Benromach 11 Year Old – 2010 | Cask 388 | Abbey Whisky Exclusive

It’s no secret, we love Benromach. The spirit they produce at the distillery is fantastic and their cask management is superb. This 11 year old Speyside malt has been fully matured in a first fill bourbon barrel, resulting in a delightful combination of sweet smoke, toasted almonds, spice and tropical fruit. Cask 388 has been selected exclusively by Abbey Whisky with 228 bottles filled. We’re delighted with this latest offering.

£69.99

6 PER CUSTOMER 

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Our pick of Old Forester is here!

We’re celebrating National Bourbon Day with an in-store release! Our Old Forester has arrived at The Party Source. This is our own hand-selected barrel pick that we chose just for you coming in at 128.5 proof.

Bottles are limited and will be sold on a first come first served basis starting at 3 PM, today, Tuesday, June 14. Limit 1 per customer. When they’re gone, they’re gone!

This is an in-store purchase only.

$78.99 + tax

The Party Source | 95 Riviera Drive, Bellevue, KY 41073

ralfy review 931 – Bunnahabhain 18yo @46.3%vol: (2022)

Top off your Father’s Day by purchasing a bottle from an outstanding selection of Japanese Whisky.

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Loch Fyne Whiskies

Let dad choose his favourite dram for himself with an e-gift card. Just set the amount, when they should receive it, add a personal message and we’ll do the rest.

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ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE^® 2022 Results Announced

 WHISKY – CANADA

WhistlePig The Boss Hog VIII LapuLapu’s Pacific Straight Rye

WHISKEY – IRELAND

Blended: J.J. Corry The Gael

Single Pot Still: Redbreast 21 Years Old

Single Malt: Knappogue Castle 21 Years Old 

WHISKY – SCOTLAND

Blended: Dewar’s Double Double 32 Years Old

Blended Malt: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Batch #13 Tabanco Time 11 Years Old

Single Malt-Highland: Glenmorangie Truffle Oak Reserve 26 Years Old

Single Malt-Island: Highland Park Viking Honour 12 Years Old

Single Malt-Islay: Ardbeg Uigedail

Single Malt-Speyside: Mortlach Cowie’s Blue Seal 20 Years Old

WHISKEY – USA

Bottled-In-Bond: Old Fitzgerald Spring 2022 Edition 17 Years Old

Bourbon: Eagle Rare 17 Years Old

Rye: Smooth Ambler Founders’ Cask Strength Series

Single Barrel: Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel

Single Malt: Courage & Conviction Cuvée Single Cask, Cask No. 1266

Tennessee: Jack Daniel’s 10 Years Old

Wheat: Bainbridge Battle Point Two Islands Islay Cask

Other: Barrell Whiskey Private Release DJA1 Blend 1 Finished in a St. Agrestis Brooklyn Amaro Cask

WHISK(E)Y – WORLD

Japanese: Matsui The Kurayoshi Sakura Cask Japanese Single Malt

World: Seven Seals The Age of Pisces Oloroso Sherry Wood Finish Single Malt

June 8, 2022 (Hawthorne, NY) – Ultimate Spirits Challenge (USC), since 2010 the world’s most prestigious global spirits competition, today releases the results of the 2022 Challenge. USC 2022 proved to be the thirteenth consecutive year of record submissions. Entries arrived from more than 50 spirit-producing nations.

The judging, held through May and early June, determined 57 Chairman’s Trophy winners, 274 Finalists, 446 Great Values, and 143 Tried & True Award winners. As always, USC was conducted at the custom-designed Ultimate Beverage Challenge (UBC) Evaluation Center, located in Hawthorne, NY.

Says UBC Co-Founder and Judging Director F. Paul Pacult, “Aside from being the largest USC ever, this year’s Challenge was likewise the most global, with an impressive array of quality distillates from places as far away from New York as China, Australia, Ecuador, India, and Chile. Virtually all categories saw healthy gains, most notably gin, Ready-to-Drink cocktails, mezcal, rum, tequila, rum, vodka, and all whiskey and brandy categories.

“Since producers tend to enter their top-shelf marques into USC, it’s clear that they look to us for the most accurate and unbiased data in the industry. We already look forward to USC 2023!”

ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE…No shortcuts. Just honest, impartial judging

After undergoing careful analysis through multiple panels, all products are rated on the 100-point scale by the spirits industry’s most renowned judges including buyers, journalists, educators, authors, and bar owners.

Spirits scoring 85+ points receive a detailed tasting note. All spirits scoring 80+ points receive an individual results page, which provides all downloadable marketing material.

USC results are promoted globally and on social media.

ABOUT ULTIMATE BEVERAGE CHALLENGE

Ultimate Beverage Challenge (UBC) provides expert evaluation of spirits for producers, importers, and marketers through its innovative annual competition: Ultimate Spirits Challenge. UBC partners are F. Paul Pacult, Sue Woodley and David Talbot.

Our June auction is now LIVE!

Place your bids from Friday 17^th June until Sunday 26^th June.

www.whiskyhammer.com

Every month, we present an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits to our members right across the globe. You will find everything here from limited edition releases and vintage bottles to whole casks of rare whisky. There is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, investor enjoy!

Glen Grant – 70 Year Old (1952)

Bowmore – 50 Year Old (1969)

Springbank – 50 Year Old

Macallan – 1940 (Rinaldi)

Glenfarclas – Worlds Series (Complete Set)

Selling whisky? Why not arrange the pick-up of your bottles using our global courier service? If you’re based in Scotland, you might want to arrange the personal collection of your bottles. Wherever you’re based in the world, we will make getting your bottles into our monthly auction as simple as possible. Get in touch with the Whisky Hammer team now by dropping them a message at sales@whiskyhammer.co.uk.

The Grand Tour – Touchdown on Mars!

Our exclusive series of single cask whiskies celebrating some of the explorations of our Solar Sytem and beyond. Marking Mars probes Viking 1 and 2, we have two exceptional Palo Cortado sherry casks.

GIRVAN DISTILLERY

30 Year Old 1991 Viking 1

Cask #TWB1022

£150.00

Girvan 30 Year Old 1991 Viking 1, 53.6%

Girvan 30 Year Old 1991 vintage Lowland single grain Scotch whisky. Single cask 1st fill Palo Cortado sherry Hogshead #TWB1022 bottled September 2021. The fourth release of The Grant Tour series. Viking 1 space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 20th 1975. Its lander was the first in history to successfully land on Mars. 162 numbered bottles.

After an eleven month journey the Viking 1 lander separated from its orbiter on July 20th 1976. The lander captured the first ever clear image from the martian surface and its biological instruments searched for life on the red planet.

Sweet sherry antimatter, carona of pineapple and Cripps Pink apples leading to a dark chili chocolate nedbular. Gravitational toasted cereals, honeycomb halo and galactic lemon cake finish with sherbet elements.

Girvan Distillery is a Scottish Lowland grain whisky distillery situated on the Ayrshire coast. It looks out to the island of Ailsa Craig the source of granite from which curling stones are shaped. William Grant and Sons Ltd opened this distillery in 1963 to supply grain whisky to their blends of scotch but with careful maturation in quality casks Girvan is also able to produce excellent single grain whiskies.

NORTH BRITISH DISTILLERY

30 Year Old 1991 Viking 2

Cask #TWB1023

£150.00

North British 30 Year Old 1991 Viking 2, 47.6%

North British 30 Year Old 1991 vintage Lowland single grain Scotch whisky. Single cask 1st fill Palo Cortado sherry Hogshead #TWB1023 bottled February 2021. The third release of The Grant Tour series. Viking 2 space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on September 9th 1975. Together with Viking 1 it would search for signs of life on Mars. 159 numbered bottles.

Travelling for 333 days to Mars, Viking 2 lander separated from its orbiter on September 3rd 1976 making touchdown on Utopia Planitia, one of the largest crater impact basins in our Solar System.

Lunar sweet sherry, popcorn clusters, planetary ripe pears, toasted cinnamon nebular, telescopic double cream with supernova strawberries. Protoplanetary runny honey circling runaway burnt cedar shavings.

North British Distillery was established on farmland to the west of Edinburgh in 1885 by Andrew Usher, John M. Crabbie and William Sanderson. Since then the city has expanded ever outwards and now the distillery resides in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh. North British opened in 1887 to guarantee supplies of grain whisky for its owner’s cordials and scotch whisky blending businesses. It is equipped with four Coffey stills to produce grain spirit at 94.5% alcohol and multi-million litres of spirit annually. Whilst most of its whisky matures in racked warehouses in the central Lowlands, a small number of casks spend at least eight years at the distillery in dunnage Warehouse No.1. Official releases are very few but excellent independent ones are available from Hart Brothers and Hunter Laing.

Whisky regions… relevant or redundant?

It is only over the last few decades that whisky marketers have really begun using the Scotch whisky regions to promote regional variations (in a similar way that wine producers have for many years). The usefulness of regional classification, however, has always been questioned by some in the whisky industry. 

When the Scotch Whisky Association originally named five regions (which included the Islands as a sub-category of the Highlands), there were only a small handful of Island distilleries. However, with the opening of distilleries from Shetland to the Outer Hebrides and others, an Island region is arguably justifiable. But does it really matter?

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In-person Stateside study

Excitement is building for our first in-person teaching trip to the USA this September. There are two opportunities to study the Diploma in Single Malt Whisky with us in-person. First up, we’ll be in New York at Kings County Distillery (10 & 11 Sep) before moving to New Hampshire for a special ticketed event (13 & 14 Sep) ahead of the Highland Games & Festival (16-18 Sep). Places are filling up for both courses, so if you – or someone you know – might be interested in attending, be sure to secure the spot(s) soon.

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