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Tasting in honor of Laphroaig Live 2012, five proposed whiskies. I have all of them but Ardmore so I will taste three Laphroaigs and Connemara.

I missed the online event for a matter of hours so I sorted the whiskies as I though it could be best. I think that the drams has been sorted slightly different on the online tasting with Connemara and Ardmore being tasted in last place.

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Talisker is a great distillery situated on the Isle of Skye on the north of Scotland which now is linked to Scotland using a new bridge inaugurated in 1995.

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UPDATE: Read the tasting I run with all the whiskies tasted at Laphroaig Live 2012 but Ardmore at A Wardrobe of Whisky Laphroaig Live 2012 Tasting

Join us online at Laphroaig Live 2012 that this years will be celebrated at Oktoberfest in Germany.

Laphroaig Live will be online at 21:00 EST ( 20:00 UK ) for everyone to join Laphroaig Distillery Manager John Campbell, Master blender Robert Hicks and two great whisky minds as Bernhard Schäfer and Pierre Thiebaut.

You can join them and me on the a worldwide online tasting of:

• 
  Laphroaig 10 year
  £35.99
• 
  Laphroaig Quarter Cask
  £34.95
• 
  Laphroaig Cairdeas Origin
  
• 
  Ardmore Traditional Cask
  £45.55
• 
  Connemara
  £34.00

So don’t forget to set up your phone alarms for one of the biggest whisky events of the year.

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What would you do with a bottle of the cheapest scotch whisky money can buy?

Well, I though about just throwing it by the sink but then you won’t be reading this awesome investigation article. I could have throw it in some connoiseurs blind tasting but they would hate me for that.

So I decided to use it to do a better-than-the-original whisky liqueur.

So how do you do a whisky liqueur? It is easy! Just add honey, lots of honey and spices and fruits. Sounds easy? Well, I have to say that my respect for liqueur brands has increased as a direct result of my learnings with this experience. It isn’t so easy.

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One of the first things that attracted my focus over Wemyss malts were their awesome names, whiskies like the Hive, Peat Chimney or the extravagant-named single malts can’t be bad. So in one of my whisky raids on The Whisky Exchange I found several miniatures of 8 and 12 years old Wemyss blended malts.

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