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Big Peat is a heavily peated cask strength blended malt produced by Douglas Laing and contains Ardbeg, Bowmore, Caol Ila, and Port Ellen. Every year a Christmas version is released in time for the wintry…

This reviewed White Horse sample is from a very well sealed, foil-wrapped metal-wired mini with very little evapouration, and a US import tax stamp which was discontinued in 1977. This mini could have…

No, it's not coffee-infused whisky. This a 100% corn whisky distilled from a Coffey Still designed by an Irish tax collector named Aeneas Coffey. The Coffey design still allows a greater portion of the…

Nose: medicinal peat strikes right away, but it is followed by intense sweetness from the sherry casks. Smoldering bonfires and sweet dark fruit syrup. Quite lovely.Taste: those tingling peat notes dance…

Well it’s vacation time and I’ve been drinking a lot of Cognac and Armagnac as I visit the folks in Canada. My dad loves a good brandy, and has only a passing interest in Scotch. But he does have a…

Now that the sun sets a bit earlier and the temperatures start to drop, I felt the time right to taste some peated whisky. Let me open the debates with this Bowmore from Wemyss, nicknamed Peat Smoked…

So far, every release of Tempest was good (ok, I have not tasted all of them). The first release has even become something of a collector’s item (yep, I have it in my collection too). Batch 6 will be…

Children of the Damned is a horror movie from 1964, but also a hard rock song by Iron Maiden. Since I know that The Whiskyman has a soft spot for music, we will presume his bottle is a reference to Iron…

Old Grand-Dad is a very old brand of American bourbon whiskey. Old Grand-Dad was a bourbon whiskey first distilled by Raymond B. Hayden in 1840, and named after his grandfather, Basil Hayden, Sr. Basil…

Old Grand-Dad is an old brand of bourbon, begun in 1840 by Raymond B. Hayden and named after his grandfather Basil Hayden, Sr. Jim Beam has been making the whiskey since 1987. The reviewed bottle is a…