Ardbeg Galileo

[TheEngineer]

Every time I take a dram of this to my desk at night, I'm hoping that I will like it more than the last time, that I will finally either get it or give in and understand that it is not the same as the other release last year, Ardbeg Day or Alligator.

But each time I put this in my mouth, I can't but feel like this is a miss. It is not a bad whisky, in fact its pretty good, but it just misses out on all of the adornments that I wanted in the Ardbeg. It's like going out for a Chicago style hotdog and missing all of its accompanyments. it could be agreat dog, but its missing something.

And that's how I feel every time I have this. it could've been a great dram, but falls so far short of the high bars that Ardbeg has set for itself.

Too bad the old bottles distilled in the 70's are now so expensive.

A father of my friends passed away this morning. He was a good man and I raise a glass to him.