Powers John’s Lane Release is the six and final whiskey we’re sampling as part of our ‘world’s best’ series. After Scotland, India and the United States, we return a little…
In our pursuit of excellence, we’ve encountered some quite awe-inspiring whiskies. The four you see at the top of our scoreboard, those we have rated as ‘Sublime’, are the whiskies…
So far we’ve had reviews from the Old Pulteney 21, the Ardbeg Uigeadail, and Ballantine’s 17. The Scottish theme here comes to an end in our mini ‘best of’ series…
It’s an incredible feeling when the Old Pulteney 21 year old is poured into your glass. It’s a legendary whisky, the best in the world in 2012, actually. To those…
For all those who ‘fight oral hygiene’ (is that common?), here’s the solution, from a 1961 edition of House and Garden magazine. Jigger whiskey toothpaste. It’s apparently flavoured with ‘the real…
I reviewed Ardbeg’s 10 year old last summer – possibly the moment where boy turned to man. My god, what a whisky. And we’d heard that the Ardbeg Uigeadail (pronounced…
Of the six contenders for ‘World Whisky of the Year’ only Ballantine’s is a blended Scotch whisky. We’ve already sampled their ‘Finest’ blend which, er, we thought was something of…
Several weeks ago, in the midst of degree work, I was fortunate (and desperate) enough to go to The Birmingham Whisky Club’s Ode to Jim Murray event, hosted by the…
The Manchester Whisky Club – a group of very sound-minded individuals who share an appreciation for cereal-based spirits – has been meeting since the start of this year. Roughly (come…
Straight up, here’s a confession: we let the blog slip, we shut up shop, we did an Ardbeg. But we had good reasoning: Josh has been exceptionally busy in a…
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