@PBMichiganWolverine Ah nice. 4 out of the list I haven't tried. They will be worth a fortune right now and to be honest I'd very highly doubt taste wise they'd live up to what they are worth $$ wise. I've had quite a few closed distillery ones now and only a couple have been awesome...and even then I wouldn't be paying the several hundred to 1k they are worth. They are definitely drinking for the rarity and memory versus being any better than stuff a 1/5th of the price!

@Rick_M Ha yes definitely agree. That's what i'm rapidly winding down to. 14 samples left then other than the occasional few samples which infrequently may come my way i'm quite happy drinking my way through existing bottles and leaving most of the posting to others. I'll be enjoying whiskey more like wine and beer...occasionally pulling one out I like..drinking it and nothing else!

@Soba45 out of that closed list, I think I have: Brora , Rosebank, Littlemill, Millburn, Glenugie , North Port Brechin, Coleburn.

Life was much simpler when I just drank Lagavulin 16. :)

@PBMichiganWolverine No i've been lucky to taste Brora twice and Rosebank is waiting for me. The list of missing stands at 17: Banff (1983), Ben Wyvis (1976), Coleburn (1985), Convalmore (1985), Ferrintosh (1980), Glen Albyn (1983), Glen Flagler (1985), Glen Mhor (1983), Glenlochy (1983), Glenugie (1983), Glenury Royal (1985), Killyloch (1970's), Kinclaith (1975), Lochside (1990's), Millburn (1982), North of Scotland / Strathmore (1980/1982), North Port / Brechin (1984), Towiemore (1964). Bottlings start at around $1000 for most and go sharply up from there. Some you just can't really get at all.

@Soba45 that sounds excellent. Tasting those of days of yesterday.

@Soba45 which closed are you missing ? I’m guessing Brora and Rosebank ?

@Generously_Paul @Scott_E @LeeEvolved @PBMichiganWolverine Yes I thought I'd go slightly further afield and try for as many closed as i could. 2 more closed drams and then the entire journey is complete! I got all the way up to distilleries open before mid 2000's and then after that a fair few but not all. Very interesting few year journey!

@LeeEvolved yeah —too many new ones to keep track of. And we, wisely, kept the closed ones out.

@PBMichiganWolverine - it didn’t escape us- it is/was a closed distillery at the time we were making our rounds. I’m not sure if this is one of the revived ones that’s marketing fresh stuff or not. I haven’t looked into the list of newer or reopened distilleries in many moons.

@Scott_E by the time I go diving Into to the vault, it’ll be an year or two ...

@PBMichiganWolverine And if you do, I will get to it a year or two later. Lol.

@LeeEvolved @Generously_Paul @Telex @Scott_E those were the days! How did this one escape us? I gotta see if I have a bottle—-if I do, Need to remediate that

Wow, it seems like eons ago when @Generously_Paul and I came up with the idea. Thankfully, I had the common sense to invite @PBMichiganWolverine and his massive collection and connections to make the pilgrimage come to us. It took awhile, and probably too much money, but we finished it and I gotta say it felt like quite the accomplishment. @Scott_E and @Telex came along for the ride to help ease the financial burdens for us all and I know I’ve got quite the google spreadsheet (and Distiller reviews) to prove it all. Revel in it, soba- because it isn’t as easy as you’d think and it’s quite a nice little bragging point if you’re ever in a dark corner of some remote whisky bar and someone asks you if you know someone who’s tried “x” distillery “because it’s quite the hidden gem”. Yes, my friend, I do know someone that has tried that one... Cheers.

@PBMichiganWolverine do you have one of these in your bottle warehouse?

Somehow this distillery was overlooked on our tour. I think it’s time to remedy this