What is the next bottle you purchase or open?

@OdysseusUnbound You now have a legitimate reason to drink yourself into oblivion this weekend. I feel for you guys.

@BlueNote And I will. It’s going to be tough, folks. Bigly.

@MadSingleMalt I get emails when released and can buy direct from Ardbeg online. I generally pass due to price constraints as personally prefer Laphroaig and they have just emailed me that release date is 11th June, hoping site doesn’t crash again.

Only once gone onto the Ardbeg site and found it sold out that was last year when only opened email a week late.

@MadSingleMalt Guess this is difference in the UK and US markets no shops I know of near me get any stock of Laphroaig Cairdeas or Laphroaig CS. I am limited to buying 2 Cairdeas and 1 CS on the release date and usually no option to buy more unless I go on an auction site. I also only have option for regular 10 year at 40% not 43% like US but on the flip side I can buy online from anywhere in country and no issues shipping.

Tonight, celebrating my wife's friend's birthday, a couple of days early because she'll be gone.

Opened one of the Macallan 12 I got in Maryland. Thanks again for picking them up @Victor, and thanks @paddockjudge for making them duty free.

@Nozinan, it was just dumb luck on my part.

Some recent purchases:

• An interesting looking bottle of Dunhill Old Master Finest Scotch Whisky from a bygone era when life (and whisky production) was less complicated, I would imagine as I probably wasn’t born then. The whisky of my forefathers.

• A couple of bottles of the 1987 Glenfarclas , bottled in spring of 2017 as part of “The Family Cask” releases. Something for the little one who was born in 2017, perhaps when he is 30 years old. I wonder how life and whisky would be like then.

I have more bottles open than I'd like at the moment but want a light easy drinking whisky for the summer and World Cup - to drown my inevitable English sorrows with of course!

Anyways, I'd opened a Balvenie 12 SB for the job but, whilst good, very good actually, it's less 'easy drinking' than expected - not an easy access kind of whisky.

So, I'm thinking one of Writer's Tears, BenRiach 10, Old Pulteney 12 or Mackmyra Brukswhisky. What would my fellow Connosrers(ites?) choose?

@RianC Depending on what’s going on in my life, many whiskies can be “easy drinking”. But for general ease of access, and not a crazy amount of complexity, some that I like (but not limited to) are:

• Aberlour 10
• Teeling Single Grain
• Alberta Premium Dark Horse
• Wild Turkey 101
• Cardhu 12
• Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye

@OdysseusUnbound - Agree with the Aberlour and WT 101 (when in the mood)! Don't think I've tried any of the others.

I'm leaning towards OP or WT but haven't tried the other two. Maybe this is one of those times one should plum for a comforting old friend . . .

@RianC i recently tried a glencadam 10. Light, crisp, some punch to it, fresh and very well priced. Two pennies of thought..

@RikS - Thanks. Had that a couple of years back, it was nice but not quite enough going on for me. Also remember a faint play doh note that I couldn't quite get into. Lovely bourbon influence though and it was dirt cheap back then. I hear the older expressions are wonderful!

Suggestions are always welcome but I'm really after some help to make my mind up from the choices I gave as I have these in my stash waiting with intent . . .

@RianC sorry mate, i hadn't realised you were raiding your our own stash! :) I noted you had the Aberlour on your list. I have the 12, and it's a bit too mellow for me - but 3/4 12yrs and 1/4 A'bunadh = awesome summer drinking. So, if you got an A'bunadh kicking around too... let it sit for a week first, and then enjoy!

@RikS ok ok, actually you didn't... that was @OdysseusUnbound ... But the recommendation still stands :P

It's Highland Park night with my club tonight—or as my email billed it, Highland Parknorök.

We're cracking open a bottle of the 18 as our new club bottle of the month, and a few guys are bringing some other HPs to share. It sounds like one guy might bring one of those Viking longboat ones, so that'll be fun.

And if our bottle of the 18 has bloomed over the past six months since I first opened her up to steal a wee nip & create some headspace, then I'll have @Victor to thank for the tip.

@RianC I'd go with Writer's Tears based off the choices and your saying the Balvenie was not as easy drinking as you would have liked, but I can't comment on Mackmyra as I have not tried that one. I like Writer's Tears because it's very smooth, a little crisp, kind of a flowery, slightly breezy summer day. It's very good for summertime drinking -- like when one takes a very long lunch then has to go back to work to actually do something before going home...not that I know.

@archivist - Thanks - I'm late replying but I went for Writer's Tears in the end and opened the Pulteney as well . . . well why not? It was a gift so rude not to!

Seems a smidge thinner than my last bottle but the flavour and easy going nature of it is most welcome! I can't work out if the 'Pot Still' is the same as 'Copper Pot' and I'm not sure which I had last time. I think they are the same whiskey but changed the name at some point?

@RianC Yes, Pot Still and Copper Pot Writers Tears are one and the same. I reached out to Walsh Whiskey and they confirm the name change. I can't be certain, but I would think "copper pot" may have a broader appeal. Walsh recently signed deals to make their product more available in the United States (40 states now) as well as Australia and New Zealand.Just marketing but same mellow goodness...

The Father's Day roll-out od Wiser's Seasoned Oak seems to have ended before it began. It doesn't seem to have made it to many stores and total number of bottles is very low.

I managed to order one online (and it says it shipped to a store near me) but I was hoping to have a chance to try it and get another if I liked it, but none are available anywhere near me. I would have expected more bottles to be available for a single expression in a single province.

Did everyone get the bottles they wanted?

@Nozinan There are a few available at stores near me, but I'm still undecided on it. A hundred bucks for something I haven't tried. Hmmmm. It wouldn't be the first time.

@OdysseusUnbound

I suspect more will be rolled out at some point. Dissertation was re-released last fall.

@Nozinan I'd love to try it, but I haven't even tried to obtain a bottle yet....

@Nozinan, you indicated

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"The Father's Day roll-out od Wiser's Seasoned Oak seems to have ended before it began. It doesn't seem to have made it to many stores and total number of bottles is very low."

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It appears to me the "B" stores got their fill of this one. There may not be a lot near you whereas distribution is more plentiful in the smaller cities and towns.

I recently opened a bottle of Unobtainium, Macallan 12 YO Sherry Oak 43% abv. Not seen in Canada for a few years (40% abv), there are reports of the 12 YO Sherry Oak finding its way onto some Canadian east coast shelves, but these are only rumors.

This is my son's favourite single malt, he's still young and finding his way; however, this is a good sign as Mac 12 Sherry is one hell of a whisky! I recently brought two of these into the country (thank you @Victor), gave one to my son for his cache of Mac 12 and opened the other on Father's Day with Jr. We had a couple and put the bottle away...the last one I had lasted six years. The final pour was every bit as good as the first. The young lad has a few of these tucked away. The kid knows what he likes, he prefers the 12 YO to both the 18 YO and Cask Strength versions (my stash is safe!) I am encouraging him to bunker a few more as we don't know what the future holds in store for sherry oaked Macs.

@boatracer, did you crack open either of the Wiser's, Commemorative 2018 or Seasoned Oak? I returned the second bottle of 2018 and grabbed another Seasoned Oak. I do like 2018, but enjoy the Seasoned Oak a lot more.

@paddockjudge You couldn't "od" at least fixed my spelling error?

@paddockjudge no just picked them up today and now off to hockey. Thinking of keeping the Canada 2018 to sit beside the unopened One Fifty I kept from last year.

@paddockjudge I greatly miss the Mac 12 - entry level malts don't get any better.

@Nozinan, I suppose i could have employed (sic)...my bad

@paddockjudge If your sic I can rite u a letr