Choose the flavours you already enjoy, or follow the scene that draws you in. Both paths meet the flavour profiles in the register.
A playful exploration of taste, not a personality test or purchase recommendation.
This is a flavour matcher, not a personality quiz. Every one of the 25 whiskies in The Malt Register carries a score on six axes — body, sweetness, smoke, fruit, oak and boldness. Your answers build a point in that same space, and the register is ranked by distance from it. Two people can taste the same dram differently, so treat the result as a shortlist for the next bottle you open rather than a verdict.
Choose by taste is six questions about flavours you already like. It suits anyone who has tried a few bottles and has a rough sense of their direction. Choose by mood is nine questions about the setting, the weather and the music of today — useful when the vocabulary is still new, or when you are picking a gift. Both routes read the same flavour data, so it is worth running each and comparing.
Not if your answers stay the same. Nothing is randomised — the ranking comes only from the distance between your answers and each whisky's flavour scores.
A Speyside single malt or a soft blend is usually easier to meet first than a heavily peated Islay. How to sip, and what water and ice change, is set out in how to taste.
This site sells nothing and takes no advertising. The result is there for ordering a glass at a bar or deciding what to pour first at a tasting.
The cask changes a great deal. What bourbon, sherry and refill casks each add is compared in the cask guide.
Six questions by taste, nine by mood. A minute is plenty, and nothing asks you to sign up or hand over any personal detail.
That is fine. The questions use heavy and light, sweet and smoky rather than trade vocabulary. Terms like peat and cask can wait until after you have a result to hang them on.