BTC5 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 5th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Simon @TheWhiskyNovice

Dingle tasting with BCWS

The Black Country Whisky Society have held a number of successful virtual tastings during Covid-19, this is the third one I've join in with.

This time is was to try a new distillery for me : Dingle in Ireland.

What Ardmore can really be like

Ardmore gets a bad wrap for it's cheap supermarket NAS, most of its output goes into the Teacher's range of blends.

In this blog I'm trying an older distillery bottling and 4 independent bottlings.

The Fisherman's Retreat - Edition No. 7

How does a whisky legend Jim McEwan selected 8yo @Bruichladdich matured in a Yalumba Octavius Red Wine Cask and bottled at 50.4% sound?

More importantly - where would you find such a dram?

Loch Lomond 14yo Fruit & Cinnamon

As part of Loch Lomond's recent packaging revamp, a number of bottles were discontinued and a couple of new ones appeared.

One of the new ones is the Loch Lomond 14yo Fruit & Cinnamon - let's see what it's like.

Side by side: Single Grain or should that be Malt?

Loch Lomond's Distillery, just North of Glasgow, is really two distilleries in one, a Malt distillery using malted barley in Pot Stills and a Grain distillery using grain in Column Stills.

Photo: whisky.com.gr

But, interestingly, sat in one corner of the Malt distillery is a set of Column Stills....

Ardnamurchan Inaugural Release

Ardnamurchan Distillery is located in Glenbeg, Ardnamurchan, Argyll in the far West of Scotland. It's Scotland's most westerly mainland distillery.

They have just released their first whisky - let's see what it's like!

Old Malt Casks

The Old Malt Cask range was first released in 1999 by Douglas Laing & Co. Ltd. as single cask whisky usually bottled at 50% ABV.

Lets try a few of their releases.

Side by side : Deanston Single Casks

Deanston isn't a distillery that's really been on my radar, but having been camping close by on a recent road trip I decided to pay a visit.

I came away with 3 single cask bottlings, let's see what they are like.

Side by side : Method and Madness

Irish Distiller's Midleton Distillery has a programme of innovation where distillers are allowed to experiment with the whiskey making process developing what could be the next addition to the core range

In this blog I'm trying 5 of the range!

BTC4 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 4th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Damian @newdramrising