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Many moons ago i had a very extensive collection of Single Malt Scotch...

Since then i gave it all away,I just liked it too much and it was getting me into trouble.

That said, if you're a fan of islay's i have a vatted i'd like to recommend ...

It's called Big Peat, it's a vatted spirit containing Ardbeg, Caol Ila, Bowmore and the very rare Port Ellen.

This stuff is a campfire in a bottle and it easily holds it weight against high quality single islay's annnd it's 60 USD.

Trust me when i say this shit is the bees knees and don't get it mixed with semi poor quality vatts like Compass Box's Peat Monster Big Peat is fantastic!

That looks good, was considering it for my Christmas bottle but couldn't find it locally and went for Lagavulin 16yo instead this year.
Laphroaig 10yo on offer for £28 in Tesco at the moment is tempting as well...

Ethanol, Ethanol, Well-aged Ethanol left in an oak barrel?

I'm going to start a new thread 'Butane, Butane, Butane' and eventually we will have covered every solvent

I drank a quarter of a bottle of Auchentoshan last night. So good, yet so very bad.

Scotronica wrote:

My father met Hunter S Thompson once while he was working for a Montreal Newspaper, he was going to interview him.

Hunter refused to get off of the plane unless he was bought a gram of hashish and a bottle of Wild Turkey.

The more you know...

Is it a travesty to bring up the meddled with whiskies in here? Cos I mentioned loving lagavulin but I had some of their distiller's edition that was finished in Pedro ximinez casks and it's like drinking honey out of a bonfire. Absolutely beautiful stuff but sadly pricy af

Negamuse wrote:Is it a travesty to bring up the meddled with whiskies in here? Cos I mentioned loving lagavulin but I had some of their distiller's edition that was finished in Pedro ximinez casks and it's like drinking honey out of a bonfire. Absolutely beautiful stuff but sadly pricy af

Necro-thread bump. Absolutely not a travesty.

I've really got into whisky over the past few years. Campbeltown is my current obsession, Springbank and Longrow in particular. Sadly they're quite expensive, especially Springbank, because everything is done on site (and they're not owned by one of the behemoths, i.e. Diageo).

Kilchoman is hugely underrated distillery imo. Sanaig is bloody delicious. Salty and lightly peated.

While I'm enjoying the summer, secretly I am looking forward to the cooler temperatures so I can bust out the bottles again.

I am one of those people that likes mixing whiskey with cranberry juice (same kind of psycho that likes pineapple on pizza and who's favorite candybar is a Bounty).

I like rum, myself (though I enjoy bourbon (and rum also) in the context of an old fashioned).

I recently picked up this novel mushroom rum, steeped limeade in hibiscus, and mixed those two things with some ginger beer for an earthy hibiscus dark and stormy. It was really tasty, kinda winey!

I am a Scottish graphic designer and have designed a good few whisky labels, I always receive a bottle of whatever I've designed for keepsake, I must have around 25 bottles of beautiful whisky that I can't actually drink because of my gut issues, it's utter torture!

Hey Wildfire, did I ever mention you're very cool, handsome and talented?

fujee wrote:Hey Wildfire, did I ever mention you're very cool, handsome and talented?

I am actually roasting, pig ugly and suffer from copious amounts of imposter syndrome, so this made my day!

Wildfire wrote:I am a Scottish graphic designer and have designed a good few whisky labels.

Omg that is the coolest thing I've heard in a while. Are you allowed and willing to share a few designs?

Cupz wrote:

Wildfire wrote:I am a Scottish graphic designer and have designed a good few whisky labels.

Omg that is the coolest thing I've heard in a while. Are you allowed and willing to share a few designs?

If you can give me a few weeks I'm redesigning their entire website as we speak (most of the labels are all for one company), I'll be able to show you an entire showcase of the labels very soon! I will post it here once it's live.

fujee wrote:Hey Wildfire, did I ever mention you're very cool, handsome and talented?

Waaaaaait a minute....

Cupz wrote:

Wildfire wrote:I am a Scottish graphic designer and have designed a good few whisky labels.

Omg that is the coolest thing I've heard in a while. Are you allowed and willing to share a few designs?

A wee sample of one of the ranges I've designed, many more varied designs will be on the new website. He's an independent bottler and so he basically goes around all the distilleries and buys odds and ends of casks that maybe don't fit the distilleries main brand, and then uses his expert nose and palette to blend them into beautiful new concoctions...

It's funny to look back at this thread that I started...certainly was polishing off bottles left and right back then.

Lots can change in 20 years.

This year will be 8 years sober for me. Needless to say I enjoyed this stuff a little too much.

I'm not a massive fan of Irish whiskey, but the smaller independent distillers have really upped the standard in the past decade or so. These are my favourites of my recent tastings, they really are something quite different from the usual Bushmills/Jameson/Powers.

Wildfire wrote: A wee sample of one of the ranges I've designed

holy shnaps amazing work. you sure know your way around a beverage label.