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Wine? Grow some stones, laddie! Connosr is a social site for whiskey
Connosr is the place to be. Fans contribute ratings and reviews to help you decide your next single malt purchase. Whiskeys are broken down into Scotch, Irish, and American, and can also be browsed by dozens of user-created tags such as vanilla, smoky, earthy, and spicy.
Don't think fancy-pants reviews are limited to wine aficionado sites. Whisky connoisseurs can be quite flowery with the descriptions, too. To whit:
The first thing that hits you about the nose is an orange blossom fragrance combined with a underlying smokey peatiness.Connosr user reviews are, in general, a terrific read and very informative.
The site also sports a Google Maps-powered display of each distillery as well as a collective map of those in Scotland. If you can't make it out, it's the whiteish-bluish thing covered with dozens of favicon-sized bottles. Too bad there's no integrated travel booking so you can arrange an impromptu distillery crawl.
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Whisky said 2:29PM on 9-09-2009
The best article i have seen on downloadsquad in a long time :D
I just love single malt whiskies, especially from the Islay region
Shame the site is so "young", very few reviews
(btw, the link for connosr in the article does not lead to www.connosr.com)
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Drew Green said 2:43PM on 9-09-2009
When I saw the first part of the title of the article in my RSS reader I thought you were talking about WINE.
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RootLinuxUSR said 9:47AM on 9-10-2009
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Tim F said 10:08AM on 9-10-2009
Wow, this site is powerful - Connosr has crashed :(
Whisky-lovers who need a fix in the meantime can read about the new Ardbeg Corryvreckan here on my whisky blog:
http://blog.thewhiskyexchange.com
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drvice said 11:20AM on 9-10-2009
you should know that if you want to use a scottish sounding title, its spelled whisky in scotland and whiskey elsewhere. kthxbai.
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Lee Mathews said 11:23AM on 9-10-2009
I was going for "Craig Ferguson" Scottish anyway, but thanks for the tip!
desing said 10:25AM on 9-22-2009
this has made me wanna go out and buy whiskey.... easily influenced!
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