General Tasting Notes Discussion

[Mark C]

Good to see you getting things off and running, Keith. It will be good to see how notes compare once more and more are posted.

[Malt-Teaser]

Yes, I like the idea of this format which will make it easier to search specific bottlings and / or distilleries. Once we have a few more additions it will make good reading.

[woodhill]

Can I also say here that I love this new format, it should be the industry(forum) standard.

It is so easy now to find any whisky and see what members think of it (or it will be in time) well done.

Now my note writing is not so good partially as my olfactory powers are weak and untrained (having 3-4 major sinus operations in the last 15 years han't helped) but it is something I intend to work on.

Any tips or tricks?

J

[lawschooldrunk]

drink lots!

[Willie JJ]

I think it would be useful if the first poster puts as much info on the bottle as possible in the first post. Given the editability of the posts if anyone has any extra info or corrections they could pm the first poster to update the info.

[C57]

That would be good Willie. A lot of the Irish I had were samples and thee wasn't always that much information. So any additional I will happily put in the title of my posts.

[Mark C]

Great going guys. I'm glad to see this is working and more people are posting tasting notes.

[Malt-Teaser]

I love this format, well done everyone and keep it going!

[Yello to Mello]

Yeah this is good. I like reading tasting notes that isnt just a list of 20 different fruits, legumes, and candies that can be interpreted. Those do nothing to get an idea what it tastes like unless the dominant ones are stated.

You all put in a lot of work to those notes...esp Malty.

[Malt-Teaser]

I am now about 3/4 of the way through my tasting note catch up. When up to date I can concentrate on adding some new ones.

I am also still running my "Whisky for One" thread under whisky tasting, so feel free to promote any general discussion of the bottlings or my sometimes unique style over there.
I enjoy the input and discussion.

[Mark C]

I really hope you guys are copying and pasting from somewhere because that's an awful lot of typing!

I'm definitely going to type up what few notes I have from my little notebook at some point - I'm feeling inspired seeing all these notes appearing.

[Malt-Teaser]

I saved all my WM notes by printing the pages to my hard drive. I am now copying and pasting those, but I have to manually add some extra line spacing and emboldening.

[C57]

Yeah this is good. I like reading tasting notes that isnt just a list of 20 different fruits, legumes, and candies that can be interpreted. Those do nothing to get an idea what it tastes like unless the dominant ones are stated.

You all put in a lot of work to those notes...esp Malty.

Yep, I've said it before and no doubt I'll say it again, but MT's notes are very professional and great reading

As you rightly say, mine aren't up to scratch, but at least they serve to remind me even if they're useless for anyone else

[Yello to Mello]

From this great forum feature and the many entries added regularly, don't forget to backup the forum regularly.

[Malt-Teaser]

Yeah this is good. I like reading tasting notes that isnt just a list of 20 different fruits, legumes, and candies that can be interpreted. Those do nothing to get an idea what it tastes like unless the dominant ones are stated.

You all put in a lot of work to those notes...esp Malty.

Yep, I've said it before and no doubt I'll say it again, but MT's notes are very professional and great reading

As you rightly say, mine aren't up to scratch, but at least they serve to remind me even if they're useless for anyone else

Thanks Nick, but I wouldn't be too surprised if people were to say my notes are too opinionated.
Anyway, your notes are fine and if I ever get the chance, I will look forward to an evening of dramming together in real life and discussing styles.

[woodhill]

MT

Your notes are great.

I look forward to sitting dramming whilst reading your notes to see what i get.

[Willie JJ]

I wouldn't be too surprised if people were to say my notes are too opinionated.

I can't see how a tasting note could be too opinionated Keith. If they weren't opinionated then they would be boring.

[Malt-Teaser]

Thanks all, I assure you I have no intention of changing my style

[Willie JJ]

I'm now going to be a pain in the arse and suggest that, at least in future, we order the title of the tasting note so that the bottler is first. That way folks that are looking for a particular note will find it more easily. I guess we could come up with a formula for the ordering of all the title info, but maybe that's not necessary. I will (in time) go back and change that titles in my notes so that the bottler is first, but I'm not suggesting anyone else should bother.

Cheers

[TheTross]

That's not a bad idea actually Willie. I think everyone has a habit of putting the distillery first just for clarification, but now that all notes are grouped by distillery anyway I suppose there's really no need to carry on doing that. Maybe we could even omit it altogether from the title, and just have bottler, ABV, cask information and any other notes that will fit in the title. In fact I'll start doing that from now on.

That said, I doubt that MT, Nick Brown and others who've contributed a lot of notes already will want to go back editing them all...

[Willie JJ]

So what's the convention for a distilery bottling? Will we just use OB?

[C57]

So what's the convention for a distilery bottling? Will we just use OB?

Why not!?

[C57]

I'm now going to be a pain in the arse and suggest that, at least in future, we order the title of the tasting note so that the bottler is first. That way folks that are looking for a particular note will find it more easily. I guess we could come up with a formula for the ordering of all the title info, but maybe that's not necessary. I will (in time) go back and change that titles in my notes so that the bottler is first, but I'm not suggesting anyone else should bother.

Cheers

When you open the note, the section you're in may not be immediately obvious except by reference to the thread location right at the top by the board index. Having the distillery in the title makes it easier.
I know people are supposed to know what they're looking at, but if you have opened a number of windows or tabs (maybe for comparison purposes?) or if you got to them from a link (like the View Active board), it may not b e immediately obvious what the distillery is if it isn't in the thread title. ??

[Willie JJ]

That seems a fair point Nick, so we could do Distillery, Bottler, age, abv, cask and any other info. Having the distillery at the front shouldn't distract too much from the bottler for those that have gone looking.

[The Craw]

Guys - can you please stop posting tasting notes whilst I'm 'busy' at my work, it's making me thirsty