Categorie: B
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Bimber (or Timber?) for the Belgian market Bimber is one of those “whisky du jour” that creates a lot of chatter among enthusiasts. First of all, it is not a Scottish distillery but located in London, somewhat northeast from Notting Hill and south of Wembley. Secondly, The whisky is supposed to be ‘fruit forward’. We will…
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Belgian Owl Passion – haunted by Caperdonich Look guys, if you are a regular reader here, you probably already noticed I am an incredible snob. My passion for whisky is almost solely limited to Scotch. I can appreciate an occasional Irish, and dibbing my nose in something American is also not too bad. The Japanese…
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A much better Bunnahabhain at cask strength We were not entirely over the moon when we tasted the standard 12 years old bottling of the Bunnahabhain Distillery. At that time, I sadly had no cask strength edition at hand to do a head-to-head tasting of two standard bottlings (instead we compared with an independent Bunna). And then…
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A celebration of Whiskybase with Benromach As a whisky enthusiast that started with this hobby before Whiskybase existed, it is sometimes fun to rummage through old Word documents stashed on my computer, just to see what my collection of bottles looked like in, say, 2008. But however charming that might be, I still would not like…
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Benriach Malting Season: all the best laid plans… When I first visited the Benriach Distillery way back in 2011, there were already rumours going round about reinstating the traditional malting floor. Even though lots of attention has been drawn towards the sale of the distillery by Billy Walker and his pals to Brown-Forman, the reintroduction…
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The Bonnington Distillery in Edinburgh and a Tipsy Midgie Today, I have the great honour of writing a tasting note for you from yet another distillery I had never tried any output from. That is not weird, of course, because if we take a quick look at Whiskybase, which is usually trustworthy with these things,…
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Brechin: once a true whisky city with two distilleries When you think of authentic whisky cities, one might quickly mention Campbeltown, Dufftown, Rothes or Elgin. Today however, we focus on the east coast Royal Burgh of Brechin for our Something Special Saturday. Home to the almost 200 years old Glencadam Distillery, and also the place…
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Single cask young Bowmore: fruity delight Everyone and their grandmother posted notes on this one – if active in The Netherlands that is. That put it a bit on my backburner, I have to say, but when I tasted it I realized a blog is well deserved for this Bowmore. We had quite the Islay…
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False start on my first meeting with Ballindalloch Hi there, and welcome back to the Whisky Odyssey blog. We took a week off to recover from the Islay violence on the senses. How about that last salvo eh? An Ardbeg 1974 is not something you drink every day, let alone an Inaugural Release of a brand…
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Tasting notes for Bruichladdich at entry level Imagine if someone twisted your arm and made you, forced you to say what your favourite Islay distillery is. What would you answer? On any given day this can vary for me between Lagavulin, Bowmore and Ardbeg. Caol Ila always the outsider. And of course good old Port…