Introduction With Ardbeg 10 (86 points) serving as a benchmark whisky for my Islay scotch reviews, I decided I needed another benchmark that I would rate closer to 80 points. The Islay equivalent...
Introduction Last year, after following Feis Ile vicariously through other blog posts, I ordered some festival samples, including the Laphroaig Cairdeas 2009 release, which I did a post on here ...
Introduction Beam Global is doing a pretty cool marketing campaign, pitting whisk(e)y from three countries against each other in a debate between brand ambassadors as they battle for whisky supre...
https://scotchhobbyist.com/2009/10/21/the-great-whiskey-debate/
Following on the previous Friends of Laphroaig email, John Campbell has sent out another letter with official details of the Distillery Live event on September 25, 2009 at Maker’s Mark Distille...
https://scotchhobbyist.com/2009/09/10/laphroaig-distillery-live-details/
John Campbell, Laphroaig distillery manager, has sent out the following email to Friends of Laphroaig. They’ll be broadcasting live from the Maker’s Mark distillery in Kentucky on September 2...
https://scotchhobbyist.com/2009/08/20/laphroaig-live-coming-to-kentucky/
Introduction Following on the heels of my Laphroaig 10 CS Batch 001 post, I’m trying another 30 ml Laphroaig sample from whiskysamples.eu. This one was specially bottled for Feis Ile 2009 (5000...
https://scotchhobbyist.com/2009/06/27/laphroaig-cairdeas-12-year-2009/
Introduction In his Christmas 2008 video blog , John Campbell (Laphroaig distillery manager) talked about a change in the Laphroaig 10 years Cask Strength offering, starting in 2009. Apparently, ...
https://scotchhobbyist.com/2009/06/26/laphroaig-10-cs-batch-001/
Introduction My wife was kind enough to let me buy my own main present for my 40th birthday a couple of weeks ahead of time; A Laphroaig 30 year, bottled in 2007 at 43% abv. I was at a Glenmorang...
https://scotchhobbyist.com/2009/06/08/laphroaig-30-a-nose-to-die-for/
Introduction Margy McCoy (@MargyMcCoy), a Friends of Laphroaig employee, sent out a request on Twitter earlier today asking others to tweet about their first experience with Laphroaig. She’s ...
Introduction 43% ABV? Bzzzt…wrong answer! Non-chill filtering? Bzzzt…not here. This Laphroaig 15 year is obviously not with it, as all of the cool kids these days are bottled at 46% abv o...