Chris

Chris Hoban, the man at the right place, at the right time. People he has randomly bumped into: George Clooney, Claudia Schiffer, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Bono, Bob Geldof, Jennifer Ellison (he tried to chat her up) and that's just the famous people. He also ended up setting up Silent Discos at one point in his past after bumping into someone with the idea. Always ready to follow a crazy plan to the end. When he happened to bump into someone with a cracking idea, like Lucas, something beautiful was bound to happen. Edinburgh Whisky Blog was born.

He loves to spend time thinking up a new concept for articles. Sometimes he spends far too much time thinking, far too little time writing. His articles have fans (he hopes).

Overly fond of a drink, a lady and a dance, Chris has made his name as the moderate, calm, cool, collected and democratic of the two founders. The ying to Lucas' yang. If he had an anthem, it would be 'Why can't we be friends'.

Guest contributor to Grant's Whisky Blog, quoted in the Metro, interviewed for Whisky Magazine and even bottled his own Glenfarclas for Movember (with Master of Malt). On the other hand, he was rubbish at school, scraped through Uni on charm alone and has his English corrected by all the other bloggers. Can't have it all, eh?

Ovenbird Whisky Aged Coffee

November 5, 2017 by Chris

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The nice thing about becoming obsessed with flavour, as I am with the flavours of whisky and beer, is this obsession transfers to the other parts of the culinary world. Coffee, like whisky and beer, seems to be expanding into [...]

Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery

October 18, 2017 by Chris

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Where there is access to good barley, and good water, good beer and good whisky should follow. For both, patience, and a good business sense are required. Business needs ideas, an ability to be flexible at the right time, [...]

Auchentoshan & Ale

May 1, 2017 by Chris

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Auchentoshan, started in the 1820′s, have for a few years tried to break the mould when it comes to whisky marketing. Cocktails, appearances at beer festivals, and now beer and whisky mixed together. It kind of makes [...]

Tales of the Cocktail: Tales on Tour Edinburgh

April 1, 2017 by Chris

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Tales of the Cocktail, one of the world’s most well-known cocktail festivals, comes to Edinburgh over the next 6 days in the form of Tales on Tour. Naturally, myself and the EWB team will be attending some of the [...]

A couple of Old & Rare Whisky Show Drams

February 5, 2017 by Chris

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In the build up to The Whisky Show Old and Rare (18th-19th February), Angus and Jonny kindly let me sample some examples of the kind of whisky on offer at the show (Tickets for Saturday sold out-Sunday tickets available [...]