World’s Best Scotch, Flamingo Prep & Top 3 Distillery Trips for 2025 | Inside the Ropes

Welcome back to Inside the Ropes for the week of November 24, 2025 — the Thanksgiving edition where your clicks, taps, and late-night scrolls decide the show.

This week’s four most-viewed GolfCask articles brought the heat:

1. The World’s Best Scotch Whisky… and Why You’ll Still Miss the Fairway After Drinking It
   Isle of Raasay’s cask strength single malt walks out of Vegas with a 99/100 and a platinum medal. We break down Na Sia, “the Six,” why this thing drinks like controlled chaos, and why it still won’t fix your three-putt.

2. Crafting a Smart Prep Routine for Any Venue
   Range heroes, this one’s for you. We unpack the difference between a warm-up and a true prep routine: recon, rehearsal, refinement, reset, and rest. Flamingo Rule. Flex. Brutal honesty. Less ego, more scoring.

3. Cigar 101: Storing Your Cigars
   Your humidor is not a box; it’s a climate. We talk seasoning, Boveda packs, hygrometers, rotation, and how not to murder ten good cigars with tap water and neglect.

4. Barrel Entry Proof — The Edge Before the Aging
   Why the proof going into the barrel matters more than whatever’s flexed on the label. 110–115, 125 max, and how balance beats bravado every single time.

Then we finish with a bonus early look from the December GolfCask Life Magazine:

🔥 Top 3 Distillery Trips for 2025

• Ragged Branch – “The View in C’ville”

• Catoctin Creek – The Model-T Dealership

• Devil’s Due – “The West Virginia Surprise”

Perfect if you’re planning a 2025 whiskey golf trail or just want an excuse to “accidentally” end up in the hills with a glass in hand.

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