Comments on: Exclusive: Octomore & PC 7 Pics!!!

By: Bruichladdich Octomore | Harrison Ford Online

Bruichladdich Octomore | Harrison Ford Online — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:26:30 +0000

[...] bottles as props. Reynier dispatched one of the destillery’s prime products (the Octomore) plus a vintage one for Ford’s own use — and one of a "more modest age" for [...]

By: Das ist die ganze sache

Das ist die ganze sache — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:09:53 +0000

[...] wait to try this stuff – Bruichladdich Octomore: the bottle suggests its phenol level is 130ppm, so it’s gonna taste quite different [...]

By: ardblog » Blog Archiv » Neues vom PC7

ardblog » Blog Archiv » Neues vom PC7 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:09:42 +0000

[...] Artikel vom Blog von The Whisky Exchange heisst es, dass der PC7 “Unity” heissen soll, auf der Flasche steht jedoch in gälisch [...]

By: Octomore: I Keep Hearing Rumors « The “Officially Unofficial” Bruichladdich Blog

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:01:57 +0000

[...] What I do know about it is that it’s 131 ppm Phenol: That’s 3x the peating level of Port Charlotte (actually, it’s a bit higher than 3x). Yowza! The physicist in me suspects that, like other senses, taste and smell are logarithmic, so this might not taste or smell as peaty as it sounds; I can’t wait to try it for myself! More news as events warrant. Posted by tmaufer Filed in Uncategorized [...]

By: Angus

Angus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:19:45 +0000

Out of interest I’ve tried Octomore as a four year old out of cask and I think its a better malt than port Charlotte, the higher ppm combined with the higher levels of reflux from Bruichladdich’s stills make a super oily mouth coater of a dram. As for all this nonsense about it being peated to umpteen hundered ppm or whatever they’re saying it is these days, this is dubious at best considering the two methods of measuring ppm, HPLC and Colometric analysis give wildly different results on anything over 60ppm. Also this level of phenol would react very poorly with the yeasts used in fermentation. Having said that Octomore is simply a very oily, phenolic, powerful islay malt but with less medicinal characteristics than the southern Islay distilleries. It will never, for example, match the raw power of Laphroaig unless they decide to radically alter their distillation techniques. Its all still very exciting to wait and try the bottled product though.

By: Tim F

Tim F — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:28:20 +0000

drJ and bgulien,

That’s such a good issue that I’m going to have to write a post about it!

By: bgulien

bgulien — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:02:59 +0000

Dr. Jarv,

As you might know from the “other” forum, I quite like the opaque bottles. They look good and the whisky is exceptional. Only gripe is the inability to see the level. It might be almost empty without realizing it. ;-)

By: drJarv

drJarv — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:59:01 +0000

i appreciate that Tim – no problem at all. I’ll make sure you get some quality final images when we have them.

Out of interest – what do you think, in principle, of the Octomore bottle. It’s getting a bit of stick on other blogs for being black coated/opaque (like Blacker Still in fact).

Our thinking was that this is such a unique spirit that it doesn’t need to be seen and measured for colour… nor that it should be in a standard Bruichladdich bottle – it’s such a maverick.

I fear the more conventional drinkers disagree!

By: Tim F

Tim F — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:30:35 +0000

drJarv,

I assume you’re involved at some stage in the design or marketing of Octomore & PC7 – welcome to the blog.

However, I’m sure you’ll understand that, naturally, we can’t reveal our sources :)

Apologies if you think the picture design has changed somewhere between the leak and us posting what we received to the blog. I can assure you that there is no difference between what we were sent and what we posted – any differences must have been already on the pdf we received.

All that notwithstanding, I did mention that what we posted was a design proof, hopefully it should have been inferred that the actual bottle might look a bit different – after all it’s a drawing not an actual photo. Apologies if I didn’t make that clear.

Anyway, if you wish, please feel free to send proper bottle shots and I will happily correct our mistake. Please make them hi-res so everyone can see properly.

Cheers,

Tim F

By: drJarv

drJarv — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:52:50 +0000

Well, I don’t know where you got hold of the images, but well done on the sleuthing I suppose! I can tell you that the Octomore image you have shows the wrong typefaces (your computer has replaced the typefaces in our PDF you don’t have with Times I think!), and I can offer some light on the PC7 theme:
Every Port Charlotte release has a Gaelic title (apart from the first, which just had Jim – that was enough!). PC6 was CUAIRT BEATHA “The Walk of Life” – which was Jim’s feeling of this young spirit developing and maturing like a young Ileach making his way in the world, a journey which we – through the yearly PC releases – are invited to join and experience.
PC5 showed Jim, PC6 paid tribute to all the boys in the stillroom who make the spirit, and PC7 is a tribute to the wider community among whom the distillery and the spirit are proud to live. Those who, in their own way, make the whole Port Charlotte (and Bruichladdich) “phenomenon” possible.
For me the thing about both PC and Bruichladdich is that this is real whisky, made by real people in a very real place (not a “brand” invented in Glasgow, London, Paris or Tokyo). Characters and a community with spirit, fire and personality.
To quote Jim: “They are local hard working people who answered the call regardless of their own situation. Without them and many others in our small community we would have struggled longer and travelled less far. We offer them our gratitude and heartfelt thanks.
‘It’s the islay way’ and may it never change.”

By: Par Caldenby

Par Caldenby — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:23:44 +0000

I do not think that anyone who usually likes peaty whiskies need be afraid to try the Octomore. It is very peaty, but it is also made in the tall stills at Bruichladdich and not as medicinal as a Kildalton malt, i.e. not that heavy. It is good. Whether or not one thinks it is very good is more a matter of personal taste.

Not sure about the wiseness in moving away from the Laddie bottles though, for the Octomore.

Fairly sure that the very good (my thinking there) Port Charlotte will benefit hugely from being released simultaneously with the Octomore. Intra-brand competition, no doubt. And everyone will run for the new boy. Even though the slightly less young one may be the better one, perhaps…

Good idea with the blog, TWE. Like it!

/ Pär

By: Tim F

Tim F — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:10:10 +0000

Hi bgulien,

We are currently looking at ways for people to pre-order via the website, but in the meantime if you want to pre-order, the best way is to send an email to my colleagues at sales@thewhiskyexchange.com and let them know what exactly you want.

The Octomore is likely to be just one bottle per customer as our allocation isn’t as big as we’d have liked. The PC7 should be on free order in the beginning at least.

By: Octomore and PC7: Unity « The “Officially Unofficial” Bruichladdich Blog

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:10:34 +0000

[...] 29, 2008 The Whisky Exchange’s blog has an article on Bruichladdich’s latest releases: Octomore (in a new bottle shape!) and Port Charlotte PC7 [...]

By: bgulien

bgulien — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:14:33 +0000

Can we pre-order?

By: Andrew Webb

Andrew Webb — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:27:41 +0000

Congrats on the new blog. I like the look and feel, and one can never have enough blog entries, books, magazines and other reading material about whisky.

What with Dr. Whisky slowing down, I’ll be hitting your blog daily. Please keep the entries coming!

I’ve often wondered about Octomore… will the stuff actually be drinkable? I’m a peat-head, but I don’t necessarily want something that’s 2.5 times more phenolic than Ardbeg! I’ll be letting others try it first.