Category: Perspective
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New stop light scoring system
I’ve spilt much time and ink on developing a non-standard grading system. What I’ve held onto for some time now is a hierarchy of Bad (❌), Unfulfilling (➖), Rewarding (✔️), Personal Favourite (❤️). I’m finding that almost everything I try ends up in the Rewarding category (because I’m spending my own money, and will rarely…
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The Barn of the King
We were driving from Edinburgh to St. Andrews on a spontaneous day trip. Somehow fiddling with Google Map I see we are just about to pass close to Kingsbarns, a distillery name I recognized. A little while later we are pulling up to the visitor centre. Bad luck! We are arriving just as the last…
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The Newbies, Part I
Scotland is in a veritable whisky boom. Never before in the history of Scotch whisky production (legal, at least…) has so many new distilleries been founded. Or so I’ve heard. To test such claims I scraped some data from the internet about opening and closing date of Scotch malt distilleries (mostly from wikipedia, whisky.com, lost…
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Cigar & malt
I have never in my life smoked a cigarette. Nor do I ever indent do. But, every once in a long while I enjoy the experience of a cigar. Some 10 years ago, my dear childhood friend Filip went to Cuba. He and his father brought back 200 cigars in a humidor. Ever since, he’s…
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Revising scoring again (who’d have thought)
So I didn’t last even a month until I decided to change up the scoring system again. But just a little bit. I will replace Great Quality (⭐) with Worthwhile and enjoyable (✔️). The grounds on which I award the symbol hasn’t changed, but the label is clearer now. I actually vacillated in the past…
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A last (?) tweak to the scoring system
In May I wrote about my trials and tribulations with inventing a custom scoring system. In short, it’s gone from rather complicated to rather simple. Now, it’s about to get even simpler. Perhaps as simple as it will ever get. And then maybe I’ll start to make it complicated again. Until I change my mind…
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Thoughts on how to score
As this little blogling turns 2 months old, I’ve changed enough digital diapers (viz. formally reviewed 25 different whiskies) as to have learned quite a deal about the challenges of reviewerhood. For me, one of the greatest challenges has been choosing a scoring system and sticking to it. In this post I’ll explain my thinking…
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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…
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