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Tonight the Old SNOTS gather to do something entirely different.  Well, maybe not entirely different, but it will be a significant departure from our gatherings to this point.  Tonight we pit a single malt whisky from Scotland (Macallan 12) against the world—an Irish whiskey, a blended Scotch, a Canadian whiskey, an American Bourbon and a [...]

Once again this year, several of the Old SNOTS members trekked to the Scottish Arms restaurant in St. Louis for the birthday celebration of the Scottish National Bard, Robert Burns.  This makes the third year the Old SNOTS spent the evening with the good folks of the Scottish Arms . . . and this event proved to [...]

A Look Back At 2010

In: General

1 Dec 2010

Well boys and girls, we’ve come to the end of another enormously successful Old SNOTS year.  Despite my occasional desire for time to stand still so I could live in a moment forever, mercifully for me and those with me, I’m not God and can’t make time stop.  (This gets me wondering about metaphysical questions [...]

I found myself drinking a Balvenie Doublewood this evening.  Many of you know that I prefer drinking Island, Islay, and Campbeltown Whiskies.  Balvenie is a Speysider.   So I asked myself why was I drinking this.  I have Springbank, Longrow, Caol Ila, Laphroaig, and others on the shelf.  So why did I pick the Balvenie?  As [...]

We’ve come down to that time of the year when the Old SNOTS gather to select the favorite whisky of the year.  The process is to take the favorite from each of the gatherings during the year and then pit them head-to-head in the last gathering of the year.  You may recall that the last [...]

Here is a picture of the MaCallan Cask Strength, priced at $55 here in Breckenridge.  No age statement, but Michael Jackson says it is a 10 – 12 yr old, and he rates it an 88 (6th edition).  Also pictured is a Mortlach Signatory 12 yr old,  aged in Hogshead.  It is a pretty good whisky [...]

In a previous article written on 06 June 2009, I claimed disappointment in a Glenfarclas 17 yr old OB that seemed to me to not hold up to aging very well.  As I remember, the whisky tasted woody, distracting from the normally high regard  in which I hold the Glenfarclas distillery (my favorite speysider).  I [...]

The BUMS

In: General| News

14 Jul 2010

One of the Old SNOTS (thanks, Gary) recently discovered that there’s another single malt whisky aficionado group on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River.  The call themselves The BUMS (Bureau of Malt Sippers) and their website is at http://www.scotch-tasting-bums.com/Welcome.html.  Take the time to check out their website and drop them a line with your [...]

[The following is an account of an Old SNOTS offsite gathering.  Though the tone of the minutes may seem negative, in fact we had a great time.  It goes to show that wherever and whenever the Old SNOTS gather it'll be a night worth noting.] 

Minutes of the Offsite
of the
Old Scotch Nosing or Tasting Society
(Old SNOTS)
June [...]

On the shores of Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland lies a small little village called Inveraray.  The website “Undiscovered Scotland” describes it as “built on the site of an earlier fishing village in the mid 1700s by the 3rd Duke of Argyll, Chief of the powerful Clan Campbell.  He demolished the original [...]


About the Old SNOTS

SNOTS = Scotch Nosing Or Tasting Society

A group of men and women from all walks of life and all parts of the globe who, when the situation permits, warrants or demands, succumb to the reverence of Scotland’s most distinctive product—uisghe beatha, water of life, single malt whisky—and firmly of the conviction that “Whisky may not cure the common cold, but it fails more agreeably than most other things.”


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  • Mike peet: I don't think ivoted for an Isley. But I really can't tell where it did come from! Anyway, my goal [...]
  • Bill Webster: I can certainly live with being basic but fun. Old Snots is first and foremost a social gathering. [...]
  • smcallister: Great hearing from you Bill. You should have been at this one. There were a few Hail Marys tossed [...]
  • Bill Webster: I certainly agree that Catholics would have better attendance if they served Scotch. My attendance [...]

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