Tasting session with a few friends

[breathecosse]

What is peoples opinions of this line up for a whisky tasting session?
Is there any not worth having in there?

Glengoyne 21yo

Taketsuru 21 Year Old
Nikka Pure Malt Black
Yoichi 15 Year Old
Yoichi 20 Year Old
Miyagikyo 1990 Single Cask
Miyagikyou 15 Year Old

Bruichladdich 17 Year Old Pedro Ximénez
Bruichladdich 21 Year Old
Bruichladdich Peat
Caol Ila 18 Year Old
Caol Ila 1996 Moscatel
Caol Ila Natural Cask Strength
Caol Ila Moch
Aberlour A'Bunadh

[Malt-Teaser]

15 whiskies?
I'd say this is too many to really enjoy or tastes them all in one tasting.

[MacDeffe]

I would consider 15 a wee tasting

We usually do around 25ish in my groups, sometimes more

If you only serve around 1cl of each and drink plenty of water (I like coffee) in between there should be no problem.

Also be patient between the drams and take small sips to extract flavours and not alcohol

Steffen

PS I can't spot anything in there I wouldn't taste

[olikli]

I would consider 15 a wee tasting

We usually do around 25ish in my groups, sometimes more

If you only serve around 1cl of each

I won't jump at the 25 now, but can you really make a fair judgement of a whisky with just 1 cl? And can you still see how it reacts to water? Hard to imagine...

[MacDeffe]

At some events I only do ½-1 cl's

I only need to add water to 0-5% of the whiskies I taste, so thats no concern to me really.

Remember, this is a tasting session, not a scientific analytic study. You want to sit around a group of friends and enjoy your self, have a good time and compare the drams. If you really want to go into depths of a dram I need to taste it many times over many days. I can often spend 1-2 hours on 1-2cl's. But hey, I drink like that when I am alone

The main thing with tasting sessions is not about "fair judgement"'s and I don't stop enjoying whiskies just because I have several drams

My tastebuds do become numbed after just 1 dram, but I never really ruin my palate until I start eating bread or food, that's my biggest obstacle. Others use some kind of food to clear palate, I don't

Steffen

[olikli]

Remember, this is a tasting session, not a scientific analytic study

So obviously it boils down to how you define a tasting session

When I "taste" a whisky, I want to find out enough about it that I am able to publish a tasting note on my blog. What you describe I would prefer to call a casual "dramming" session. Which of course is a perfectly nice thing to have too.

[breathecosse]

15 whiskies?
I'd say this is too many to really enjoy or tastes them all in one tasting.

We uaually have a dozen or so.
The 15 are possible ones that i need to narrow down or get rid of
some all together.

This week was a quite one.
Out on the table were

Old Pultney 12yo
Longmorn 15yo
Bowmore cask strength
Forum Tamdhu 26yo
Yamazaki 12yo
Bowmore 22yo
Bushmill 21yo Medira finish
Aberlour A'bunadh batch 15

[Pete Smoke]

15 whiskies?
I'd say this is too many to really enjoy or tastes them all in one tasting.

Agreed. No more than 7 would be a good number.

After the tasting everyone can party on with the ones they liked.

[mongo]

we do four, 25ml each, over about 2.5 hours--with water and neutral rice crackers as palate cleansers.

[breathecosse]

It looks like the first casulty from the list is Glengoyne 21.
Just had a taste of it and can't seem to get in to it.

[Iain M]

25 - nice tasting

The more the merrier (literally!)