Side by side: An Ardmore flight

I've written before about how good Ardmore's spirit is, especially from Indie bottlers - here I try 10 side by side.

Let's see what they are like!

Side by side: Two refill-sherry drams from The Sipping Shed

A recent tasting by #TheSheds of five @TheSippingShed releases allowed us to taste two refill sherry drams, 11yo's from Aultmore and Blair Athol.

Let's see how they compare!

Side by side: Two 'plain' ex-bourbon drams from The Sipping Shed

A recent tasting by #TheSheds of five @TheSippingShed releases allowed us to taste two ex-bourbon drams, one from Linkwood and one from Loch Lomond.

Let's see how they compare!

Side by side : An indie Blair Athol single cask flight

An unassuming little distillery in an unassuming little town north of Perth as you enter the Highlands is the home of Bells - one of the biggest selling blends in the world.

You don't see many distillery bottlings but there are quite a few indies - here I'll try 3 single casks.

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 Sipping Shed @TweetTastings

There's a new Independent bottler on the scene and Steve introduced them at his latest @TweetTastings

A plain looking box revealed an interesting use of some biodegradable packaging and four single cask bottles.