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| © Aug '12 photo by smck
Full Sturgeon Moon – August. The North American fishing tribes are
given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish
of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily
caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon
because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze.
It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
re/Farmers Almanac 2012
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Full Sturgeon Moon
McCARTHYS Oregon Single Malt
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McCARTHYS Oregon Single Malt
Clear Creek Distillery in Portland Oregon, Pot Distilled Whiskey
Distilled from a Ferment Mash of Peat-Malted Scottish Barley.
Barrel aged 3 years.
ALC 42.5% (85 Proof)
Himself's Take (done for the first time in a structured fashion)
COLOUR
- Very Pale Gold
NOSE
- Mild with soft peat, pleasing suggestion of non-cloyingly sweetness
BODY
- slow opening, medium body, slightly oily, hint of alcohol
PALATE
- Soothing mild peatyness , oaky wood notes, kind of a mystic Lord of the Rings flavours that change as you think you've deciphered them.
FINISH
- Long and surprisingly easy on the inhale with those mystic flavours riding steadily on
SCORE - upper 80s, say 89
On Sep 2nd I wrote the following:
While in Baltimore yesterday - 1 Sept '12 - I purchased a single malt distilled in Oregon state. So it's whiskey with an 'e' and the word Scotch conspicuously missing on the label. However it is a decent member of the malt whiskey set, Scotch or no. To wit: McCarthys Oregon Single Malt, a pot distilled whiskey by Clear Creek Distillery. These words I'm posting today are really just a warm-up of a more in depth review as I was exhausted when I sampled a wee dram late last night. It was decent enough though to me seeming a bit 'thin' in the opening taste and then coming through with mildly pleasant peat flavour and other little flavours that I will have to dwell on tonight. At the present I will simply say neither bland nor overwhelming and pleasing flavours that finish well. More later on this. Promise!!
While in Baltimore yesterday - 1 Sept '12 - I purchased a single malt distilled in Oregon state. So it's whiskey with an 'e' and the word Scotch conspicuously missing on the label. However it is a decent member of the malt whiskey set, Scotch or no. To wit: McCarthys Oregon Single Malt, a pot distilled whiskey by Clear Creek Distillery. These words I'm posting today are really just a warm-up of a more in depth review as I was exhausted when I sampled a wee dram late last night. It was decent enough though to me seeming a bit 'thin' in the opening taste and then coming through with mildly pleasant peat flavour and other little flavours that I will have to dwell on tonight. At the present I will simply say neither bland nor overwhelming and pleasing flavours that finish well. More later on this. Promise!!
I've
since sampled a few pleasing 'wee drams' and enjoyed them all - but
found it hard to describe this American WhiskEy. On reading a number of
reviews I find that it is an extremely well reviewed whiskey - named
one of the ten best American Whiskeys and receiving a score of 96 from
Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible. But the theme that was common to them all
is that for a whiskey aged for only 3 years this was an unbelievably
well crafted and well and truly aged single malt. Once you get past the
strange tasting comments that reviewers seem compelled to mention
(pine-sol??, butterieness, etc.) you will see that all are in agreement
that this is a fine Single Malt.
Me too!!
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Canal at St. Peters
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| Date taken - 01 Jan 1881
Reading the old plaque (2nd photo) you can see that construction started in 1854 and continued until 1856. Then a hiatus until 1865 when construction was renewed and the canal completed in 1869. Since 1869 the canal was twice enlarged (i.e. at the time the plaque was posted). So photo number three is evidently one of enlargement in 1880-1881.
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