Håvard Eide

I have always been a great fan of Ardbeg: the peat, salt and spice always have me wanting more. Until now I’ve enjoyed Nam Beist the most, but I’ve always been looking at a bottle of Ardbeg 1974 at the pub, meaning to sample it one of these days ( the pricetag alone have been the part that have stopped me ). In 2007 I went to a tasting with Jim Murray at the norwegian whisky festival where he described the 1974 Ardbeg as the ultimate in whisky, followed up by tasting 7 different Ardbegs with a representative of the Ardbeg distillery. But sadly the 1974 never came up that evening.
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nmwl is the Norwegian Malt Whisky Society, and once a month we meet up 30-40 people or so and taste our way through a lot of good whisky. The first meeting of 2009 took place on wednesday in the new meeting place in Oslo, and the topic of the night was “Old whisky”. Last year my attendance at the meetings was poor at best, they always seemed to be on the nights where I either had to work or something else came up. This year though I’m planning to attend more since the range of whisky you can taste is very good!
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The people that know me have over the years *slowly* figured out that I’m a big whisky fan: I’m a member of the norwegian malt whisky association, me and some friends come together to taste whiskies and enjoy the flavors that it brings. If I have to choose I’d go for some Islay whisky, but tasting is fun, so every now and then I’ll gather up some notes when I taste something new or have had a tasting night with the nmwl or my friends.
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