Short Balding Guy
I'll Lock Up
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Congrats on the vacine and feeling well. The Barley Wine hat and beverage looks and sounds great. Your description has me enjoying the tasting notes. Cheers to you and your wife.It’s been a few hours since my third Covid jab and I feel fine so we opened a bottle of barley wine - a 10.5% beer that is aged for six months rather than the usual two weeks. Very nice it was. The description on the bottle says full bodied (yes), toffee (yes, absolutely), and coffee (yeah, now you mention that, maybe I can taste that). Anyhow, it was very aromatic and tasty.
The hat is the Stetson Custom V that I wore to get the jab.
The felt colour is…Barley Wine.
Classy hat to go with the #1 malt from 2017. Your tasting notes have this whiskey sounding appealing. The 12 year old is not expensive. Hmmmm.Enjoying a break in the snow storm cleanup with a dram of Glen Moray 18 Elgin Heritage Speyside with a Peters Bros Shady Oak Bankers Special 7X Seventy-five. I'm enjoying this Malt more now as an aperitif than I did after a meal. Raisins & nuts, vanilla, baked apple crisp. I really like Speysides with nose & palate of raisins, figs, nuts & brown sugar molasses. I understand now why this was ranked the #1 scoring Single Malt for 2017.
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I too am sipping some whiskey tonight. Not quite as classy, but I am enjoying some Ardbeg Wee Beastie. It is an uncomplicated version of Ardbeg. It has aroma and palate. Tonight I can taste smoky citrus, mint and salty pepper. I rather like this and by gosh I will have to head over and pick up some other whiskeys of Ardbeg soon. For one thing this bottle is on its last legs.
Cheers, Eric -