For our Valentine’s Day session, we chose a selection of whiskies backed up by stories of passion – drams that wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for someone really pushing them to be made. These are the drams.

Kingsbarns Dream to Dram (46% abv) [BUY]

Teeling Single Pot Still Batch 1 (46% abv) [BUY]

Glenmorangie Allta Private Edition No. 10 (51.2% abv) [BUY]

Bruichladdich Bere Barley 2009 (50% abv)

Dingle Triple Distilled Batch 3 (46.5% abv) [BUY]

The London Distillery Company 109 Casks #109 (63.3% abv)

For this session, we explored a selection of drams that show off a specific part of the whisky-making process, showing quite how influential the differences between whiskies can be.

Proper Twelve (40% abv) [BUY]

Grant’s Elementary Oxygen (40% abv) [BUY]

The Norfolk Batch 2 (45% abv) [BUY]

Koval Millet Whiskey (40% abv) [BUY]

Cotswolds Founders Choice (60.9% abv) [BUY]

Lost Spirits Abomination Crying of the Puma (54% abv) [BUY]

There was a TV program about dragons, or something. There was whisky. We’re not entirely sure what it was all about…

We tried the complete Game of Thrones whisky line-up. Which was quite good.

Johnnie Walker White Walker Game of Thrones Edition (41.7% abv)

Royal Lochnagar 12yo Game of Thrones Edition (40% abv)

Cardhu Gold Reserve Game of Thrones Edition (40% abv)

The Singleton of Glendullan Select Game of Thrones Edition (40% abv)

Dalwhinnie Winter’s Frost Game of Thrones Edition (43% abv)

Clynelish Reserve Game of Thrones Edition (51.2% abv)

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones Edition (43% abv)

Talisker Select Reserve Game of Thrones Edition (45.8% abv)

Lagavulin 9yo Game of Thrones Edition (46% abv)

A rainy summer? Perfect time for a few drams inspired by the weather.

Glenmorangie 19yo Finest Reserve (43% abv)

Bruichladdich 15yo Duke of Edinburgh Award (54% abv)

Balvenie 14yo Peated Triple Cask (48.3% abv)

SMWS G3.4 – Pride of Bengal (57.5% abv)

Booker’s (63.7% abv)

SMWS 3.243 – Dark,Smouldering Flamenco Gypsy (57.1% abv)

We love American whiskey, so we thought we’d remind ourselves of a few things that actually make America great (in case you were getting distracted by a certain someone…)

Rittenhouse Rye (50% abv)

Buffalo Trace (40% abv)

Weller CYPB (47.5% abv)

Texas Legation Batch 1 (46% abv)

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof (62.1% abv)

WhistlePig 12yo Amburana Exclusive to The Whisky Exchange (43% abv)

Back for 2019 – another evening of spendy drams. A combination of rare whisk(e)y from North America, silly Daftmill sherry-cask whisky and a pair of rare bourbon-cask matured drams.

Canadian Club Chronicles 41yo (45% abv)

Orphan Barrel Entrapment (41% abv)

Compass Box Hedonism Quindecimus (46% abv)

Daftmill 2006 Berry Bros & Rudd (57.4% abv)

Macallan Fine Oak Whisky Maker’s Selection (42.8% abv)

Ardmore 1987 30yo (47.2% abv)

Back for another evening of bottle killing and talking rubbish, the Whisky Squad party conquered the King & Queen yet again. £1050 raised for charity and lots of whisky drunk? Success.