Under $80, this is a whisky from the Isle of Skye that crams a bounty of bad-assedness into a single bottle. Dark in taste, rich in feel, continuously flowing in aromas and tastes. Talisker 10 is, per their website, the classic stalwart of the family. It’s rather fitting to be sipping this dram in my…
Tag: Peat
Five Peated Whiskey’s to Get You Started
In the blog post OMFG there’s asphalt in my glass, I chatted with you (ok, a one-sided chat as I can’t hear you) about the abominable peat monster. As mentioned in that post, the longer a peated malt matures in the cask the less the peat monster attacks as it loses its hostility, so to…
OMFG there’s asphalt in my glass
THE ABOMINABLE PEAT MONSTER… kind of…. Asphalt, house fire, burning tar, medicine, scorched earth, morning breath, Lysol, pasture dirt. These are only a handful of terms used to describe peated whiskey by those who don’t like it. It’s partially decomposed plant matter that took thousands of years to produce. A piece of dried sod that…
The Amber Glass 