Wednesday 6th April 2016. Blustery, blue sky day with showers and wind from the West. Today, I tasted Bowmore’s self fill cask. It is 13 YO 54% abv. abv means ‘alcohol by volume’. This means there is 54 % of alcohol in the liquid in this cask. This...
Bumblebees by the sea from Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Distilled Nov 28th 1984. 29 YO 57.6% abv (alcohol by volume) 1/548 Wednesday 25th Novemeber 2015. Pitch dark, squalls earlier in the day, not too cold outside. Fire on. Lots of bubbles, tinkles and slaps in the...
Springbank 10 YO 46% abv Tuesday 24th November 2015. 6 pm ish. Pitch dark, bloody freezing, wild, wet, windy day on Wild and Magic Islay. No fire on yet in the house….. As the dram is poured into the glass there are a few cheeky wee bubbles which quickly...
SPRINGBANK 15 YO 46% abv. 9 Nov 2015. About 2 pm ish. 55.7570 N, 6.2870 W It’s a wet, misty calm day. Loch Indaal is as flat as the mercury in an unused thermometer. Plain, no nonsense label. Unfussy, timeless. Four colours; black label, gold writing, with...
Malt Cask ~ Bowmore. Distilled 2001, bottled 2014. Hunter Laing & Company Ltd. Refil Hogshead. 50%abv. 204 bottles. Saturday 7 November 2015. Sunshine & showers. Patchwork blue sky. 1.30pm in the day. Birds wheeling over Bowmore in the wind from the West....
Benromach Hermitage 45% Abv. Distilled 2005, bottled 2015. First fill bourbon casks for 8 years, then finished for 18 months in wine casks from the Hermitage Appellation D’origine Controlee. Friday 6 November 2015. 12.15 pm. It’s a damp, grey, watery...
