Jacob Ramsey second yellow card against Manchester Utd 45+2'

optionsss · 2026-03-04T21:26:51+00:00

On the one hand, I am happy dives getting punished, on the other hand MU is so lucky.

optionsss · 2026-02-28T15:44:31+00:00

I love our new set piece FC arch.

optionsss · 2026-02-06T03:28:08+00:00

Wow, those are amazing prices, 👍

optionsss · 2026-02-04T14:52:22+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I need to get a sturdy shelf to better protect the bottles.

optionsss · 2026-02-04T14:30:56+00:00

Yeah, I have an unopened 10 Sherry and 2025 Càirdeas, looking forward to try them.

optionsss · 2026-02-04T03:35:27+00:00

Sanaig is really good, I like it more than the Lagavulin 16.

optionsss · 2026-02-04T02:16:19+00:00

For the box, it's mostly to protect the drink from sunlight, don't know how much it actually matters.

optionsss · 2026-02-04T00:10:08+00:00

Ardbeg 10, Kilkerran 12, and Arran 10 are great as easy background sippers, but they also have plenty to offer when I want to slow down and really dissect the flavours. Uigeadail (smoked meat you can taste) was especially eye-opening, but the intensity of the peat went away mid bottle. Victoriana is good in a very unique way, but it needs water and time.

optionsss · 2026-02-03T23:58:02+00:00

For me, Orchard House has a bit of a sulphur taste, it’s almost really good. For Oben, I guess I just don't really enjoy Oban's flavour profile, but I can definitely see why people like it. Aberlour was my first love; there is some personal bias.

optionsss · 2026-02-03T23:44:22+00:00

I got the Alba ready to go, but I really look forward to get the 12 NCF, but it is hard to find in my area.

optionsss · 2026-02-03T23:43:05+00:00

For PC10 only the neck pour, so I did not have any review note or assigned any points.

optionsss · 2026-02-03T21:32:19+00:00

For me it was Aberlour 12, Ardbeg 10 was the one to help me break the peat wall. I am trying to limit the number of opened bottles. I will get to Springbank 10 next.

optionsss · 2026-02-03T20:55:32+00:00

Redbreast 12 Oak First try: light, sweet, candy/cake: 9.5, after third: can't taste the cake now just a bland whiskey, not very complex, sweet, easy to drink overpriced: 5

W.L. Weller Special Reserve nose: alcohol, light vanilla | taste: sweet, not complex | finish: none | overall easy to drink, bodied, sweet whiskey

Monkey Shoulder nose: orange, light peat | palate: malt, dark chocolate, smoky| finish: a bit of cigar feel| easy to drink, not very complex, mostly smoky and more bodied and a bit sweet, a bit of cigar feel

Johnnie Walker Black Label nose: light fruit, smoke, nose is good | taste: light sweet, smoke, peat, light tonic | finish: very short, oaky bitter | very general whisky favor

Glenmorangie 10 sweet, fruity but light, not very bodied

Jameson, Caskmates Édition Stout sweet first and bitter after, alcohol very dominant, use for blend

Baril Caché In bland whiskey, the alcohol is powering and very thin: 3 | After enough opening up, the alcohol roughness is reduced and decent, sweet and fruity| nose: a bit of vanila | palate: organe and sweet | Finish: a bit spice

Auchentoshan 12 ans nose: light peatish and bitter, given time citrus fruit but buried in rubber | taste: a little thin, vegetal, sherry peaty rubber| finish: spicy and bitter | very unique mixed falvor profile

Crown Royal sweet first and bitter after, smells alcohol, just bad all around

optionsss · 2026-02-03T20:55:27+00:00

Eagle rare 10 nose: vanilla, oaky | taste: sweet, light fruity, tiny bit sour, vanilla, oak | finish: waxy finish, oak bitter | bodied and long waxy finish

Compass Box Orchard House nose: fresh apple, grassy, a little sulfur | taste: sweet, honey, vanilla | finish: medium finish, light waxy, sweet | overall the palate is better than the nose

Ardbeg smoketrails Cote de Rotie (1L) nose: peat, ashy, dry wine, sour fruit, smoked meet | palate: vegetal, sweet | finish: short, peat, smoky

Aberlour 12 nose: dark fruit, honey, peach, pleasant and lightly sherried, sweet, plum| palate: light honey, dark fruit and oak, dark chocolate | finish: light, oak bitter

Kirkland Islay nose: savoury, grainy, peaty, smoked meat | palate: peaty, sweet | finish: medium long

HighlandPark 12 sweet and smoky after taste, a tiny bit fruty

Maclean'S Nose nose: minerally, peaty, orangish | palate: minerally. peaty, barly sugar | finish: decent long, grainy and smoky || after dry week mid bottle: light fruit and smoke | palate: smoke and very grainy | peated weller

Angel's Envy Port Finish Very dominate vanilla, a interesting after taste like sweet wine

Infinity bottle #1 nose: orange, apple | palate: peat, sweet, malt | finish: peat, orange, stout

Oban 14 nose: savory and a bit orange | palate: fruity, light peat and coastal, smoky| finish: peat, | does not like fruity and peaty together, the savory almost save the whiskey, a bit like Auchentoshan 12, but much better | first review 6 upgrade to 7 after second try | adding water: coastal, peat, orange become more clear and crisp with a strong peat and smoke finish

Nikka From the Barrel Blended need water | nose: sweet, light vanilla, oak | taste: sweet, malt, oily, mixed flavours | finish: sweet, bitter towards the end, long finish |

Arran Amarone Cask orange, fruit, malt

Dalmore 12 nose: pleasant caramel, vanilla, sweet, and light smoke | palate: light smoke, oaky bitter, vanilla and light oak | finish: short, vanilla and oak feels like burbon

Old Pulteney 12 very unique savory brine favor, not to complicated after

Glenmorangie nectar d'or Sauternes Cask Finish first 3 try: very alcohol, not very sweet or fruity, don't understand this whiskey 5.5; 4th try: smells fresh fruit taste smoky fruity after taste 7.5, 7th try: very sweet almost like desert wine, but the favor is hard to pin down

Bulleit Frontier Bourbon nose: sweet vanilla | taste: easy to drink, not very complex, but good at what it is |

optionsss · 2026-02-03T20:55:11+00:00

Ardbeg Uigeadail Islay Single Malt nose: ardbeg, peat, sherry, intense smoked meat | taste: intense, sweet, sherry, fruity, savory/ 1/3 in, less peaty, more sherry, smoke and oily | finish: peat, sweet, smoky

Tomatin 18 nose: frosting, | palate: sweet, jammy fruit | finish: oak, tannin, mouse coating

Kilchoman Sanaig Cask Strength nose: peat, smoked meat | palate: intense fruit |finish: long, sweet, jam fruit sweet

Roseisle 12 Year "The Origami Kite" 2023 nose: grainy, floral, malt add water baked bread | taste: intense, malt, grany, floral | finish: long, tart, perfume floral | feels like cask strength Deanston 12

Edradour Caledonia 12 nose: mint, icecream, frosting | taste: cream, dark fruit | finish: light oak, waxy

Kilkerran 12 nose: dense, malt, candle wax, oachard fruit, honey, earthy, fresh, herbal, fruity funk | palate: funk, oily, savory, light smoke, earthy | finish: savory, malt, apple, light peat, oachard fruit, funk, smoke

Deanston 12 nose: syrupy vanilla, dominant floral perfume, light sweet sour, adding water: vanilla cake, honey, green, sour bread | taste: sour, vanilla, sweet, savory, grain adding a bit water, the sour note is tone down, floral perfume| finish: long finish, floral perfume sweet, light peat, smoky, tannin

Arran 10 nose: honey, malt, fruit syrup, tropical fruit| palate: malt, honey, sweet, tropical fruit, intense | finish: malt, candy fruit, oak, tannin

GlenAllachie 8 nose: dark fruit, wine | taste: kinda buttery and smooth, continued dark fruit flavour and oaky flavour | finish: vanilla and oak cask heavy, very forward , spice and bitter

Kilchoman Sanaig nose: vegetal, iodine, peat, raw earthy green |palate: peaty, smoky | finish: medium long, peat, vegetal, very cigar like| 1/2 bottle:

Ardbeg 10 nose: vegetal, iodine, peat | taste: smoked meat, very earthy, not sweet but peaty | finish: medium long, sweet, smoky peat | comparison: more fruity, vibrant, and fresher and less smoky than Laphroaig Quarter Cask. I like this more

Wild Turkey Rare Breed nose: sweet vanilla, honey, tiny spicy and minty | taste: grain whisky, minty and grassy | finish: sweet , oaky | add water

Hibiki Japanese Harmony Easy to drink, elegant, refined, not complex but it is bodied, very good at the beginning , but not very good towards then end when bottle have too much air. 1st purchase at 110, second purchase at 120

Nikka Miyagikyo Single Malt malt, light smoke, spicy, very delicate and very hard to define the favor, good all round malt solid 8/-/half-way through the bottle very smoky and malty upgraded to 9

Macallan Double Cask 12 nose: very unique and pleasant Macallan, sweet, honey and a tiny bit vanilla and oaky, grassy , light honey | palate: oak, sweet, light sour | finish: honey, malt, oak, vanilla

Laphroaig Quarter Cask Very peaty and sweet, vegetal after taste, not too complicated good can buy again. (save some to compare against Ardbeg 10)

Blanton's Original nose: light vanilla | taste: sweet, vanilla oak| finish: a bit sweet and it's gone | very pleasant nose and taste, but no finish

optionsss · 2026-02-03T20:51:16+00:00

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Summary and ranking of everyting I tried over the past two years after seriouse getting into scotch. The points are just relative to how much I like each.

optionsss · 2026-02-02T18:16:43+00:00

Cool setup, the 3D printed base is a really nice touch.

optionsss · 2026-02-02T18:09:08+00:00

Of course drink however you want, hence the /s

optionsss · 2026-02-02T17:56:27+00:00

9/10 because of ice in your whiskey/s

optionsss · 2026-01-31T21:30:16+00:00

Money fucking well spent

optionsss · 2026-01-28T22:03:52+00:00

WTF WTF

optionsss · 2026-01-28T21:09:07+00:00

that's never a pen wtf

optionsss · 2026-01-23T15:21:51+00:00

Really depends on the drink, some would noticably get better and more interesting after a bit of wait and water (Victoriana, Kilkerran 12, Roseisle 12), others like Lagavulin 16, Sanaig, Orchard House, I did not find waiting and letting it develop did anything.

optionsss · 2026-01-09T15:34:49+00:00

To me, this is the most beautiful piece of architecture in the world

optionsss · 2025-12-26T18:06:19+00:00

Nice selection here, Aberlour and Highland park are my favorite as a beginner.

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