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Islay Festival Attendance Cancellation

Islay Festival, which has started yesterday, was meant to be the highlight of the year for Chris and me.
Unfortunately an array of unforeseen circumstances led to us no longer being able to go and enjoy our stay there.
I regret to inform you, and I write this almost literally sitting on my packed bag, that neither [...]

Leslies Bar

A quick exit from University, a fast black, pick up Lucas from his flat and we are off to Leslie’s bar. My lecture finished at six and we had been invited for a pint and a chat at Leslie’s (by the owner David) at seven so it all felt a little bit rushed. A deodorant [...]

Worldwide Whisky Bars: Directory Development

After what Chris wrote about different whisky bars around the world and him dreaming of going and visiting them all, you flooded us with emails and Twitter messages recommending your favourite whisky-filled watering holes. Awesome work guys! Special thanks to Håvard Eide from Norway and Robert Ransom from Glenfarclas distillery (as I told you before, [...]

New category: Quick Dram

We sample silly amounts of whisky every week and we have recently realised that we don’t mention even 10% of them here. This is purely because we are very busy writing about other things, meeting people, reviewing bars, going to tastings… but also working to pay rent and attending classes at University (to pay mortgage [...]

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 [...]

Whisky & Snow: Chris’s survival guide

Over the past couple of days I have been unable to access the Internet. Most other countries seem to be able to deal with a bit of snow, but Britain reacts like it is the coming of the next Ice Age. The trains stop, people cannot get to work and Chris’s internet goes down! So [...]

A map of Edinburgh’s whisky bars

We have just added a new feature to our site, it’s a map of Edinburgh with some of the best whisky bars marked on it. To see it simply click on the Whisky Bars tab on the top of the screen. We hope it’s useful.
The map will be getting updated as we go so if [...]

A wee dram of whisky blog

One of the regular readers of our whisky blog was sipping on his favourite malt while reading the Bushmills 16 yo review and, which doesn’t surprise me at all, felt so inspired that he decided to take this amazing picture and email it to us (I know it’s a long sentence). Thanks a million for [...]

Edinburgh Whisky Blog

Fàilte!
Lucas and I have a simple idea. We want to try as many different Scotch whiskies as possible and review them. Brilliant!
Apart from our personal opinion we want to give you background information about reviewed whiskies and tell you where you can buy them in Edinburgh and on the net.
There is a number of excellent [...]