There has been a flurry of excitement here at Whisk(e)y Apostle. You can now be a fan on Facebook and follow my (Matt) adventures through Twitter (WhiskeyApostle). Maybe I can drag Richard out of the dark ages for a tweet now and then. Furthermore, we are hard at work designing a questionnaire to aid our readers in finding the perfect dram. This should launch in a rather rudimentary version, with each one being handled directly by us, in the coming weeks. Eventually, we hope to automate the process. Yes, we know there is other whisk(e)y software out there, but it is much too complicated for a novice. Our mission is to introduce whisk(e)y to the uninitiated, after all.
To make things more exciting, we are launching our “gateway” series this week. In this series we will be reviewing some of the most readily available and easy to find whisk(e)ys. When we started down the road to becoming whiskey apostles, we found it quite irritating that we could find ten reviews of some $100 bottle only available at Duty Free, but never anything we could afford or find. Therefore, we are going to review some of the “gateway” and “well” whisk(e)ys. This way, the true novice will have a way to make educated decisions on their first dram.
To top things off, I just found out that we will have whiskies from both India and Australia (specifically Tasmania) here in the US around Labor day. Both Amrut (India) and Sullivan’s Cove (Australia) have tested well in blind tastings against Scottish single malts. I read about Sullivan’s Cove a while back and I’m all aflutter with excitement. The folks from Sullivan’s Cove will also be attending WhiskyFest in both San Francisco (Oct. 16) and New York (Nov. 10).