Unfiltered gets a sneak preview of the new Lagg Distillery on the Isle of Arran.
May 22, 2019
I’m chatting with Pip Hills in the Tasting Room at The Vaults, and if he’s feeling ever so slightly nostalgic, it’s with good reason. The man who founded the SMWS has returned to share a dram of the Society’s first ever bottling later in the evening with a bunch of fortunate members. He’s currently sitting … Continue reading Pip Hills and SMWS Cask 1.1
You should know by now that we like to do things a little differently at the Society. If that hadn’t crossed the minds of our three volunteer members for a tasting of May’s Outturn bottlings before, it certainly has now. The mission? A blind tasting to try and identify each of the Society’s 12 flavour … Continue reading Cask strength characters
It wasn’t only Brooke Hayman who benefited from winning the Australian Malt Whisky Tasting Championship last year – the country’s biggest and most prestigious blind-tasting competition. As well as being crowned Malt Whisky Tasting Champion of Australia, the co-owner of SMWS partner bar Whisky + Alement in Melbourne also scooped the Society’s prize of a … Continue reading Whisky in Australia: A whole new world
It wasn’t only Brooke Hayman who benefited from winning the Australian Malt Whisky Tasting Championship last year – the country’s biggest and most prestigious blind-tasting competition. As well as being crowned Malt Whisky Tasting Champion of Australia, the co-owner of SMWS partner bar Whisky + Alement in Melbourne also scooped the Society’s prize of a … Continue reading Whisky in Australia: A whole new world
In a bottling list from as long ago as 1991, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society described “an experiment” with Cask No. 39.7, which was transferred after 12 years in a second-fill fino cask into “a really good oloroso cask, where it had lain for two years”. The result was described as “a very good whisky … Continue reading Journey into wood
Unfiltered gets a sneak preview of the new Lagg Distillery on the Isle of Arran.