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Quick Dram: Glenglassaugh Torfa

April 23, 2014 by Graeme +

Home is where the heart is… or at least where my whisky collection is and they are matched only by the pain of leaving the majority of my whiskies behind at my parent’s home in Aberdeen. Luckily Easter offered up [...]

The anCnoc Peaty Collection: Rutter, Flaughter & Tushkar

April 4, 2014 by Chris +

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What a difference a week makes. This time last week I had no idea how sensitive a soul Hoban is (well, actually, I’ve always known he’s a romantic at heart), what with his love-hate-love relationship with peat over the years. [...]

EWB Experiments: Peat

April 3, 2014 by Jason +

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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) [...]