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They let us taste 3 casks of #laphroaig & take some home. Oddly 15yo soft&smart, 9yo narrow & no smoke, almost all of us preferred 12yo about 2 hours ago via Seesmic
All the #Laphroaig in the whole world ever is made in the buildings around me. Swoony smell of brine from the sea & malt in the air #FeisIle about 7 hours ago via Seesmic
@DaveGorman @i_nesbot nice, but GB for name of country is (like the Scottish verse) short lived & long gone.1707-1800. UK since then. about 10 hours ago via Seesmic in reply to DaveGorman
To the heaviest, punchiest, smokiest whisky distillery of all, #Laphroaig for #FeisIle 2012. Stop your grinnin & drop your linen. about 10 hours ago via Seesmic
@jamesblundell 1 bottle between big cycle stints. "Equiv" in alcohol content (much of it was cask strength, some straight from cask!) about 11 hours ago via Seesmic in reply to jamesblundell
Y'day I woke @ 6, cycled 24 miles, drank equiv of bottle of whisky, cycled 22 miles, ate curry, put up tent in midgey gloom #Islaydecathlon about 11 hours ago via Seesmic
...but still with all that definitive fat soft warmth that makes #CaolIla one of the truly great whiskies about 22 hours ago via Seesmic
#FeisIle surprise of the day at #CaolIla is the unpeated; amazing how much character in it - bright, fruity, sherbet, coconut, penny chews about 22 hours ago via Seesmic
Monday is #CaolIla day! Bruichladdich Organic is the best breakfast whisky in town. #FeisIle 12:26 AM May 28th via Seesmic
@bengoldacre indeed, almost as if it were designed to make them look bad bit.ly/Kx1FVF 3:14 PM May 27th via Seesmic in reply to bengoldacre
Here's @Miffyonabike outside the #Bruichladdich distillery,#FeisIle bottle in 1 hand, jubilee Lambrini in other twitpic.com/9q036f 12:00 PM May 27th via Seesmic
@catvincent the Bruichladdich Barolo bottling is stunning. Will be cycling mine around for a week & eventually sharing it with you guys 11:10 AM May 27th via Seesmic
So, @Miffyonabike leaves #Bruichladdich distillery open day, a £100 bottle of whisky in 1 hand, a Jubilee bottle of Lambrini in the other... 10:01 AM May 27th via Seesmic
#Bruichladdich's special #FeisIle bottling, 20yo in Barolo cask less than 1K bottled, is a pinnacle of human artistry. Epic fruity glory 9:50 AM May 27th via Seesmic
#Bruichladdich's peated expression Port Charlotte disappointing, stills too tall to make dirty smoky spirit 9:46 AM May 27th via Seesmic
Sunday #FeisIle at Bruichladdich. Big open day, part creative intelligent independent distillery, part Craggy Island fete 9:45 AM May 27th via Seesmic
@catvincent they do all play Rockin All Over The World, which is broadly internationalist 3:24 PM May 26th via Seesmic in reply to catvincent
How many different tedious pub covers bands are there called Contraband? Is it some kind of franchise? 2:41 PM May 26th via Seesmic
@punkscience Meths. Available everywhere, more sustainable. But yeah, hums to high heaven. 9:16 AM May 26th via Seesmic in reply to punkscience
8yo sherry cask #Lagavulin, & 46yo, both drawn from the cask & frankly the old one's characterless but the 8's a worldbeater #FeisIle 3:40 AM May 26th via Seesmic