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Advent Calendar 2023

1. Glenallachie 2008 Duncan Taylor 14yr Sherry Cask

2. Caperdonich 2000 21yr CS for TWE

3. Rum C.A.D.C SA (Venezuela) 2005 Duncan Taylor 17yr

4. Black Bull 18 yr Tale of Two Legends

5. Auchentoshan 2007 Artist Collective 13yr for LMDW

6. Loch Lomond 18yr Single Cask Nation

7. Orkney 2005 Signatory Cask Strength 18yr Sherry Butt

8. Highland Park 2004 Duncan Taylor 18yr Sherry Cask

9. Ledaig 2006 Sherry Cask – The Whisky Show 2022 15yr

10. Talisker 2012 Old Particular 10yr

11. Secret Speyside 2005 Signatory Cask Strength 15yr Sherry Butt

12. Thomson Manuka Wood Smoke Cask for TWE

13. Royal Brackla 2011 Duncan Taylor 11yr Sherry Cask

14. Caol Ila Black Friday 2022 Release 16yr

15. Cooley 2002 19yr Rum Finish Gleann Mor

16. Black Friday 2020 Release 22 yr Highland

17.Rum Hampden (Jamaica) 2007 Duncan Taylor 14yr

18. Cu Bocan (Tomatin) 2010 12 yr Batch 1 rum cask

19. Glentauchers 2008 Duncan Taylor 14yr Sherry Cask

20. Black Friday 2021 Release 22yr Speyside

21. Glentauchers 2008 Duncan Taylor 14yr Sherry Cask

22. Black Friday 2021 “Speyside” 22yr

23. Miltonduff 2008 Duncan Taylor 14yr

24. Glen Grant 2000 Signatory CS 22yr Sherry Finish for TWE

25. Laphroaig 2004 Octave Premium 17yr

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Advent Calendar 2022

  1.  Ben Nevis 2012 Duncan Taylor 9yr cask 361719 @ 53.9%
  2.  Amrut 6yr K&L Exclusive Ex-Oloroso Sherry Butt #3890 60%
  3. Duncan Taylor Tormore 2010, 11 yr cask 82801207  53.8%
  4. Glen Scotia 2000 18yr Connoisseur’s Choice K&L Exclusive Cask #326 56.7%
  5. The Glasgow Distillery 1770 Single Malt – Peated 46%
  6. Glenmorangie “A Tale of the Forest” 46%
  7. Ardgowan Clydebuilt Coppersmith Blended Malt 46%
  8. Found North 18yr  Batch 4 62.4%
  9. Stark Spirits California Single Malt. 2016 MW-001. 68%
  10. Barelegs Islay Single Malt 46%
  11. Kavalan Manzanilla Cask MA110314034A 58.6%
  12. Cambus 1991 25yr The Octave 48.1%
  13. Hellyers Road 15yr 46.2%
  14. Glencadam 2011 6yr The Octave cask 15143333  55.3%
  15. Black Bull 21yr 50%
  16. Pulteney 2002 18yr “Hunter Laing Old & Rare” 58.6%
  17. The Glasgow Distillery 1770 – Triple Distilled 46%
  18. Royal Brackla 2011 7yr cask 9317768  52.4%
  19. Westland K&L Exclusive  cask 6062 54.4%
  20. Glen Garioch 2011 7yr DT Dimensions Cask 461349 52.4%
  21. Bruichladdich 1991 26yr “Hunter Laing Old & Rare” K&L Exclusive 53.2%
  22. Glenrothes 2002 16yr “Old Particular” K&L Exclusive 57.2%
  23. Kilchoman “K&L Exclusive” Ex-Bourbon STR Finished Cask Strength  56.2%
  24. Dalmore 2002 15yr DT Dimensions Cask 10802053 53%
  25. Clynelish 1993 28yr “Hunter Laing’s Old & Rare” Single First Fill Bourbon Cask Strength 50.3%

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Advent Calendar 2021

1 Glenfarclas 21yr TWE Exclusive 54.2% Oloroso Cask
2 Glenlivet 2007 13yr Signatory Un-Chillfiltered 65.3% Cask #900243 1st fill Sherry Butt
3 The Six Isles Batch Strength Blended Malt 58%
4 Ardmore 2009 11yr Signatory Un-Chillfiltered 46% Casks 706325+706326 Bourbon Barrels after Islay
5 Royal Brackla 2009 11yr Nectar of the Daily Drams 46%
6 Omar Single Malt 46% (sherry type)
7 The Exceptional Malt Second Edition Blended Malt 43%
8 Mannochmore 2009 11yr Reserve Cask Parcel No. 5 48%
9 Caol Ila 2007 13yr The Whisky Exchange Cask #320247 55.6%
10 Lord Elcho Premium Blended 15yr 40%
11 Bunnahabhain Whisky Show 2021 Ester Elektron 2001 19yr 54.3%
12 Linkwood 2009 12yr The Whisky Exchange Cask #695 58.6%
13 Edradour 2009 12yr Sherry Cask #168 56.6% or Edradour 11yr Spec’s Exclusive Cask #347 61.7%
14 Ailsa Bay Sweet Smoke Release 1.2 48.9%
15 Mortlach 2010 Signatory Cask Strength 11yr cask #10 Sherry Butt Finish 57.8%
16 Glen Elgin 2008 Nectar of the Daily Drams 12yr 46%
17 Mackmyra Prestige 46.1%
18 Laphroaig The 1815 Legacy Edition 48%
19 Auchroisk 2000 Old Malt Cask 20yr Cask HL18755 50%
20 Croftengea 2006 15yr The Whisky Exchange 52.6%
21 Octomore 5yr 12.1 5yr The Impossible Equation 130.8ppm 59.9% or Octomore 5yr 12.2 The Impossible Equation 129.7ppm 57.3%
22 Blair Athol 2008 Signatory Cask Strength 12yr 54.3% Cask #2 Sherry Butt Finished
23 Dailuaine 2008 Signatory Un-chillfiltered 13yr casks #800042+800043 46% Bourbon Barrels
24 A Fine Christmas Malt 2021 16yr TWE Exclusive 53.2%42

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PAX Americana – The Great Paxarette Experiment

Paxarette/Pajarete is a very sweet dessert wine from Spain that was once used to season sherry casks until it was banned by SWA decades ago. Many who have had pre-ban sherried whisky have thought that they are better than current versions.

Over two years ago, Scotch Club purchased pajarete from a small shop in Spain and, with much difficulty (and the loss of one bottle), got it to San Diego. With it we began an experiment with six identical casks at Liberty Call Distilling. Three were pressurized with pajarete at 7 psi for 10 minutes and three left as they were.  All were filled with the same whisky, made by Liberty Call.  After 28 months of aging they were bottled and tasted blindly in an event exclusively for lifetime members of Scotch Club.  When the online and offline votes were tallied, the Paxed-cask whisky was preferred by 75% of the samplers.

The remaining whisky has been bottled and is being sold in paired sets of 375ml each by Liberty Call. $60 for the set.  Judge for yourself!

PURCHASE HERE

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Advent Calendar Review – Andy Smith

CLUB MEMBERS:

For those curious about the Advent calendar, I am posting my reviews. Keep in mind that these are just ONE PERSON’s opinion and isn’t a definitive answer on what these should be ranked. As with all of my reviews, I post them on lawhiskeysociety.com (where many other LAWS members also post reviews.) It was easiest/fastest to just screenshot my reviews from there. They are in order of Advent tasting 1 -25. The two rums (day 6 and day 20) were not reviewed. Cheers! (and don’t take these too seriously)

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Burns Poem 2020 – Orange County

IT’S ON THE FUCKING SITE

There you are, sprawled on the couch, with bottles on your crotch
You’re binging TV reruns, while you’re buzzed on crappy scotch
But then somehow, a feeling strikes, something much like shame
That dramming scotch with Scooby Doo might be a little lame

Yes, you think, I must resume to drink the scotch of kings
Like Family Cask Glenfarclas, and those other malty things
You toss out all the Dewars from your “Do Not Take Home Glass”
And vow to go to Scotch Club, instead of lying on your ass

You ask your favorite boozy friend who thinks the club meets soon
And if it’s on a night you’re free, that’d be most opportune
“But how, but when, but what,” you think, “I don’t know where to go”
Yet you don’t look on Google, cause, well, I don’t fucking know

You quickly turn to Facebook, Zucker’s sleezy habitat.
It’s that place you blast your politics and pictures of your cat
You find the Scotch Club group page, and before you think, you type
May I suggest, before you ask, you try the fucking site.

Yes, we have a website, it’s something you forgot
And if you say it’s hard to find. No, really, dude, it’s not
How ’bout trying this neat trick, I swear it’s not bizzare
Type scotch, then club, then add dot com. Was that so fucking hard?

Just open up a browser on that phone inside your palm
Then click into the address bar and type scotchclub.com
And if you see our logo, then my friend you’ve done it right
It took you 15 seconds, but you found the fucking site

Our site will have your answers, though it doesn’t look so great
It’s a page that’d be impressive, back in 1998
Yes, Scotch Club has a web page, and it’s working day and night
So if you’ve got a question, why not try the fucking site

“Oh dear, oh dear, what time is it? The email didn’t say.”
“I can’t have drinks with Scotch Club if they won’t tell me the day”
Remember, please, my dear WEE brain, before you start the tears
Our site has posted time and date, for 14 fucking years

“But where, oh where’s this meeting at?” Is what you start to moan.
Although you know the restaurant name and have a fucking phone.
Yes, a thousand dollar wonder with a navigation app
Plus, on our godammed fucking site, we link the fucking map

We paid two thousand bucks for this domain to be our home
But if you tell my wife that, I’ll be sleeping all alone
You won’t find any sports scores there, but then again you might
Find something about scotch club, on the Scotch Club fucking site.

It’s true that you can contact me if you need help, but look
Do you email Jeff Bezos when you need to buy a book
No, you just find his website, then you go and buy your junk
Our site’s the Amazon.com of getting your ass drunk

So let’s review the point my friends, just so we get it right
Don’t text, don’t post, don’t call my mom, until you try the site
Scotchclub.com’s where you go first, it’s all you need to learn
For fuck’s sake, don’t just go for me, go, for Robbie Burns

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Burns Poem 2020 – San Diego

IT’S ON THE FUCKING SITE
—-with love, from Andy Smith—-
 
 
There you are, sprawled on the couch, with bottles on your crotch
You’re binging TV reruns, while you’re buzzed on crappy scotch
But then somehow, a feeling strikes, something much like shame
That dramming scotch with Scooby Doo might be a little lame

 

Yes, you think, I must resume to drink the scotch of kings
Like Single Cask GlenDronach, and those other malty things
You toss out all the Dewars from your “Do Not Take Home Glass”
And vow to go to Scotch Club, instead of lying on your ass

 
You ask your favorite boozy friend who thinks the club meets soon
And if it’s on a night you’re free, that’d be most opportune
“But how, but when, but what,” you think, “I don’t know where to go”
Yet you don’t look on Google, cause, well, I don’t fucking know
 
You quickly turn to Facebook, Zucker’s sleazy habitat.
It’s that place you blast your politics and pictures of your cat
You find the Scotch Club group page, and before you think, you type
May I suggest, before you ask, you try the fucking site.
 
Yes, we have a website, it’s something you forgot
And if you say it’s hard to find.  No, really, dude, it’s not
How ’bout trying this neat trick, I swear it’s not bizarre
Type scotch, then club, then add dot com. Was that so fucking hard?
 
Just open up a browser on that phone inside your palm
Then click into the address bar and type scotchclub.com
And if you see our logo, then my friend you’ve done it right
It took you 15 seconds, but you found the fucking site
 
Our site will have your answers, though it doesn’t look so great
It’s a page that’d be impressive, back in 1998
Yes, Scotch Club has a web page, and it’s working day and night
So if you’ve got a question, why not try the fucking site
 
“Oh dear, oh dear, what time is it?  The email didn’t say.”
“I can’t have drinks with Scotch Club if they won’t tell me the day”
Remember, please, my dear WEE brain, before you start the tears
Our site has posted time and date, for 14 fucking years
 
“But where, oh where’s this meeting at?” Is what you start to moan.
Although you know the restaurant name and have a fucking phone.
Yes, a thousand dollar wonder with a navigation app
Plus, on our godammed fucking site, we link the fucking map
 
We paid two thousand bucks for this domain to be our home
But if you tell my wife that, I’ll be sleeping all alone
You won’t find any sports scores there, but then again you might
Find something about scotch club, on the Scotch Club fucking site.
 
It’s true that you can contact me if you need help, but look
Do you email Jeff Bezos when you need to buy a book
No, you just find his website, then you go and buy your junk
Our site’s the Amazon.com of getting your ass drunk
 
So let’s review the point my friends, just so we get it right
Don’t text, don’t post, don’t call my mom, until you try the site
Scotchclub.com’s where you go first, it’s all you need to learn
For fuck’s sake, don’t just go for me, go, for Robbie Burns

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Burns Poem 2020 – Los Angeles

IT’S ON THE FUCKING SITE
with love, from Andy Smith

There you are, sprawled on the couch, with bottles on your crotch
You’re binging TV reruns, while you’re buzzed on crappy scotch
But then somehow, a feeling strikes, something much like shame
That dramming scotch with Scooby Doo might be a little lame

Yes, you think, I must resume to drink the scotch of kings
Like That Boutique-y Whisky, and those other malty things
You toss out all the Dewars from your “Do Not Take Home Glass”
And vow to go to Scotch Club, instead of lying on your ass

You ask your favorite boozy friend who thinks the club meets soon
And if it’s on a night you’re free, that’d be most opportune
“But how, but when, but what,” you think, “I don’t know where to go”
Yet you don’t look on Google, cause, well, I don’t fucking know

You quickly turn to Facebook, Zucker’s sleezy habitat.
It’s that place you blast your politics and pictures of your cat
You find the Scotch Club group page, and before you think, you type
May I suggest, before you ask, you try the fucking site.

Yes, we have a website, it’s something you forgot
And if you say it’s hard to find. No, really, dude, it’s not
How ’bout trying this neat trick, I swear it’s not bizzare
Type scotch, then club, then add dot com. Was that so fucking hard?

Just open up a browser on that phone inside your palm
Then click into the address bar and type scotchclub.com
And if you see our logo, then my friend you’ve done it right
It took you 15 seconds, but you found the fucking site

Our site will have your answers, though it doesn’t look so great
It’s a page that’d be impressive, back in 1998
Yes, Scotch Club has a web page, and it’s working day and night
So if you’ve got a question, why not try the fucking site

“Oh dear, oh dear, what time is it? The email didn’t say.”
“I can’t have drinks with Scotch Club if they won’t tell me the day”
Remember, please, my dear WEE brain, before you start the tears
Our site has posted time and date, for 14 fucking years

“But where, oh where’s this meeting at?” Is what you start to moan.
Although you know the restaurant name and have a fucking phone.
Yes, a thousand dollar wonder with a navigation app
Plus, on our godammed fucking site, we link the fucking map

We paid two thousand bucks for this domain to be our home
But if you tell my wife that, I’ll be sleeping all alone
You won’t find any sports scores there, but then again you might
Find something about scotch club, on the Scotch Club fucking site.

It’s true that you can contact me if you need help, but look
Do you email Jeff Bezos when you need to buy a book
No, you just find his website, then you go and buy your junk
Our site’s the Amazon.com of getting your ass drunk

So let’s review the point my friends, just so we get it right
Don’t text, don’t post, don’t call my mom, until you try the site
Scotchclub.com’s where you go first, it’s all you need to learn
For fuck’s sake, don’t just go for me, go, for Robbie Burns!