Hello and thank you.

How do you start your first post of a blog? It's actually a hard choice and something I gave a lot of thought, then realised I was overthinking it along with procrastinating.

So hi and welcome to my blog, an accompanying supplement to the Podcast: Cask Heads. Well with that out of the way (phew), let's crack on shall we?

Normally I will be adding posts to go with each episode containing a more in depth assessment and tasting notes of the whisk(e)y we will be discussing in the episode, as well as stand alone posts with a little more information if a topic got skipped; for this first one however, I just wanted to say a few things.

Firstly, Cask Heads is a podcast for whisk(e)y, about whisk(e)y, this means we will talk about wonderful examples of whiskies from all over the world not just Scotland hence the '(e)'. I know Scotch is spectacular and is extremely diverse in its own right – and we will certainly cover whiskies from across the five categories of Scotch. – However we will also talk about whiskies from other countries too. I can not stress this enough though; if you do not like a certain type of whisk(e)y, or disagree on what I pick up from a particular bottling, that's fine. If you smell green apples and not pears, or think there's a different taste to what I describe, then that's great. We all have different pallets, degrees of sensitivity towards certain flavours, and sense memories which often influence what we detect when nosing and tasting whisk(e)y.

Secondly, If you have any questions about something I have said during Cask Heads or in one of these posts, please feel free to email me, the point of this is to discuss the topic of whisk(e)y and share ideas. I may even read some of the questions out on the podcast (though if you would prefer I didn't that's okay too, just say so in the email). I don't know everything about whisk(e)y and although I have tried a fair number of expressions over the years I have not tried every single one, however I can promise you I will try my best to answer anything you want to know.

Finally whisk(e)y is a wonderful subject, but it is also by it's nature alcoholic, please treat it and yourselves with respect and enjoy responsibly, I will never tell you how to drink whisk(e)y (we all have our own preferences), but if you do want to learn more see my page: How do I drink whisk(e)y.

I hope to hear from you about your favourite whiskies, and that you will enjoy listening and reading any upcoming content as much as I do creating it.

Jordan.