So, let’s keep things in perspective and not get swept away, and let Bimber focus on meeting some lofty expectations.A real variety, both in style and quality. My Palm Beach Post talks about the trends in the brown spirits category, and how it’s not going anywhere.Not long ago, the world of whiskey was about as changeable and trend-conscious as an elderly deacon.Hoity-toity scotch drinkers had a lifelong affiliation with their beloved brand of single malt. Hunter Laing also has a third generation of Laings in the form of Stewart's sons, Andrew and Scott, and brands include single cask bottlings under the Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare Platinum amongst others.
Teeling Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey carries an MSRP of $64.99, but also retails online from ReserveBar for $75.
Having written rather extensively about these North London folk over the last year or so, I’ve come to the repeated conclusion that ex-bourbon is my preferred Bimber cask type and that it has tended to show significantly better in solely ex-bourbon than rival English distillates of comparable age. Barflies with a taste for Irish whiskey ordered Bushmills or Jameson.Bourbon was for Southerners.
Perhaps I’ve been missing something …Glad you’re still enjoying Lakes 1.
That said, I’m generally more excited about vattings than single casks and I think they offer a clearer blueprint of the work in progress. Tommy is focussed on promoting 808 and 808 alone. I’m interested in your observation about balance as the cask selection in Edition 3 seemed quite a bit more eclectic. Somewhere amidst all that I've also done the WSET Diploma in Wine and Spirits. Not long ago, the world of whiskey was about as changeable and trend-conscious as an elderly deacon.
This is Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey from batch # B-90-001.
First up is the English Whisky Company, England’s elder statesman, but in rather different clothes than usual.
I’d certainly consider buying a bottle if I didn’t have a rather full wishlist at the moment. So it’s a fusion of curiosity and laziness, really, but a nice opportunity nonetheless.Let’s introduce our protagonists.
A generation of consumers weaned on light-bodied and relatively delicate white spirits turned away from the uncompromising, pungent, full-bodied straight Rye whiskies.
Backstory aside, it’s onto what’s clearly going to be the best part of any 808 Whisky review: the tasting notes. For miscellaneous drinks banality, find me on twitter at Twitter.com/DrinkScribblerI picked up on your ‘old-style’ not regarding the peated English Whisky Co and i thoroughly agree. I’ve still got a third or so of my bottle left, and it’s become a rather nice reliable pour.
I’ve written up 36 here on Malt, which isn’t even most of them any more, and doesn’t include the two Dartmoors that, at the time of writing, are eyeing me guiltily and reminding me that I owe Mark and Jason some notes.On which basis it struck me that the time was ripe for some sort of compare and contrast.
Just what Cotswolds has, at its best, been all about.Lakes – another solid offering.
It is unclear exactly where whisky distillation began, with Ireland and Scotland laying claim to the process.
Connoisseurs were a small and exclusive breed.Times have changed, and the new philosophy that has revolutionized food, beer and wine — let’s called it gourmet-ization — has swept through whiskey’s formerly staid ranks. In this case one Samuel Gulliver & Co, a family merchant established in 1747 and now revived as a whisky bottler by current generation Stuart Gulliver. I paid $50 for a bottle at my favorite local retailer, though going rates fluctuate between $45 and $65 currently, depending on geographic location. The foundations are clearly in place, but the exterior is far from finished. This is the first time that AI has been used to augment and automate the most timeconsuming process of whisky creation.
"We are extremely proud of the Scarabus whisky and the Feis Ile Festival was the perfect place to release the first bottling. 25th October 2016 Baker’s Batch #B-90-001 – Review.