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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:40 pm    Post subject: Lidl Ben Bracken Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep I will be getting one 👍
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Worth a go at that price, cheers
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any news on the Aldi Christmas specials yet?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe Aldi not doing any like they did the years before, nothing in there catalogue anyway .
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just picked up two bottles in the shops now.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't got a hold of a bottle yet but it is always possible that it could be a peated Bunnahabhain
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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


It's not impossible but Bunna does tend to come at 46% - of course the final ABV might be more down to Lidl than the distillery.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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


It's not impossible but Bunna does tend to come at 46% - of course the final ABV might be more down to Lidl than the distillery.
I recall a number of years ago that Tesco’s own label Islay malt was reputed to be a peated Bunna bottled at 40%, so I wouldn’t rule it out. It baffles me how they do manage to keep this secret.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 👍🤷‍♂️, but it’s great fun guessing don’t you think ?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just going to put this here.

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


Lidl UK needs to pull it's socks up.
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