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Douglas Laing
Scotland
Joining the ranks of Big Peat and Scallywag is Douglas Laing's Timorous Beastie, a blended malt made entirely of Highland whiskies from distilleries such as Dalmore, Glen Garioch, Glengoyne and more. The name is a nod to the Robert Burns poem 'To a Mouse' and to Burns' wit, as though the mouse in the poem is a timid little thing, this whisky is nothing of the sort!
Acacia honey, creamy boiled sweeties (the strawberry flavour), dried apricots and white grapes. There's a good whack of Sherry influence in here too! A whiff of coastal air and classic Highland heather, too.
Dried fruits, green apples and anise. Sweet grist and malt loaf. Pebble beaches and more heather on the mid palate.
Long. Drying with hot cinnamon sweeties and fresh bread.
Who are you calling timorous? This beastie is big, brave and an absolute blast!
£4.90 - £42.00
Barley sweetness with marmalade, vanilla fudge and buttery scones - this is a elegant, sweet highland style of malt and I thoroughly enjoyed every drop.
I enjoyed a bottle of Rock Oyster by Douglas Laing so much I sought out what else they might have. Timorous Beastie tastes young and ripe. I've never had a "ripe" Scotch whisky before. Any "notes" are overpowered by the young sugary ripeness. Like in the movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, it's as if they separated all of the good whisky and put it in Rock Oyster and all of the bad whisky and put it in Timorous Beastie.
I definitely can recommend this bottle! I never heard of this one till last week, so the next day I bought myself a bottle. Like the other Douglas Laing's brands The Epicurean is a remarkable whisky for a very reasonable price!
Not sure what happened, I had a bottle in 2017 that was magnificent and then got another bottle recently that was absolutely awful and reminded me of Duggan's Dew. Beware inconsistency with this one.
I love all the Douglas Laing range but this one is my favourite. So honeyed and sweet, can't fault it