Speaking of our “Battle of the Glen’s” idea from last week, we go here to Glenfarclas with a 105 proof whiskey that is best described by Buster Poindexter (hot, hot, hot)
Wormtown Tennessee Tats Stout
Wormtown Tennessee Tats Stout: 5.,5 – This has all the makings of a barrel aged stout, the heaviness, gravity and sweetness. Nothing special though beyond the type
Price Average: $12 for Half-Growler
Website: http://wormtownbrewery.com/
Quilmes Cerveza
Quilmes: 3.0 – That doesn’t taste like a beer. You can tell there is some sort of wheat or grain product that it comes from and that’s it really. Not strong or complex either just like grain in a wet sock or something. This is sad because making an Argentina beer a ‘6’ would have been funny
Price $3
Website: www.quilmes.com.au/
Count: 43/71
Glen Garioch 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 750mL
We begin our month of scotch with something a little more on the lower end. Glen Garioch is by no means a bad scotch, but when you compare it to other highland scotchs even the basics of Highland Park are better. If you don’t read anything further just please go find a better highland scotch, maybe an Ardmore or Deanston’s.
Smuttynose Smut Labs Nott Dark Farmhouse Ale
Nott: 7.0 –There’s a lot of head, but that makes sense for a farmhouse and ‘lab’ beer. The darkness though is what adds the extra level of flavor that makes it good.
Price Average: $12
Website: https://smuttynose.com/
Sagres
Name: 5.5 – It actually tastes quite nice, if only for the 0.3 seconds it hangs around to provide a taste. This really is like a mayfly. You wish it’d just keep going. But no. nothing spectacular or great. But something there, and then go before you realize.
Price $7
Website: http://www.centralcervejasbebidas.pt/
Count: 42/71
The Botanist Gin 750mL
Before we delve into another month or so of scotch (we went to Scotland, fight us. Good news is it will end with a distillery tour of Oban, including special versions!) we’ll first review a gin. From Scotland. What we didn’t feel like going that far.
