Archive For July 8, 2015

How Clean Do You Like Your Whisky?

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How Clean Do You Like Your Whisky?

Many of us whisky lovers have a proclivity towards certain styles of whisky. Some have a sweet tooth and like sherry bombs, some are drawn to peat, others to maritime whiskies and yet others to the clean style of an ex bourbon barrel. Yes, I know I haven’t covered the field here with all wine casks…

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A Benrinnes Sherry Bomb!

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A Benrinnes Sherry Bomb!

I think Benrinnes is one of the distilleries with the largest number of unaware drinkers in the world. You get some Benrinnes in every bottle of Johnny Walker, thus by exension, it has a huge number of drinkers. Yet, I’m not sure that every malthead had the opportunity to have a Benrinnes single malt, as the…

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Born in the USA – Celebrating the 4th of July with the Whisk(e)y Geek’s Bourbon

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Born in the USA – Celebrating the 4th of July with the Whisk(e)y Geek’s Bourbon

Malt and Oak will have a double celebration today, as we’ll celebrate July 4th with an uncommon occurrence here, a Bourbon review, and a toast to Jim Rutledge, who will be retiring from Four Roses in less than two months. Jim has been at the helm for 20 years, and is single handily responsible for the…

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The Balvenie’s Strange Overpriced 25 Year Old

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The Balvenie’s Strange Overpriced 25 Year Old

The Balvenie is one of those distilleries that geeks love to love. In William Grant and Sons’ infinite understanding of their market they are about to roll out the second batch of the Tun 1509 (Batch 1 reviewed here) – the über-geeky whisky with a map of individual cask influence. Between the move to the…

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Second Oldest Oban Ever Officialy Bottled – An amazing Oceanaside Sherry

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Second Oldest Oban Ever Officialy Bottled – An amazing Oceanaside Sherry

Oban is a really small distillery. In fact, Whiskybase.com has only 55 Oban expressions listed (99 if you include different versions of the same expression), which is right around the number of expressions (including versions) bottled by some closed distilleries such as Millburn, Convalmore, Glenury Royal and Glenugie. Unlike them, however, Oban is alive and kicking. Its…

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