Today’s lesson in whisky history explains why lovers of Ardbeg need to show Ballantine’s some love. Here is the incontrovertible logic leading to this truth:
If heart Ardbeg, then heart Ballantine’s. Deal with it.
Before I explain why this is, let’s take a look at the psychology of the peathead, or more specifically, the Ardbeggian personality. Indeed, if you who are reading these lines love your Ardbeg, your personality.
So, you consider yourself to be something of a whisky expert. You tend to scoff at cheap blends; you prefer independent bottlings of Mortlach to the official ones; perhaps you keep...
