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		<title>Whisky Explorers &#8211; Round 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first quarterly shipment for my membership in &#8220;Whisky Explorers&#8221; has come and is all gone and I wanted to share with you my experiences. A note though on process as it is important to understanding what I experienced. I receive 4 different whiskies which are all bottled in a nice, small plastic bottle which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=859</link>
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		<title>Drinks by the Dram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As was reported at our 10Q2 meeting by Brother Bluff, on-line retailer and store of tremendous single malt knowledge Master of Malt is now offering single dram ordering options for several spirits including some single malts. Although their aim is to eventually offer a dram size (&#8220;Try before you Buy&#8221;) ordering option for all spirits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=863</link>
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		<title>Single Malts Like It&#8217;s 1999</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the starkest changes to single malts that I have seen in the last 10 years is the dramatic rise of their retail prices. I suppose it&#8217;s the natural response to an increase in demand but that doesn&#8217;t mean I have to be happy about it. Lagavulin 16, for example, is currently retailing at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=850</link>
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		<title>Off-line Tasting 04/01/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brother Lakeview and I had the pleasure of attending a single malt tasting hosted by Jeff Conrady and Brian O&#8217;Connell last evening. You may remember Jeff from our off-line Burn Stewart tasting which Jeff generously sponsored. Jeff and Brian, a few of their clients, and Lakeview and myself sat down to the following lineup:

Glenfiddich 12 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=844</link>
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		<title>Using The Whisky Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Whisky Exchange
I wanted to introduce you to the most recent link now usable on our site: The Whisky Exchange (TWE). TWE is an on-line retailer who, although in the UK, should be, along with Binny&#8217;s, one of your key sources of single malts. As I have said in the past, one of my goals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=756</link>
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		<title>The Spirit of Lewis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got a notification that the brand new Abhainnn Dearg Distillery, on the island of Lewis and Harris, has made their very first &#8220;spirit&#8221;, &#8216;The Spirit of Lewis&#8216;, available for purchase in the UK; 500 500ml bottlings. Here is my short summary of their announcement &#8211; which I have included in its entirety for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=741</link>
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		<title>Signatory Bruichladdich 18 year 1989</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I attended a scotch tasting with Brother Lakeview and Brother Ville&#8230;.well, I didn&#8217;t really attend for long but before leaving placed an order for a relatively new offering from Signatory&#8212;an 18 year old Bruichladdich, vintage 1989.
I got the chance to open the bottle tonight, and was somewhat surprised by the scotch.   The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=686</link>
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		<title>What are Scotland&#8217;s oldest distilleries?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a posting by Brother Lakeview following the 06Q4 tasting (sushi paired tasting at Bluff&#8217;s) where, after much discussion, a number of future homework assignments, considered to be of interest to the group, were posted. For the most part we haven&#8217;t touched these ideas much at all. One of them was &#8220;what are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=460</link>
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		<title>My Tasting Wishlist (2010 Q1 Homework)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brother Bop was kind enough to assign me to select 5 active distilleries that the KOTQ has never tasted that I would like future fir en tighes (hosts) to consider for an upcoming meeting in 2o10.  One of the things I found is this appearance of debate within Scotland of bringing single malts to more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=430</link>
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		<title>Explanation of Operating Statuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the missions of our KOTQ website is to not only facilitate knowledge about single malt scotch but to make it personal and facilitate decision making around single malt purchases for group or individual enjoyment. Availability may be the ultimate factor in whether or not most of us even have a dram of certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepersofthequaich.org/?p=429</link>
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