Xtreme Tasting League: Scotch

Fearless Comedy Productions member David “Captain America” Traylor joins us for the first of his two podcasts and we talk about the local Fringe Festival, which started yesterday and runs through August 10 (visit www.fringefestival.org for more details). The pours this round are Knockdu’s Ancnoc 16yr and Glengoyne 1996, a 14yr limited edition.

It’s another mid-month episode! Dan Schlissel returns and drinks Bunnahabhain 12yr and Benrinnes Stronachie 12yr with us.

This month, we are happy to be joined by the owner and founder of Stand-Up Records, Dan Schlissel, who talks about how the label came about while we drink the Balvenie 12yr Double Wood and Glendronach 12yr.

Paul returns and we drink The Dalmore 12yr and Talisker Storm.

It’s another first for us here at Xtreme Tasting League: Scotch, as we are joined by our first referral guest, Paul von Stoetzel, who was suggested to us by previous guest Charles Hubbell, and we’re very glad he did. We had a great time talking about various projects of Paul’s while we tasted our two drams–the Bruichladdich Peat and the Aberfeldy 21yr.

In a predictable display of our usual pattern, Brianne Bilyeu, winner of the Die Laughing silent auction to record with us, makes her triumphant return. The drams up for discussion this go-around are the Isle of Jura Prophecy and the Glen Grant 10yr.

Brianne Bilyeu, winner of our donation of a guest spot to be auctioned at Die Laughing 2014, joins us for the first of her two shows. Not only that, but she brought us a present, the Deanston Virgin Oak, which we taste along side the Glen Scotia, our first trip to the Campbeltown region on the podcast. As it was the end of April, we again recorded at OmegaSpring, the relax-a-con where we drink, play board games, and lounge in the hot tub.

Eric Knight returns to time-travel into the past to start a running gag and drink some scotch with us, including one of his go-to drams.

“Pedantic Eric” Knight and Windy “Bossy Nova” Bowlsby join us for some podcast time traveling to discuss our mutual new job as the Fearless Comedy Productions‘ Board of Directors (only Cetius is on the Board from XTL, just to be clear) and to promote the company’s fundraiser, Die Laughing, which happens this weekend, April 4-6, 2014. We also discuss Fifth of Fringe, juicy lucies, the North Star Roller Girls, and rape jokes that are actually funny.

As if that weren’t enough (although it does explain the runtime), we also drink some scotch…go figure, right? This time, we sample the Caol Ila and Lagavulin Distillers Editions.

This is a long one, folks, but well worth the listen. And seriously, if you’re local to the Twin Cities area and are free at all this weekend, come check out Die Laughing at the Airport Hilton–Cetius will be there all weekend.

In keeping with the St. Patrick’s Day tradition we started last year, this show has us again tasting Irish distilleries’ single malt expressions. This year, we taste the Tullamore Dew 10yr and Bushmills 16yr. Returning guest Charles Hubbell asks us why these can’t be called scotch, talks about TVTV a bit as well as his recent projects of Fritz’s Funporium and Walking With The Enemy, we all mock Avatar a bit, and Perrin has us recount how we all got into malt whiskey.