Tag: nas
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The Newbies, Pt. II
Sound like the second instalment in some Scorsese Gangster thriller? Well, this is a thrilling tasting but but I hope it take less than 3h40 to complete. We’re continuing with the theme of trying out whisky from the New Wave of Scotch (malt) distilleries. There are currently 43 distilleries in this wave (with more in…
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Kyrö
A group of friends were having a sauna and drinking rye whisky, when they began to ponder why nobody was making rye whisky in Finland. Surprisingly, the idea of starting their own distillery still seemed like a good one the following morning and from there, the journey of Kyrö began. Kyrö is a Finnish craft…
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Three Indris
India, incredible India. This melodically sung slogan for Indian tourism got etched into my brain over a decade ago. Will it be Indi, incredible Indri next? Indri is the single malt brand from Indian distiller Piccadily, seemingly named after the location of the distillery. A company long in the Indian spirits industry but a relative…
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The rehabilitation of Jura
I haven’t been to the isle of Jura, but I have laid eyes on it on my way to Islay. As my eyes traced its shorelines, traumatic memories of abused tastebuds resurfaced. Nearly a decade ago, before my serious interest in whisky took off, I shared a Jura tasting set with a friend. I can’t…
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Bowmore straight from the source
As part of the Islay trip we visited Bowmore distillery, unsurprisingly located in the town of Bowmore (pronounced BowMORE). This was on my day as designated driver, and we had no tour booked, but hung around in the bar area where the society bought everyone a dram of the non-age stated (NAS) “No 1” that…
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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,…
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