Archive for February, 2009

The Napier Whisky Trip (Bladnoch)

Where to start? It was an interesting trip!
Before starting the Blog with Lucas, I had joined the Edinburgh Napier University Whisky Society. They run several trips to different distilleries throughout the year as well as a tasting every 2 weeks. This was the first trip I had been to. The plan: to go to Bladnoch [...]

Optimism and Whisky

We have all heard about the Credit Crunch. Banks going down, Governments spending vast amounts of our tax money trying to save the situation, etc. It makes it frightening to look at the front pages of newspapers, so instead myself and Lucas tend to spend most of our time looking at the back pages [...]

Springbank pre-tasting

You may not know that Springbank resumed distilling (again) in January this year, after a rather longish brake. Reasons for ceasing the production were partially economic and partially of maintenance and warehouse capacity nature. But there they are, malting and distilling away. So it happens that Chris and I are going to a wee Springbank [...]

Pub Crawl Recollected

There is so much to say about that night. First of all we did not expect that level of attendance. At the beginning there were over thirty of us. Later on we lost the count. The sheer volume of fine whisky we were ordering in consecutive bars was filling the hearts of poor bar tenders [...]

Edinburgh Whisky Blog hits the headlines

Yesterday in the crack of dawn I started receiving alarming texts. “Edinburgh Whisky Blog hit the headlines!”, “You are in today’s Metro, boys”, “OMG, your whisky blog is famous”. All true. I can now announce that our modest whisky blog made the press.
Headlines? *cough*cough* You know what it is like with proud friends, they tend [...]

Whisky and Food

One of my favourite things in the whole world is to go out for dinner. Picture the scene; me sat in my finery, a nice glass of Pinot Noir, a rare Aberdeen Angus Steak, a beautiful girl sat across from me and the icing on the cake: a whisky. The question is, what whisky should [...]

The Macallan and a naked woman (and a cow)

The Macallan and a certain naked lady caused quite a stir a few months ago. We launched our blog after the controversial bottling was announced so naturally we did not write about it. But now we just can’t help ourselves!
We were amazed to see a naked woman on the label of the “new” 30 Years [...]

7 Secrets of Tasting Scotch Whisky Like a Pro

Those of you who visit us regularly must have strange expressions on your faces when you read this. Why on Earth did they put the “P” word in the title! Maybe because it googles great? Err… no. Or maybe to annoy people who only read the feeds’ headings? Nope. Because we are insane? Rather not. [...]

The morning after…

You will not believe this. My mother called me at 9 o’clock this morning just to wish me happy birthday again. Ouch.
But since I’m up anyway now I might just as well scribble a few words of praise and thanks.
Last night was every inch as good as we had hoped it would be! You showed [...]

It’s tonight! Edinburgh Whisky Blog Pub Crawl

Surely you didn’t forget but just to make sure: IT’S TONIGHT!!
The Grand Edinburgh Whisky Blog Pub Crawl is starting at 8pm in the Albanach on the Royal Mile. We have planned a route around all the best whisky bars in Edinburgh but anything can happen!
My mobile phone number is 077 5624 7655, call me if [...]