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Burns Supper, like Easter, is arriving late this year. Please join us for this weekend for Supper, Haggis, good poems, bad poems, and a lot of great scotch. This year, one of San Diego's favorite non-distilleries will be presenting, Compass Box. This independent blender takes scotch from all over Scotland and makes it into something …
An Early Celebration: St. Patrick’s Day is Sunday, March 17th! March is the right month to explore Irish whiskey, so let’s cover the full range with 2 single malts, 2 single pot stills, 1 malt whiskey, and 1 blended whiskey. Slane Castle is a triple blend (of single malt, single pot still & grain whiskies) …
We will continue our exploration of the "Five Whisky Regions" by visiting the Lowlands. We've collected examples from all six working distilleries that currently have whisky on the market. Is there such a thing as a "Lowland style?" We'll find out as we try these rare bottles, including an Eden Mill Distillery, making us some …
Club Tasting with Comandon
SFSC is finally beginning! We will be meeting at the private room of Elixir on Thursday at 7pm. Rory Glasgow will be pouring GlenDronach, Glenglassaugh, and BenRiach. Come visit me and a few other club members from LA and SD as we sip whisky and discuss whatever plan you have for the club (will probably …
We shall go to the North and begin our watch. Winter is coming. Yeah, screw spring. SDSC will be enjoying a heavily subsidized Game of Thrones Premiere Scotch Drinking event thanks to a generous donation from Nim Shah. Starting at 5 we'll start prior episodes of GOT. Food at 6. Official GOT Diageo release tasting …
Some of you have been waiting for years. The glassware has been printed since 2016. The logo was made. We just needed to finally meet and drink scotch. THE TIME HAS COME! It will be a humble beginning, but begin it shall and scotch will flow. Join us as we try four single malt whiskies …
“Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” (A reference to Captain Fraser, the founder of Brackla Distillery who was a career soldier, a battlefield-commissioned officer and quiet a character, and Major James Grant, the founder of Glen Grant, who was both a legendary distillery manager and highly-decorated combat commander.) Let’s begin with Glen Grant …
I love Glen Grant. More specifically Old Sherried Glen Grant. I've sourced four of these rare bottles at a cost of over $2000 so that a small group of us may gather and share some of the best scotch on Earth. We'll gather at a private home in Mid-wilshire. Tickets will be $100 for four …
The whisky world worships maturity, with age statements of even basic expressions pushing higher and higher all of the time. But in the last couple of years, connoisseurs have been rediscovering the joys of younger, more sprightly drams. Whisky producers, from independent bottlers to the distilling giants, have been releasing expressions with single digit ages. …
I love Glen Grant. More specifically Old Sherried Glen Grant. I've sourced four of these rare bottles at a cost of over $2000 so that a small group of us may gather and share some of the best scotch on Earth. Tickets will be $105 for four 1oz pours of the Old Glen Grant or …
Our second event will feature Callum O'Donnell of Aberlour. We've rented a big quiet room to spend a few hours with this great whisky. In addition to the whisky listed, Callum is going to bring a few other surprises plus swag. SWAG! We've got the build up the club, so as a special deal our …
Last month we tasted a group of young, very peaty whiskies. This month we tackle some youngsters with no more than a whisper of peat. We've assembled a collection six bottles, from a "yesterday we couldn't call it whisky" three year old from the newest distillery in the Highlands, to an "almost grown-up" nine from …
SOLD OUT Henry and Nikki Preiss, the father and daughter team running Preiss Imports want to show you their whisky. Preiss imports many, many spirits from around the world, …
The Denver Scotch Club continues its effort to taste every scotch ever made... a few at time.
An exploration of high end blended scotch
“Sure, you’ve been invited to lunch… but have you ever been invited to launch?” NASA-Atlanta: we have a ‘go’ for launch! There’s no better way to introduce 4 new BenRiach …
An exploration of high end blended scotch
"Saturday Will Never Be the Same" (To modify the title of a 1967 song): A better theme for our Saturday afternoon single malt tasting would surely be “A flight of …
In 2014, LA Scotch Club met months before Peatin' Meetin' for a little BBQ to get the season going... and we're going to do it again. Join us for an ol' school night of peat smoked bbq and peated whisky. This year we're going to feature Kilchoman distillery, but this is no little sponsored tasting, …