Mackmyra Seasonal Releases - Jaktlycka

Well known Swedish distillery @Mackmyra release two annual 'seasonal' whiskies usually featuring innovative seasonal characteristics focusing on unusual finishes often reflecting the prevailing season.

I've tried a number of them including Gront Te, Äppelblom, Blomstertid and Vintersol, this season's release is the completely unpronounceable Jaktlycka, let's see what it's like...

Whisky Subscription: Pour & Sip

Pour & Sip is the name of a new whisky tasting subscription club from Master Of Malt. Using the 30ml bottles from Drinks by the Dram packs they'll send out 5 samples for you to try at home.

Let's see what it's all about!

Batches : Kilkerran Heavily Peated

Distilleries often release whisky in batches, the same name but subtly different recipes, ABVs, maturation periods etc. In this new, occasional series, I'm going to review a number of different Batches in my Side-by-side format to see if I can detect any differences, does each batch get better or are they to all intents and purposes the same?

This time I'll be reviewing batches #1 to #3 of Heavily Peated from @Kilkerran2004 distillery, what differences are there?

#BTC03 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 3rd #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Mark @Mark_BCWS

Side by side : Redbreast

Redbreast is one of the most iconic Irish Pot Still whiskey brands, it's now owned by Irish Distillers and distilled in Midleton.

In this blog I'm trying 4 of the range - 12yo, 12yo CS, 21yo and 27yo!

Virtual tasting: Elixir Tasting with BCWS

The Black Country Whisky Society are a small group with big ideas from Greater Birmingham. They've been going for around 18 months and successfully held a number of tastings before Covid-19 put a stop to meeting together. So like most groups they went virtual.

Their tasting are sometimes opened to non-members and I was lucky enough to get a place on one from Elixir Distillers.

Side by side : #BoutiqueyWorldSeries

Following the success of the World Whisk(e)y Summit hosted by TBWC back in May, the independent bottler announced they’ll be releasing a special batch of world whiskies, featuring many of the participating distilleries.

The bottles have now been released - let's see what some of them are like!

Side by side : Three TBWC Speysiders

Heading up to Speyside for this side by side, three drams bottled by @BoutiqueyWhisky

Lets see how they compare:

Lakes Distillery The One Blends

Following quickly on the heels of their Whiskymakers Reserve #3 the @LakesDistillery have released two additions to their The One Fine Blended Whisky range.

Orange Wine and Sherry Cask finishes join the Signature and Port Cask finish, let's see what they are like.

GlenAllachie Single Cask for IWS

There are lots of little whisky shops around the country, whose business has been affected by recent events, some have mail order businesses to keep them going so please support them as much as you can. One thing that some of the distilleries are doing is to bottle single casks exclusively for a shop - this is one such example.

GlenAllachie have bottled a 2007 12yo exclusively for the Inverurie Whisky Shop.