Xtreme Tasting League: Scotch

Di returns, Dave’s gone (again), and we’re still not drinking blends! Instead we have the Glenmorangie Companta and the Old Puteney 12yr.

Natalie Wass returns and brings Bombshell La Belle, a burlesque performer (on stilts!), with her. We drink a couple of independent bottlings this episode, a Cadenhead Caol Ila 22yr and a Gordon & MacPhail Lochside 12yr.

Do you like theater? We sure do, and that’s why we’ve invited two participants in this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival to join us. Natalie Rae Wass is dancing in Bollywood Dance Scene’s “Spicy Masala Chai” at the Rarig Proscenium while Matthew Kessen acts in Comedy Suitcase’s “The Averagers” at Theatre in the Round. Both shows still have tickets available for select dates but reserve yours now as they may very well sell out!

We also talk about the Encyclopedia Show, a monthly collection of performances based around a single topic, to which both Matt and Natalie are frequent contributors. He also tells us briefly of his monster presentation archive Rev. Matt’s Monster Science. Both of our guests are also members of Green T Productions, who will be at this year’s MN State Fair (on certain days anyway).

But this is our show, Xtreme Tasting League: Scotch, and so we also need some special guest star whiskeys. This month, that means Cragganmore Distiller’s Edition (2011) and Glenfiddich Age of Discovery.

I’d also like to apologize for how quickly we wrap our show this month. We had to rush the ending somewhat as Natalie needed to get Matthew to a rehearsal. This is what happens when you schedule actors during one of the busiest performance week’s of the year.

Kirsten Wade returns and tastes the Glengoyne 16yr Shiraz finished and Bowmore Small Batch.

Kirsten Wade, newly minted Fearless Comedy Productions member and Vilification Tennis Amateur Show champion, joins us for our next round of Scotch on the Cheap!

Melissa Kaercher returns for our next edition of Scotch Around the World (…world…world)! This time we sample Kavalan’s Concerto Port from Taiwan and Glenora’s Glen Breton Rare 10yr from Canada. Melissa also talks about her recent vacation to England where she walked Hadrian’s Wall and drank at the super secret bar within a bar in London. For more details, press play.

Movie maven Melissa Kaercher recently invited Cetius over to record for one of her podcasts, Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome, and so we’re having her on (again!) with us. She’s joined us for a Special Edition, but we give her the full episode treatment this time while we taste the last of Highland Park’s Valhalla series, Odin, and the Glen Deveron 16yr.

We’re back with our Die Laughing 2 winner, Cicely Robin Laing, to talk about all her improv troupes and we welcome her (formerly) sober cab, Roger, while we taste Auchentoshan 12yr and Glen Dronach 14yr finished in Sauternes barrels.

Cicely Robin Laing, winner of our Die Laughing 2 auction and performer in a few Die Laughing events, joins us to drink Aberlour 12yr and Springback CV.

Tim Uren returns and talks about Ghoulish Delights and the Twin Cities Horror Fest and I ask him to talk about stepping onto the dance floor in a Fringe show last year. We make some D&D references while we add water to the second pour, for reasons that are evident when you listen, and we toast out on a story in praise of large chocolate malts.

We taste the Glenfiddich Cask of Dreams (2nd American edition) and Glen Garioch 21yr.