Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is our fourth year of the Cask Strength Session of the vPub. We usually hit it in November, but I waited this year for a particular highlight to be released, and it’s now arrived. We're good to go.
These sessions have proved popular and understandably so. Cask Strength releases are more available than they've ever been and in this session we'll visit one or two that are probably the first that spring to mind when we think about cask strength official releases.
As well as covering five or six recent bangers, we’ll also consider what the definition of cask strength actually means, and what it’s not.
Little pours, big flavours. I hope to welcome you there!
Sorry for the dodgy audio and image quality problems in the first 30 minutes. Very odd.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening
16:03 - Little Brown Dog 'Cask Strength' blended
20:50 - What 'Cask Strength' should mean
23:33 - A preview of tonight's bottles
29:06 - Previous bottles covered in this series
32:45 - 1: Under-the-Radar CS - Loch Lomond DE#7
50:02 - 2: The Annual Release CS: Ardnamurchan 2024
1:00:56 - 3: The Ignored CS: Kingsbarns Distillery Reserve
1:15:03 - 4: The Unicorn CS: Springbank 12
1:28:59 - 5: The Permashelf CS: Glen ScotiaVictoriana
1:44:12 - 6: The Bang-for-Buck CS: Glasgow 1770 (Lagavulin 12 2023)
2:03:50 - Buying form Bezos - Thompson Bros. NH 8yo
2:14:23 - Cask Strength in 2024 in summary
2:22:25 - Quiz at the end
This is our fourth year of the Cask Strength Session of the vPub. We usually hit it in November, but I waited this year for a particular highlight to be released, and it’s now arrived. We're good to go.
These sessions have proved popular and understandably so. Cask Strength releases are more available than they've ever been and in this session we'll visit one or two that are probably the first that spring to mind when we think about cask strength official releases.
As well as covering five or six recent bangers, we’ll also consider what the definition of cask strength actually means, and what it’s not.
Little pours, big flavours. I hope to welcome you there!
Sorry for the dodgy audio and image quality problems in the first 30 minutes. Very odd.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening
16:03 - Little Brown Dog 'Cask Strength' blended
20:50 - What 'Cask Strength' should mean
23:33 - A preview of tonight's bottles
29:06 - Previous bottles covered in this series
32:45 - 1: Under-the-Radar CS - Loch Lomond DE#7
50:02 - 2: The Annual Release CS: Ardnamurchan 2024
1:00:56 - 3: The Ignored CS: Kingsbarns Distillery Reserve
1:15:03 - 4: The Unicorn CS: Springbank 12
1:28:59 - 5: The Permashelf CS: Glen ScotiaVictoriana
1:44:12 - 6: The Bang-for-Buck CS: Glasgow 1770 (Lagavulin 12 2023)
2:03:50 - Buying form Bezos - Thompson Bros. NH 8yo
2:14:23 - Cask Strength in 2024 in summary
2:22:25 - Quiz at the end
