Review #134 - Filey Bay Flagship
Due to specific wording in the current iteration of the English single malt rules, copper pot still distillation can be combined with column still distillation.
Review #133 - Royal Brackla 12 Year
We don't generally place much stock in the appearance of a bottle and its label, but we do like the look of this one a lot.
Review #132 - Kaiyo The Sheri
In addition to the sherry casks, this whisky gets the obligatory Mizunara maturation that this brand is known for; it spends three months at sea in these casks, which are supposed to impart a salty, seaside flavor to the liquid.
Review #131 - Redbreast 15 Year
This is a step up from the entry level Redbreast 12 Year in multiple ways: it gets an additional three years of maturation, and it's bottled at a strength of 46% ABV, up from 40% on the 12 Year.
Review #130 - Paul John Edited
One interesting point from the brand is on its website - they actually give a recommended food pairing for this whisky.
Review #129 - The Sovereign Invergordon 50 Year (1964)
Aged for 50 years before bottling in 2014, this Invergordon single grain comes from a single cask.
Review #128 - Bruichladdich Black Art 09.1 29 Year
With a distillation vintage of 1992, this is an unpeated Bruichladdich aged in an unknown assortment of casks.
Review #127 - Laphroaig 30 Year
The smokiness or peat in a whisky will generally decline with more time spent aging in a cask.
Review #126 - Craigellachie 23 Year
This 23 Year bottling has the preferable strength of 46% ABV, and has the benefit of being un-colored and not chill filtered.
Review #125 - Old 55 100% Sweet Corn Bourbon
The unique mashbill is really the point of interest here: this is made entirely from low-yield sweet corn grain.
Review #124 - Buffalo Trace Bourbon
This is a $25 bourbon bottled at 45% ABV (90 Proof) with no stated age... or really much other information of any sort.
Review #123 - Bulleit 95 Rye
Distilled at MGP (Midwest Grain Product), this rye sports a mashbill made up of 95% rye grain and 5% malted barley.
Review #122 - Fraser Valley Colorado Bourbon
On a trip to the Rockies a couple of years ago, we stopped at Fraser Valley Distilling in Fraser, Colorado.
Review #121 - Aberlour 12 Year Double Cask Matured
It combines ex-bourbon barrel matured whisky with ex-sherry cask whisky, which, according to the brand, brings a balanced character.
Review #120 - GlenAllachie 12 Year
Yummy, but the flavors are very much focused in one direction with the heavy sherry influence, and it's anything but subtle.
Review #119 - Glenfiddich 12 Year
The best-selling single malt Scotch whisky in the world, at least as far as we can find - both the bottle specifically (the 12 Year), as well as the brand in general (Glenfiddich).
Review #118 - Tamdhu 12 Year
Another sherried Speyside whisky, and a distillery that's known specifically for that style - Tamdhu, and their 12 year entry.
Review #117 - Glenlivet 12 Year Illicit Still
The difference between this Illicit Still bottling and the standard Glenlivet 12 is a great improvement: we go from 40% ABV up to 48%, and it's no longer chill filtered.
Review #116 - Balvenie 12 Year DoubleWood
We start with aging in 'whisky' oak; then we spend time in sherry oak - in this case, casks made from European oak.
Review #115 - Macallan 12 Year Sherry Oak Cask
There are actually three separate core range 12 year whiskies from Macallan - the Sherry Oak Cask, the Double Cask, and the Triple Cask.