tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082156144028140004.post5459742635148890590..comments2024-03-13T04:04:32.568-07:00Comments on Sku's Recent Eats: Craft Whiskey Week - Lost Spirits Seascape and Leviathan skuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00487419662314518931noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082156144028140004.post-75017276196252419092017-10-16T23:08:44.025-07:002017-10-16T23:08:44.025-07:00+B. Davis, try using Rye if you're not letting...+B. Davis, try using Rye if you're not letting it sit for long. Young rye can be absolutely delicious. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082156144028140004.post-49208406974387346472017-09-02T07:11:30.133-07:002017-09-02T07:11:30.133-07:00Counterpoint: Lost Spirits is making spirits all r...Counterpoint: Lost Spirits is making spirits all right, but to call Leviathan "whisky" is to do dishonor to the name. And it doesn't matter how much he's sweated creating it, it's still garbage. Apparently he's so new to whiskey that he thinks calling a whiskey "young" means you're judging it on its stated age, not its taste. False. Calling a whiskey young simply means it's hot and lacks complexity. Because so many young whiskeys taste this way, it's an apt connotation. And his whiskey tastes as young as it is. Calling the whiskey's off tastes "exciting experiments" is like claiming, when as a kid you ran into a wall, that "I meant to so that." Well, bravo. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315084499435915848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082156144028140004.post-84548137144169771122012-09-28T18:56:43.884-07:002012-09-28T18:56:43.884-07:00Amen to Brian. This is simply a gorgeous malt. Euc...Amen to Brian. This is simply a gorgeous malt. Eucalyptus. Mezcal. Dark Chocolate. Hot. Bright. Even vegetal. Is high quality and unique. Ageists need not apply.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082156144028140004.post-37973297340151119582012-09-25T17:15:28.202-07:002012-09-25T17:15:28.202-07:00Rebuttal: (please publish me)
This morning I woke...Rebuttal: (please publish me)<br /><br />This morning I woke up after reading your blog post<br /> and contemplated closing the distillery that Joanne<br /> and I spent the last 3 years of our blood sweat and<br /> tears to build. Then I poured myself a glass of<br /> Leviathan and the forthcoming Paradiso and said<br /> HELL NO I love this whiskey. It was at that moment<br /> that I decided to write a short rebuttal to your<br /> opinion of my work.<br /><br />The criticism that a spirit is too young is insulting.<br /><br /><br />A spirit can be too hot for your taste. A spirit can be<br /> too sweet for your taste. A spirit can be to bitter for<br /> your taste. You can find notes in it that you don’t<br /> like or find awkward. That’s fine and you’re entitled<br /> to your opinion, but to say its too young is an<br /> undefined criticism. <br /><br />You owe it to your readers to say why you don’t like<br /> it. Hell you owe it me, the person who slaved for<br /> years to make the whiskey you panned for no<br /> defined reason. Its like saying I am in my thirties<br /> and therefore too young to make whiskey. I, like<br /> the art I created, stand or fall on my own merits,<br /> not my age.<br /><br />I further take issue with the statement “its too<br /> young” since it pretends to be an objective<br /> statement when we all know opinions about<br /> whiskeys are inherently subjective. <br /><br />I would also point out that many trained palettes<br /> that have sampled my work see what I see in it and<br /> love it and support it. I am not saying you have to<br /> like it but I am saying the criticism “its to young”<br /> pretends to be objective when its not, and is really<br /> just a vindictive and mean way of saying I don’t care<br /> for it.<br /><br />Why I did it: <br />A spirit derives its reason for being based upon what<br /> it does that is new, interesting, and unusual. If<br /> Leviathan tasted like Laphroag it would have no<br /> reason for being since Laphroaig already exists. I<br /> made bold changes to the production process, the<br /> wood, the peat, and the techniques used to age it. <br /> The ester profile and flavor density is off the charts. <br /> Is it conventional NO – it’s not supposed to be. <br /><br />I think Leviathan has a lot to say, you don’t have to<br /> like what it says, but don’t tell people not to listen<br /> because it’s too young to speak – say why you don’t<br /> like what it says. <br /><br />Why “it’s too young” is a dangerous thing to say.<br />Big distilleries are pushing the message that craft<br /> products are too young… why because they are<br /> trying to bankrupt them by discouraging people<br /> from trying the whiskeys at all. When you repeat<br /> their garbage you are being played like a pawn of<br /> the multinational corporations that don’t want to<br /> see a world with 10,000 distilleries in it. For them<br /> this is business. For me this is art, and the world<br /> will be richer place if we don’t let them push their<br /> corporate PR strategy down our throats.B. Davishttp://www.lostspirits.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082156144028140004.post-87493012061042742952012-09-20T14:31:18.310-07:002012-09-20T14:31:18.310-07:00I have the same Cask 1 of the Seascape and to me i...I have the same Cask 1 of the Seascape and to me it's almost completely dominated by a sort of overripe, almost rotting tropical fruit note on the nose and palate. My friends feel the same way when they tried it. Maybe the cabernet influence is a bit too strong at this point because it sure doesn't feel like 55 ppm.<br /><br />I do get a little of the smoke on the nose but mainly it doesn't become very apparent until the finish. Quite bizarre. I probably should have gone for the Leviathan.chnoreply@blogger.com