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  • The Islay trip, day 1 – Ferry and Bruichladdich

    The Islay trip, day 1 – Ferry and Bruichladdich

    It was all planned. Islay youth hostel booked. Islay ferries booked. Distillery tours and tastings scheduled. Members of the Water of Life Society (the whisky club of Edinburgh Uni) had signed up for the trip and paid their deposits. Then in the matter of a few days, all the planning, the expectations, and the excitement…

  • Lovely Linkies: 10 & 15yo

    Lovely Linkies: 10 & 15yo

    For my very first review on this blog I honoured one of my favourite distilleries by pouring the final glass of a rare 24yo Linkwood. Now it’s time to give a couple of younger ‘Linkies’ a good run for their (considerably lesser) money. The first bottle, from the esteemed — some might say hyped —…

  • Non-Islay peat #1

    Non-Islay peat #1

    The isle of Islay is famous for its peaty whiskies. But there are both non-peaty Islay whiskies, and non-Islay peaty whiskies, not to mention non-Islay non-peated non-whiskies. Here I will review three bottles from my whisky cupboard that fall under the second heading. They come from three different most-of-the-time whisky regions of Scotland: Lowland, Highland,…

  • Trio of old grains: 39, 45, 46yo

    Trio of old grains: 39, 45, 46yo

    Aah, grain whisky. Grain as in not malted barley. Not something I often try. What I somehow know, not so much by experience but through… reading? folklore?… is that grain whisky produced by continuous distillation in column still tends to lack the complexity of malt whisky distilled in copper stills. The presence of grain spirit…

  • Ben Nevis bottle kills

    Ben Nevis bottle kills

    Tonight (March 4th) I’m finishing off two Ben Nevises. Ben Nevis is one of those character malts sought after by enthusiasts, at least the 20yo+ ones. I remember friends in my whisky club adoring Ben Nevis for it’s “cheesy” qualities. Some of us had the chance, under rather crazy circumstances at a whisky industry event,…

  • Goodbye to a well-aged friend: Linkwood 24yo

    Goodbye to a well-aged friend: Linkwood 24yo

    On our way back to Edinburgh from a rather improvised long-weekend getaway into the Highlands in summer 2021, Zoe and I spent the night in Inverness. Before departing the city we strolled into The Whisky Shop to have a browse – and there a 24 yo Linkwood caught my eye; a single cask bottling at…

  • DuckDrams takes flight!

    DuckDrams takes flight!

    It has been gestating in my mind for some time, and has finally hatched and is ready to take flight: my personal blog about whisky (and other fine spirits™©℮)! Oh, does the internet really need another one of those?! Maybe not, so feel free to look at some serious web projects instead. Now, any self-respecting…

Hej, hiya, moin!

I’m Emil, a Swedish ex-resident of Scotland now living in northern Germany. This blog is my virtual memory for all things related to whisky (and other fine spirits) in my life: I write reviews, report on trips and events, contemplate the results of my own experimentations, and scribble down un-/semi-/quasi-qualified opinions and perspectives. Welcome to a taste of my whisky world!

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