A couple of weeks ago the tasting of the evening was from five closed distilleries, a very enjoyable sitdown with a large crowd at the local nmwl. Littlemill, 1991, 16 yo, 46 % (Murray McDavid) Nose: this has to be one of the stranges associations I’ve ever had in a whisky – every year at [...]
Last week the time came for a Ardbeg Supernova tasting at Jekylls in Oslo, hosted by Chris Maile. The basement of Jekylls filled pretty much up and we were presented with a introduction by Chris about the Ardbeg distillery. Then there was the tasting, first we tasted the new Renaissance before we digged into the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I sat down on a nmwl with 5 10yo whiskies in front of me to taste blind. This is always a good exercise since you don’t pre-judge based on the label of the bottle, everyone should try this from time to time just to see what happens. We got a [...]
Today I have set up planet-whisky.com: a site that aggregates whisky blogs and news from around the world into one easy-to-read overview of what’s happening in the whisky world. The site fetches RSS feeds from various sources that I have picked out on a regular basis (once every hour ). You can of course use [...]
This week I ended up at the nmwl meeting where topic of the night was Flora and Fauna – this is the unofficial name of a series of malt whisky from Diageo/United Distillers ( originally coined by Michael Jackson after the decor on the bottles, and the term just stuck), we tasted 5 different bottles [...]
The Drammies 2008 awards has been anounced, and you should take some time to send them a email with your votes: What’s with the email anyway, where’s the online form that I can submit? Anyway, I’ve submitted my votes and here are my votes for 2008:
The Malt Whisky yearbook is now up to its fourth edition – 2009, and last weekend I finally got some time to read through it ( waiting on the airport always gives me the opportunity ). So I thought I’d put up a quick review of this edition.
Last week I suddenly found out that a trip to Bergen was in order, I haven’t seen some of my friends for a long time, so tickets was ordered, hotell booked and then it hit me: I have recently tried the Ardbeg 1974 and knew that there was one bottle left at the state run [...]
Wednesday the target for the evening was jekylls in Oslo, a wonderful pub with a range of good whiskies and a competent staff that alwyas is there to help you out with suggestions and information on bottles. It’s also the only pub in Norway with a cask behind the bar: a Highland Park 12yo sherry [...]
Working at the technology team in fronter I see a lot of code, and I review patches on a daily basis. One thing you learn after a while is to see beyond the code that is in front of you: patterns emerge, you start to see problems that can arise because of a patch that [...]