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Yellow Spot: A reference to the past

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June 14, 2012 by Chris +

The only way to move forward is to learn from the past. That’s what my old history teacher used to say (he had to say that kind of thing). I was thinking about this when I was learning about Yellow Spot, the new addition to [...]

Irish eyes are smiling after all. Humph.

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May 29, 2011 by Lucas +

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To err is human… A few days ago I had a little giggle about a video which had been played to us at Midleton Distillery in Cork, Ireland. I have since been contacted by a company representative who wanted to clear a [...]

Scotch? Those provincial rivals of ours?

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May 12, 2011 by Lucas +

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When I was at Midleton last week they played this video to us on the distillery tour. It’s absolutely priceless! It tells the history of pot still Irish whiskey and, to an extent, modern distilling in general, from an [...]

Ireland Call: Single Pot Still?

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May 10, 2011 by Lucas +

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Gather around the fire, children, uncle Lucas will tell you now what happened in Ireland last week. We landed at Cork Airport. There were some leprechauns, rainbows, pots of gold and shamrocks. We all went to a dingy little [...]

Time to sleep and gather thoughts

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May 6, 2011 by Lucas +

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Just got home from Ireland. Last night’s celebrations ran well into not-so-wee hours this morning. I’m completely poop and need to catch a train to Newcastle at 7am tomorrow to be there nice and early for the [...]