Gone fishing...

This blog is on hiatus while I deal with some personal stuff.  It might be a while.  Meanwhile - here are a few randomly selected highlights in a silly order:

Monsters:

• The Harmonic Resonance of Peat: An Ardbeg Vatting Mystery

• Octomore 4.2 Comus puts a honeyed glory on the blaze and the ashes.

• Octomore 01.1 Fierce or lovely; Doctor Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

• Octomore 4.1/167; peat monster or gentle cask strength dram?

• Port Charlotte PC6 - a blistering rite of passage.

• Ardbeg Supernova 2010 vs Octomore 2.1

• Kilchoman 2006 Turns 5 And Gives Me "Vertigo"

 

Heroes:

Chip has brought his current thinking.

• Chip Tate's Mad Geeky Genius

• Brenne: Single Malt Made In Cognac.

• Bruichladdich "The Laddie Ten" outshines the beauty of its tale.  

• George T. Stagg 2011 - The Titan. The King.

• Smooth Ambler Old Scout & Very Old Scout - Brokered Bourbon As The Right Thing To Do.

• Charbay S & R5: Younger Affordable Hops Freak

 

Fools:

• Grains and Confused

• My Whisky Fabric

• Beginner's Luck: Winning the Dramming.com Blind Tasting of Scottish Single Malts

 

 

 Head To Head Match Ups:

• Canadian Ryes Bottled in the USA Surveyed - Double Blind

• Balvenie Tun 1401 Marries Bourbon & Sherry Casks. Batch 2 vs 5 Head ToHead

• Two expressions of Springbank Cask Strength: One Coopered in Sherry, One in Bourbon Cask. Which is Better?

• Ardbeg Corryvreckan and Airgh Nam Beist head to head.