Caution: This Post Contains A Single Malt Heresy!

Actually, last time this came up a year or two ago, I recall it got quite a friendly reception. I think it was along the lines of making a dull Highland more interesting with a bit of home-blending, possibly with a little fairly aggressive island malt. Several respected posters had tried it, if memory serves, with drinkable results.

Assuming you were mixing single malts only, you'd end up with a vatted malt rather than a blend, I think. But my grasp on technical malt lore is not that firm.

cheers.

bill

Check out these two, for starters:

Nice ssites, BTW. My only vatting attempt was to follow Sir Dave's suggestion when I had a Macallan 18, 1980 that was so sherried as to be almost undrinkable (great nose, though). I mixed it 50:50 with Talisker 10, a vattingSir Dave called "Macalisker", and the result was not bad at all. But not as good as Talisker 10 by itself. Still, the links above are fun and then there is the whole Ardbeggeddon "mouth vatting" breakthrough: think W.C. Fields, only with a bottle of single malt in each hand, instead of gin and vermouth. Cheers, Ed

Just so (nice post).

True, except for a possible small exception: if Springbank and Longrow were mixed, the result would possibly still be a single malt, because both are from the same distillery. This would give limitless possibilities for customized, post-distillery "vanity" single malts: just pick the vatting ratio that suits you best! Obviously a silly loophole in the single malt definitions, but Springbank 10 or 15 and Longrow 10 (pick a vintage/cask type) might work well together. Cheers, Ed

Lots of people do it all the time, and it has been discussed here before at length. Nothing to be ashamed of. In am an inveterate blender of anything, myself.

In some cities, there are groups which meet monthly for just that purpose.

-- Larry

Bullet-proof glass does wonders for Drumguich.

Loch Lomond produces six different malts, and a grain. Some of the malts have not been individually bottled, but I've seen bottlings of Rhosdhu, Inchmurrin, and one that is simply "Loch Lomond". Now that the distillery is under new ownership perhaps some of the formerly unavailable whiskies will be bottled? Because the distillery also produces a grain whisky, it is capable of making a "Single Blend" - a blended whisky which is nevertheless the product of a single distillery.

The Springbank/Longrow folks are also producing Hazelburn, another single malt, and soon (I believe) Glen Gyle. So single-vatted oportunities abound...

Bart