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dan_the_tax_man

Battle of the (Budget) Blended Scotch Whiskies - Group A

Jun 27, 2013 10:30

About a month ago, I wrote about our group's decision to conduct a Battle of the (Budget) Blended Scotch Whiskies. Things have moved forward since then. In fact, we've had two sessions, the first of which, Group A, took place on May 31st, 2013, although we had to make some last minute change-ups to the fight card (and this will become a ( Read more... )

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ext_1077439 June 28 2013, 15:44:21 UTC

Very cool. Looking forward to another round of these battles.

Ballantine's Finest - although it's not great, I certainly don't DISlike it. I wouldn't turn down a glass if offered one. Yours was really that horrendous eh?

dan_the_tax_man July 5 2013, 14:45:10 UTC

Oh, it was bad, even worse than I remembered, and we didn't even know it was Ballantine's at the time (found out at the end).

I've never been a Ballantine's fan, and even the 17 year old we had at the Scotchtoberfest Blends event was pretty 'meh', and definitely not worth the price.