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Todd Stopped By With 5 Bottles of Whisky-Tasting 2/1/2014

2/27/2014

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     Todd stopped by on his way home with spirit to keep the Club Barrel watertight. A dry barrel is a porous barrel, right? I like when Todd stops by  with whisky. We poured these into the Club Barrel after tasting. 
     Here is what we tasted:

*Campbeltown Loch     40% ABV        (Springbank blend)
     -smelled sweet dessert and wood
     -tasted light oak, dry
     -not as sweet as it smelled
     -more alcohol burn than expected
     -with water dulled almost all the smell
     -tasted sour oak
     -more alcohol burn!
     Water ruined this whisky. Being a light blend, all of the flavor was apparent in the first taste. 

*Inverarity Ancestral   14 yr.   40% ABV
      "Aged Entirely in Sherry Casks"
     -smelled olorosso/cinnamon bun sweet
     -smelled slightlylike raisins (first time I've ever gotten this!)
     -tasted very peppery with some oak
     -with water smelled cookie dough
     -tasted sour wood
     -after a few minutes it got sweeter
     -taste went up to the roof of my mouth and cool/dry
     -trailed wood
     I actually tasted raisin in this. Sadly no butterscotch, caramel or licorice.

*Wolfe's Glen Single Grain  10 yr   40% ABV
     -smelled sweet candy with rubbing alcohol at back
     -almost a powdery sugar smell
     -tasted corn
     -with water smelled turpentine
     -tasted lighter and oak
     I like corn whiskies. This had enough corn in it to impart the flavor. Like most blends, water ruined this. 

*Murdoch's  15 yr   40% ABV    Blended Scotch
     -smelled lightly sweet caramel
     -tasted chalky/peppery with caramel
     -trailed wood
     -with water knocked down the pepper
     -sweetness in the beginning 
     -trailed oak
     Pretty unremarkable blend. 

*Suntory Pure Malt Whisky  12 yr   43% ABV
     -Smelled light wood sweet
     -tasted peppery wood with a dryness
     -with water dulled the pepper
     -trailed oak with the same dryness
     Surprising since we tried this before. This is an earlier expression. Water had little affect on the whisky. 

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