You will notice that I’m going to cut down on my incessant rambling for most of these recipes. Unless there’s a particularly interesting history behind the drink, or some other anecdote, I will try to be fairly to-the-point. As any visitor to Scotland will be all but too aware, keeping things short is an exercise […]
Out driving my Mazda, I went past an Asda, I stopped for some pasta, But spotted some Blasda! Now home from Asda, Getting tipsy quite fast(a). Alright, I may not have a career writing lyrics, poetry or rap (though I do think the above would make a good rap tune, compared to what they’re normally […]
Following the trend of recent “dream job” announcements, Bushmills Whiskey is offering one lucky whiskey aficionado a chance to work with master distiller Colum Egan and his team for a month to create his or her own blend of Irish whiskey. As Telegraph.co.uk states: The winner will spend a month on Northern Ireland’s north Antrim […]
This will be one of the shortest reviews you are going to see on my little blog, in the sense that not a lot will be said about the whisky. The only reason for my writing it in the first place is that I was in Waitrose earlier today, browsing their wine section (I picked […]
The name means “Valley of the Deer”, and the deer portrayed on the bottle and packaging is, perhaps, the most well known in the world. I certainly can’t think of one more commonly seen. Glenfiddich is, as you will probably be well aware, one of the best selling whiskys in the world. This, I suppose, […]
While most whisk(e)y* is, in my opinion, best consumed neat – that doesn’t mean that whisk(e)y cocktails are, in any way, a bad thing. Quite the opposite is true, in fact! There are literally tons of fantastic whisk(e)y cocktail recipes out there and I would certainly recommend that you try a few, should you be […]
Here’s a post that will be slightly different to most others; I’m not actually going to be reviewing a whisky that I’ve tried. Instead, I’m going to share with you what I’ve found out about a very young new player on the market; Port Askaig. Never heard of it? Neither had I, until recently. What […]
Rather than a review, this is just a short article on a piece of news you may find interesting. Only a few weeks ago, the world’s oldest single malt whisky was released by Gordon & MacPhail – established as a grocer and spirit merchant in 1895, G&M have ever since bought handpicked casks from distillers […]