{"id":225,"date":"2021-12-16T21:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2021-12-16T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:56:14","slug":"glenfiddich-experimental-series-01-ipa-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/glenfiddich-experimental-series-01-ipa-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenfiddich, Experimental Series #01 &#8211; IPA, 43%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #751 (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speyside Craft Brewery made an India Pale Ale beer, aged in Glenfiddich casks for a month. After that, they returned the casks to the distillery, where this expression was finished for three months. Oak and spices in <strong>the smell<\/strong>. White fruits and just a dash of citrus. In the background you clearly notice that IPA influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IPA influence gives the whisky a quite soapy character in <strong>the taste<\/strong>. Flower water\u2026 Can\u2019t really focus about much else\u2026 The sweetness comes back in <strong>the finish<\/strong>. Some burned caramel and oak. It\u2019s better than the taste, but still carries too much influence from the taste, of notes I don\u2019t care for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A strange balance. The smell is okay, with the influence from the IPA being positive (or neutral at least). The IPA influence in the taste is just not for me &#8211; reminds me too much of soap, and then the finish tries to save the whisky, but quite cant\u2026 I will give this <strong>76\/100<\/strong> (20\/17\/19\/20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #751 (2019) The Speyside Craft Brewery made an India Pale Ale beer, aged in Glenfiddich casks for a month. After that, they returned the casks to the distillery, where this expression was finished for three months. Oak and spices in the smell. White fruits and just a dash of citrus. In the background you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glenfiddich","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}