{"id":1009,"date":"2013-06-02T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2013-06-02T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:45:17","slug":"a-dram-10-years-in-the-making-and-a-classic-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"A dram 10+ years in the making and a classic debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

While B – Funk, Hoopie and I anxiously awaited the arrival of our brethren at last night’s fantastic tasting, I perused the impressive whisky menu at Delilah’s. \u00a0To my shock and awe, there it was on the page, Springbank 21. \u00a0I immediately thought of my bachelor party back in 2002 when we last had Springbank 21 due to a major production gap.
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Springbank 21<\/p><\/div>
\nDespite the $30.00 per dram price point, I didn’t hesitate and dialed one up while B-Funk and Hoopie respectably ordered the new Ardbog from Ardbeg.<\/p>\n

My dram of Springbank 21 was worth every bit of the $30.00, albeit I was a bit nostalgic as I dialed it up. \u00a0The night only got better from there as the lineup was terrific and our new initiates brought strong presentations to the group.<\/p>\n

There was a good debate later in the night though between me and one of our esteemed guests on the relative price to value ratio of some of these spirits. \u00a0This is one of those classic discussions we’ve had as a group over the last 13 years, and to which I believe led Brother Bop to come up with Bop’s Select list. \u00a0Last night’s debate was Springbank 21 @ $30 per dram vs. Highland Park 18 @ $18 per dram. \u00a0Is Springbank 21 really 66% better than HP 18? \u00a0Of course this all assumes that price is a measure of quality when it comes to scotch….. <\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While B – Funk, Hoopie and I anxiously awaited the arrival of our brethren at last night’s fantastic tasting, I perused the impressive whisky menu at Delilah’s. \u00a0To my shock and awe, there it was on the page, Springbank 21. \u00a0I immediately thought of my bachelor party back in 2002 when we last had Springbank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}