*Thanks to SF and the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. I'm not sure I can definitively say that I have a favorite number, but if you pressed me for an answer, I'd probably have to say the number 16. I've liked 16 since I was a little kid and, as far as … Continue reading The Arran Malt 16 Year Old – Review
Month: June 2013
Compass Box The Peat Monster +/- 2011 – Review
*Thanks Dad! The word "peat," a near and dear word to whisky lovers to be sure, is most likely of Celtic origin owing maybe a little bit to the medieval latin word peta, and sharing its ancestry with the Welsh word peth, and the Cornish word peyth, which both mean "bit," "piece" or "thing." Interestingly, there's no relationship between the word … Continue reading Compass Box The Peat Monster +/- 2011 – Review
Still Waters Distillery Stalk & Barrel Single Malt Whisky, Cask #1 – Review
*Sincere thanks to RS and Purple Valley Imports for the sample. Canadian whisky has been the relative latecomer to the world-wide whisky boom of the last several years. Wider distribution is growing now, it seems, as is appreciation for its more "premium" expressions, but the craft distilling movement that's taken its lowly neighbor to the … Continue reading Still Waters Distillery Stalk & Barrel Single Malt Whisky, Cask #1 – Review
1792 Ridgemont Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey – Review
*A sincere thanks to AP & Sazerac for the sample. The year 1792 was a fairly notable one in French history. France declared war against Austria and the Prussians declared war against France. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote La Marseillaise in Strasbourg, while Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin advocated for a more humane form of capital punishment and ended up forever … Continue reading 1792 Ridgemont Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey – Review
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