@mikael Thanks, I sent you a list with suggestions for new features. Most useful from my point of view: 1. Customize the activity feed (I want to focus on reviews and comments, and drop 'likes' as I all to often overlook new reviews), 2. Better structure/sorting of collection (with hundreds of bottles, it would really help me to sort them in a meaningful way), 3. Highlight reviews of the people I follow on the bottle pages (I don't want to browse through hundreds of pages for a classic like Wild Turkey 101 to see who of my whisky friends has reviewed it), 4. Forum, a more general request which would certainy enrich the community aspect of this site, as all communication is in the review/comments section.

@Slainte-Mhath @Richard-ModernDrinking All good suggestions, and I'm thinking the same way. Better searching/filtering would be a welcome incentive. I suggested it to Mikael a couple of years back but nothing happened.

I'm patiently waiting to flip my Jura Origin and a couple of Bruichladdichs. Then retire comfortably, I will.

@Richard-ModernDrinking @cascode @Slainte-Mhath hey folks. Thanks for the great suggestions below. I just reached out to each of you by email to learn more about what you're each looking for.

@Richard-ModernDrinking Great point, I for my part would really like to customize my feed, dropping all the likes and highlighting new reviews, which I all too often overlook. I would definitely pay for Distiller Pro, if these extra features were useful for me. So far, I am not convinced, and now being forced to upgrade to Pro just to get rid of these ads kinda sucks.

Paging @mikael . How about a few us get together to chat about what where we'd like to go with Distiller and features that would persuade more of us to pay? For example, I would pay to follow bottles, filter notifications and see a stream of ratings by all users, not just ones I follow

@Slainte-Mhath @cascode I don’t see it on the app—-just on the web version

@cascode I have been posting content on Distiller for more than six years now, and I understand that revenues are needed at some point. The previous ad placement was fine with me, but this step now is fairly aggressive. I feel like being pushed into buying Pro, if I still want to use this site in the way I'm used to. Paying $10 per year is not the issue, but can't they motivate users to do that voluntarily?

@Slainte-Mhath I agree completely. I'm considering pulling my reviews.

I am pretty annoyed by the aggressive ad placement Distiller has recently added to the bottom of the page. Not quite sure if I will continue to use Distiller under these circumstances.

@Slainte-Mhath besides whiskey geeks who might want to follow grain to bottle to hands, not sure how blockchain helps them. I think blockchain is more useful in tagging those bottles that have high chances of counterfeiting ( Pappy, old Macallans, Karuizawa , Hanyu, Brora , Port Ellen , etc ). This way, you can follow from sale to sale.

Additional comment: A whisky for all the Bitcoin disciples? Ardnamurchan adopted blockchain technology to follow every step along the manufacturing process.

Additional information: Inaugural release AD/09.20:01 is a blend of 53 casks (65% ex-bourbon and 35% ex-sherry), distilled in 2014/2015 and bottled in 09/2020, with an outturn of 15,978 bottles.

@PBMichiganWolverine I got this one at retail price, but missed out on Daftmill, Nc'nean, Raasay and Torabhaig.

@Slainte-Mhath I’ve stopped chasing ...impossible to keep up. And exhausting.