{"id":44,"date":"2005-04-27T21:59:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T03:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=44"},"modified":"2005-05-05T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T05:24:20","slug":"caol-ila-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Caol Ila 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caol Ila 25 was another hit at Sam&#8217;s Spirits night.  It was one of those, off the radar, member&#8217;s only samplings at $200\/bottle.  It&#8217;s a distillery bottled at cask strength 59.4% alcohol.  Now for all of you cask-strength-leary, don&#8217;t hit the back button (yet).  I learned from the distiller that you really should cut it with water-it&#8217;s not meant to be drunk at full strength.  Too much alcohol masks the flavours, overwhelming the experience.  Once cut to ~40% it was a nice dram.  Light grass in the nose.  Pallette was light smoke, syrupy and a finish that lets you down gently.  AFTER, I tried it full strength&#8211;just a wee bit.  It was a very different experience&#8211;hot, intense, rich. <br \/> <img src='\/kotqblog\/wp-content\/CaolIla25.jpg' alt='Coal Ila 25' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caol Ila 25 was another hit at Sam&#8217;s Spirits night. It was one of those, off the radar, member&#8217;s only samplings at $200\/bottle. It&#8217;s a distillery bottled at cask strength 59.4% alcohol. Now for all of you cask-strength-leary, don&#8217;t hit the back button (yet). I learned from the distiller that you really should cut it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}