Whisky tasting

No, I have been to a whisky tasting before, quite a lot actually. But at the end of August, I am going to organize one for the first time. I will organize the tasting at work, since I know some people there that can appreciate a dram every now and then.

This is somewhat more complicated than I imagined, since there are all kinds of things to take in account.

• The amount of people
• The type of people
• The season (only heavily peated whiskies will not do in summer)
• The whisky knowledge of the attendants
• and so on...

This all means that I have been looking around for some (hopefully) good ideas. The plan now is to taste a blend for starters, and then switch to single malt to know the difference in blends and single malts.

After the blend I will do three pairs of whiskies, all of them the same brand. The differences will be in age (e.g. Highland Park 12 and 25), then in finish (Glenmorangie Original and Lasanta) and peat and no peat (Caol Ila Cask Strength and Unpeated, this one is just a guess).

After that, my guess is to make the fat lady sing with a kick-ass independent bottle (Blackadder Raw Cask or something like that).

Looking forward to it, and if reactions are good, I might try do organize tastings more often...