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The 10 Year Old Single Grain from Braeckman is released in 50cl bottles at 46%, but they have just released a single barrel that got a finish of 10 months on an oloroso sherry cask and bottled at a…

Apart from the single grain, of which Braeckman has a few out there, the Belgian distillery also launched a 10 years old single malt that matured on a first fill bourbon barrel. I tried it at a festival…

In 2017 Dirk Verleysen, owner of whiskyshop Dram 242, launched the Braeckman Single Grain. It was a 9 years old single barrel that impressed immediately. When the distillery celebrated their 100th ann…

I confess, the official releases from the Speyside Distillery (be it the new Spey releases or the old Speyside releases) are not much to my liking. But sometimes you can find a hidden gem in the wareh…

Since the last takeover of this distillery – by Harvey’s in 2013 – the name of the whisky was changed from the rather pompous and confusing Speyside to simply Spey. This is quite a young distillery, in…

The Speyside Distillery is something of an unknown. Most of the production goes into blends in Asia. Apart from that they also produced Beinn Dhu, Black Burn, Cu Dubh, Drumguish and Glentromie whisky as…

This whisky is too intense to review in a traditional way. I just want to capture some of my impressions. My first impression is that this isn't just a full-bore version of regular Alberta Premium. That…

This is the sixth in a series of 24 reviews of the 2019 whisky advent calendar, the result of seizing an opportunity when the LCBO dropped the price of this set by 50% in early 2020. Call me weak.Before…

Since I’m doing a review of Ardmore’s contribution to the Boutiquey Advent calendar for 2019, I thought I would review a couple of other minis and samples from the distillery on the same day. This one…

In May 2018 I reviewed the Ardmore Traditional Cask. The bottle had been open since 2014. I was not reaching for it often and thankfully @Paddockjudge took the bottle off my hands to make room in a very…