Posts by joms 10 publicly visible posts • joined 31 May 2012
A few newer/recently re-opened distilleries are selling very young whisky as either new make or uisge beatha.
Kilchoman have been selling some great whisky as soon as it was old enough and continue to sell excellent 4/5/6 year old.
Glenglassaugh and Strathearn are also selling new make (months old) and spirit they are calling "uisge beatha" to get around the SWA requirement for "3 year minimum and aged in oak" for it to be called whisky.
Up to a point, but like MPG it's only a valid comparison if you are comparing like with like.
A whisky aged in a Quarter Cask (80 litres) will mature much faster than a whisky aged in a Hogshead (250 litres) - it's all to do with the volume-to-surface area ratio as the whisky takes on colour and flavour from it's contact with the wood.
So a 10 year whisky aged in a smaller cask could be darker/richer/smoother/fuller bodied compared to a 12 or 15 year aged in a larger cask or butt.
Also, the evolution of flavour means a whisky could pass it's sweetspot and take on unwanted flavour or character. I've certainly had 18 year or 21 year whisky that tasted harsher than 12 year from the same distillery.
Finally, and this seems to be particularly true for Japanese whiskey, the production methods and techniques have evolved over the decades. From what I've tasted, recently made Japanese whiskey is preferable to the much older stuff (huge generalisation, but true in my experience).
Whether they have taken a while to settle on a style, have been tweaking their production or maybe there is some other reason (perhaps I just don't like older Japanese whiskey) I don't know.
Sort of true, but these storage systems combine to present a single filesystem (with the associated aggregate performance and capacity) so they are deployed as a single storage system.
To use the same analogy; any cluster isn't a system, it's just a collection of smaller machines.... the Top500 list is going to need some editing.
Looking at images online the mechanism looks almost the same as my GF2 - double spring hinged in a sort of Z arrangement.
It is quite flimsy when it's open but the sprung hinges do allow you to hook a finger behind and point the flash up at the ceiling rather than directly at the subject.
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