Whisky Forum - Ben Bracken Whiskey

Melanie · New Member Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Posts: 1 Location: Utah

Looking to buy a bottle of Ben Bracken Whiskey ands have it shipped to the US as a gift for a friend. Not having much luck finding any bottles. Any advice and, or help would be much appreciated.
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Melanie Loveland

ralfy legend · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:16 am Post subject:

over here in scotland, uk, supermarket called lidl does it,

Keith · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:42 pm Post subject:

Ben Bracken is Lidl supermarkets own label single malt whisky, not sure if they still sell it. Ben Bracken is a made up name, there is no Ben Bracken distillery but it was said by many whisky drinkers including myself that the whisky in the bottle was from from the Speyside distillery called Tamnavulin. If you cant get hold of any Ben Bracken then i suggest Tamnavulin

ralfy legend · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:39 pm Post subject:

spot on keith, and yes lidl still do it as i seen it on shelf only a week ago.

DevonMark · Single Malt Member Joined: 23 Dec 2014 Posts: 25

It's won a few commendations according to the Lidl website:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/3887.htm?action=showDetail&id=15229

Anyone tried it? Any good?

TheWM · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 6:34 pm Post subject:

Yes. Had a few bottles. The price has crept up to 19.99. At that price it's competing with some good entry level whiskies. When it was 14.99 there was no competition and it's actually a half decent dram. From memory it does have a slightly sweet saccharin type finish to it, but not overly unpleasant.