Hosting a tasting

Sounds like you had fun.

I had a small crew for both of my tastings, 5 people each. There was supposed to be more last year but there were a few last minute cancellations.

The first one was a blind tasting of 4 SMs that varied in age, price and region. My wife did the pouring so that even I didn't know what was what.

We compared 2 at a time to decide on favourites and then compared the two winners. We made notes and chatted about them.

The conclusions I was hoping would be made were. Age and price do not necessarily mean better scotch.

After the tasting part we then drank what we wanted along with some snacks.

For my tastings I buy all the whisky and ask guests to make a reimbursement towards the cost. I keep whats left over. I don't spend so much that it leaves me in the hole, but this way it doesn't matter how many people show up. Fewer people means more whisky for me, more people means more recovered money to buy more.

Each time I did have leftovers in each bottle, so I found it a great way to start building a little collection.