Show us your whisky!

[Szarik]

Mr Trophy said:

Caught up with a well known Whisky expert the other day.

He's said this is something to watch out for, not a nice price though.

http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/05/diageo-u...

It's pity that I wasn't there..I would tell him where to shove it

[Lefty]

Szarik said:

Mr Trophy said:

Caught up with a well known Whisky expert the other day.

He's said this is something to watch out for, not a nice price though.

http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/05/diageo-u...

It's pity that I wasn't there..I would tell him where to shove it

??

I bet it's awesome.

[bullies180]

I love the gold and double black so reckon the deluxe would be pretty nice. Not sure about the price though

[bullies180]

I love the gold and double black so reckon the deluxe would be pretty nice. Not sure about the price though

[Blown2CV]

Meh.

World Ardbeg day on Saturday lads.

[Lefty]

Lefty said:

NRS said:

Lefty said:

I bought this yesterday, kitchen roll to try and highlight the colour - it's crazy!

You sure it's not coke?

I've never seen anything so dark, even drams from a 50yo sherry butt.

It's incredible stuff, nothing like you would expect tbh. It's not that sweet, very very spicy, almost like liquorice. I assume it's PX rather than Oloroso, it's hot that slightly rubbery smell to it. Very intense, it's an experience but oddly unsatisfying.

This stuff is growing on me. It's quite soft, very velvety. Huge sherry notes, needs a lot of water to tame it. Bloody good though.

Hic.

[HereBeMonsters]

Anyone know where I can get one of these?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005UXM000/ref=wl_it_dp...

Has to be that exact expression. It's just my favourite.

[F-Stop Junkie]

Hmmm, looks like my traditional morning dash for Ardbeg Day might have been scuppered!

Worth pre-ordering a bottle of the new one, or let this year slide?

[Podie]

HereBeMonsters said:

Anyone know where I can get one of these?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005UXM000/ref=wl_it_dp...

Has to be that exact expression. It's just my favourite.

Blimey, going to be difficult to track down.

Have you tried calling "Hard to find whisky" or looked at auctions?

[crmcatee]

F-Stop Junkie said:

Hmmm, looks like my traditional morning dash for Ardbeg Day might have been scuppered!

Worth pre-ordering a bottle of the new one, or let this year slide?

I too missed the Feis Ile this year - however don't miss next years - Ardbeg will be 200. It'll be a cracker..

[Puddenchucker]

This evening I shall mostly be drinking... eenie meenie miney...

[lenny007]

So then, after 9, yes, 9 hours of trying to buy 2 bottles of Ardbeg Auriverdes and probably 50+ attempts to process my order (after having inputted my details, address, delivery address and all of the other malarkey) I'm sitting here with zero bottles (I wanted 2) and a huge sense of wondering "if you know you are going to have huge demand for your products, why the hell would you not make sure you can cope with it?

Mega frustrated... Harrumph!

[krallicious]

lenny007 said:

So then, after 9, yes, 9 hours of trying to buy 2 bottles of Ardbeg Auriverdes and probably 50+ attempts to process my order (after having inputted my details, address, delivery address and all of the other malarkey) I'm sitting here with zero bottles (I wanted 2) and a huge sense of wondering "if you know you are going to have huge demand for your products, why the hell would you not make sure you can cope with it?

Mega frustrated... Harrumph!

I know the feeling. I had 2 bottles in my basket and could not complete the order. Now there are none available. I can say no less than Ardbeg are s.

[BernB]

krallicious said:

lenny007 said:

So then, after 9, yes, 9 hours of trying to buy 2 bottles of Ardbeg Auriverdes and probably 50+ attempts to process my order (after having inputted my details, address, delivery address and all of the other malarkey) I'm sitting here with zero bottles (I wanted 2) and a huge sense of wondering "if you know you are going to have huge demand for your products, why the hell would you not make sure you can cope with it?

Mega frustrated... Harrumph!

I know the feeling. I had 2 bottles in my basket and could not complete the order. Now there are none available. I can say no less than Ardbeg are s.

Same here. I even got to enter my card details a couple of times, but the order never went through. Not impressed
Still, I guess it will be on general release over the next couple of weeks, so I'll pick up a bottle then.

[Mr Trophy]

Anyone having a Sunday drink as it's bloody Monday tomorrow.

Dalmore 12 year old for me.

[F-Stop Junkie]

I read that Ardbeg made 6600 bottles, and Master of Malt are expecting further allocations. Others probably too!

[HereBeMonsters]

BernB said:

krallicious said:

lenny007 said:

So then, after 9, yes, 9 hours of trying to buy 2 bottles of Ardbeg Auriverdes and probably 50+ attempts to process my order (after having inputted my details, address, delivery address and all of the other malarkey) I'm sitting here with zero bottles (I wanted 2) and a huge sense of wondering "if you know you are going to have huge demand for your products, why the hell would you not make sure you can cope with it?

Mega frustrated... Harrumph!

I know the feeling. I had 2 bottles in my basket and could not complete the order. Now there are none available. I can say no less than Ardbeg are s.

Same here. I even got to enter my card details a couple of times, but the order never went through. Not impressed
Still, I guess it will be on general release over the next couple of weeks, so I'll pick up a bottle then.

When I was up there last year, they were really pushing Ardbog. We had tastings, there were posters everywhere, matching glasses, aprons etc. in the shop.

"Oh no, that sold out within an hour of going on sale."

[Voldemort]

If you're a FoL, you can buy this today:

[Mr Trophy]

HereBeMonsters said:

When I was up there last year, they were really pushing Ardbog. We had tastings, there were posters everywhere, matching glasses, aprons etc. in the shop.

"Oh no, that sold out within an hour of going on sale."

Can I ask why it's so popular?

[lenny007]

HereBeMonsters said:

BernB said:

krallicious said:

lenny007 said:

So then, after 9, yes, 9 hours of trying to buy 2 bottles of Ardbeg Auriverdes and probably 50+ attempts to process my order (after having inputted my details, address, delivery address and all of the other malarkey) I'm sitting here with zero bottles (I wanted 2) and a huge sense of wondering "if you know you are going to have huge demand for your products, why the hell would you not make sure you can cope with it?

Mega frustrated... Harrumph!

I know the feeling. I had 2 bottles in my basket and could not complete the order. Now there are none available. I can say no less than Ardbeg are s.

Same here. I even got to enter my card details a couple of times, but the order never went through. Not impressed
Still, I guess it will be on general release over the next couple of weeks, so I'll pick up a bottle then.

When I was up there last year, they were really pushing Ardbog. We had tastings, there were posters everywhere, matching glasses, aprons etc. in the shop.

"Oh no, that sold out within an hour of going on sale."

Having calmed down - ok, having sobered up after a heavy weekend - i e-mailed the distillery on Saturday basically asking if there was any way they could help me get the bottles i wanted. Funnily enough, no response as of yet.

Also, i don't really think the problem was with Ardbeg's site but the operators of their e-commerce site. I must have input my details well over 50 times and every time i finalized the order it either said there was a problem or put me back to the shopping basket page.

I can't remember having this problem buying either Ardbog or Ardbeg Day bottles - i wonder if they've changed their e-commerce operators?

Irrespective of that, pretty poor form from Ardbeg.