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What Wee Dram Are You Enjoying Now? - Fall/Winter 2014

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Kickin' a new thread off...

I am celebrating my mother-in-law leaving the hospital tonight after major surgery... A requisite pour seemed to be in order:

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Glad to hear she's out of the hospital, and hoping a quick recover is on it's way.

I bet that drink it terrible, isn't it?

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Glad to hear she's out of the hospital, and hoping a quick recover is on it's way.

I bet that drink it terrible, isn't it?

These aren't the drams you're looking for... ;)

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Kickin' a new thread off...

I am celebrating my mother-in-law leaving the hospital tonight after major surgery... A requisite pour seemed to be in order:

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Cheers! Glad to hear your Mother in Law is out of the hospital. I struck a deal with my job to work from home for the rest of the week on Tuesday (hoping to make this semi-permanent), and am relaxing while working late with a healthy dram of Mortlach 15 G&M bottling. Really loving this one. It'd be a great holiday dram.

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Cheers! Glad to hear your Mother in Law is out of the hospital. I struck a deal with my job to work from home for the rest of the week on Tuesday (hoping to make this semi-permanent), and am relaxing while working late with a healthy dram of Mortlach 15 G&M bottling. Really loving this one. It'd be a great holiday dram.

Congrats on the new arrangement - more drinking on the job! Woohoo!

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Love me some Mortlach...

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Springbank CS 12, the batch with 50.3% alcohol. Quite delicious.

I love the 50.3% version. Lots of depth, spices (cinnamon, clove, allspice). I forget which release this is, but there are still quite a few bottles of this release in the Minneapolis area at South Lyndale Liquors (saw that you are also located there). I have polished off two bottles, and have one in the bunker along with a 54.3% that I haven't tried yet.

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Having a small dram of Springbank 15 with a teaspoon of water. I am getting a bit of hay (barnyard?) cinnamon, and green tea in the finish. After the bottle being open for a few days, it has become much better. I am really enjoying it, but may like the CS 12 versions better.

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I finished the last of my GKS NY blend last night. [sigh]. I'm going to miss this one.

For such a limited release I'm amazed it can still be found. I've been through two bottles and its work not opening another.

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For such a limited release I'm amazed it can still be found. I've been through two bottles and its work not opening another.
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I love the 50.3% version. Lots of depth, spices (cinnamon, clove, allspice). I forget which release this is, but there are still quite a few bottles of this release in the Minneapolis area at South Lyndale Liquors (saw that you are also located there). I have polished off two bottles, and have one in the bunker along with a 54.3% that I haven't tried yet.
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Yeah, I saw those the other day when I was picking up some more of their Four Roses Single Barrel store pick (OBSK mashbill which I highly recommend). Now that I have some experience with this bottle, I think I'll have to swing by soon and bunker one or two more of these Springbanks.

I just picked up two bottles of the Four Roses Single Barrel store pick, it is superb! I am very impressed by that liquor store as well.

Back to scotch, I have an Ancnoc 16 that has a small pour left in it--I'll be finishing off some near empties tonight. A pleasant, lighter, fruity, floral dram. I bunkered another bottle, but will not be reaching for that in the near future.

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Dark Origins tonight
What are your thoughts? I'm on the fence as to whether or not I want to buy a bottle.
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Frost advisory tonight, thought that was a good enough excuse to finish off a Laphroaig 10 that's been open too long. Something about cold temps seems to lead me to Islay.

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What are your thoughts? I'm on the fence as to whether or not I want to buy a bottle.

Check Bruce's tasting notes over in the Wednesday tasting thread. He got it pretty dead on. Trying too hard, little more sherry jockeying with smoke overlaying band aids. I bought it blind because I love HP but if I had to do it over again I wouldn't buy it again.

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Check Bruce's tasting notes over in the Wednesday tasting thread. He got it pretty dead on. Trying too hard, little more sherry jockeying with smoke overlaying band aids. I bought it blind because I love HP but if I had to do it over again I wouldn't buy it again.
I've read a lot of that. It would take a lot to get me to pick up a Dark Origins. I do love HP's standard age stated line, but I'm unconvinced anything they've released beyond that (and their 20+ yr stuff) is a good use of their spirit. I would dig their cask strength limited releases, but they always seem to find a way to enclose them in silly wood structures and crank the prices up to 11.

As annoyed as I get with HP, I will still probably always have a 12 or an 18 on hand (currently both).

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Started the evening with a small pour of R.L. Seales 10 year Rum to get the palate going, then Four Roses Private Selection OBSK 58.4% aged 9 years 7 months, Springbank 15, and then a combo dram of 1/2 Springbank 15 and 1/2 Longrow 11 year Shiraz Cask.

The reason I did the combo was to bring a bit of spice and peat to the refined Springbank 15. I like it a lot! I think if I try it again I will back the Longrow off to 1/4 of the "malt blend".

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Tried an interesting Candian tonight. I somewhat enjoy CC and find this even better, it's like a richer, fruitier CC, though I need to find a bottle of reg CC to try side by side. All in all, I'd say well worth the $20.

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With (the now defunct) LostBottle too... =]b

That was almost bordering on an embarrassment of riches what were drinking that night.

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That was almost bordering on an embarrassment of riches what were drinking that night.

Should've brought that other Karuizawa for you

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