1/An Irish blend and a Scottish single malt. Nobody on whisky-Twitter would ever put those two on the same shelf. The engine puts them eighth-closest in the whole catalogue: Teeling Small Batch Stout Cask against Deanston Virgin Oak.
2/That closeness is profile geometry, not two glasses poured side by side. The model reads their flavour make-up as neighbours, which says nothing about pouring them together — I'm not claiming they'd taste alike in the glass.
3/Where they land right now is the interesting part. Deanston Virgin Oak is on a ticket of ninety-two dollars, and on that price it sits under the floor of its peer group and at the very bottom of its own recent range. Cohort and history, both pointing cheap, same bottle.
4/Teeling's the mirror. It's a member offer this Thursday, and on that price it reads low in its band and at the bottom of its own window. So which crosses the counter: the Irish stout-cask blend at a hundred and two, or the Deanston the model calls its match?
2026-09-10-replay/similarity-surprise/teeling-small-batch-stout-cask-irish-whiskey-700ml-deanston--7dc701, vintage 2026-09-10.r, own-history window as-of 2026-09-10.None recorded.
Similarity-surprise, light form: two live tickets, each bottle's band-position label and own-history percentile, the pair's CE rank. It lacks the full form — numeric CE 360 band bounds, cross-read CEARP, and the Welch t-test are unbuilt in the module and NOT quoted. The hook rests on CE rank 8, not rank 1, and the post says so. Teeling's ticket is a My Dan Murphy's member offer; its position labels are computed on the member/in-window price ($85), and the piece discloses that.
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