I knew that @Confessionsofawhiskyfreak was working this night at this festival, in his role as brand ambassador for Spirits Services. And I knew he had some whiskies I had to try. But I was lost and could not find the room his stand was in. So My father and me started in a smaller room after climbing some very old stone stairs. There we started the night with our first dram:  Lochlea "Our Barley".  More people were climbing the stairs and the room became a bit warm. We had to find a cooler and calmer space.  Passing Monnikdranken on the way out, we decided to return to that stand later.

After asking where we could find some of the stand, we climbed down some old stone stairs, basically bringin us up to streetlevel. There we found the stand of Spirits Services. And I decided to try the Roger's Vintage Selection Aultmore. This dram killed my father . Overlooking the fact that I actually enjoy  single cask, cask strenght whisky, I did not realise I made my father drink a whisky of 63,5% vol.
Running a bit red,  I decided to ease into some 'more accessible " drams like an Edradour  10yo , an Old Pulteney 12yo and a GlenTurret 15yo.

But I wanted to try some things I never had before.
So after running into the stand of van Wees/BEEK, I spotted an Arran 10yo and a bottle from the distillerie across the road: Lagg.
I decided to take a dram of both and play with the contrast while sharing them with my dad. Discussing this experiment, we came to talk with the stand holder Jan Beek, who poured me a whisky that I found to be insane. Not going into details, (Spoiler, I ordered immediately after the event and will review it on this site.) it was something I had to share. So I got some extratokens (€ 2,50 a piece with a minimum of 5 tokens), bought another dram and rushed down some old steps to give it to Robbert (Earlier introduced as Confessionsofawhiskyfreak.)

After handing the dram over to Robbert, I decided i wanted to try something I was aiming for all evening: The Dramfool Bruichladdich 2010 11yo Old Rivesaltes Barrique. This is where I was knocked over for the third time this evening (Starting with a Mytical beast somewhere after the Aultmore and before the Old Pulteney). What a dram! And just when I thought that whisky was my highlight of the evening, I had the Roger's Vintage Ben Nevis and had to stand still and truly enjoy this dram.

My father was browsin all the insane bottles on the stand, and Robbert poured him something that blew his mind, my mind and made my father leave. (He was about to miss his train otherwise. But this whisky was his highlight of the evening.)
A 30 year old Bruichladdich. What a treat, what a dram, what an ending of this night!