[Locke]

Alright Gentlemen.

So my scotch tasting featured the Bruichladdich (pronounced: Brook-Laddie) distillery from Islay, a typically peaty region, but these were not peaty scotches.

We tried 6 scotches going from a 10 year, 15 year and all the way up to the 18 year. Included was a 2003 Organic scotch which tasted amazing. I'm normally the first person to call BS on organic anything, but this stuff was delicious.

There was also a 16 year scotch fermented in Bourbon casks. This was my favourite and I took home a bottle. Amazing stuff.

The 18 year old was very good, I'm not going to get into the specifics as there was a lot of history involved. Needless to say, I'd recommend trying this distiller if you ever get the chance, they're pretty small distillery with some interesting products.

Now, for the peat lovers:

The Bruichladdich Port-Charlotte - This was an homage scotch to a former fallen distillery on the island. I actually liked it, its a stiff drink but its got a lot of character.

Now, they had another scotch, a deliberately insanely peaty scotch called the '4X.' It is called the '4X' because it is 4 times more peaty than the current 'peatiest' (if thats a word) scotch on the market.

Gentlemen, this was not part of the tasting, but they had a bottle there if you decided you wanted to try it, and of course, being the adventurous drinker, and it being free, I chose to go for it.

Guys, this scotch is probably the closest anyone will ever get to performing analingus on the Loch Ness Monster. And thats probably a good thing. I felt like I ate some Scotsman's lawn while their Oak tree was on fire.

It was rated at, I think, 62.5% alcohol, so I could probably run my car on this stuff.

So there you go.