Whisky Forum - Lidl Ben Bracken

Owls7 · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:40 pm Post subject: Lidl Ben Bracken

Just a heads up guys just noticed Lidl have from the 19th of November a Ben Bracken 16 year old Islay on sale 34.99 might be worth picking up.

ralfy legend · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:30 pm Post subject:

Yep I will be getting one ðŸ‘

Archer · Master Of Malts Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1426

Worth a go at that price, cheers

Southcoast Boy · Single Malt Member Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 36

Any news on the Aldi Christmas specials yet?

ralfy legend · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 6:43 pm Post subject:

I believe Aldi not doing any like they did the years before, nothing in there catalogue anyway .

arqueturus · Master Of Malts Joined: 31 Jul 2016 Posts: 262

I think Aldi may well have not bothered this year. They seem to be all about the Gin - I can't say I'm surprised.

Owls7 · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:53 pm Post subject:

Just picked up two bottles in the shops now.

Owls7 · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:01 pm Post subject:

Well on my second glass now all I can say is wow if you love your Peaty/smokey whisky then this is fantastic for 35 pounds trouble is they already have the standard green tube Islay which is very nice I just think this has a bit more depth to it if that makes sense and I think you could tell it's a well aged whisky(16 year old) a great tipple in my opinion and you could do a lot worse than grab a bottle of this oh forgot to say it also has a great colour to it a great drink to sip on a winters night hope this helps.

Scotchnthings · Double Malt Member Joined: 11 Feb 2019 Posts: 144

Any guesses to distillery? Probably Caol Ila I'd imagine? Was there quite a few bottles around? Would mind doing a little detour tomorrow for this.

arqueturus · Master Of Malts Joined: 31 Jul 2016 Posts: 262

Just managed to snag two bottles of this. The distillery mentioned on the box is Clydesdale Laughing

My suspicion is Lagavulin, Coal Ila or Bowmore. All producing the right quantities to do something like this.Everyone else on Islay is in ridiculous demand otherwise it feels like.

I'm not a fan of Bowmore so I'm hoping it's not that.

Brummie · Master Of Malts Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 657

I haven't got a hold of a bottle yet but it is always possible that it could be a peated Bunnahabhain

arqueturus · Master Of Malts Joined: 31 Jul 2016 Posts: 262

Kray · Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:38 am Post subject:

ralfy legend · Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:47 pm Post subject:

What we need is the so called experts on this great forum to pull there socks up and tell us what they think it is ðŸ‘ðŸ¤·â€â™‚ï¸, but itâ€™s great fun guessing donâ€™t you think ?

arqueturus · Master Of Malts Joined: 31 Jul 2016 Posts: 262

Just going to put this here.

https://www.lidl.de/de/whisky-highlights-2020/c29682

Lidl UK needs to pull it's socks up.