Musings

EWB Experiments: Peat

April 3, 2014 by Jason +

Ladies and Gentlemen… let me set the scene for you. It was a dark and putrid night and a top-secret emergency meeting had been called at Edinburgh Whisky Blog Towers. Lucas, Chris and Tiger each raced from their respective [...]

Peat for starter, main and sweet

April 2, 2014 by Graeme +

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It is Peat Week here at EWB! A whole week of nothing but tasty, tasty peat, but we all know (or so sensible Doctor Tiger informs us) that you can’t survive solely on peated whisky for a whole week. Therefore, I have [...]

A relationship with peat

April 1, 2014 by Chris +

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When we discussed this “celebration of peat” week as a team, we each looked at what we would contribute. We didn’t discuss too much what we would actually write (a nice surprise for the rest of the team) [...]

In honour of peat

March 31, 2014 by Chris +

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Dark. Sinister. Mysterious. All words associated with the chat up lines used by Hoban on unsuspecting girls over the weekend, but also words which describe the goings on at Edinburgh Whisky Blog HQ over the past couple of [...]

The all new super-mega-ultra-premium Mortlach series

March 10, 2014 by Chris +

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A few years ago when I was first broadening my whisky horizon, I was introduced to a bottle of Mortlach Flora and Fauna 16yo. I can still remember that moment to this day; I tried it at the Scotch Whisky Experience with a [...]