Every so often, I’m reminded of my most popular review on?/r/bourbon. Wait… no, it wasn’t. Looking back it mostly just the one that, 2 year ago, did alright and had people talking. What am I blathering on about, you may ask? A Heaven Hill that was in Scotland released from Cadenheads. I declared it my best bourbon ever, and stand by that to this day,… Continue reading Heaven Hill 9 North Star
Thanks to /u/Scotchchick for pouring a sample for me. There’s a whiskey. Some would say ubiquitous. Still, others would say it’s legendary. Its golden hue is known by geeks and non-geeks alike, which based on how I did on Venn diagrams, includes everyone in the world (Editor’s note: That’s not how that works at all). Of course, I’m speaking about Mellow Corn. Not to get corny, but I’ve… Continue reading Mellow Corn
Thanks to /u/blaw84 for sharing this dram. Before Heaven Hill went to a different system and even a different bottle, angering many a bourbon nerd, and before they used a letter/number combination system (that actually makes more sense), there was one more Batch left to release with the double numbered system: Elijah Craig Barrel Proof [Batch 12]. So with a mashbill of 75% corn, 13% rye, and… Continue reading Elijah Craig Barrel Proof [Batch 12]
Finally getting to another tasting we had. The theme (because they always have to have a theme) of this one? All Bourbon. No world whisky or scotch allowed. And after debating the order of multiple bourbons that we all haven’t had, some of which have no reviews online (the horror). And once we agreed that we should look at alcohol, mashbill, and whatever I made… Continue reading Heaven Hill 8 Valinch & Mallet Young Masters Collection
Thanks to /u/muaddib99 for sharing a dram of this bourbon. It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of exactly what’s going on with Elijah Craig. You see, I don’t keep a daily drinker around, as I’m backlogged all the way to 2022 with samples to drink. Also it’s not so easy to get Elijah Craig Barrel Proof at the LCBO, nor is it as inexpensive as others… Continue reading Elijah Craig Barrel Proof [Batch #A117]
Thanks to /u/j4ni for the sample! I swear I had nothing to do with Heaven Hill 20 1996 Cadenhead’s 175th Anniversary. Oh, wait, no one is asking that. Okay then. A year ago I wrote about a gem I found in Scotland. Specifically Cadenhead’s had bought a barrel of Heaven Hills which had been aged for 5 years, and then finished aging it for an additional 6… Continue reading Heaven Hill 20 1996 Cadenhead’s 175th Anniversary
2016 was a fantastic year for the members of the Toronto Whisky Society, for many reasons: We launched our website and social media presence after existing primarily on Reddit for the past few years We held a number of highly successful events in homes, at pubs and at distilleries We made connections with a ton of distilleries to set up future events, AMAs and tastings … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society’s Whiskies of the Year 2016
As part of the Toronto Whisky Society, we had a small getogether and drank our fucking faces off. Like gentlemen and ladies and all that shit, you know? All hosted by one of our members, /u/devoz and his amazing wife. Each of us brought a bottle to drink. And that was too many. So I understand if you take my reviews with a grain of salt.… Continue reading Heaven Hill 11 Cadenheads (Toronto Whisky Society Review Set #1)
The Toronto Whisky Society had another meetup this weekend, and had a number of fantastic bottles to sample from. We had 9 people out, including many of our contributors from here: Devoz, TOModera, Boyd86, Throzen, Xile_, DistillAsian, Kyle Butler, and Bryan Vanderkruk with special guest CharlesDobson from Alberta. We had a line-up of 9 bottles and sampled, dissected and discussed each one. The reviews will be … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society November 2016 tasting meet-up
Thanks to /u/devoz for this sample. So contrary to the flack I’ve been handing out to some Bourbon’s lately, I do enjoy them. Really. Sure, I enjoy other whiskies more, but that’s neither here nor there. So I’ve decided I haven’t angered enough people, and thus have continued reviewing them. Yay me. Today we have the newest yearly special (unless you’re reading this after October 2016…… Continue reading Parker’s Heritage Collection 9 Malt Whiskey
Thanks to /u/Schockwaves for this dram. It’s been one of those downer months so far. No wins, lots of losses (and I’m not talking about my love life or basketball). So I was quite happy to sit down after weeks of few reviews and drink something that is typically labeled as “Hazmat” by the bourbon community, Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch #6. I have good luck… Continue reading Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch 6
Thanks to /u/devoz, /u/lasidar, /u/texacer, /u/jolarbear , /u/muaddib99, /u/boyd86, /u/neversafeforlife, /u/slackerdude, and honestly other people who I can’t remember your reddit handles but I can remember your real names and saying them out loud would break confidentiality. So we had our Canadian Mystery Bourbon Tasting (45% or higher Abv.). And let me just say, showing no cockiness at all, that I did pretty well. I… Continue reading 9 Mystery Bourbon Tasting
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