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The Ardbeg Committee – a worldwide free-to-join club of Ardbeg aficionados – gets its own yearly Committee Release. For 2020 it was this BlaaacK, a NAS release but at cask strength (for other mortals,…

For Ardbeg Day 2020 the Islay distillery launched a sheep theme. Ardbeg claims to be very different from all other distilleries on the island and therefor calls itself the black sheep. Well, well, the…

You have to admit it: Ardbeg has guts. For as long as I can remember the Ten was (and is!) the entry level malt – and a very good one too! An absolutely brilliant Ardbeg. And while they added the An Oa…

Because of the corona crisis no Islay Malt & Music Festival this year, but luckily a special release for Feis Ile 2020 was released. Only problem: Diageo offered it online, but only for people who could…

No Feis Ile this year because of Corona (funny detail: there is not one case registered on Islay), but luckily we do get a Feis Ile release. It was sold online via a dedicated website. The fans were not…

Really nice oily legs on the inside of the glass. Wood & sherry nose opens up with plums, marzipan & wild cherries appearing within minutes. Strong but mellow on the palate, burns all the way down in the…

It was former master distiller Elmer T Lee – who passed away in 2013 – who launched the Straight from the Barrel series in 1984, a year before his retirement. The casks for the series matured in the…

The Cascade Hollow Distillery – producer of the George Dickel bourbon – is the only other distillery (Jack Daniel’s being the first) that uses the so-called Lincoln County Process. This is the filtering…

Jim Beam is still one of the best-selling bourbons in the States and their White Label heads the statistics in that regard. Thanks to my buddy Timon I could try a bottle from the 1990s. Let’s not forget…

The label says ‘prohibition era recipe’, in which they refer to the original Templeton Rye that was distilled in Iowa at the beginning of the previous century and was very popular in the speakeasies in…