Caol Ila 12 Year
750mL Bottle of Caol Ila 12 Year(Click for bigger…)
Out of a desire to try something new, on suggestion of
Thankfully the price was the state minimum of $47.92, which made it reasonably affordable. It’s still not cheap, but it’s right around what my other choice, Laphroaig 10 Year would have cost.
I tried a few sips of it straight, before cutting it with about 40% bottled water. (Just Aquafina, PepsiCo‘s finest highly filtered tapwater product. I find it good for mixing things because it has a nice, neutral taste.) I’m thinking that I rather like it. It’s plenty peaty and smokey, but it’s also got a little bit of sweetness to it. There is not enough sweetness to make it something I dislike, though, more like just enough to nicely round it out.
I’m wishing that I had one of the Millett Hybrid Maxed headphone amps to use (my two are disassembled currently) so I could sit back on the couch and listen to some music while sipping this in the dark. It’s quite nice.
Aquafina is my water of choice when Scotch is involved!
It was either stop at 7-11 and buy a bottle of that, or get out the whole activated charcoal setup I’ve got for brewing. I took the lazy route.
how would you compare it to the laphroaig? less like a campfire? :)
Less, yes, but I can’t call that a bad or good thing. I really, really like a tasty campfire.
This stuff is definitely worth trying out, though.
Killed a bottle of this
last week. Kinda like a slightly lighter Laphroaig.
I still like Laphroaig the best.