Seaforth Highlanders of Canada to receive new Regimental Colours

[MacBean]

Ardbeg Supernova; Highland Park 21 Year Old (single cask bottled to commemorate the Seaforth 100); Glen Grant 1958 51 Year Old; Littlemill 16 Year Old 57.3%; Dalmore Mackenzie Limited Edition Port Finished; Glen Scotia 17 Year Old; Brora 30 Year Old. I've completely forgotten the eighth. Somebody help!

That sounds pretty special. I'd be happy just to sip one of those.

[ThistleDown]

That sounds pretty special. I'd be happy just to sip one of those.

Flash! Into my mind's eye comes a picture of a Glendronach 15 Year Old, the eighth we tasted and very, very fine. My personal favourite was the Brora 30. It was described as having a "gripping stranglehold of smoke, malt and peat." A superb whisky from sadly, a dismantled distillery. United Distillers closed it down and we were told the other night that the whisky community now recognises this was one of the greatest losses of the past 50 or maybe 100 years.

Obviously this one is becoming shorter in supply; the price must be well up there, I think.

Rex

[BruceBC]

Thank you for the information - I look forward to attending the event.

[Seaforth Piper]

Flash! Into my mind's eye comes a picture of a Glendronach 15 Year Old, the eighth we tasted and very, very fine. My personal favourite was the Brora 30. It was described as having a "gripping stranglehold of smoke, malt and peat." A superb whisky from sadly, a dismantled distillery. United Distillers closed it down and we were told the other night that the whisky community now recognises this was one of the greatest losses of the past 50 or maybe 100 years.

Obviously this one is becoming shorter in supply; the price must be well up there, I think.

Rex

Which was the ghastly one that tasted of boiled sweets steeped in grain alcohol?

[ThistleDown]

Which was the ghastly one that tasted of boiled sweets steeped in grain alcohol?

The Glenrothes '94 was removed at the eleventh hour and replaced with that superb Glendronach. The one that was boiled-sweet-like with a hand-full of grass thrown in was the Littlemill 16 Year Old. That distillery was mothballed years ago, too, and then just when it looked like a new group of investors was on board to bring it back to life the place burned to the ground.

[Seaforth Piper]

That distillery was mothballed years ago, too, and then just when it looked like a new group of investors was on board to bring it back to life the place burned to the ground.

Presumably by person or persons unknown who'd actually tasted it...it DID improve the other malts by contrast though...

Incidentally, this is the Centenary of the Regiment in Canada.

The Seaforth's (the apostrophe is correct - the Regiment was first called "Seaforth's Highlanders" and the campaign to revert to the old name remained on the Regimental Agenda until the Amalgamation with the Camerons in 1962. This is preserved in the brass "SEAFORTH'S" shoulder-title worn on the 'Service' and 'Full Dress' Jackets, and also by the Regimental custom whereby the Colonel [and he alone] addresses the Battalion as "Seaforth's" )...

Back to my point: The Seaforth's were raised as the 72nd Foot in Ross-shire in 1778, the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada were raised in 1910 and from the first parade on 27 November 1910 until the Seaforth Highlanders (72nd the Duke of Albany's, 78th The Ross-Shire Buffs) amalgamated with 1st Bn The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders the Canadians were regarded as the Canadian Battalion of the Regiment as opposed to an 'affiliated' regiment.

This was due in a large part to the large number of 2nd Bn Seaforth veterans -both those who had settled in Vancouver before 1910 (service pensions went a hell of a lot further in Canada) and those who flocked to the new battalion after it was raised - this included Pipe Major John Gillies MSM who transferred directly from 3rd Bn Scots Guards and who later became Senior Pipe Major of the British Empire.