{"id":974,"date":"2012-09-03T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=974"},"modified":"2012-09-03T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:15:14","slug":"ardbeg-galileo-tasting-from-brother-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Ardbeg Galileo tasting from Brother Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exciting off-line tasting from Ardbeg Committeeman Brother Bluff on Ardbeg&#8217;s new release: Galileo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bottle is a limited edition bottling but not hidden in the back room for committee members only.   I pulled it off the shelf for $90 without having to give a special wink or super secret handshake.<\/p>\n<p>I just cracked it open and my initial impressions are positive.   Bottled at 49%, I only added a little bit of water to open it up.   It has all the usual smoke that you&#8217;d expect from Ardbeg, but I get sweetness on the nose and reminds me of BBQ Ribs&#8212;charred and caramelized.   <\/p>\n<p>The palate has all the salt you&#8217;ve come to expect, plus some surprising sweet notes that come from the ex-Marsala casks.   It&#8217;s aged 12 years, so unlike the recent committee bottlings, this release has an age statement&#8230;1999, bottled 2012.   <\/p>\n<p>Forget about the gimmick celebrating Ardbeg in Space&#8230;.the whisky is pretty delicious without the hype, and sadly will not be available for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting off-line tasting from Ardbeg Committeeman Brother Bluff on Ardbeg&#8217;s new release: Galileo. The bottle is a limited edition bottling but not hidden in the back room for committee members only. I pulled it off the shelf for $90 without having to give a special wink or super secret handshake. I just cracked it open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/974"}],"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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}