Whisky Forum - Laphroaig 15 now available

torcross · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:46 pm Post subject: Laphroaig 15 now available

For 'friends of Laphroaig' online only.

The site is really really slow and just a heads up, login first or it will say 'out of stock'

only 2500 bottles available at Â£67.99.

opelfruit · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:06 pm Post subject:

Tell me about it, getting a server to busy error. Shame, I'd like one of these Sad

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drPete · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:41 pm Post subject:

hmmmm - the way I read it, 2500 now for friends to crank up the hype machine, 73,250 later on in the year.......
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Frankie · Master Of Malts Joined: 14 Nov 2006 Posts: 345

I tried earlier with no luck, I will try this evening when i get home to get a bottle, hopefully a high ABV or even better, cask strength, or am i hoping for too much.

drPete · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:17 pm Post subject:

43% and lots to come same liquid to local markets later in the year
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opelfruit · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:33 pm Post subject:

Ah yes, I see the total outrun is expected to be 75k bottles. More than happy to wait, this should hopefully stop the investment mob.
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Islay Pete · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:56 pm Post subject:

That is a shame they choose 43% as the bottling strength, i am still having problems viewing via the link from the FOL email announcing it but no hurry now if there are to be 73,250 bottles.

raithrover · Single Malt Member Joined: 17 Aug 2014 Posts: 73

After much hassled managed to purchase a bottle so looking forward to opening it up and enjoying it - is that allowed??? Shocked

opelfruit · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:29 pm Post subject:

James T · Master Of Malts Joined: 05 Feb 2011 Posts: 2966

I still have some of the old Laphroaig 15 in the cupboard, i was alwys annoyed they done away with this.

Andy M · Master Of Malts Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 1212

A little disappointing that they reproduce the discontinued 15 year bottling for a 200th anniversary bottling and stick a Â£67.99 price tag on it. The 15 was good and it was a shame to see it go but i am not nostalgic enough to want to pay Â£67.99 for it.

Something non chill filtered at high or cask strength with a bit of maturity and still has a good peaty kick would have been a special anniversary bottling, quite uncreative from the team at Laphroaig i would say.

I guess i wont be earning another useless Friends of Laphroaig point as i wont be buying this one even if i could have as they have not got themselves a website that can handle a launch like this and i see that many FOLs were disappointed as there poor web hosting service could not handle the amount of visitors the site received when they sent out the email announcing the launch, but they had to know the site could not handle the traffic and they have wasted many hours of many of the FOLs time only to leave them disappointed. Way to treat your customers Laphroaig.

Drover · Master Of Malts Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 270

I had no luck getting hold of a bottle after trying all day yesterday and i was not at all happy at wasting that time to get nothing.

opelfruit · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:35 am Post subject:

Quite common, the websites are not designed for that amount of user load. No point spending loads of money on infrastructure to handle the load generated on just 1 day a year and then be massively over spec'd for the rest of the year.....money down the drain.

The Ardbeg site crashes every year too, part of the fun of it.

Think I'll be waiting for it to hit supermarket retail with the other 72.5k bottles, I'm sure one of them will do some special price on it given the way they are competing with each other.

I don't mind spending Â£70 on a 15yo if it's good. Would have been in e to see 46% and ncf too. It's only like Balvenie charging Â£80 for a 15yo single barrel, there doesn't seem to be a great correlation between age and price with some stuff other than "its got an age so it's expensive"
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Brummie · Master Of Malts Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 661

I agree Laphroaig would have known that their web site hosting would not handle the traffic generated by this launch and they could have easily have upgraded there set up before the launch as it wouldn't have put much of a dent in their pockets but they choose not to. I recon they see the fact that the site struggles to handle the amount of visitors as positive publicity

sorren · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:38 pm Post subject:

I have to say in these times I would expect them to have a site capable of holding up, but then I'm sure you all had fun trying to get one, I had no problems with my order, done in a matter minutes.. ... 😎