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Cascade Sang Royal - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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December 22, 2014 8:27 PM. I was going to just make a Royale With Cheese joke and whine about the metric system, but as with the beer itself, DDB beat me to it. By a few years. Instead I'll have to rely on pedantic translation backgrounding, like Sang Royal being French for "Royal Blood" and how popular it is to pretend that a given grape-based beverage is blood. Indeed, we're about the celebrate the birth of the guy who popularized the concept in just a few days. So what makes this one so special? So Ca...
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Scotch Drammer: Slummin' It with J&B Rare Blended Scotch
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Sunday, December 23, 2012. Slummin' It with J&B Rare Blended Scotch. Review: J&B Rare Blended Scotch. NAS, 40% ABV. J&B "Rare" is of course anything but rare. I've been in hole in the wall bars that don't even carry Johnnie Walker, the best selling Scotch whisky on earth, but manage to somehow have J&B. Why? The proportion of grain is not broadly advertised.I've often heard that 40% single malt is typical of most blends, though I have no reference on that. Nor is the age broadly advertised, thoug...The g...
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Scotch Drammer: Ardbeg 10, Old and New
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Sunday, October 2, 2011. Ardbeg 10, Old and New. I recently opened a newer bottle of Ardbeg 10 and found it did not live up to my previous tasting. It seemed much maltier and younger than I remembered without as much of the wonderful mouth-feel or apple notes. It still has great smoke and peat though, and I would guess I'd grade this bottle out at about an 89. October 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM. October 5, 2011 at 7:49 PM. Ralfy has been forcasting the reduction in quality for the last couple years. The Whisky E...
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Scotch Drammer: Review: Slummin' It with Johnnie Walker (Red and Black)
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Monday, December 17, 2012. Review: Slummin' It with Johnnie Walker (Red and Black). Ever since I discovered single malts in my mid 20's, I've taken a dim view of Johnnie Walker. Turned my nose in the air at the notion of drinking a dirty blended whisky, and indeed, hadn't had a sip of the stuff in over ten years. However, in the spirit of working my way through the world of blends, well, it had to come to this, didn't it? Johnnie Walker Red Label. NAS, 40 % ABV. Not long after the Cutty Sark experiment.
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Scotch Drammer: Review: Bunnahabhain 12
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Friday, December 21, 2012. Strength: 46.3 %. Some whisky lines, like superhero movie franchises, occasionally need a reboot. A couple of years ago, Bunnahabhain was in such need. The flagship 12-year-old expression was a C grade mediocrity: an Islay whisky without peat, mouth-feel, or much character. My notes for that bottling suggested some mild pepper but otherwise that it lived up to the label's "gentle" (i.e. "boring") billing. December 22, 2012 at 9:54 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Review:...
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Scotch Drammer: Review: Bunnahabhain 18
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012. Occasionally the New Hampshire State Liquor stores ridiculously under-price a Scotch. My theory is that someone on the liquor commission has Scotch-drinking friends and hooks them up, since usually these are "one-time buys" that are in stock for only a few weeks. Of course, since I regularly monitor the store's offerings, I get hooked up too. One such stroke of fortune was the Bunny 18, which wine searcher. I gave Oban 18. A few extra points for what I thought was a unique m...
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Scotch Drammer: Review: Bunnahabhain Toiteach
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Thursday, February 14, 2013. Bunnahabhain is the self-described "gentle" whisky of Islay, so the peated Toiteach (meaning smoky) is a big departure for the distillery. The label intimates a light peat by inquiring: "What if a touch of smoke from our peated malted barley was introduced in the distillation process? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). We enjoy and review Scotch whisky. For a list of all reviews, visit:. Scotch Drammer Review Scorecard. Tempest in a Teacup. The Whisky Exchange Blog.
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Scotch Drammer: Review: Glen Moray 12
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Sunday, April 1, 2012. Review: Glen Moray 12. Malts and surprisingly decent. Glen Moray is an old distillery, founded in 1897 in Elgin, Speyside, on the site of a former brewery. Owned for a period by Glenmorangie, the distillery used to feature malts finished in white wine casks, Chardonnay. Though sadly, since the company was sold, they seem to have discontinued the practice, which is a shame, since this malt would play very well with a dry white wine. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Midnight Sun Moscow - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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November 6, 2014 11:15 PM. Midnight Sun has some notoriety in beer nerd circles due to a few of their beers showing up on the pretty ridiculous White Whale list. So they had a pretty good run at one point, and while I'm pretty sure I'll never get to try Midnight Sun M. 11% ABV bottled (22 ounce bomber). Drank out of a snifter on 11/1/14. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Barrel of Monks (1). Birra Del Borgo (1). Birrificio Del Ducato (2). Blue Mountain Barrel House (1). Brasserie de la Senne (2).