The Glenlivet 12 yr.

Price: $28.95 (375 ml)

Location of Distillery: Banffshire, Scotland

Max's Review

• Overall Rating: 5
• Smokiness: 4
• Sweetness: 6
• Very middle of the road, safe scotch
• Nutty, hints of vanilla, honey, and a little smokey

Steve's Review

• Overall Rating: 5.5
• Smokiness: 3
• Sweetness: 7
• Pretty basic, a little too sweet, wish it was more smoky. Pretty basic not alot of flavour. Pretty basic I guess. Ya pretty basic44

Will's Review

• Overall Rating: 6.5
• Smokiness: 5
• Sweetness: 5
• Almonds, chocolate, dependable, fairly solid, inoffensive. A scotch I could come home to after a hard days work. No frills. 

Random Category - What equation describes this scotch?

Steve - Gauss's Law - Fundemental stuff but basic, everybody knows it buts its not particularly interesting and you don't really bother using it too often
Will - Gamma, the reflection coefficient - it's the bread and butter

Max - Pythagorean Theorem - it's fundamentally basic 

Laphroaig Quarter Cask

Price: $69.95 (750 ml)

Location of Distillery: Islay, Scotland

Steve's Review

• Overall Rating: 8.5
• Smokiness: 8
• Sweetness: 3.5
• Really smoky and heavy in a good way, solid, dependable. Like a tank or a train or a train carrying tanks. Reminds me of engines for some reason.

Will's Review

• Overall Rating:  9
• Smokiness: 9
• Sweetness: 7
• Smells very peaty, definitely some rubber, wood, grass
• Great taste. Quite alcoholic so it shouldn't be consumed if you're feeling beta. 

Max's Review

• Overall Rating: 8
• Smokiness: 9
• Sweetness: 6
• Very very peaty, with a high alcohol contant that really needs water to balance it
• Oily, fruity, and a slight corky taste
• A solid scotch that should not be taken lightly

Random Category - What style of movie does this remind you of?

Steve - Whatever genre you consider Indiana Jones. (Its more of the Last Crusade and less of the other two)
Will - Historical

Max - Old Spaghetti Western (every Clint Eastwood film)

Ballantine's Blended Scotch Whiskey 17 yr.

Price: $89.75 (750 ml)

Location of Distillery: Dumbarton, Scotland

Will's Review

• Overall Rating: 8
• Smokiness: 7
• Sweetness: 5
• Caramel, smoke, vanilla
• Quite good, great balance, strong caramel smell, lasts the perfect length of time on the tongue

Max's Review

• Overall Rating: 8
• Smokiness: 6
• Sweetness: 6
• Moderately peaty with a good amount of sweetness
• Vanilla, fruit, and smoke/peat flavours make it well balanced
• A little water really improves the taste and settles the oils

Steve's Review

• Overall Rating: 9.5
• Smokiness: 7
• Sweetness: 4.5
• Tastes like the perfect mixture of power and control
• Reminds me of all good things in the world
• On one hand it's like liquid sunshine, on the other it's like watching the stars on a clear winter night

Random Category - What sex position is this scotch most like?

Steve - Spooning or a threesome, I'm not sure

Max - Cowgirl
Will - Missionary

Glenmorangie 10 yr.

Price: $69.95 (750 ml)

Location of Distillery: Tain, Scotland

Max's Review

• Overall Rating: 5
• Smokiness: 1
• Sweetness: 3

Hints of almond and fresh fruits, with a solvent like after taste. No flavour really stands out as being dominant. Worth trying but I wouldn't have it again.

Will's Review

• Overall Rating: 5
• Smokiness: 4
• Sweetness: 3
• Almond, licorice, chocolate
• Not my favorite. Almost like a strong liquer

Steve's Review

• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Smokiness: 3
• Sweetness: 4
• Tastes like almonds, a bit oily
• A little too much like cough medicine

Random Category - What power tool does this scotch remind you of?

Will - Dremel

Steve - One of those weed wackers with a saw blade

Max - Mastercraft orbital sander

Introduction

"I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly..."
- Ron Burgendy

So if you haven't guessed, this blog is about scotch. Myself (Max) and my buddies Steve and Will began drinking scotch when we were first living together in university. Now we get together once in a while, sip scotch, and pretend to be connoisseurs. This blog is our way to keep track of all the scotchs we've tried, which ones we liked, which ones we didn't, and maybe it will even help others pick a fine glass of liquid amber.

At each meeting of the "Three Guys, Three Cups" scotch club, at least one new scotch will be tasted, rated, and critiqued. Each entry will have the name and age of the scotch, a picture of the bottle, the location it was made, and the price for the size shown. Ratings will be for overall taste (out of 10), smokiness (out of 10), sweetness (out of 10), and a random category we make up on the spot. Each of us will also give our own tasting notes to justify our ratings.

Since none of us really have any clue what we are doing, we're going to use a "tasting wheel" I found using goggle to help discern what flavours we're tasting. The tasting wheel is shown below.

Club rules and code of conduct soon to come. For now...we drink!!