Musings

World Whisky Day 2018

To celebrate World Whisky Day this year, we decided to go back to some countries we’ve visited before and deepen our explorations of what whisky can be, perhaps in ways we don’t usually feature. Five years of holding these tastings and exploring the world of whisky via social media and in-person has taught us whisky can be so much more than we’d have ever dreamed of when we first began our respective journeys. For the first time ever, Scotchology is absorbing the costs of the featured whiskies so that all proceeds will benefit two local charities.

By Adam | April 22, 2018 | Musings | No Comments |

Against all expectation, the end of this past June marks the fourth anniversary of the first time the original group of us got together, before we even called ourselves Scotchology. Before all kinds of hi-jinks, travels, and tastings. And despite the best of intentions to make this an annual sort of thing, it has been two years since the last update. It seems like a long time since June of 2013, when four of us began to regularly meet for the expressed purpose of exploring single malt scotch together. We’d never have dreamed we’d find ourselves where we are now. Wait, where are we?

By Adam | August 25, 2017 | Musings | 1 Comment |

Whisky Wisdom: Interview with Kirby Kallas-Lewis, Part 2

If you missed it, be sure to check out Part 1 of our visit to OOLA Distillery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle and our interview with master distiller and owner Kirby Kallas-Lewis. Situated down the street from a Pony and not that far from a Unicorn, with some Chop Suey (and hot dog stand!) in the back, OOLA distillery is housed in a short building of brown stone sandwiched between two high rises. It seems unassuming, until you step through the doors. The inside is small, smaller than you think a working distillery might have any right to be.

By Adam | July 27, 2017 | Musings | No Comments |