Great review!!! you gave me a good chuckle at the end... thanks for drinking all that GREAT scoth for us 😅

nice video again. I've found some magic in some Glengoyne bottles, especially the cask strength.

Love the comparison by the way. Anecdotally, the Lincoln process was a political money grab in that the industry would be required to charcoal timber from lands that they all owned. Perhaps today it’s equivalent to the juice flows over the required chunks of charcoal and actually comes out indistinguishable from how it went in. Thoughts?

I found your vid today, I have been dabbing in scotch for a while but never with any knowledge. I appreciate your insights and plan to put it into practice. Is that a Gretsch Streamliner on the left?

Bunnahabhain 12 is still one of my favorites. Nice list and video!

I'm totally with you! I got 2 bottles of Holly Creek in Nov '24 in an adventerous way and I was absolutely impressed of it too. And yes, the way of distilling this real Whisky, the maturing in wooden casks and all this way of producing is unique in Cambodia or South Eadt Asia because all this other so called Whisky alcohols there are not really Whisky... This moment i'm back in Siem Reap and the day after tomorrow I have a date in the distillery... that's so great, i'm looking forward so much! Thank you Mr. Sokun!!! I also can tell you the Story of my two bottles (one i gave as a present to a Whisky friend of mine). I was in Kampot as I found the webside of Holly Creek in the Internet. So I thought: I will go to the shop to buy one bottle... but no... no one in Kampot heard of this Whisky before. So I thought further on: ok, next place Phnom Penh, there i will find it... Then I got the idea to write to the distillery via the website contact form with the question for a place to buy Holly Creek, so i did. I got a nice and fast answer of Mr. Sokun but it wasn't this what I was hoping to read. He wrote that there is no shop in Cambodia where i can find it apart from the distillery shop (in the time of nov '24). Ok, I was in the far south, Siem Reap is in the north and I had to go back to Germany from P.P. Then Mr. Sokun made me an offer to bring a bottle to my hotel in P.P. and... unbelievable... some days later a colleague of him stood infront of my hotel and brought me two bottles. This is such an heartwarming and unbelievable Story, i had to tell... I love this country and the people there!

Everything is tops in Indri... but the title and the bottle must have been designed by a joker. It is sickening, off-putting and doesn't represnt the class it belongs to. I can do a lot better for heaven's sake. Fire the jokers and launch something classic to stun the audience.

laphroaig is a caramel colored whisky

Why mine is 40% monkey shoulder

I just returned from almost three weeks in Tokyo last month and (whilst visiting one of the Don Quijote stores) spied several bottles of Japanese whisky in various sizes. I bought a small bottle of something called Nikka 'Black Clear', which was surprisingly inexpensive, and surprisingly tasty. Since returning to Canada, of course it wasn't available anywhere, so I bought a bottle of Nikka Yoichi single malt recently which is also very nice. The Black Clear I believe was 37%, which I think somehow contributed to how nicely it was on the palette.

I live 30 miles from Balcone's and I have not been there... Unacceptable... Road Trip

very excellent list! they are all worthy. my shut out goes to Laphroaig 10 cask strength :) I have Batch 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 & 12.

This is my favorite whiskey. I'm glad you mentioned calming-I truly feel this whiskey is relaxing, like sitting on the beach. It makes me completely stress-free and i love the taste with some club soda. No other whiskey has made me feel like this. Can you think of any other similar tasting whiskies ?

I’ve had both, and the organic honestly isn’t enough of an improvement over the 12 or even the virgin oak to be worth it IMO.

In Virginia, as of mid-October 2024, a bottle costs $59.99. A bottle of Rampur Double Cask Single Malt Whiskey costs $89.99.

Hi Kevin, Chanced upon your vlog. Am presently savouring Indri as i listen to you. Thank you for the inputs.

I like it. Something different.

Heather Honey is a monofloral honey variety made from the flowers of the heather plant, part of the Ericaceae family. A low-growing perennial shrub that is native to Europe, it prefers dry acidic soils and has been used as national symbols in Scotland and Norway.

The Highland Park 12 YO and the 18 YO are my to absolute favourites and go to, I also can recomend the 14 YO Loyalty Of The Wolf, which is a bit sweeter than both 12 and 18 but is more diffucult to get hands on

Welcome back! I believe the Laddie Eight would be slightly older than Classic Laddie. With my bottle's batch code, the youngest whisky was 7 years. Not sure if it makes much of a difference though, they are mixing in older whisky to achieve a certain profile for these two.

Lagavulin 16 is a masterwork

I live in England. I've just paid £41 for The Glenlivet 12. Double what you paid in the States 2 years ago

Glad you can see in the bottle.

Lagavulin 11 Nick Offerman Caribbean Rum Cask finish is pretty good! I for sure recommend that for an Islay scotch

The main difference between the Laddie 8 and the Classic Laddie is the colour of the bottle! Both great drams, but you don't need both on the shelf!!

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Welcome back, Kevin! Life as a nomad has to be great. "Away from whisky." Interesting concept, but not one I'm inclined to recommend. I haven't had the 8, but I'm curious as to how you'd compare it to the Ardbeg 5 year "Wee Beastie." Another one that tries to rely upon the characters of the distillate coming through without the mellowing aspects of more aging. Travel safely.

Aha what a timing, i just subscribed 2 days ago 😊

Glad you're back here Kevin! Could you recommend a good smoked whiskey to start me on that path? I was thinking about Talisker 10. Cheers from Argentina

Hey Kevin! Do you sometimes add water to try to ‘open it up’? Wondering how that would affect the Laddie 8.

Welcome back, I always enjoy your reviews. I've never tried the Classic Eight but I have a pour of The Classic Laddie in front of me right now. I always keep one on the shelf. Great dram and I pick up most of the notes on the nose and palate that you are getting.

Following your travels! Glad to see you back here. Please don’t forget this channel, it is how I got to the travel one. Love your content on both channels!

Everyone else's prices are always way lower than mine! Here in Britsh Columbia, my favourite whisky--both for taste and value--was Laphroaig's Triple Wood. At $100 it was divine. Sadly, it was discontinued a few years ago. Ardbeg's Uigeadail, at $160, is a far more expensive replacement with a similarly gorgeous profile. Laphroaig Lore, which is $185, is divine, but that's likely a once in a lifetime bottle for me on account of the cost. Laphroaig Quarter Cask around $105 now(!), was my first peated scotch, and they say you never forget your first. Very oaky, and much like the Triple Wood, though without the sherry-cask finish to sweeten it. Laphroaig 10, is very similar to the Quarter Cask, but less oaky. I remember for seaweed, almost vegetable notes from this, which is wierd. Still a peat bomb, so still good! Ardbeg 10 was decent, but not worth buying again for me. Ardbeg's An Oa was much better, though still not worth buing again for me. I had a love-hate relationship with Lagavulin 8. Good taste, bad taste, good taste, bad taste right to the end of the bottle. I guess whatever i was eating or drinking those days really affected it. Port Charlotte 2013 i tried in about 2013, I think. I did not like this whisky. It tasted for me like the inside of a cow's intestine with a horrible aftertaste. Somehow it got better with time, though. Strangely enough, the very end of the bottle was beautiful, sweet, even liquorice. What happened? My next mention is Tobermory's Ledaig, which I think you should have put on the Islay list even though it's from the neighbouring island of Mull. It has a flavour profile similar to a Laphroaig! Salty, smoky, briny, sweet! And at only $80, **awesome** value! Honourable mention for Talisker 10 fromthe island of Skye. Salty, peaty, peppery, just wonderful! The peat is much lighter, though. Three bonus blended bottles for those looking for ultra-cheap peat: -Black Bottle: the poor man's Uigeadail. Much less complex, and definitely less long-lasting, of course. But at $35, it fills a niche. Cutty Sark and Cutty Sark's stronger and sweeter Prohibition Edition at about $30 and $45 respectively, don't advertise themselves as peated, but they do have a light peat note if you need that cheap fix. For the money, they are quite good. I saved the best for last out of the cheap bottles: Teacher's Highland Cream. I was unable to get this $30 bottle anywhere for nearly two years, but it has made a triumphant return! This is my go-to bottle when i dont want to break the bank.

The colour op laphroaig has nothing to do with the casks, its artificial coloured which is a real deal breaker for me.. besides that: ardbeg an noa is the peat monster i would choose above al of these. Cheers

I prefer a brown bag and the side of a building 😂

I actually like it

Taste more, talk less.

Still use that Mac?

While I remember a gift of three miniature Ardbeg in a green tin that I still have that must've already kicked my tastebuds earlier right into Islay territory, it was a Lagavulin 16 on a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry from Uig on Skye over to Lochmaddy on North Uist - later hoppin over to Leverburgh on Harris - that just... bedazzled my senses and set my preferences to a world of whisky ever since. About to get my 2nd bottle of the Lore, in memory of good times to come.

Great lineup of what defines Islay peated whisky. But yes, you sure need to add Caol Ila 12 into the mix.

Lagavulin 16 was the one who did got me into whiskey, the first one that i liked. I think that Lagavulin is so smoth and fine. A gentle smoke. In ardbeg 10 i´ve get stuck into the pear note. But i´m absolutley stuck in a Islay whiskeys.

Talisker was my first experience with peat/smoke and I loved it, but my last bottle didn't seem the same and not in a good way. Have I been spoiled with Laphroig and Ardbeg or has Talisker changed?

Guitar and scotch videos? love it. Two of my favorite things. I've had the Lagavulin 16 and the Laphroaig 10. Going to look out for the Ardbeg bottles now.

Dalwhinney 15 is fantastic. My go to for a single malt.

My first love is bourbon. This bottle ignited my love of peated whisky’s.

FYI bourbon distillers can reuse their casks. They just can’t use them for first fill distillate. Look into double oaked bourbons. Or “double filled.” Woodford double oaked, Old Forester 1910, Peerless Double Oaked Bourbon are a few. For reference: 7:50 Sláinte!

Great lineup

Ardbeg 10 was given to me as a gift and that's what set me on my journey. Absolutely delicious and the buzz is so good natured. Love Ardbeg. My dad just gave me a bottle of Uigeadail for my birthday and I've yet to open it, but I'm hoping it will be just as delicious as the ten. He gave me some Bowmore 12 for Christmas last year, and while it was good I thought it was nothing unique, unfortunately. Laphroig is my, "I can't find Ardbeg" scotch. a good substitute and good in it's own way. I've never tried Lagavulin, but I'm sure I will one day. Port Charlotte... I don't like the bottle! Petty, I know. Thanks for the video!

Great videos! Hope everything is ok as it's been a while since your last video.

Yea, right now its my favorite scotch. Now i need to find the even better next more expensive bottle of something like it. I mostly just get a raisin taste, a tiny bit of some spice once in a while in there, and something else, couple of something elses my palet cant figure out yet. Its marvelous. I picture the color purple too. It not too light and bright or dark, its perfect. This whisky has me sippin more than any other one I tried.