{"id":1519,"date":"2017-07-30T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-07-30T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T02:09:26","slug":"a-great-new-twist-on-a-the-blind-tasting-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"A great new twist on the Blind Tasting Format"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blind pours ready for the tasting<\/p><\/div>\n

Brother Randall hosted a blind tasting featuring six (it’s been a loooooong time) expressions. His choice were fun and bold (more on that in second) but his most impactful contribution may be the addition he brought to the blind tasting format: the 30 expression landscape, within which the 6 actual expression lay. Here’s “the 30”:<\/p>\n

Balvenie 12 Single Barrel
\nBalvenie 12 Doublewood
\nGlenrothes Bourbon Cask Reserve
\nGlenrothes Vintage Reserve
\nGlenrothes Peated Cask Reserve Islay Cask Finished Speyside Malt
\nEdradour 10
\nEdradour 12 Caledonia
\nMacallan 10
\nMacallan 12
\nMacallan Double Cask
\nGlenfiddich 10
\nGlenfiddich 14 Bourbon Barrel Reserve
\nGlenfiddich Experimental Series Release # 1 Finished in IPA Cask
\nLaphroig 10
\nLaphroig Triple Wood
\nLaphroig 18
\nLaphroig Quarter Cask
\nTomatin 12
\nTomatin 18
\nTomatin Cu Bocan Lightly Peated
\nGlenkinchie 12
\nGlenkinchie Distiller’s Edition
\nArdbeg 10
\nArdbeg Kelpie
\nArdbeg Uigeadail
\nLagavulin 8
\nLagavulin 16
\nLagavulin Distiller’s Edition
\nOban 14
\nOban Distiller’s Edition
\nOban Little Bay<\/p>\n

Now, notwithstanding the fact that we’re not sure anyone can tell the difference between The Macallan 10 and The Macallan 12 this landscape proved inspired and at times treacherous. I really like having “the 30” and it made identifying the expressions much more feasible rather than the traditional completely industry-wide open ended format. I definitely don’t think it made it too easy either. After all I had the best score of 2 out of 6 as I identified The Macallan 12 and the Lagavulin entry. For the record here were the expressions in presentation order, with my guess, followed by the actual expression:<\/p>\n

1) My guess: Glenfiddich 14 Bourbon Barrel Reserve; the right answer: Ardbeg Kelpie
\n2) My guess: Tomatin 12; the right answer: Oban Little Bay
\n3) My guess: Balvenie 12; Glenrothes Bourbon Cask Reserve
\n4) My guess: The Macallan 12; the right answer: The Macallan 12
\n5) My guess: Edradour Caldonia; the right answer: Tomatin Cu Bocan
\n6) My guess: Lagavulin ‘D’; the right answer: Lagavulin 8<\/p>\n

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After the pours. It was fun to do 6 expressions again in one tasting (it’s probably been 15 years).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brother Randall hosted a blind tasting featuring six (it’s been a loooooong time) expressions. His choice were fun and bold (more on that in second) but his most impactful contribution may be the addition he brought to the blind tasting format: the 30 expression landscape, within which the 6 actual expression lay. Here’s “the 30”: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}