Well, I’ve been nominated by the board from the International Whisky Competition as one of the 25 best whisky bloggers!

Well, after four and a half years of using the same theme that I launched with, I’ve finally entered the modern era. I present: The New Scotch Noob dot com! It really shouldn’t look too different, as I wanted to keep my basic look-and-feel, but the site has a lot more bells and whistles, and is (finally) mobile device friendly! Pull up scotchnoob.com on your mobile phone or tablet and you should have a much better experience than before.

Hello all, after suffering through the holiday season with a very slow site, I’ve now finally gotten set up on a new host with better stats and some extra space. I’ve also changed the way I display my shelf: I’m loading up my profile page from Whisky Base, a pretty cool whisky database site. Check …

Happy Holidays 2013 from the Scotch Noob!

here’s a little email exchange I had with David Driscoll, Spirits Buyer for K&L Wine Merchants and frequent source of inspiration for the things I write in this space.

I was invited on the Mic’d Anger podcast by Rochester, NY radio DJ Mike Danger this week. You can listen to our conversation about scotch, the blog, and other topics here: http://media.rochesterbuzz.com/a/74552150/mic-d-anger-episode-8-the-scotch-noob.htm.

In an ongoing attempt to make this site pay for itself, I’ve joined a new (more respectable) ad network. Hopefully the impact to my loyal readers will be minimized, but please let me know via the Contact Form or via email at nathan (at) scotchnoob (dot) com if you see any objectionable content in the …

Musings on turning 30, and Glenfarclas 40 year-old.

Hello, readers. This is just a quick note to share with you all that my wife and I have successfully purchased our first home in San Jose, CA! As I am now in the process of moving my whisky collection into its new home (priority #1 of course), I won’t be able to post anything …

Hello readers. Just a few quick updates for the site. First, if your name is Taylor and you recently submitted a comment via my comment form, I apologize that I have lost your email address. Please re-submit the contact form or re-send your query via email: nathan at scotchnoob.com. Sorry about that! In related news, …