Single Malt Whisky (Read 133614 times)

SA Chris · November 28, 2013, 11:31:57 am

http://www.spiritofspeyside.com/#

Think you will need to do some promtionals at the whisky festivals next year!

Signed up, good luck with the venture!

underground · November 28, 2013, 01:16:45 pm

Ruddy good effort Tom! Signed up, and will be raising a dram of Hedonism in your honour this evening

Monolith · November 28, 2013, 06:56:03 pm

Many thanks for the kind words folks. It's been a long but very exciting and rewarding journey to date and I'm looking forward to the coming months ahead. I hope that you'll enjoy and appreciate the first bottling

Jaspersharpe · November 28, 2013, 07:26:54 pm

Good effort Tom. Best of luck!

fried · November 28, 2013, 07:39:22 pm

Signed up! I'd 'wad' you but I don't really think wadding someone for actiually having a job bottling whisky is on!

SA Chris · December 23, 2013, 09:58:14 pm

Anyone got any insight on Ledaig? Aside from online reviews? Got a bottle in raffle of supplier gifts.

Pleasantly obscure, or worryingly obscure?

Do I keep, or regift

I like the peatier stuff generally.

shurt · December 23, 2013, 10:13:22 pm

Its quite nice actually Chris. Its one of the cheaper Single Malts but from memory its quite smooth and not half bad. Its no Talisker or Laphroaig if thats your bag. I'd hang onto it personally as an easy drinking bottle!

Monolith · December 23, 2013, 11:16:52 pm

Chris, keep it mate. If I may offer a Ledaig top tip - open the bottle, pour a generous dram and leave the cork out for five mins. The first time I ever had a bottle I was pretty disappointed with it but after a few weeks it had markedly improved. I often find this to be the reverse and break my 70cl bottles down into 20cl shoulder flasks to reduce the interface between spirit and 'foul' air. Bear with it!

Eddies · December 23, 2013, 11:56:23 pm

I breached a bottle of Talisker last night... Not to my tastes, much prefer the east coast malts, west coast tackle is too peaty for me. My grandads fav tho so I keep trying it from time to time. Wish I hadn't stamped on the lid!

SA Chris · December 24, 2013, 08:29:10 am

Quote from: shurt on December 23, 2013, 10:13:22 pm

I'd hang onto it personally as an easy drinking bottle!

Sounds ideal for tomorrow! Thanks for the advice guys, looking forward to giving somethign new a shot.

GCW · December 24, 2013, 08:34:41 am

I get Ledaig occasionally, suits more people than the peatier stuff.

slackline · December 31, 2013, 10:40:52 am

Might be of interest to Monolith and others...

K-means clustering of 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies

Monolith · January 04, 2014, 09:40:54 pm

Very interesting indeed Slackers. There's actually some research being undertaken at Oxford I'm told specifically around the matter of sensory perception and aroma grouping. Sounds very interesting.

For anybody I'm yet to meet who might be interested (i.e. not a Facebook acquaintance or friend), Malt of The Earth's Facebook page is now live at the link below and is likely the best source of information whilst the website is still undergoing development.

Facebook page.

slackline · January 16, 2014, 12:44:15 am

In a similar vein this blog post uses data from Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Flavour. Written by David Wishart of the University of Saint Andrews to generate the chart below. See the blogs for links to how these were classified.

Offwidth · January 16, 2014, 02:53:16 pm

Good spots. All they need to do now is sepearte the different editions and ages. For instance I' m pretty sure the main Talisker and Laphroig have got much tamer over the recent deacdes at least from what I've drunk and enjoyed the longest in my love of peaty whiskys. The special editions still have more character but I havent been able to afford them for as ling so I dont know their history. On a more important note many specialst tasters have been bemoaning the increasing use of caramel to colour and flavour single malts: I agree with them this in my exoerience tends to remove variety and character. I also remember Edradour having a very distinct cream soda flavour but that seems to have been heavily normalised in recent samples I've had.

T_B · January 18, 2014, 02:04:59 pm

There's a whisky tasting 'event' at the Greystones pub in Sheffield Wednesday 5th Feb, £12. Hoping to get to it. Tickets for sale in that new independent offy on Sharrowvale Rd.

Monolith · April 07, 2014, 09:26:08 pm

Dear all non Facebook acquaintances, Twitter users etc.

Today after some rather lengthy,hard but enjoyable graft, I finally applied the labels to Malt of The Earth's inaugural independent bottling.

https://www.facebook.com/maltoftheearth is the link if we aren't 'friends' and you're interested.
@maltoftheearth on Twitter.

Beaming like a kid at Christmas

Jaspersharpe · April 07, 2014, 09:34:52 pm

Well done Tom!

Sloper · April 08, 2014, 09:20:44 pm

Quote from: Monolith on April 07, 2014, 09:26:08 pm

Dear all non Facebook acquaintances, Twitter users etc.

Today after some rather lengthy,hard but enjoyable graft, I finally applied the labels to Malt of The Earth's inaugural independent bottling.

https://www.facebook.com/maltoftheearth is the link if we aren't 'friends' and you're interested.
@maltoftheearth on Twitter.

Beaming like a kid at Christmas

Are you ready to trade with the on sale market, if so drop me a note and I'll see if I can jack something up with someone from a fairly large and good potential buyer.

SA Chris · April 09, 2014, 09:52:50 am

Check your PMs Tom.

fatneck · April 17, 2014, 08:58:34 am

Great write up about Tom and Malt of the Earth here...

Monolith · April 30, 2014, 03:03:39 pm

Dear all,

I'll try to message those of you who have messaged me directly about buying a bottle/s of the inaugural bottling but in the interim; if you would like to buy a bottle, please send me a private message here with your name, contact tel and email address. I'll pass your details over to Whisky Business here in Liverpool for mail order delivery and payment.

The bottles retail at £45 and I'm currently trying to negotiate the best possible p and p rate for yall. Many thanks indeed.

Tom

GraemeA · May 07, 2014, 02:37:02 pm

Ian's office is 5 minutes away so am sending him round to get me a bottle

Sloper · June 21, 2014, 08:49:28 pm

Edradour straight from the cask Burgundy finish, 9/10 fantastic drop.

moose · June 21, 2014, 10:08:39 pm

I rather like the 10yo Edradour - doesn't get a lot of love from the critics but a nice drop. My recent scotch highlights have been the 15 yo Mortlach, and a 11 yo lightly peated cask strength Bladnoch - due to re-branding and bankruptcy neither will be around much longer. The Glencadam 10 yo was a nice summer drop too - the right side of the light / anodyne divide.

Non-scotch, the Amrut Intermediate Sherry is powerfully good and the new Distiller's Yamazaki and Hakushu didn't disappoint me. My recent favourites though have been ryes - the High West Double Rye and Bulleit Rye especially - really interesting minty, spicy notes along with the usual bourbon notes (burnt sugar, caramel, vanilla).