Founders Series: Ardbeg-a-thon
The Founders Series takes advantage of Scotchology’s founders meeting to celebrate our 10th Anniversary in August of 2023. Since we can’t meet in person as often as we were able to when the club first started, we decided to make the most of our time together and sampled a truly broad, exciting range of whiskies in some semblance of batching. The second batch features Ardbeg, a Scottish single malt that for some of us helped kick off our initial love of whisky and an early favorite in the early days of the club. As of this publication, we have reviewed whiskies from Ardbeg than any other distillery. But even that metric quite convey how often we go back to the proverbial well in between reviews or the special place it holds in our appreciation and personal collections.
SnapShot: Speyside Saunter (Whiskies of Glen Moray)
Glen Moray is a great introduction to scotch if you only drink Irish or Canadian whiskies, and they’re a great introduction to whisky if you’re a white wine lover. These concepts are not to be dismissed lightly. People come to good whisky from various experiences and perspectives, some of them carrying traumatic memories like an encounter with Laphroaig in a dark alley. While these Speysides are gentle and approachable, scotch drinkers who may be used to higher proof products, especially cask strength whiskies, might wish these were released at a slightly higher proofage
Founders Series: Your Land, My Land, Westland
The Founders Series takes advantage of Scotchology’s founders meeting to celebrate our 10th Anniversary in August of 2023. Since we can’t meet in person as often as we were able to when the club first started, we decided to make the most of our time together and sampled a truly broad, exciting range of whiskies in some semblance of batching. The first batch features Westland, an American distillery we have gone to early and often. But a handful of reviews doesn’t quite convey how often we have been there individually or in groups, or how many expressions we have tried and bought for our private collections over the years. This series will expand whenever we gather continue focused explorations of brands or concepts.