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| - This is my review of the Whisky Attic - had it been my husband's it would have been a 5 star experience.
Came here with a group for my husband's birthday. He didn't know what we were doing, only that it was related in some way with scotch. When I signed us up for this, I thought it was going to be a relatively straight forward whisky tasting and some education. We got a whole lot more than that - in terms of both whisky and non-whisky related information.
JD was the "instructor" as he said the Whisky Attic is a school and the reason why their location looks the way it does. Quite frankly we missed it the first time and our driver had to turn back around. At night the area is COMPLETELY dark and hard to find. Once we were inside, I was like, wtf... where are we? I didn't get a sense of relief until we were IN the room with all the whiskys. It's a pretty impressive room and just that view got my husband excited. JD was pretty knowledgeable about whisky and the history relating to it, but at times he went off too much on tangents for me. He is also a bit too opinionated for me personally. While I think everyone is entitled to be opinionated, if you work with the public, its better to be a little more neutral in thoughts... just my two cents there.
Anyway, the class and information was really interesting. What was weird was the tasting part of it with the hold in your mouth for some many seconds thing. LOL One of our group couldn't do it no matter how many times he tried. I thought the whiskys were interesting but I think it would be better if we all got the same ones just to have our own discussions of how we liked them, etc. Overall, I think this is a must do for whisky fans, but if you get JD, just be prepared for a little TMI.
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