I have been a big fan of Stagg Jr since it came out in 2013. At the end of 2022 it has finally dropped its “Jr.” status and is officially just “Stagg.” One of my local friends was just given a bottle…

At the very end of 2013 just before New Years Day, I was traveling home from family Christmas in Nashville Tennessee. It was just my wife and I, so we stopped at a liquor in Knoxville (which is on our…

Lest you all think that I only sit around drinking 90+ scoring whiskies, here is a review from the other side. The simple truth is that it is hard to get geared up to put out tasting notes on a less then…

In many ways this specific bottle has been my “white whale.” It has won a great deal of acclaim: whiskyfun gave it 94 points, Jim Murray gave it 97 points, and it won a gold medal from the Malt Maniacs…

This was another sample that I was able to obtain from whiskysamples. I had passed on this bottle at Binny’s back in 2010 . . . and I have agonized over that decision ever since. I really thought I was…

I bought this bottle for my birthday in 2009 when I was living in Seattle. It was near the end of the liquor controlled monopoly in Washington State. A few bottles of Brora 25yo reached Seattle, and I…

Skip the intro if you have read this before: This is another sample I picked up from Master of Malt. I have said it before, and will say it again, that I don’t trust sample reviews. So take this opinion…

Brora 30yo (2009) 53.2% OB 8th Release 2652 bottlesThis is a sample I picked up from Master of Malt. I have said it before, and will say it again: I don’t trust sample reviews. It is like trying to…

This is my own personal bottle that I opened in October of 2013, and as of April it is about half full. I have tasted this bottle on 5 occasions with notes (83, 86, 86, 85, 83). The following represents…

As this is my here on connsor I thought I would review a very special whisky from my personal whisky journey: Brora 21 year old by Douglas Laing’s Old Malt Cask (distilled June 1981; bottled October…