The Basics: Do I recommend it?: For fans of lighter malts, yes; for the rest, skip on down. Availability: Auction only ABV: 58.1% (cask strength) Presentation: Unspecified General information: n/a Bottling type: Proprietary Character: Citric, grassy and herbal. Score: 80/100 The details: Auchroisk was built in 1972 by IDV, the parent firm of Justerini & Brooks. From the start, the…

Auchroisk 13 Year (2006) SMWS 95.33 Full-bodied with a tannic grip Review by: zSolaris Distillery: Auchroisk. Bottler: SMWS. Region: Speyside. Age: 13 year. Distilled January 16, 2006. Bottled in 2019. ABV: 58.1%. Cask Number: 95.33. Cask Type: 2nd fill ex-red wine barrique finish. Price: A mystery courtesy of /u/b1uepenguin. You can see his take on this whisky on his website. Color:…

Review by: The Muskox Auchroisk has been one of my least-favourite distilleries for some time now. It’s not that I’ve had lots of horrendous whiskies from them, as is my experience with Deanston and Jura, but all the Auchroisks I’ve tried are just so dull. Ho-hum malt and caramel and not much else. Distillery: Auchroisk. Bottler: Thompson Bros. Region: Speyside. ABV: 48.3%. Cask…

Review by: The Muskox This is review 3/6 of the SMWS’s December 2023 outturn, which I tasted alongside my man rye_am_legend at the venerable Jack Rose Dining Saloon in Washington, D.C. We tried these whiskies blind, so all my notes and my score are pre-reveal. Apologies for briefer notes than usual – we tried quite a pile of whiskies that evening! Distillery: Auchroisk. Bottler: Scotch Malt…

Review by: Wryan Distillery: Auchroisk. Region: Mulben, Banffshire. ABV: 60.3%. Age: 12 Years. Cask type: Refill Butt. Price: $60. Color: 0.1-0.2 White Wine – Pale Straw. Natural Color. No chill filtration. Tasting Notes Tasted neat in a Glencairn with 15+ minutes of rest. Dilution was added for the second half of the tasting with an additional rest of upwards of an hour. This review…

Review by: Whiskery Turnip Distillery: Auchroisk. Bottler: Single Cask Nation. Region: Scotland/Speyside Single Malt. ABV: 55%. Cask Strength. Age: 26 Years. Distilled in Aug. 1996. Bottled in Aug. 2022. Cask type: 2nd Fill Hogshead, Caroni Rum Cask (5Y). Nose: Orange and ginger, limoncello, honey, tobacco, sawdust, engine grease, antiseptics, olive oil, pepper, subtle cream. Palate:…

Auchroisk 37 Year (1982) Thompson Bros Review by: zSolaris Distillery: Auchroisk. Bottler: Thompson Brothers. Region: Speyside. Age: 37 Year. Distilled 1982. ABV: 48.3%. Cask Type: Refill sherry. Color: 1.3, Russet/Muscat. Nose: Smelling this gave me the mental image of walking into the world’s largest bag of gummy candies. It is fruit gummies galore, ranging from every exotic flavor of…

Review: Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire 10 Years Old from @MasterofMalt #MasterofMalt #whisky #review

Image courtesy of Master of Malt What they say This right here is a 10 year old single malt from an undisclosed distillery on Islay, with 25% of it having been finished in first-fill Oloroso sherry octaves, and bestowed the decidedly descriptive name Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire. If those four words (and three ampersands) aren’t quite enough of an explanation of what this expression is all…