Just a quick note while I continue to recover from Thanksgiving and simultaneously prepare myself for the Christmas season. I appear in a quick blurb about whisky bloggers in the latest edition (#8) of Cask & Still magazine, a free Scottish publication. If you don’t happen to have access to the print version, you can …
…and sometimes you’re the bug. This is what my wife tells our four year-old to avoid tantrums when he loses at Candy Land. It’s also apropos for life. Sometimes I get a blog post written and posted before the end of the weekend, and sometimes I just don’t. This week, I’m the bug. Drink some …
If for some reason you haven’t gotten your fill of my pontificating through reading this blog, you may be interested in today’s Brolic Whisky podcast by reader Dave. … Here’s the link. We talk about…
The aforementioned GDPR regulations go into effect on May 25th, in 5 days from this post. Because of the headaches and intense amount of website work this is causing me, I do not have time to write a review this week – you can thank the EU. A quick summary of the sources of my …
Buckle up for some changes around the blog. Hopefully not too many, but GDPR goes active near the end of May, and because I cannot guarantee that an EU citizen isn’t reading my site from a cellphone in Detroit, I must comply or be fined a minimum (!) of 2 million Euros.
My first VIP ticket experience at WhiskyFest, and my fourth major whisky convention. I tasted around 40 whiskies, attended two excellent seminars, and managed to get home without a drunk-and-disorderly arrest. That’a s win, right there.
There will be no post this week, as it’s my birthday and I’m going to spend it drinking whisky instead of analyzing it. I’m not going to go off on a riff about how sometimes you need to forget the scores and drama and what’s on the label and just enjoy your whisky, because I …
A quick little mid-week diversion: The folks at Invaluable have put together a fun whisky infographic for beginners, along with a coherent introduction (of sorts) to whisky for my fellow noobs out there. I was happy to provide them some feedback and correct a few errors, and so they credited me as a contributor. Here’s a peek at the infographic, click on it for more.
This special edition of the Scotch Noob is brought to you by Tom at Tom’s Foolery, who asked that I take another look at his bourbon (which I kinda panned), with two things in mind: First, that I make sure the bottle has been open to oxidize a little bit (it has, at 75% full for a few weeks), and second that I compare it to Wyoming Whisky.
… So many distilleries and expressions to try, so much innovation yet to occur and innovative products yet to be released, and so many chances to re-learn how truly little I know about our favorite drink. Perhaps that’s what originally tempted me to the world of whisky, and what keeps me captivated still: The vast breadth and inexhaustible depth of the possibility space that is whisky. …