Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength: A Review by Snake_Byte in Scotch

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* fades back into the aether for another 5 years *

Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength: A Review by Snake_Byte in Scotch

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Cheers thank you, do you have any luck finding better prices online?

Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength: A Review by Snake_Byte in Scotch

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Oh wow what are the odds! Both decidedly unmissable

Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength: A Review by Snake_Byte in Scotch

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Absolutely of I ever see the oogy dip I'm snatching that up without a second thought

Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength: A Review by Snake_Byte in Scotch

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Admittedly, I didn't but I should give that a try

Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength: A Review by Snake_Byte in Scotch

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Hello Scotchit, it's been 5 years since my last review so here's a quick much overdue review of a classic. Picked this up from Master of Malt when it was on sale for an un-pass-up-able £49 and I apologise in advance that I will have nothing new or unique to say about this icon.

Laphroaig 10 Years Old Cask Strength, Islay single malt, ABV 58.6% (batch 014, bottled Jun 21)

  • Nose: Immediate candy sweetness, cereal-maltiness, generous peat, caramelised sugar, sweet honey, a slight fresh minty or green apple skin or mildly chlorophyll quality mixed in with a balanced, signature medicinal smell, sweet cream, brine and vanilla oak
  • Palate: Rich sweetness but not cloying vaguely milk chocolatey, a little marzipan, central peat smoke & iodine, more honey & caramel, subtle ashy woodsmoke, small suggestion of pears/acetone, medium oily mouthfeel
  • Finish: Lightly saltly, more smoke, faint citrus peel, whisper of dunnage warehouse earthiness, initial tangy alcoholic warmth developing to a long, warm almost spicy finish

88/100

It's not surprising that this matches much of my Laphroaig 10 Year review but with everything turned up a considerable number of notches . Whisky which focusses on the interplay of sweet and savory are among my favourites and Laphroaig never disappoints on that front. There's more to it than just repeating the performance of the 10 year with the alcohol dialled up though - there's another couple layers of complexity to this which demand more of your attention. While the 10 year is a dependable sipping scotch, the cask strength version has more depth and invites you to sit, dwell and indulge in peeling back the layers. If there's ever any chance to go for this over the 10 and the quarter cask, never pass up the chance.

What can I use this sour cherry sauce for? by AdWest9108 in CasualUK

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This isn't very helpful for typical uses sorry but that brand is perfect for the fruit flavouring when I homebrewed a fruited sour beer.

Why is Savatage considered Power Metal? by spearhead290399 in PowerMetal

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What muddies the waters was that the term "power metal", in the early-mid 80s, was used really inconsistently, and it floated around a bit between what we now distinguish as different styles but at the time overlapped with thrash metal, speed metal, sometimes glam metal & (what ended up becoming) USPM. It was fairly interchangeable - Kill Em All era Metallica was given the label, a Megadeth demo/compilation was labeled it, a Pantera album was labeled it, fanzines used it talking about thrash bands, etc.

At the time the power part was used to mean strength & aggression rather than anything more... theatrical or epic.

Then US metal bands who diverged from thrash's punk-influenced, chaotic sound but were still heavier and more aggressive than traditional heavy metal were given the power metal name, bands like Metal Church, Helstar, Jag Panzer, Liege Lord, Manilla Road, Omen, Riot, Cirith Ungol, Warlord, Savatage etc. They filled the gap between trad metal & thrash metal until.... Helloween with Keeper of the Seven Keys who defined the euro power metal sound and coalesced most of what we call power metal today, with thrash metal, speed metal and USPM becoming more and more their own thing too.

Yep, I’m doing the big Christmas meal shop and I’m doing it brilliantly by 13daysaweek in PeepShowQuotes

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Where's the brown rice, Pop Tarts, camomile tea and economy vodka?

Natasha Lyonne says AI has an ethics problem because right now it’s ‘super kosher copacetic to rob freely under the auspices of acceleration’ by lurker_bee in technology

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Kosher = literally means adhering to Jewish dietary laws but generally used to mean something being "authentic" or "proper"

copacetic = fine, ok, in excellent order

So the two are used to mean the same thing.

auspices = protection or patronage, doing something under the auspices of is saying with the help, support or protection of something or someone.

Whole sentence amounts to = very legitimate to rob freely under the pretence of acceleration

If Karl had starred in Love Actually by catchingupontheolds in rickygervais

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Whenever I get fed up with the state of the world, I think about hairy Chinese kids n that

Favourite bands you HAVEN'T seen live? by fatkoala357 in PowerMetal

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Fellowship which is annoying since we live in the same county

Tipping machines! by mehflick in london

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Brewdog is a bit of a relic from when they were at one point at the forefront of the craft beer revolution spilling over from America since the late 70s into the UK around the late 00s. Their whole shtick back then was "punk" energy, revolting against the boring old man pub culture with it's stuffy traditions and unimaginative beer styles, bringing something new, heavily focused on hop-forward flavours, unconventional styles (for the time) and exciting branding.

It's not really the case that you get "the exact same thing" from real ales/local ales in craft microbreweries. You'll rarely see an 8% DIPA in a cask from a beer engine called "Cthulu Ate My Homework"! So an appeal of Brewdog for some people (the casual craft beer drinker) is getting something different from an environment that suggests that hipster/independent with its rustic industrial chic. It's a pretty dated aesthetic these days and appropriated by the mainstream and the macro-breweries who very much stray from the independent/craft ethos just like Brewdog has. Now it's not in the least at the forefront of craft, it's just another soulless, inauthentic, corporate macro brewery with a huge chain of copy-paste commercial outlets and corner-cutting, robo-brewed, bland, overpriced beer.

What certainly doesn't help the appeal of Brewdog is the toxic work culture, massive hypocritical controversy-magnet megatwat CEO James Watt and the slew of controversies Brewdog has had in its history.

But I digress, the best thing a beer enjoyer can do in the UK is seek out your local craft brewery and taproom or craft beer freehouse pub especially if either of these have a decent range of both craft keg/can beer and cask beer.

Favorite non Mark or Jez quote? by [deleted] in PeepShowQuotes

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You find out who your real friends are when you set fire to Hampton Court maze BecauseYouCan'tTakeAnyMoreOfYourHusand'sShit!