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DISTILLERY Mackmyra AGE Ten Year Old ALCOHOL 51.6% REGION Stockholm, Sweden COLOR Light gold NOSE Sweet, marzipan, faint whiff of peaches, popcorn PALATE Spicy, earthy taste with a lash of peat.  Quite a full bodied flavour. FINISH Perhaps showing its relative immaturity, it trails off quickly with a lingering wood fire finish. SCORE 84 out of 100 NOTES Now this ...

DISTILLERY Glenfiddich AGE Twelve Year Old ALCOHOL 40% REGION Speyside COLOR Honey NOSE Pleasantly sweet, bit of treacle happening PALATE Pepper and caramel flavoured FINISH Its got a short, but pleasing aftertaste that doesn’t really offer up much more than the initial flavours SCORE 75 out of 100 NOTES Glenfiddich is the best-selling single malt whisky in the world by ...

Jen was giving me a hard time recently about the single malt collection as it took up all the bench space in the dining area. So this weekend we went out to IKEA and picked up a cabinet.  Four hours of construction later….voila! Jen was telling her mum about it last night.  She suggested I install a lock before my ...

DISTILLERY Cragganmore AGE Twelve Year Old ALCOHOL 40% REGION Speyside COLOR Light gold NOSE Faint smell of honey PALATE Quite crisp, hint of vanilla, bit of smoke and spicyness to it FINISH A light finish that doesn’t linger for long given the subtlety of the taste SCORE 83 out of 100 NOTES This one surprised me a little.  The only ...

DISTILLERY Talisker AGE Ten Year Old ALCOHOL 45% REGION Isle of Skye COLOR Sweet, sweet amber NOSE Totally awesome, potent and peaty as fuck PALATE Like being punched in the face by someone who has lathered their fist in pepper, also smokey like you’re inhaling a campfire FINISH Loooong, sharp note that leaves your tongue tingling SCORE 90 out of ...

Malt whisky and my appreciation for it has been a relatively recent development in my life.  When I was younger, I used to enjoy the occasional dram here and there but I didn’t pay it much notice and if anything, I found the strong taste a bit off-putting.  When I would drink socially, I would stick with beer. My brother ...

For Jen’s birthday weekend, we invited some friends over for dinner on Saturday night.  Jen always like to cook up a storm for dinner guests but she had to change up her game a bit this weekend as two of our friends recently switched to a vegetarian diet. Jen decided to make a ratatouille and cous cous dish and she ...

I’m back in Brisbane after a near-four week holiday.  It’s back to work today.  The apartment also needs a to have a bit of tidying.  There’s laundry that needs doing.  *Sigh* I’ll be blogging about Scotland and Malaysia in due course.  It was a pretty sweet holiday though.  Here’s a sampler of some of the stuff we got up to.

One of the best things we did last month was buy a new couch. Look at this magnificent bastard right here.  Our old couch was really getting me down towards the end.  The cushions kept sliding out from under your arse so that no matter what posture you started in, you’d end up slouched with your butt cheeks hanging over ...

You’ll notice its been pretty dead on the ol’ Fat Web for the month of February. That’s not to say nothing has happened.  Far from it.  Just a set of circumstances where we’ve had people crashing on the couch and some extra visitors passing through so I haven’t really had the opportunity to take five and blog about stuff. But ...