Tag: grain whisky
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Cambus comeback, and a grain surprise

I’ve already introduced my approx. 0 followers to Cambus in this post. More is coming up, to satisfy your insatiable demand for Cambus content. I got both today’s samples from Bad Homburg whisky fair 2023. It seems I didn’t take a photo of the first bottle, and from the info I jotted down on the…
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A comparison of Cambi

Cambus is one of those 19th century scotch distilleries with a long an history of being opened and closed, bought and sold. Then in 1993 the stills went still, forever. But the spirit lives on… and today shall be drunk! Cambus made grain whisky, what some consider the ugly stepsister of malt whisky. In the…
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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…
