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.
2026-08-27-replay/similarity-surprise/pearse-lyons-founder-s-choice-12-year-old-single-malt-whiske-ac49df, vintage 2026-08-27.r, own-history window as-of 2026-08-27.Similarity-surprise, light form: two live tickets, each bottle's band-position label and own-history direction, the pair's CE rank. Full form (numeric CE 360 bands, cross-read CEARP, Welch t-test) is unbuilt in the module and NOT quoted. Both bottles are on a My Dan Murphy's member offer this week; the band-position and own-history labels are computed on the member/in-window price ($110 Pearse, $74 Glenlivet), and the piece says so. The pair splits on country/style origin, not price tier: payload price_ratio 1.55 is below the 2.0 tier threshold, so the surprise rests on Irish-vs-Scottish single malt, not the price gap.
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