#whisky — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/117237757914709889

Love this!

Best buy up what you can though, @ChemicalEyeGuy and friends, I understand Donnie banned Canadian whisky and a bunch of other products today.

#ElbowsUu #Canada #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpTariffs #Trump #Whisky

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/117237757914709889

Love this!

Best buy up what you can though, @ChemicalEyeGuy and friends, I understand Donnie banned Canadian whisky and a bunch of other products today.

#ElbowsUu #Canada #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpTariffs #Trump #Whisky

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/117237757914709889

Love this!

Best buy up what you can though, @ChemicalEyeGuy and friends, I understand Donnie banned Canadian whisky and a bunch of other products today.

#ElbowsUu #Canada #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpTariffs #Trump #Whisky

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/117237757914709889

Love this!

Best buy up what you can though, @ChemicalEyeGuy and friends, I understand Donnie banned Canadian whisky and a bunch of other products today.

#ElbowsUu #Canada #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpTariffs #Trump #Whisky

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/117237757914709889

Love this!

Best buy up what you can though, @ChemicalEyeGuy and friends, I understand Donnie banned Canadian whisky and a bunch of other products today.

#ElbowsUu #Canada #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpTariffs #Trump #Whisky

#Whisky galore - but #driving a #lorry on #A14 is not the place for it!

This #driver was put before #Court within just a few days and banned from the roads (he only got suspended sentence, its not usual to get prison time for any #motoring offence unless there's been a serious crash with injuries/fatalities)

Whats more worrying is he clearly isn't driving a wagon up and down the highway for fun - someone employed him to transport something, and isn't vetting their #drivers correctly.

He should be in rehab and nowhere near a vehicle (especially not the same roads I have to drive on, and I've already seen quite a bit of sketchy stuff in #Cambridgeshire )

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2026-07-15/lorry-driver-with-whiskey-bottles-in-cab-was-six-times-drink-drive-limit

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Finally, the last of the auction haul, the rest of the Single Grain Scotch.

- A 51 year old Invergordon bottled by Kingsbury Wine & Spirits of Edinburgh

- Thompson Bros. 32 year Girvan

- Thompson Bros. 35 year Invergordon

- A Signatory bottling of a 15 year old Cameronbridge vintage 1995

- A 31 year old North British bottling by Finest Whisky Berlin, vintage 1993

- A 32 year old Cameronbridge bottling by North Star Spirits, vintage 1992

And that brings us to the end of the Great Auction Haul.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Invergordon #Girvan #Cameronbridge #NorthBritish

The penultimate post of the auction haul starts the wave of Single Grain Scotch. I've said it before, single grain is overlooked in the shadow of single malt, but there is some great stuff there. And great deals for the age.

- Sansibar bottling of a 28 year old Cambus

- William Grant & Son bottling of a 25 year old Girvan

- A Signatory 50 year old bottling of North British, distilled in 1962 - this bottling was for Taiwan.

- A Signatory 23 year old bottling of Port Dundas

- A Clan Denny 20 year old Girvan, Vintage 1990

- A Clan Denny 20 year old Invergordon, Vintage 2002

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #NorthBritish #Invergordon #Cambus #PortDundas #Girvan

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End of Trump tariffs on whisky sparks row between Scottish parties over claiming credit https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/01/end-trump-tariffs-scotch-whisky-row-between-scottish-parties-claiming-credit #Scotland #TrumpTariffs #ScottishPolitics #Whisky #DonaldTrump #JohnSwinney #Tariffs #KingCharlesIii #ScottishNationalPartySnp #Labour #UkNews #UsNews #Politics #Business

Mittwoch - Ich bin ja froh, dass ich ziemlich früh morgens durch die vielen Baustellen der Stadt muss. Das geht noch einigermaßen flüssig. Dann aber werde ich von liebestollen, blinden und tauben Fasanen ausgebremst, die sich die Fahrbahn als Kampfarena ausgesucht haben und nicht die Bohne auf den Verkehr achten. Nun ja, nach ein paar Augenblicken verlassen die hormongeschüttelten Streithähne die Straße Richtung Unterholz und ich komme doch noch einigermaßen pünktlich im Büro an. Es hätte wahrscheinlich kaum einer bemerkt, wenn ich nicht da gewesen wäre. Meine einzige Aufgabe heute: Einem Kollegen für die Datenbank einen neuen Filter bauen, bzw. den vorhandenen Filter so umbauen, dass er für den Kollegen nutzbar ist. Fünf Minuten Arbeit, zwei Minuten erklären - und schon bin ich der Datenbank-/Computer-/Programmiergott schlechthin. Ich bin eine Legende! Nun ja... Vielleicht nicht ganz.
Der Nachmittag ist interessanter. Mein Vater bekommt heute sein Internet eingerichtet, was mit der Fritzbox ja nun auch kein Hexenwerk ist. Aber nach erfolgreicher Einrichtung nebst Internetradio-Einstellung bin ich der Computer-/Internet-/Technikgott schlechthin! Ich erkenne ein Muster. Immerhin: Die gestellten Aufgaben wurden erfolgreich erledigt! Mehr wollte ich doch gar nicht.
#amEndedesTages freue ich mich auf einen tierisch torfigen #Whisky. Ein Big Peat darf sich heute den Weg in meine Blutbahn prügeln. Dazu ein Buch, das Sofa und die beste Ehefrau von allen. #hachz!
Morgen wird es wohl ebenso ruhig wie heute. Das lange Wochenende wirft seine Schatten voraus. Mal schauen, was ich aus dem Tag mache.
Letzte Amtshandlung: Ein Tag wird #gestrichen - bleiben noch 95.

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Und die Whisky-Box hat jetzt eine neue Aufgabe bekommen. 😉 Der #Whisky daraus war übrigens ziemlich gut. 🥃 #Glenmorangie #Signet #Vanlife

A lot of people sleep on Single Grain Scotch, which is a real shame, IMHO. I got into grain via Compass Box Hedonism, which is a blended grain, but that opened me up to trying others. Many years ago I was in the right place at the right time, when Julio's Liquors happened to get a couple of bottles of a Clan Denny 50 year old North British Single Grain.

The price was shockingly low, half what 25 year old single malts were going for, so I snapped one up on the spot. It was fantastic, and when I later got into auctions I started hunting other Clan Denny bottles, and have since branches out into other independent bottlers.

I'm still picking up Clan Denny though, and this time I added a 30 year Garnheath 1975, a 40 year Girvan 1965, a 35 year Cambus 1975, and a 44 year Invergordon 1966.

I also picked up a few Cadenhead's bottlings - a 31 year Cameronbridge, a 34 year Girvan, a 40 year North British, a 26 year North British, and a 40 year Carsebridge.

As odds and ends I picked up a bottle of Cameron Brig (which is Cameronbridge) - I've been warned this might not be so good, a Signatory 14 year North British 2009, a Signatory 29 year North British 1991, a Muirhall Bond 15 year North British, and a Murray McDavid 16 year Invergordon.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #ClanDenny #Cadenhead #SignatoryVintage #NorthBritish #Invergordon #Garnheath #Girvan #Cambus #Cameronbridge #Carsebridge

100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes #whisky #arsenic #mercury #quinine #diptheriaAntitoxin

I suppose with this administration's constant #grifting and skimming and product placement, it was inevitable we would get actual product endorsements.

Jack Daniels has now released the special collectible "Whiskey" Pete Hegseth edition of its famous bourbon. Get one while they last!

#JackDaniels #PeteHegseth #PeteKegbreath #Hegseth #Kegbreath #collectible #hydration #bottle #whiskey #whisky #bourbon #USPol #advertising #endorsement #alcohol #Tennessee #Lynchburg #booze

Jess made a Costco run recently and, while there, spotted this Jack Daniel's Single Barrel, Barrel Proof Rye. She knows I like rye, so she picked it up for me.

The Black Tot Historic Solera Rum I picked up at Julio's Liquors when I dropped in to pick up another order that had come in. Black Tot is one of the rum brands I've been into, and this is an expression I hadn't yet picked up, so I filled that gap. I still need to find the Master Blender's Reserve 2025. 😉

#Whiskey #Whisky #Rum #JackDaniels #BlackTot

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Ash Pearl: a Brutalist concrete ashtray for smoking in style.
The concrete has an aggregate of two types of river sand plus two types of crushed sea shells. By sanding the concrete the aggregate is visible resulting in a terrazzo finish.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1870518220/brutalist-concrete-ashtray-terrazzo?ref=shop_home_active_22&frs=1&logging_key=7619892b80b493abaea2d825339b7afe75f1bfbd%3A1870518220

#whisky #cigars #gentlemen #gentleman #whiskey #smoking #cigarettes #coffee #brutalist #terrazzo #ashtray #tableware #cigarillos #cigarillo #coffeeandcigarettes

Educating Children, Bakers and Tourists: the thread about Castlehill Public School

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

The third chapter of our series looking at the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” investigates the life and times of Castlehill School. This occupied the site of the Gordon House, the 17th century residence of George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon who was Captain and Constable of Edinburgh Castle and is remembered for surrendering that fortification all too readily to the Protestant Lords during the Glorious Revolution of 1689. His property came later into the possession of the Bairds of Saughtonhall who gave their name to Blair’s Close that forms the western boundary of the school plot.

The school was designed by Robert Wilson, architect to the Edinburgh School Board, and was a radical departure in style from its rather austere Collegiate Gothic contemporaries by the adoption of Scots Baronial Revival; complete with turrets, crowstepped gables and mock battlements. This was seen as more befitting of its prominent location at the head of the Old Town. Another change was the use of red Cornockle sandstone from Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire to add a visual contrast with the more usual yellowy-grey from the local Hailes Quarry.

A third change from its predecessors was the extension from two to three storeys; an attic level, lit by rooflights, providing rooms for teaching specialist subjects such as needlework and drawing. This was done to make the best use of a cramped site which amounted to just quarter of an acre; half that of the contemporary Milton House School in the Canongate and even less than the notoriously cramped Bristo Public School. (The only other three storey board school before this was West Fountainbridge, which had a similarly small plot)

Internally, three original mantlepieces from the Gordon mansion were incorporated into staff rooms as was an old entrance door. To the rear (south), the site dropped steeply away down the slope of the Old Town’s Crag and Tail topography. An additional level was therefore required, originally this was an open colonnade, providing a covered extension to the playgrounds, but later it was enclosed to provide additional teaching areas. A tall retaining wall faced onto Johnston Terrace at the rear, with entrance staircases (separate for boys and girls) up to the playgrounds and a three storey Janitor’s house bridged the two levels.

The school opened on Monday December 3rd 1888. Although there was no formal ceremony to mark the occasion, over 800 pupils were marched out of their old schools (those inherited by the School Board at Brown Square, Borthwick and Old Assembly Close and Victoria Terrace) up the hill to their new home. A formal opening would take place exactly 5 months later on May 3rd 1889.

Interestingly, the legend carved prominently into both the front and read façades reads “CASTLE HILL SCHOOL”, even though it was nearly always officially referred to as one word, just Castlehill, a change that was also reflected in the Ordnance Survey maps around the time.

From the beginning the school was also used for evening education. But – maintaining the theme of being different – at Castlehill this was not for adults. Instead it catered only for children under 14, pupils given special dispensation by the School Board to attend evening school on account of them needing to work during the school day to help support their families. In 1898 there were 212 boys and girls so registered. In 1890, the school’s first headmaster, John Davidson, resigned on account of poor health. In May 1898 headmaster William C. S. Hunter died and was replaced by James C. Anderson of Leith Walk School. His salary of £340 being equivalent to around £38,400 in 2025 and his “reign” was formally inaugurated with a presentation by Colin G. Macrae, chairman of the School Board, and concert at the school on Wednesday 1st June that year.

The school and its pupils suffered as a result of the harsh social conditions in Edinburgh’s Old Town in the late 19th and early 20th century. Headmaster Anderson was one of a number of his peers in the district who in spoke publicly in 1904 on “how drunkenness [of parents] affects the children“. 150 of his pupils were on the “food roll” due to the inability of their parents to feed then, with a further 30 receiving relief from the district fund. This was almost a quarter of the school and other children of leaving age (14) were being taught with 7 year-olds on account of how much schooling they had missed. Anderson put this down to drunkenness which he said was getting worse, as was thriftlessness. In 1908, under the terms of the Education (Scotland) Act of that year, the School Board instituted a meal scheme for necessitous children, each receiving a bowl of soup and bread during their school day. This was a great success and was expanded in 1911 by converting West Fountainbridge School into a dedicated central cooking centre. One hundred children from Castlehill were among the first recipients to benefit, but as their school lacked a dining hall they went to the Independent Labour Party Hall on Melbourne Place to eat. The tickets for these dinners issued daily at school to encourage children deserving of the meals to actually attend their lessons. They could also be purchased for 6d a week; with a little bit of liberal rounding they became known as “penny dinners“.

Feeding was not the only effort made to improve the lot of the children of Castlehill. In 1908 permission was gained by the School Board to adopt a piece of ground on Johnston Terrace next to the Church of Scotland Normal School (a teacher training college) for use as a playground, that at the school being completely insufficient in size and aspect. In 1909, under the auspices of Patrick Geddes’ Edinburgh Social Union, a patch of wasteland on Johnston Terrace was converted by pupils at the school into a model demonstration garden of their very own. Geddes established numerous such gardens, believing them as living classrooms for teaching both biology and self-improvement. Vegetable plots 150 feet long and 7 feet wide grew potatoes, peas, beans, cauliflowers, cabbages, turnips, leeks, onions, carrots, lettuces and other salad vegetables which were used in cookery classes in the school. This space was used for teaching natural history lessons and the principles of crop rotation. It also allowed the school to apply for a valuable additional grant for teaching gardening from the Education Department.

The next year, 1910, headmaster H. F. Sim brought the first case of its kind in Edinburgh to the City Police Court under the Children Act 1908, when two shopkeepers were charged with and pleaded guilty to selling “smoking mixture” to to children under the age of 16. Sim had caught boys in the school trying to smoke a pipe filled with the ersatz tobacco and confiscated from them their paper bag marked “The Boys’ Smoking Mixture and Pipe: price One Halfpenny“. On questioning, he had found from them where they had acquired it and reported the matter to the city’s Medical Officer of Health. The magistrate admonished the defendants and said “a warning should be given to tobacconists that the sale of such a mixture was an illegal practice, and that in other cases of the kind the offenders would certainly be punished.“

In October 1912, to remedy a lack of accommodation in the school, the adjacent ancient tenement known as Cannonball House – the last block of old Castlehill – being acquired by the Board for £1,925. It had recently been bought by the Cockburn Association with a view to preservation and the Board spent £3,500 thoroughly renovating and converting into additional teaching spaces. Its four principal classrooms could accommodate 180 children and there were special rooms for practical subjects such as cookery. In the basement were “spray baths“; showers for the children, most of whom lacked even basic domestic sanitation in their homes. The building was substantially altered, with one wing and the old Blair’s Close removed to improve ventilation and daylight. A number of original 17th century features were uncovered during restoration and were retained and installed in the fabric in new locations, making the end result something of a chimaera. The east gable is the biggest give-away way that not all is what it seems with this apparently old tenement; look for the tall classroom windows and the Edinburgh School Board emblem high up on the pediment.

In WW1 the school was requisitioned by to act as a depot and billeting for soldiers of the 5th Royal Scots based out of Edinburgh Castle. The Church of Scotland Young Men’s Guild was given the use of a room the following year to run a canteen and recreation room for them, with a gramophone, games, books, newspapers and writing materials. A teacher at the school, James Bathgate, was injured on war service in July 1915 when serving as a private with the College Company, 4th Royal Scots, in France. In April 1917, Headmaster Sim lost his son, Charles Henry Stuart, who died in hospital having been fatally injured serving with the Royal Field Artillery.

After the war, in April 1922, Headmistress Miss C. E. Anderson retired and was presented with a gold wristlet watch from the parents and her colleagues and a diamond brooch from the pupils. She had been teaching the children of the area since the school opened – a record period of 41 years!

In 1936 a new technological front in teaching was opened up at Castlehill when a room was specifically converted for the use of the Edinburgh branch of the newly instituted Scottish Educational Film Association for the production of educational films. It had been recognised that technology had a part to play in education – in 1931 a group from Canonmills School had been given a trial lesson on the theme of sound recording and reproduction at their local cinema – but further progress was wanting on account of a lack of suitable films for the classroom. The Education Committee thus resolved to make them for themselves: as well as providing the studio for the Association, they also covered the (then) substantial overhead of film costs and in return had a controlling say in the content of films. The first production was a four-part geography film entitled “The Port of London“. The Association would remain at Castlehill until 1957, when they moved to Boswell’s Court.

On the morning of September 1st 1939, children showed to schools all over the city with their coat, a bag or case and a cardboard label – they were being evacuated. Some 200 gathered at Castlehill before heading to Waverley station and destinations unknown. The school remained open for those children that stayed behind and there were still 273 on the roll in September 1940. The logbook records the peculiarities of an education during wartime; there were separate air raid shelters for infants, girls and boys; all children had to carry their gas masks with them; there were weekly gas mask drills and weekly marching drills to and from the shelters.

Additional wartime uses were found for the partially vacant school. A central depot for clothing for evacuees was established in October 1939; donations were received and sorted before being distributed to those in need who had been evacuated and found themselves wanting during their “enforced holiday to the country“. This was organised by Miss Cairns, Superintendent of Domestic Subjects for the Corporation, and she had 50 sewing mistresses from across the city under her direction. The supply of children’s coats proved insufficient and so these “clever-fingered” women picked apart the excess of larger items, cut them down to the required sizes and put them back together again. They were joined by women of the Edinburgh Personal Service League who performed a similar operation for men’s clothing, to be sent via the Red Cross to injured servicemen and prisoners of war. Wartime cookery classes were run in the school by the Corporation’s night school teachers. These were aimed at women to try and instruct them in how to eke out their rations, substitute various items that were off ration to recreate old favourites and how to do so more healthily and with less waste of fuel. Mrs Gray of the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) established a group of like-minded women to make soft toys and dolls and clothing for babies and toddlers who were being cared for in public nurseries, their mothers being on war work. Most of these things were no longer being manufactured during wartime. Such was the success of this endeavour that it later relocated to a dedicated workshop at Bristo School as the Nursery Equipment Centre.

Postwar, a shock announcement in May 1951 broke news that the school was to be closed at the end of that term. It had been built for 800 but as a result of the long term urban depopulation of the city it was down to 293 by this point; there was plenty excess capacity to rehouse them at Milton House, Tollcross and South Bridge schools for the same reason.

A secondary reason behind the closure was that the authorities wanted to establish a Central School Of Bakery and Catering where apprentice workers from the city’s important baking industry (as well as more general cookery and catering) could undertake industry-specific further education. Parents protested the decision but the Corporation was unmoved and voted by 14 to 5 for closure. Its only concession was to promise crossing guards to help children navigate the busy roads that they now needed to transit on their way to their new schools.

The bakery school opened on Monday 19th January 1954, Councillor H. A. Brechin performed the honours and stated “these new premises, together with the modern equipment, give Edinburgh one of the most up-to-date baking and catering schools in the United Kingdom“.

It did not last long however and as a result of changes to further education and the city’s industries, it was closed by 1970. While it once again sought a purpose, during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh that year it served as a temporary museum of regimental history at Edinburgh Castle. In 1971 the main building was converted to offices for the City Engineer’s department and would later be occupied by the Drainage Department of Lothian Regional Council. Between 1972 and 1974 it was also the home for the Theatre Workshop, an arts and drama centre for children, while it was found permanent premises.

In August 1986, Lothian Region accepted an offer for £250,000 from William Muir distillers who proposed to convert the former school it into a whisky museum and heritage centre. £2 million was spent on this project which opened its doors on 3rd May 1988, the building’s centennial year. It was an instant success and is now into its 5th decade of offering a very different sort of education than that the building’s planners had in mind.

Cannonball House was retained by the Education Department when the main building became the bakery school and was used for community education, passing to Lothian Regional Council on the formation of that organisation. In 1984 a Children’s History Centre was opened and the building was later properly converted by the Region for £200,000 for use as a schools education centre modelled on Patrick Grddes’ ideas; the Castehill Urban Studies Centre. It was the first such centre in Britain and I recall school trips there in the early 1990s, the name of the guide was Mrs Quick – I’m not sure why that name stuck with me, but it did!. Between 1999 until the opening of the new Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in 2004, Cannonball House was used as a schools education centre for the temporary parliament housed in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland on the Lawnmarket. In 2013, 100 years after it opened as part of the school, it found a new life as a high-end restaurant by the Scottish-Italian Contini family, who themselves had started out in Scotland a century before.

Want to read more about Edinburgh’s Lost Board Schools? The previous chapter was about Canonmills School.

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But wait, there's more!

I managed to pick up WhistlePig The Encyclopedia of Rye - Volume 2 for a fantastic price.

Volume 2? What about Volume 1? I had that too, for a similarly fantastic price, until I got sniped. That's how I learned the hard way that Whisky Auctioneer ends their auctions at midnight, even if bids are still being made.

They have sniping protection that is supposed to extend the auction a few minutes every time a new bid comes in, but there is an undocumented hard stop. I got outbid less than a minute to midnight and was in the process of upping my bid when the auction ended. I suspect the winner knew about this loophole, which I've since confirmed.

So now I'm still hunting for vol.1. I've seen it on sale in the US, but for stupid high prices.

Anyway... Then there were some random bottles. Starting off with a couple of different bottlings of the Mortlach 16 Flora & Fauna. Due to a misunderstanding, I picked up a few of these. I now have three, so I'll probably send a couple on to auction myself.

I also picked up several grain whiskies. I love those and they're often overlooked. The North British 1980 Cask Strength was originally only available to employees of the distillery. I'm not sure the age on this one.

Another North British, this one 30 years, a Caidenhead Single Cask 43 year Invergordon and a Forgotten Gems 30 year Invergordon.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Rye #WhistlePig #Mortlach #NorthBritish #Caidenhead #Invergordon

#Whisky Horst (hXXps://www.whisky.de/) haben die vielen #Tastings wohl die Birne vernebelt. Warum auch immer er bei einer geplanten rechten #Großveranstaltung als Redner auftritt, ist mir ansonsten unverständlich. Bei ihm kann man daher (leider) auch nichts mehr bestellen. Habe ich zwar schon jahrelang nicht mehr, trotzdem zur Info:

Am 7. September ist eine rechte Großveranstaltung in der #Liederhalle in #Stuttgart mit einer Reihe widerlicher Personen als Redner*Innen geplant:

Václav Klaus, Norbert Bolz, Markus Krall, Fritz Vahrenholt, Frauke Petry, Ulrich Vosgerau, Klaus-Rüdiger Mai, Horst Lüning, Oliver Gorus.

Ob das wirklich "groß" wird, kann ich leider nicht abschätzen. Der Eintritt kostet 150€, von daher ist klar, an welche Personengruppen sich diese richtet, allerdings sollte die Einladung "Kommen Sie alle!" vielleicht trotzdem vor allem von Antifaschist*Innen wahrgenommen werden. Hier zur Webseite der Veranstaltung der Gorus Media GmbH (Hintergrund: https://www.companyhouse.de/Oliver-Gorus-Moos sowie zur Person des veranstaltenden Anomiekapitalisten: hXXps://oliver-gorus.de/positionen)

hXXps://buergergipfel.de/ #Antifa #Hintergrund #NoNazis auch keine #Wirtschaftsradikale​n @antifaticker

Meine Range für meinen freien Nachmittag!

Lieblinge, alle samt.

Das vorgewärmte Rotweinglas steht bereit.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Slàinte!

#britain #wales #scotland #whisky #penderyn #tobermory #glenfarclas

Shipping from auction houses in the UK or Europe can be crazy expensive for just one or two bottles, so I tend to leave things in storage until I have enough bottles that the per-bottle shipping cost is reasonable. For whatever reason, this time it took many months at several auction houses until it was worth shipping, so I have an end-of-year bounty. And there is still one more I haven't shipped from.

Compass Box Whisky Whisky De Table 1-3, Optimism, Morpheus, the La Maison du Whisky release of Hedonism Maximus, a signed early release Hedonism, a *first release* Hedonism (I am excited), and Canto Cask 10, 35, & 36. That brings me to six of the 16 Canto Casks.

Ardbeg Smoketrails Côte Rôtie Edition (the second release) and Renaissance (the last missing piece in the Very Young, Still Young, Almost There, Renaissance sequence).

Glenmorangie 30 year Oloroso Cask Finish, The Taghta (a replacement bottle as I volunteered mine for a tasting which almost killed it), SMWS 125.50, and Westport 2006 (Glenmorangie in a clever disguise) from Coastalboy. But the best get was the Cask Masters sample set with fairly full samples of A, B, and C. C is what later became The Taghta. I haven't had A or B since the Cask Masters tastings way back in 2013. I also picked up a few editions of The Glen of Tranquillity.

Lastly some oddball stuff. A North British 40 year old Cask Strength Single Grain. Diplomatico Distillery Collection No 1 Batch Kettle Rum. And Jack Daniel's Winter Jack Tennessee Apple Whiskey Punch, for a special tasting we have coming up. 😉

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Rum #CompassBox #Glenmorangie #Ardbeg #NorthBritish #Diplomatico #JackDaniels

I meant to post these two weeks ago and got distracted.

Some recent pickups from Julio's Liquors - a few Loch & K(e)y Rye offerings, I'm a big fan of rye. The Nelson's Green Brier which was a very pleasant dram at a recent Whiskey Wednesday at a very low price, so I picked one up. The Sotol and Nixta were from another WW. While I tend toward whiskey, I do enjoy other spirits and the sotol was worth adding to my lineup. The Nixta is a sweet corn liqueur, something you'd use in a cocktail maybe in place of simple or agave to give it a different flavor. It was interesting enough to pick up to play with.

The others are recent Compass Box web (Duality) and auction (Juveniles and Canto Cask 47) pickups, and the Bimber Duality which I also snagged at auction. Compass Box is my Pokémon. 😅

#Whiskey #Whisky #CompassBox #Scotch #Rye #Sotol #Bimber #Nixta #SagamoreSpirit #RY3 #Nelsons #Nocheluna #TumblinDice

Ready for the weekend.

#MST3K #Rye #Whisky #ASW #Atlanta

Just blogged quick thoughts about the 10 books I finished reading in May 2023 https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/391904.html #books #reading #fiction #nonFiction #WheelOfTime #NeilGaiman #DoctorWho #PaulMagrs #DavidBowie #Whisky #Biography #PercyJackson #PamAyres #AlexandreDumas #IainBanks #fantasy #childrensBooks #YA #Otter #Otters #Scotland #historicalFiction #Holland #Netherlands #17thCentury #Interviews #Disney #Comics #GraphicNovel

@djl still on our wishlist, a visit to the Ardnamurchan Distillery. Maybe next year, but we will need some time for that trip.

#ardnamurchan #westScotland #whiskyTrip #whiskyreis #Schotland #Scotland #Schottland #whisky #schotlandreis

Dat was woensdag een zeer geslaagde whisky-avond voor de ruim 60 gasten At Marcook's smokehouse & BBQ in Enschede. Marco serveerde heerlijke gerechtjes van de grill en tussendoor presenteerde ik de bijpassende whisky's. ​Topavond!

#whiskyfeest #whiskyavond #mooieavond #whiskyverhalen #whiskyproeven #storyteller #whiskyproeverij #marcooks #enschede #twente #whisky #avondUit #avondjeUit #whiskydiner #themadiner #smokehouse #bbqRestaurant

We had just a couple of good friends over for an un-themed, let's just play it by ear tasting, and it was a great night.

We started off strong by cracking the Glenmorangie Pride 1981 & 1974. Both fantastic, of course. It might be sacrilege, but I think the 1981 benefits from a couple of drops of water.

We continued on with the Glenmo with the 30 year Malaga finish. This suffered from the classic Glenmo problem of weak corks. It snapped in half with the lightest pull. Fortunately, after past experiences, I acquired a few tools and was able to extract the other half without it crumbling.

We stayed with Glenmo for the next dram as well, with the Tuiga 25 year. Very nice and light.

Switching it up we moved to a a North British Distillery Clan Denny 50 year Single Grain. Not complex, but elegant in its simplicity. Very enjoyable.

Jumping the pond we next enjoyed a Parkers Heritage 10 year Bourbon from heavy char barrels. This definitely benefits from a little water. Lots of flavor here. This beats Pappy any day of the weak, IMHO.

The conversation had turned back to grain whiskies and one of my friends mentioned he noticed the bottle of Haig Club in my cabinet. I picked this up many years ago for like $25 and never got around to opening it, so we did tonight. It is not at all complex, but pleasant and an easy drinker. I could see it being nice with a rock on a warm day, or in a highball. I sent it home with friends since they liked it, and the blue glass bottle.

Jumping around the globe we cracked a bottle of Amrut Greedy Angels 8 year, from India. It was quite nice, with layers of flavor. But the two of us who have had the 10 year agreed the 10 has more depth and complexity.

We crossed the pond again to crack the WhistlePig Boss Hog VIII Lapulapu's Pacific that I picked up last night, breaking my streak of only owning the odd numbers. (I also won IV & VI in an auction yesterday, so that leaves only II.) I had this on a cruise last fall and it is as good as I remember, with the rum cask notes coming through. But we all still felt VII was still the favorite Boss Hog.

The rum cask switched to conversation to rum, and one of my friends ran home to grab the rum they brought home from their recent honeymoon (they're literally two houses over), Leyenda. Low proof, but very easy to drink. I could see this being very dangerous as it would be easy to put away a lot. Which they did on their honeymoon.

I kept us on rum after that by pulling out the Kō Hana Rum I'd brought home from Hawaii last year. It was even better than I remembered. We ran through all five that I have. The Koho is very pleasant to sip, just a nice rum. But the Koa really adds some layers and depth, so good. The Kea white rum has a very, very vegetal nose, but is surprisingly mild on the palate. We all agreed it would be dangerous in a cocktail, or just with a splash of pineapple juice. The Kila does not drink like a 61% ABV rum, it is so easy to sip. But it does open up more with a little water. The Kokoleka, rum with cacao & honey, oh, damn, that's dessert in a glass. We poured the most of that one, and I wish I'd bought more since they can't ship to MA. Very good.

Then we leapt back to Scotland with a Springbank 15 that was a big change in pace. Lots a flavor, and nice depth.

And then it was time for something completely different from down under. I was recently given a bottle of Mr Black Amaro finish coffee liqueur, with the only request being to try it and report back. So I poured both the standard Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur and the Amaro for side-by-side. Mr Black is my favorite coffee liqueur, very nice to sip straight but it also makes a hell of a Caucasian (White Russian, some of you get the reference). The Amaro is also great. I was concerned it might be too bitter, but it absolutely wasn't. I got a lot of citrus, and the nose was pure Terry Chocolate Orange to me. Just a bit different, and still an enjoyable dram.

We wrapped things up with another major shift. At some point my friends had said they liked having a good sipping tequila on hand, and I remembered I screwed up a while ago and bought a second Clase Azul Gold, and opened it before I caught my mistake. So we pulled that down and gave that a try to wrap up the night. They liked it, so I sent the bottle home with them as I don't really need two open bottles.

And that was it for the night. Damn good times.

Oh, and we started with dinner from Fugakyu Cafe and desserts from Harvard Sweet Boutique, which you may notice in some of the photos. Both are highly recommended.

This is how I like to enjoy a few drams, with good friends.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Glenmorangie #NorthBritish #ClanDenny #ParkersHeritage #HaigClub #Amrut #WhistlePig #Rum #Leyenda #KoHana #Springbank #MrBlack #Scotch #Rye #Bourbon #ClaseAzul #Tequila

Job offer at Balmoral Estate, near the Royal Lochnagar distillery.

#joboffer #Balmoral #BalmoralCastle #Braemar #Cairngorms #RoyalLochnagar #ranger #Schotland #Schottland #whisky #distillery #reddeer #wildlife #schottlandliebe #Scotland

Gisteren een erg leuke avond gehad in Borne. De deelnemers proefden onderstaande line-up. En nu op naar mijn club MVV'29 voor de jaarlijkse stamppotdag waar zoon Simon samen met de Kookstudio van Mvv'29 voor 200 deelnemers stamppot bereidt. En als om 9.30u de zon gaat schijnen volgens Weerplaza begint het voetbaltoernooi, de mountainbiketocht en wij gaan de wandelaars voorzien van koffie met kreentnweg. Topdag!

#whiskyproeverij #whisky #whiskey #Borne #Twente #mooieAvond #avondUit #storyteller

theWhiskyteacher new #whiskyvlog online! Met een mooie line-up voor vanavond voor 60 gasten van 't Raedthuys in Losser. Bekijk de video hier: http://bit.ly/whiskyvlog

Line-up van de avond:
#LochLomond Original,
#Teeling Small Batch, #MakersMark Bourbon, #Tullibardine 225 Sauternes cask
#OldParticular Single Grain 18y #DouglasLaing's
#TheIleach peated #Islay malt #caskStrength

#Losser #Enschede #Twente #whisky #whiskyavond #mooieAvond #avondUit #whiskydog #Almelo #whiskyproeverij

Frohe #whisky #weihnachten 🥃 Zeit für gutes Zeug!
#glenfarclas 😎👍🏻

@im the Cairngorms should definitely on your travellist if you travel to Scotland. They are beautiful, the A93 through the Cairngorms is one of the most beautiful roads we ever travelled.

#Cairngorms #cairngormMountains #naturereserve #Glenshee #Braemar #Balmoral #Ballateer #Tomintoul #Schotland #highlands #Scotland #whisky #distillery