m getting quite good at this ‘pacing oneself’ thing.

Also, you won’t find all of them in the list below. A lot of beers turn out okay, but are not the brews you remember a couple of weeks later.

Random ones

Peak Organic Brewing – Amber Ale
I had this only last Monday on a team outing. The reviews on Untappd aren’t awesome but I really enjoyed this malt-forward, yet crisp beer. Some nutty flavors too, but it’s all good. Highly recommended.

De Prael Scotch Ale
I’m not a huge fan of brouwerij De Prael, here in Amsterdam. Most of their beers are quite ‘middle of the road’ and when I poured this one, I knew I found another one. When I read ‘Scotch Ale’ I expect a brown beer. Very malty and big flavored. This is not the case. I would say it’s more a saison than anything else. Not brown, not big flavored, and the malt wasn’t as rich as it should be.

Struise XXX Rye Quad
Oh yes. Just Oh Yes. Great stuff, big flavors, big abv.

Estrella Damm Inedit by Gruppo Damm
This beer was brewed with Ferran Adria, of El Bulli fame. Shamefully, as with most chef-brewing combinations, they go for a beer that sits well with a lot of different kinds of food. The result is almost always a beer that’s quite boring, and middle of the road. This is one of them. (tip: Take a page from ‘t IJ and Ciel Blue’s book)

Broeder Jacob Double Port
I heard great things about this one. A Belgian Double, with Port wine added. Should be good. It’s not that awesome. A bit of a let down after all the hype around it (with my friends that is)

Gulpener Plato 18.25
A big brewer from the Netherlands that’s trying to get into the craft brewing scene by releasing some ‘special brews’. This strong lager (8%) with more hops added is one of their tries. It’s not overly successful. A nice drinker, but not one that’s worth the money.

Edge Brewing Cookie Euphoria
This should be an amber ale with oats, chocolate and vanilla. The result is a rather bland beer that’s also not very amber. Forgettable.

Jopen Don’t Rye This at Home
A massive 75% rye quad from the Haarlem brewers. It’s quite good, especially the flavor. The texture is somewhat lacking. It’s syrupy and a bit too sweet, with no carbonation whatsoever.

Tasty Lady Darkside Porter
My local bottle shop owner brewed this one with some friends. It just might be their best effort yet. Recommended if you can find it.

Konig Ludwig Hefe-weizen
Avoid this one. This is a shit weizen, even for supermarket standards. Erdinger it should be.

IPAs

So: warm weather, sun, barbecue, beer. That all means IPA to me. I had quite a few. Most were okay, but most IPAs are.

  • Kaapse Brouwers ‘Bea’: Better than average
  • Caldera ‘Hop Hash’: Better than average
  • Struise ‘Danko Power’: Better than average, for a session IPA
  • Fuck You Brewing ‘An Inferior Mirage’: Strangely salty, didn’t like this one at all.
  • Urthel ‘Hop It’: More a Belgian Triple with hops than an IPA, actually. Quite boring.
  • Emelisse ‘Black Ipa’: Better than average
  • Left Coast ‘Hop Juice’: Better than average
  • Bear Republic ‘Hop Rod Rye’: Better than average
  • St. Feullien ‘Belgian Coast IPA’: Average

Stouts

Even though the weather picked up on average, there was more than enough time for wintry beers.

  • Struise ‘Black Albert’: It doesn’t get much better than this.
  • HUB ‘Survival Stout’: Quite good for a low abv stout, but it was a bit thin.
  • Thornbridge ‘Eldon’: Bourbon barrel aged goodness. Very good, but not exceptional
  • Port Brewing ‘Old Viscosity’: This one’s great, but somehow I still expected more (based on ‘Older Viscosity’)

Geuze

I had two, of which the following is one. I forgot which one was the other one. Silly me. Boon Black Label is awesome by the way.

Ciders

  • Westons Cider ‘Old Rosie’: A classic, but still good. It does need to be really cold though.
  • Oedipus/Giel ‘Gedrooghopte Cider’: A truly great cider. I think this was a one of, unfortunately.

Scheldebrouwerij

Our go-to supermarket finally caught on to the craft beer hype that’s been passing them by for the last five years or so. But they did get some affordable beers in recently. Apart from these, which are all good but not great, they have more from ‘Texelse’, ‘t IJ’ and some others. A good development.

  • Scheldebrouwerij Dulle Griet
  • Scheldebrouwerij Oesterstout
  • Scheldebrouwerij Wildebok

Ootmarsummer Bierbrouwerij

I was in the area for a weekend and picked up some bottles from this brewery. While I applaud their approach, they at least do somewhat original beers, they results were quite average. I think I remember the Premium Dark being the best of the bunch.

  • Othmar Weizen
  • Othmar Dunkel
  • Ootmarsummer Bierbrouwerij Yellow Moon Premium Dark
  • Ootmarsummer Bierbrouwerij Yellow Moon Exclusive Blond

Beavertown

These were discounted at my local bottle shop a while ago, so I picked up one of each. While their IPAs are all quite nice, I think I liked the Rye and the Black Betty best.

  • Beavertown Neck Oil
  • Beavertown Quelle Saison
  • Beavertown 8-Ball Rye
  • Beavertown Gamma Ray
  • Beavertown Black Betty

So, strangely, with so many beers drunk in a month, not many would make an awesome pick for ‘beer of the month’. But, however I put it, there should be one.

So, my pick of the month is De Struise Brouwers’ Black Albert. It’s just plain awesome. Everything about it is good. In a way it’s ‘just’ an overpowered Stout, but it outshines practically everything you can compare it to.

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Brora 38, Port Ellen 37 and others in the Diageo 2016 Special Releases

Posted on 31 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

These labels have already been found in the TTB database, for this year’s Diageo Super Premium releases.

A 1978 Port Ellen will certainly be tagged with a premium price. 😉

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On the heels of Feis Ile 2016, some labels of the forthcoming 2016 edition of Diageo Special Releases has shown up at the federal TTB database (labels are at the bottom of the post) earlier today.

At the moment we can quite safely assume (like 99.999%) those five release will be out coming October:

  • Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2016 – 57.7%
  • Caol Ila 15 Year Old Unpeated – 61.5%
  • Port Ellen 1978 37 Year Old – 55.2%, 2940 bottles
  • Brora 38 Year Old – 48.6%, 2984 bottles
  • Auchroisk 25 Year Old – 51.2%, 3954 bottles

We can see that the annual releases of Lagavulin 12, Caol Ila Unpeated, Brora & Port Ellen live on for another year. After 16 years, we still keep asking ourselves: just how many casks are left and how long can they sustain this series of Brora and Port Ellen?

I wonder if they have another…

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Tullamore D.E.W. Cider cask finish, 40%

Posted on 31 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

So, it’s been a while since I reviewed an Irish whiskey, and when I did they were older single malts and not the blended whiskeys that make up the vast majority of the distillates of the Emerald Isle.

Sometime last year (around this time, actually) Tullamore D.E.W. released a cider cask finished whiskey which is, as far as I know, a first in the industry. (All we have to wait for now is a tequila cask finish, right?). It’s a travel retail release and came in at € 54 for a liter. Quite affordable, but also quite a bit more expensive than their regular range.

Normally, a liter of Tullamore D.E.W. comes in at about € 20 for a liter (at the discounters), so € 34 for a couple of months in a cider cask seems rather steep.

Sniff:
The cider is very, very clear on the nose. Almost like a cheap Calvados. So, lots of apple and it’s very crisp. Slightly yeasty too. Some malty notes but not too many. Somehow it tastes like there was quite some cider left in the cask, almost like it is a mix instead of just cask ‘reusage’.

Sip:
The palate is smooth and crisp, with minor hints of oak, apple and a few creamy notes too. Pastry cream, with some malt and other grains. The cider influence unbalances it.

Swallow:
The finish is more or less the same as the palate. Not much development, if any. It tastes like a blended whiskey with a twist. Some grains, some apple and pear.

So, as just said. A blend with a twist. It’s quite unhinged and unbalanced. Like they just chucked a couple of liters of cider into a cask of their whiskey. Add the fact that the whiskey isn’t very old to begin with and the result you get is a young tasting mix of raw flavors.

The summary of this is:

There is no reason to drink this, except curiosity. That is now stifled and I’m not going to finish the sample. It’s not good at all.

60/100

Tullamore D.E.W. Cider cask finish, 40%. Released last year in Travel Retail at € 54 a pop.

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Yamazakura 16, 40%

Posted on 26 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

This Japanese blended whisky is an exclusive release for Europe. It more or less showed up unannounced, but there has been some information given on Nonjatta.com.

Apparently it consists of 16 year old whisky that was distilled somewhere in the past. Before bottling it was transferred to tanks in which it lay for an unknown period (Hirsch whiskey from the States teaches us this can be years and years), after which it was shortly ‘woken up’ in casks again.

It was matured in bourbon barrels and is made up of 20% malt and 80% corn whisky. There are 1992 bottles available.

The company that produces it, Sasanokawa Shuzo has been ‘producing’ whisky since 1946. But the origins of their product have been mysterious. Some say the bought spirit and blended it in Japan, others say they produced it from scratch. The provenance of this whisky is unknown, but I don’t think there’s reason to believe it was distilled elsewhere than in their distillery in Fukushima prefecture.

It doesn’t happen often that new Japanese whiskies come out, and when they do it’s even more rare if you can actually afford them. So, when this one popped up, I snatched one up for bottle sharing.

Sniff:
It’s very malty and quite heavy. Some spices and toasted oak, but also a hint of spirit. Sweet grains, sugar and rather thin. Well, actually, it’s quite generic.

Sip:
The palate is slightly fatty and syrupy. Some oak, some malt, some white pepper. There’s more spices after that, and the hint of toasted oak. A tiny bit of red cinnamon makes up the most interesting flavor.

Swallow:
The finish shows the white pepper again. It’s not very long and the notes of grains and oak linger longest.

What to say about this one. There’s nothing special about it, that’s for sure. Well, maybe that off note I’ve not described yet. There’s something in this whisky that I can’t put my finger on. It’s a weird scent and flavor that doesn’t sit well with me and it is kind of omnipresent. So every step of the way is a weird step.

The flavors are all very uninteresting, and apart from that off note and the hint of red cinnamon on the palate there’s not much going for this one. A miss, this one.

79/100

Yamazakura 16, 40%, available for £ 89.95 from The Whisky Exchange

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Highland Park 18, 1956-1974, 43%

Posted on 25 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Recently I got the chance to get my mits on a tiny sample of this 18 year old Highland Park. Obviously I wanted in, and thanks to some timily obtained bottled I was able to trade for it instead of buying the sample, which generally makes things more reachable than when having to throw money at it.

Anyway, an ancient Highland Park. I once tried a 1955 one but that was thin on the palate. That doesn’t stop me from wanting to try again with something similarly aged, of course.

So, a whisky distilled when my mom was 1 year old, and my dad 3. Bottled 7 years before I was born. It better be special!

Sniff:
Dusty at first with a light whiff of spices. White pepper, some lemon and crisp Granny Smith apples. Crumble pastry, bread, flour and some oak.

Sip:
The palate is smooth and slightly tingling. A bit creamy as well. A little bit of smoke is coming through, and the white pepper is back too. Star apple, Granny Smith. After a while I get some aniseed, white oak. There’s a flavor that makes this one stand out as ‘old distillate’, but I can’t put my hand on the exact aromas. Earthy as well.

Swallow:
The finish is light but also quite rich. Dusty with white pepper and flour. Not very long.

Well, while this is not the most complex of whiskies, it sure is good. Very, very good even. The flavors are very old fashioned and really stand out as distillate from another era. Apparently there have been quite some changes to the process since the mid fifties.

The white pepper is never overpowering, and the oak is very timid. The combination of pepper and apple works surprisingly well, and the pastry notes on the nose are awesome.

92/100

Highland Park 18, 1956-1974, bottled for Ferraretto Import, Milano, 43%. Obviously only available through high end outlets. Currently valued at about € 1000.

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Balblair 2000-2014, 51%, OB for the Russian Federation

Posted on 24 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Now this is a first! I’ve never had a bottling for Russia before. Of course, that doesn’t change the whisky much, but it’s just a fun fact.

Anyway, this heavily sherried Balblair single cask was released two years ago and apparently it didn’t sell out quickly enough. It’s that, or the shop sent bottles back for some  other reason. A couple of weeks ago they popped up in Dutch stores and they sold out quickly, even though the price tag was a hefty one (a bottle was about € 170).

I bottle shared is, since I was very interested in tasting it but didn’t want to shell out the money all by my lonesome. 60cl was sold, 10cl was kept. And it’s all gone.

Sniff:
I get bitter oranges at first with a boat load of sherry. Dry leaves, dusty with toffee and burnt caramel. Quite sweet and fruity with spices and lots of oak.

Sip:
The palate has more fruit with mostly oranges. Oak, toffee and tobacco leaves. Fallen autumn leaves, the brittle, rustling kind. Lots of oak and dryness. Sweet citrus fruits, some red fruits, spices and dryness.

Swallow:
The finish is dry and mellows quickly, with a little bit of an afterburner a few seconds later. Quite long, with mostly the fruit lingering. A very light whiff of smoke?

Well, this is great. Intense sherry that displays the mellow fruitiness of Balblair quite nicely. Also the orange flavors of the sherry work really well with the intensity of the oak. A lovely dram of which I find it surprising that it didn’t sell out in the initial market. But then again, we wouldn’t have been able to try it, would we? So thanks, Russia!

All in all, a very, very good whisky that just is a bit too ‘simple’ to go up to 90 points.

89/100

Balblair 2000-2014, Single sherry cask 1341, 597 bottles so it was a butt. 51%. Bottled for Aromatniy Mir, in Russia. Available at LMDW for € 190

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Balblair 1975-2006, 30yo, 46.2% – Jack Wiebers Prenzlow Portfolio Collection

Posted on 23 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

It’s not really a well known distillery in The Netherlands. As in, you can get it but that’s about it. Not many shops stock Balblair, and especially the older vintages somehow tend to be skipped. It’s a shame, since there’s some really, really good booze coming from the guys up in Edderton.

I visited the distillery in 2013, when I was on holiday there with the misses and my daughter. We had a lovely time even though I had already spent most of my whisky budget and didn’t pick up the handfilled available there. Silly me, I know.

So, there have been some twitter tastings, a few samples here and there, but my collection has not often been graced with Balblair until recently. Through bottle sharing I have had three all of a sudden. I finished one this weekend, of which a review will follow, and I also finally tried this one. A 30 year old from a decade ago. That means it’s been distilled in 1975, like their epic vintage release.

Sniff:
A light scent of malt, dunnage warehouse and sawdust. That old, slightly moldy oak scent is present too. Some fresh peaches and apricots, and dried ones too. Quite fresh. Maybe some mint as well. Lots of old oak, which is a very good thing. Dusty, like an old attic. Oh, and hessian.

Sip:
Sweet wood, I’d say white oak with old bourbon cask influences. Slightly peppery, and other spices. Lots of fresh and dried fruits again. Mainly peaches and apricots. Lots of oak, but all in a good way and not overpowering. Quite, well, ‘rustic’. It becomes a bit syrupy after a while, with more fruit juices coming through.

Swallow:
The finish has a bit more woody spices. Pepper, maybe some cinnamon and ginger. It mellows quickly and the attic, hessian and ‘attic scents’ remain longest. Ah the oak of course.

Well, this is awesome and honestly a lot better than I expected and hoped. Especially what this is going for in auctions it’s quite a good deal (little under € 200 if I’m not mistaken).

It’s a style of whisky that’s becoming increasingly rare and precious. Because of that I’m glad this little bottle share didn’t sell out completely! I’m thoroughly going to enjoy finishing this bottle!

The fruit, spices and oak make this a true highland whisky and almost has an old Clynelish character, minus the wax, and it’s just awesome.

92/100

Balblair 1975-2006, 30yo, 46.2%, Jack Wiebers Prenzlow Portfolio Collection. Sometimes available in auctions for around € 200

 

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A whisky tasting with Jock Shaw – part 2

Posted on 20 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

The second bit of the tasting review. A tasting organized by Drinks & Gifts for the customers of the shop, hosted by Jock Shaw.

I described the tasting itself yesterday, and don’t have much to add to it. Jock was awesome. I was late. Some people were loud and others were not. Jock’s stories made the whisky tasting. Or at least, they made it more interesting than just a flight of drams.

In the second half of the tasting, after the smoke break, we went for a bunch of younger whiskies. Officially two of them were NAS, but that means young, however you put it.

Photo by Jock Shaw

Ardmore, 46% – Cooper’s Choice

This Ardmore is young and spirity on the nose, with the sweetness of the alcohol coming through. Untamed peat with barely any flavors of oak. Quite earthy, autumnal with scents of dead leaves. The palate is gentle with dry peat, spirit, grass, dirt and charcoal. Slightly salty bacon too. The finish is soft and long, with hints of alcohol and a much lighter peatiness than before.

Honestly, I was very positively surprised by this one. The whisky is very young but quite lovely and somehow, it tastes very ‘honest’. Nobody tried to make this taste older than it is, and therefore I love it. Good stuff!

86/100

Laggan Mill, 46% – Cooper’s Choice

The nose is heavily peated with a very heavy, feinty kind of peat. Quite sweet with mulchy leaves, decaying plants. Clean oak notes and some lemon. Slightly floral. The palate is sweet, dry with some tannins. Quite sharp with alcohol. The finish also brings those citrusy flavors. Simple syrup and candy, quite long with hints of earthy peat and smoke.

According to Jock this must be Bowmore since there’s a ruin of Laggan Mill close to the distillery, and the lemony flavor. I’m more inclined with ‘the internet’ and think this is Lagavulin. The spirit feels too heavy for a Bowmore too. And also, you can’t really put Lagavulin on the label, but you can put Bowmore on it.

On the other hand, Laggan Mill might be chosen because this way they can change the contents around when one brand runs out. Oh, there was also a Laggan Mill under the previous label of Cooper’s Choice and that too was widely thought to be Lagavulin.

The whisky itself is nice enough but not overly interesting. If you’re into young, heavily peated stuff without too much taming, this might be a way to go. However, I don’t find it overly interesting, unlike the Ardmore for example. It’s just a bit too one dimensional and ‘just peat’.

83/100

Kilchoman 2011, 5 years old, cask 666, 57.8% – OB for Bresser & Timmer

Then the final dram of the evening. A 5 year old sherry matured Kilchoman. Jock wanted to do his little SM game with this, which means washing your mouth vigorously for half a minute with a sip of this, swallowing and doing a big inhale. It’ll burn, although it wasn’t as bad as with a previous experience like this.

Anyway, on the nose there’s smoked bacon, golden syrup and pancakes. Burnt caramel, but also some green plants. Quite fresh and fierce. The palate went more towards the barbecue, but the smoke is more timid than expected. Licorice, bacon, pork marinade, ash, smoke, barley and quite spirity. The finish is quite long and mellows quickly. It’s sweet with that barbecue marinade again. Dryness and pepper linger.

An interesting Kilchoman, one of the better ones I’ve tried recently. But still, it’s a Kilchoman. And by that I mean there’s nothing to complain about, apart from the fact that there’s hundreds of single casks out there and the sherried ones all kind of taste similar. They’re consistent, but that also makes them less interesting.

87/100

So, all in all, a great tasting. A highland toast to finish everything off, and people singing along with The Wild Rover towards the end of the tasting. It was good fun, and unlike any other tasting you can go to. As in, go to Jock Shaw’s tastings. He’s good at what he does, interesting and fun.

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A whisky tasting with Jock Shaw – part 1

Posted on 19 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Almost two weeks ago I went to a whisky tasting. Apart from the one I organized in April at De Whiskykoning it had been ages since I went, especially one hosted by my local bottle shop, Drinks & Gifts.

So, a home game, only a few hundred meters from my house. I still managed to be late. I had missed that this one started at 7.30 instead of eight o’clock. Silly me.

Anyway, initially the theme would be Cooper’s Choice, but that was changed into Cooper’s Choice and Valinch & Mallet. Without further notice the theme became ‘whatever Bresser & Timmer imports’. We ended up having some bottlings from Cadenhead and a Kilchoman as well. A tad strange, but nobody knew any of the bottlings (as far as I know) so I didn’t hear any complaints.

Jock Shaw then. A Scotsman turned Dutchman. He became Dutch after Scotland failed to vote Yes at the referendum a while ago. Before that he’d been living in The Netherlands for some 40 years or so. He’s a great chap who does hundreds of tastings throughout the country, mostly accompanied by folk music (his company is called Scotch & Folk).

I’ve met him a lot of times at festival where he generally mans the stand for Bresser & Timmer, a Dutch importer of a lot of brands. They import Cooper’s Choice, Cadenhead’s, Kilchoman, Tomatin, Compass Box, Glencadam, Teeling, Kavalan and dozens of other brands.

The tasting was pretty awesome, and it was made more cool by Jock’s shameless self-mocking, cabaret and music. A lovely time was had by all.

Strathisla 18, 1997, 56.9% – Cadenhead’s Small Batch

On the nose the whisky was spicy with some wood influence. There’s apple and pepper, and some old malt. The palate was quite sharp and peppery. Lots of oak and malt, some dried apple too. The finish, again, brought pepper, baking spices and some fruit. Quite long.

Not the most interesting whisky, but nice enough. I felt it didn’t taste like an 18 year old Strathisla should. It was lacking a bit of depth.

82/100

Mortlach 21, 1994, 52.1% – Cadenhead’s Single Cask (gold label)

This whisky had vanilla and creme brulee on the nose. It was warming and syrupy. Slightly meaty with caramel and candied lemon. The palate is sweet, fruity and has some vanilla flavors. It becomes sharp after that with flavors of dry tea and hazelnut. The finish is dry and long with flavors of oak, some vanilla and grain.

A good Mortlach and one that’s much better than most Bourbon matured Mortlachs I’ve had. Lovely and great flavors and complexity.

87/100

Linkwood 26, 1989, 53.1% – Valinch & Mallet

The only V&M bottling in the tasting brought licorice, both the candy and root on the nose. It also had caramel, cinnamon and creme fraiche. The palate is quite smooth with vanilla, soft oak, oak shavings en white pepper. The finish mellows quickly and has fresh oak, moss and other foresty greens. Licorice and caramel too.

This was the star of the show. Also the most expensive bottle on the menu, but in this case the money went straight towards awesomeness. Quite unlike many Linkwoods I’ve had, but unique in its own way. Especially the creamy note on the nose made it interesting.

89/100

Tomorrow I’ll post part two with the remainder of the tasting notes and some more ‘impressions’. But, let’s just say it was a great tasting so far!

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New bottle shares!

Posted on 18 May 2016 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Little over a month ago I wrote about still available bottle shares. I’m glad to find that most of those have all gone by now. I do have some new ones available though. Not as many, but a bit more ‘luxurious’ than before.

I’ve been trying to go in the direction of quality over quantity for years, and while quality has gone up, quantity has not come down yet. That’s something I need to work on over the coming, well, lifetime.

So, if you’re in to older whisky, read on. There’s three of them available.

Tamnavulin 1967-2010, 43yo, 41%, The Whisky Agency

Not much to say apart from the fact that I can’t ever remember having a Tamnavulin. I know there was at least one, but I wanted to see what this one was about.

20 cl is available

10 cl costs € 40, 5 cl costs € 21.50

Glenesk 1984-2016, 31yo, 49.5%, Cooper’s Choice for Limburg Whisky Fair

I do remember having a Glenesk before, or a Hillside. That’s the same distillery. I had the Rare Malt 25 year old at Whisky by the Sea in Vlissingen, years ago. It was great. I’ve always wanted to try more but they got very expensive. This one too, but since it’s more or less a now or never thingy…

45 cl is available

10 cl costs € 47.50, 5 cl costs € 25

Undisclosed Speyside, 1975-2016, 40yo, 55%, The Whisky Agency

I saw this getting 92 points at WhiskyNotes. I know I love fino sherry casks in whisky but you don’t see them all too often. I took my chance with this one.

45 cl is available

10 cl costs € 47.50, 5 cl costs € 25

 

Of course, everything can be combined with other samples from my sample page, and let me know if you want to participate! I know I’m looking forward to trying these drams!

After this, I promise I stop buying stuff and do some bottle shares from my own collection. There’s enough there that I want to try! Also, soon our club’s new Tomatin bottling will be available. I’ll be sharing that too, obviously.

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