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What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?
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BonnieSituation wrote: »Speaking of Tuath glasses:
That's the reward for clearing the shed.
It's a gorgeous drop. Lovely caramel nose. Very short and crisp on the tongue. Might have a new winner in the 50quid range.
Got it and the inaugural version as I like their gin.
Prefer the standard one. Has a nice second heat kick. Well impressed as they are going from scratch, and looking forward to what they bring out in the future.
Most new distilleries are just buying Bushmills etc and finishing. I even read a lot of teelinga older stuff is Bushmills in reality.
These guys seem to be all their own.0 -
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BonnieSituation wrote: »
That's the reward for clearing the shed.
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Apt that the reward chosen is from The Shed Distillery:D0 -
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I picked up a bottle of Teeling Blackpitts yesterday:
I've only had one glass but I found it a bit underwhelming. I was hoping for a stronger peaty flavour but it's pretty mild.
It's mild by design. They are aiming at introducing peat to people rather than competing with Islay. Some notes I took from a tasting with Alex Chasko. Hopefully they make sense.
Blackpitts is triple distilled which is a unique spin as most peated malts are only double distilled. Heavily peated malt at 55ppm is milled, mashed and fermented and then distilled from an initial abv of 8% to 82%. The peat is reduced to 15ppm on the third distillation which reduces some of the traditional medicinal character you would associate with double distilled Scottish Peated Single Malt. The triple distillation will also concentrate more fruit notes from the fermentation process and allows the barbeque smoke characteristics to come to the fore.
Teeling were unable to source the 150-200 tonnes of peated malt they require in Ireland. Seemingly no suppliers were willing to risk contaminating barley delivered to Guinness and Heineken so the peated malt comes from Glenesk in Speyside which is a woody turf closest to Irish peat.
Matured in 2/3 bourbon and 1/3 sauterne casks. Balance of sweet from cask with smokey peat. American bourbon casks first. Matured 2/3 bourbon and 1/3 sauterne. Tried in about a dozen different casks. Cognac tried. The inspiration for the use of these casks came from a previous bottling of Teeling 24-Year-Old Single Malt which was honoured as the “World’s Best Single Malt” in 2019 at the World Whiskies Awards. Little brother of 24 year old. 5ppm in 24 year old
bourbon - vanilla honey sweetness
sauterne - raisin sultanna sweetness pineapple and long finish
Core release. 5000 cases first bottling. Released 2-3 times a year.0 -
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Caught up with the Celtic Whiskey tasting of Ardbeg tonight. The 10yo, An Oa, Corryvreckan and Uigeadail.
These whiskies genuinely rock my boat. I discovered erogenous zones I didn’t even know I had. You should have seen me drinking the Oogie. I was like Meg Ryan in the cafe.
Still to catch up on mine..sounds (literally) like I have something to look forward to
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