A new guy

[Thomas75]

Hi there,

my name is Thomas. I enjoy whisky since 1995. My first was a Auchentoshan Single Malt from the year 1975. At the beginning I doesn't like Ardbeg or Laphroaig but now they count to my favorites.

Currently I have the following bottles here

SMWS 29.122
SMWS 33.124
Big Peat Cask Strength 2013
Old Ballantruan 10y
Talisker 10y
Highland Park 18y
Lagavulin 16y
Bunnahabhain 12y
Bruichladdich TEN
Ardbeg TEN
Laphroaig 10y Cask Strength Batch 5
Cardhu 15y
Bunnahabhain (Signatory) Cask Strength 11y
Caol Ila (Adelphi) 10y Cask Strength
Clynelish (Adelphi) 15y Cask Strength
Liddesdale (Adelphi) 18y
Liddesdale (Adelphi) 21y
Fascadale (Adelphi) 12y
Batch 44 Aberlour a'bunadh

and a few samples.

Is here such a thing as bottles shares?

[Russell D]

welcome to the forum

[bifter]

Hi, Thomas. Welcome to the forum! You have some interesting bottles there.

What do you mean by 'bottles shares'? I sometimes fill miniatures from my bottles and swap them with local friends, it's almost impossible to mail whisky these days though (Royal Mail don't carry it).
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[Thomas75]

Hi bifter,

in Germany it's possible to send self-bottled miniatures. Pity that the royal mail that does not make. So it's not possible to send you a miniatures of my bottles?

[Quaich1]

Greetings Thomas. There are a great bunch of people on the Forum and much valuable information and opinions to be shared. Welcome.
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[Thomas75]

Thanks.
I look forward to a lively exchange of information and to get in contact with nice people.

[albo]

Hi Thomas and welcome to the forum.

It's a very friends and informative place to be, with your list of bottles you'll fit right in.

Sadly bottle shares are not really something we do easily as Bifter points out the UK mail service doesn't carry bottles even in mini forms.

But still, please stay here chat and ask away if you have any questions.

As we are talking about questions, I've got a question that I've been wanting to ask someone from Germany, so hopefully you will be able to answer this for me.

I am a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), who bottle and sell cask strength single malt whisky. I love the society it provides me with plenty of new bottles to try each month, and, isn't 'that' expensive.
However, very often when they bottle a sherried whisky, there are several notes of Sulphur in the bottle, these notes are best described as "Struck Matches" "Egg / rotten egg" "Drains" "Rubber". I have complained to the society on numerous occasions about this, as to me these are very undesirable tones and make the whisky unpleasant. Their reply is often that many people really like these notes in their whisky and compare that to peat, as, some people like it some don't. They also very often say that these Sulphur notes are particularly popular in Germany.

So as a German malt whisky drinker, do you and your fellow German malt whisky drinkers, really like this Sulphur tones?

Thanks in advance.

[Thomas75]

Thanks for the warm welcome here in the forum. Of course I will stay with you and ask questions and discuss about Whisky. Or something else


I do not like sulphur notes in my whisky. So far I have not yet discovered sulphur. But that means not that some of us likes them.
In which whisky you've discovered sulphur?

I discovered rubber in Laphroaigs of the 80s, the newer but have not.

[albo]

Thomas,

Quite a number of the SMWS sherry bottlings. Some people are Sulphur tollerent and as such can't taste or smell sulphur at all, so it may be that you are in this group of people.

There are a number of Glendronachs which have sulphur and in the SMWS, there have been several examples, this month they released an Highland Park 16yo (4.181) which was very sulphured. Also a Spring bank (27.104) which was full of sulphur too.

In the past they have bottles from Bowmore called Baby Faced assasin and from Ardmore called Hornby 00 which were both horrid with sulphur. Last month there was an Arran which again was horrible with sulphur.

[Thomas75]

Those are some bottlings but I only know so far a few Laphroaigs and Ardbegs from the SNWS.
SMWS bottlings I just get by a friend because I am not a member.

I keep eye out for the times you mentioned. I might also discover sulfur