Aberlour 12 yr.

Price: $69.95 (750 ml)

Location of Distillery: Highland Speyside, Scotland

Will's Review

• Overall Rating: 7
• Smokiness: 2
• Sweetness: 8
• "Sap-like", "mouth prickle", "struck matches", "madeira carry-over"
• Quite a sweet scotch, but not overbearing. I like scotch.

Max's Review

• Overall Rating: 7.5
• Smokiness: 4
• Sweetness: 5
• Subtle hints of peat, pepper, iodine, and sour patch kids. 
• Also smells a little woody, like sherry/oak.
• Has a nice rich, dark amber colour that makes it a very warm scotch

Steve's Review

• Overall rating: 6.667
• Smokiness: 5
• Sweetness: 6
• Pretty good but let down a little by a weird spice taste. Pepper or cinnamon with a little bit of medicine-y taste.

Random Category - If this scotch were a candy, what candy would it be?

Max - Cinnamon hearts, it has a good spice to it.
Will - Butterscotch sticks
Steve - This scotch compared to a really good scotch is like those green apple rings are to peach rings, or like swedish fish are to swedish berries.

Bowmore Single Malt 12 yr.

Price: $54.95 (750 ml)

Location of Distillery: Islay, Scotland

Max's Review

• Overall Rating: 7
• Smokiness: 5
• Sweetness: 6
• Sweet on the nose. Smells/tastes a little like burnt popcorn. Earthy, vinegary, and a little like new/rotting wood 

Will's Review

• Overall Rating: 8
• Smokiness: 7
• Sweetness: 6
• I caught a whiff of candy when the bottle was opened but it dissipated quickly. This is a great Scotch for the price. I would make this my day-to-day bottle if I had something resembling my own place and something resembling disposable income. I find it hard to pick specific tastes/scents out from it. I would say there is some rubber and earthy taste. 

Steve's Review

• Overall rating: 8.5
• Smokiness: 6
• Sweetness: 6
• Tastes like fire. Not so much smoke but definitely like fire. Not too strong, Nice finish and aftertaste. Tastes very finely machined, like locking a heavy safe door or running through the gears in my car, good stuff.

Random Category - What's the worst thing you would do to get a life time supply of this scotch?

Max - Feed a baby it's own shit
Steve - Punch a lifetime supply of babies
Will - Snort crack off a babies head