Annandale distillery produces two sub-brands: 'Man O' Words,' like this bottling, which uses unpeated distillate, but also the 'Man O' Swords' brand, which is peated whisky.

The Embra release from Holyrood distillery is their first foray into peated whisky.

This Lowland distillery, instead of focusing on cask maturation like many young distilleries, actually focuses on different types of heritage barley and several strains of yeast.

Generally, batches of Springbank's 10 Year are a mixture of ex-bourbon maturation and ex-sherry maturation.

Bushmills, or Distillery 51 as it's known in the Society, has been the source for relatively few bottlings for SMWS.

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottled this single malt at cask strength at the end of that maturation; 55.8%, to be exact.

Despite the long maturation, the Society suggests that this is still a "lively" tasting experience.

One of our favorite peated brands to taste at 20+ years old is Laphroaig: the medicinal, heavily peated distillate sometimes takes on a more subtle yet rich character.

This Scotch 4 Dummies single cask spent about 5 years maturing in an ex-bourbon barrel; after that, another 1 to 2 years was spent in that Port wine cask.

Adorned with a reflective gold horse topper, this bottle is clearly meant to be eye candy.

Most of our past experience with Glenturret is actually with their peated whiskies, and this remains the only unpeated version that we've tried.

This single cask was made with Glenturret’s peated distillate, or 'Ruadh Mhor.'

This is one of the youngest whiskies that we've tried from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

Peated distillate from Glenturret, often called Ruadh Mhor, isn't always easy to find, but there are some independent bottlers that sell it.

This is an unusual McCarthy's bottling in that it was fully matured in that rum cask.

Even among independent bottlers, it isn't common to see whisky from the distillery Balmenach.

This is the third iteration of New Riff's sherry-finished malted rye whisky.

Bunnahabhain is a distillery that's more famous for its unpeated expressions, but these days, a sizeable portion of their production actually goes into peated products.

Tamdhu is another distillery that is synonymous with sherry cask aging; in that vein, this single cask from SMWS was fully matured in a first fill PX sherry butt.

Generally, these ex-bodega casks are much older, and they're hard to get and highly prized.