You know your blog is doing well when even the marketers at United Breweries Group take a liking to your work and decide to send you a free bottle of one their finest Scotch whiskys. That too, a mighty fine bottle in their vast collection of famous spirits — a 12-year-old Black Dog Scotch.

Despite not being much of a whisky drinker, I still couldn’t say “no” to a free bottle of one of the world’s finest Scotch Whisky. I knew I was still going to taste it, but instead of an amateur giving his thoughts on how well it fared, I decided it was best I called my whisky-drinking friends over.

Which is never difficult because the conversation usually goes like this:

(Calls up friend) Me: “Hey dude, so… I got a bottle of Black Dog Scotch whisky, aged 12 years….

Friend(s): “Done!” (*Hangs up*)

Door bell rings and we begin. Simple as that.

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