A pair of German whiskies from a long weekend in Mannheim. I should have paid for checked luggage just so I could have brought back a full bottle or 2 of that Black Forest triple wood 🤤

Dram 4 from #AnnandaleWhisky: Man O'Swords STR Ex-Red Wine Cask. Have I broken my nose? I'm getting a gentle sweet peat funk, and not much else. But my wife is getting pineapple and tropical fruit, which I think is the sweetness my broken nose caught 🤣

Dram 3 from #AnnandaleWhisky: Man O'Swords Ex-Olorosso Sherry Cask. First thing on the nose is medicinal peat, seaweed and salt. Beneath the peat is the same sweet fruitiness from the previous drams. And maybe something like vanilla toffee.

Dram 2 from #AnnandaleWhisky: Man O'Words Double-Oaked Ex-Bourbon Cask. The nose is big and sweet. Lots of dried fruit and vanilla ice cream. Brandy butter in there too.

Dram 1 from #AnnandaleWhisky: Man O'Words Fresh Ex-Bourbon Cask. Nose straight out of the bottle was butter and straw. With a few minutes in the glass it opens into something fresher with apples and bright spices.

Lovely weekend in the Cambridgeshire sun.

Good morning.

Good weather. Good whisky. PX cask at 56.7% and it goes down very easy. The nose is just Christmas cake. The palate has loads of sweet tropical fruits, with a dried fruit finish that dissolves into oak (maybe a bit too woody at the very end).

Apple trees are in full bloom 😊

Think I got a little drunk off a Torabhaig ice cream. Delicious, but glad I didn't have the car.

A sad bottle kill last night ☹️ Loved this @glasgowdc.bsky.social #whisky from @nononsensewhisky.com We need another collaboration guys!

The cat enjoys whisky for a slightly different reason to me.

Woke up to a light dusting of snow in Cambridgeshire, which meant our cat could get out in the white stuff for the first time. She likes hunting her own paw prints 🐾

Merry Christmas! Ending advent with this dram from the calendar 🥃

Christmas dinner in a sandwich 🤤

Opening a bottle of Bimber that's been on the shelf a while 😁🥃

The advent calendar had something unexpected today - a lost distillery and an impressive age statement. I do like a grain, so this will be interesting.

A canned mizunara highball all the way from Japan. Should be an interesting one.

Advent calendar under way. 12yo Glen Elgin today

Souvenir of the airport duty free 😁

Hanoi in the sun for lunch 🍻

16 down, 4 to go. Struggling on the hair, cup, holiday books (year), and blanket. #HiddenBooksGame

Had this little guy in the garden this morning - a hummingbird hawk moth. Fast little bugger made it very difficult to photograph with a phone 😂 but an amazing creature to see in person.

4 years married to this incredible woman = sushi and whisky 🥃🍣

Bit cold for ice cream, but I could probably be persuaded to have a @circumstancewhisky.bsky.social gelato from Jack's in Cambridge 🥃🍦

Just opened this month's @summertonclub.com bottle, a 20yo Invergordon finished in amarone casks. Such a good cask choice! Well done, Dan 👏

Autumnal tumbler for an easy-drinking Green Spot.

#BlindDrams 5 nose is Frazzles. Then leather, and something fruity underneath.

Nose on #BlindDram 4 hit me with feints to start. There's some good wood smoke once the glass has cleared. Proper bonfire. Some white pepper there too.

#BlindDrams 3 nose: Smelt like something I want from Christmas after resting - sweet and smoky. But agitating it gives more funk and dirty peat.

#BlindDrams number 2. Good bit of peat on the nose. Not overpowering, just a nice smokiness.

First #BlindDrams starts with lots of sweetness and orchard fruit on the nose. Smells peppery too. Something more savoury when you go back to it. Palate brings something funky. More savoury. Big alcohol kick.

Ready for my first #BlindDrams. It's making the room smell amazing.

I've always liked Lochlea, and this one's delicious. Much smoother and more rounded than the first couple of crops.

Getting painfully close to the end of this one. And just as we're getting to peated season.

Whiskers and whisky. My cat with a Summerton bottle of Mackmyra from three years ago.

4 years since killing a bottle of @bimberdistillery.bsky.social on my stag do at Milroy's. That was a good day 🥃

Love this place - a horse box serving amazing beer in a paddock. It's the Dinky Drinky Box in Toseland.

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Wasn't sure about this one from SMWS - very hot, even with plenty of water. But put it in a high ball and it really comes to life. It's very dry and coconutty, like eating the flesh of a brown coconut.

Getting into the Cask Share tasting set with Raasay's 5yo chinkapin oak. I prefer the nose in this to the palette.

Birthday lunch. Forgot to take pictures of the food, but the cocktails were great and the whisky list decent.

Onions and shallots out drying in the sun, new potatoes harvested. Anyone have any onion/potato recipes?

Getting into the latest whisky from @summertonclub.com today. How's your Sunday going?

Opening night at a new tapas place in town. Their dishwasher and till broke down, but the food was great.

Friday's dram is an English from @summertonclub.com Goes down very nicely on a hot, humid evening.

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Keep seeing people enjoying drams from @bimberdistillery.bsky.social but I don't have an open bottle at the moment, so here's the Hong Kong edition from a couple of years ago.

Just a small one for a Wednesday... Just ignore the ABV.

An interesting one that'll take some time to work out, I think. Definitely delivers on the coconut promise, though.