mentaldrams_mark

Today's #PostboxSaturday comes to you from #Amsterdam. 📮❤️

Today’s review takes us to the Isle of Arran with Machrie Moor Cask Strength. Full tasting notes are live on the blog now. twowhiskybros.co.uk/blogs/blog/a... #arranwhisky #machriemoor #islandwhisky #twowhiskybros #whisky

This World Mental Health Day, you are not alone 💙 If you're struggling with your mental health, there is help out there! 💙 Call Samaritans for free 24/7 on 116 123 💙 Text Shout for free 24/7 to 85258 💙 Call the Mind Support line on 0300 102 1234 (Mon-Fri, 9am - 6pm)

It’s good to talk. It’s even better to be heard. This World Mental Health Day, help someone feel heard. Share this post to encourage open conversations.

Another Wensleydale squeeze stile for #StileSaturday Don’t ask me how I can possibly live without these views…🥲 @lakesstiles.bsky.social

#PostboxSaturday I don’t often partake but thought this little number was worthy. On Ulva, a tiny island off the island of Mull……

I may or may not have been to #Liverpool... 🤷😂 Wishing you all a happy #PostboxSaturday 📮😊

A decade after we first distilled peated spirit, our inaugural Glasgow 1770 Peated 10 Year Old arrives. Drawn from just three ex-Bourbon casks, it delivers soft smoke, tropical fruit, vanilla and citrus notes. Head to our website at 10am tomorrow! £69 · 54% ABV · 550 Bottles

Look at this charming fellow outside of #Laphroaig distillery on #Islay for today's #PostboxSaturday. The other one is @maltmusings.bsky.social 😂 Another great tour with the #DrivenByDrams gang

History meets Future with beautiful VR outside the modern M&S in the #Manchester town center. Happy #PostboxSaturday 🌞📮

Love this 😍

Great view from the #Kilchoman still room 😍🥃 #Islay #DrivenByDrams

Good night from #Bowmore

Brilliant first day on #Islay with the #DrivenByDrams boys yesterday. And then this happened, got a wonderful 60th birthday present, a set of #rarefindwhisky Caol Ila 🥃❤️ @thedramble.bsky.social

So happy to see this little GVR #postbox in Lamlash #Arran has been repaired 📮❤️ #PostboxSaturday

Happy #PostboxSaturday 📮 I spotted this while driving through Carlton in the #YorkshireDales and had to take a photo❤️

Animation of my pics from yesterdays #SolarEclipse I'm not a pro 😅

A couple of #SolarEclipse shots from earlier this evening 😎

Lagg #Whisky just announced a new and Lagg’s first-ever 6 yo Festival peated Single Cask aged in First Fill Bourbon Barrel. There are only 220 bottles available. This bottle launches on Friday at our Festival Open Day. #Lagg www.facebook.com/share/p/18hC...

One doesn't get to add 5 new 1995 Arran releases to the collection, on one day, very often. Delivery from Japan (cask no.s 002, 294, 401 & 422) and China (cask 233).

Wishing you a happy Whitsun

Happy #PostboxSaturday from St. Andrews #Fife

Good morning and greetings from #Orkney on this chilly #PostboxSaturday 📮❤️

It's @mentaldrams-mark.bsky.social !! Great to catch up, hope you enjoyed the tour & tasting 👍🥃

Money Plant silkscreen print. Who needs a money plant? Amiright?!! I've got more in the series planned... #printmaking

Getting into the mood for my visit of #kingsbarnsdistillery next week with this highly sippable #Balcomie #fife #whisky

From a bourbon cask. No added colour. #Glentauchers 14yo from our friends of #casQueteers. I've added a 2nd pic trying to capture the incredible colour of this dram. And it tastes as good as it looks 😋🥃❤️

Happy (belated) birthday @whiskycameras.bsky.social looking forward to seeing you next week 🥃❤️

I just turned 60, no big deal. But when I recently read about an 18(!)yo whisky, distilled in 2008(!) I really thought wtf, 2008, this is barely legal whisky 😵. But wait, here's the thing. Tonight I have a 25(!)yo dram in my glass, distilled in the 2000s... I suddenly feel old... 😂🥃

RIP QEII ❤️ #queenelisabeth100

Perhaps the youngest member of the #grainman collection, this 2006 #Invergordon is rather tasty nonetheless. At 12yo it had a wine cask finish to add some more depth to the lovely grain notes.

(another) #Arran dramming night. A beautiful sample set of the legendary "Icons of Arran" series, from my generous friend Geordie, all the way from Canada. I love those pretty miniature labels ❤️😋 🇨🇦🥃

Received this stunning bottle as a gift from my dear friend Bernadette today. One of just 100 bottles filled for the Whiskyschiff fair in Luzern. A truly amazing peated Arran with a magnificent flavour profile. It really has everything we love and cherish in #Arran whisky ❤️🥃😋

I love to drink whisky. But, I admit, I'm also a collector 🤷. #inchmurrin has always been a favourite and I totally adore the #marshall amp releases. There were just 3 missing in my collection, so what are the odds of finding 2 of those in a recent auction? My lucky day, it seems. Just one to go 🥃❤️

Three top drams from #Laphroaig. The 2024 Càirdeas 10yo probably shows the most of the original distillery character, lovely medicinal peat. The 2025 Lore CS is well balanced, jammy and unmistakably Islay. For me though, that SMWS 29.305 is next level. Such a gorgeous dram. 🥃❤️

Time for a Laphroaig triple. That SMWS 29.305 blew my mind and ended up being my personal favourite dram of 2025. But it's almost gone, so a successor has to be found. Laphroaig's recent offer on this Càirdeas duo came in really handy, let's kick it off whith the Lore CS, yummy... 🥃❤️ #whisky #islay

Happy #PostboxSaturday greetings from Chania, Crete 📮❤️

Next up #birthdaydram is this #Blackadder Raw Cask 1966 Tullibardine. Distilled a few weeks after I was born, bottled at 36yo. Tbh, this won't be my favourite dram tonight. Despite reasonable ABV it needs water to tone down the sharp domestic cleaner notes. Still, a piece of history nevertheless 🥃❤️

First #birthdaydram of the evening, a 1966 Inchmurrin from the #LochLomond distillery which coincidentally started production just three weeks before I was born, so this is a whisky from the very first spirit runs. It's a mild (40% ABV) dram with typical old school notes, very charming and tasty 🥃❤️