1/Whisky-Twitter would never shelve a boutique Irish single malt beside Glenlivet 12. The engine does. It ranks Pearse Lyons Founder's Choice 12 and the Speyside everyone's had as its third-closest pair in the whole catalogue.

2/That closeness is flavour make-up, not two glasses poured together. Both sit in the orchard-and-cereal camp, the Pearse carrying a green, citrus-tea edge over the top. Profile arithmetic, nothing more.

3/Both are on a My Dan Murphy's member deal this Thursday. Pearse Lyons is $110 against a $132 shelf; Glenlivet 12 is $74 against $76. On those member prices each dips just under its own peer-group floor and to the bottom of its recent range.

4/Read it straight: Glenlivet 12 is priced about where its jury puts it, and the Pearse only slips under for members. So which 12-year single malt goes in the glass, the everyday Speyside or the Irish one the model calls its match? Both Dan Murphy's.