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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Festival Bottlings

May 29, 2018 by Chris +

May. The month of whisky festivals. World Whisky Day, the Whisky Stramash, and the Campbeltown Malts Festival are book-ended by the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival at the start of May and Feis Ile at the end, to create a [...]

Benriach Temporis 21yo

May 21, 2018 by Chris +

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A few weeks ago I was invited to a very intimate gathering of whisky folks at The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Vaults in Leith, to be one of the first to sample Benriach’s new expression, Temporis 21yo. Led by Matt Chambers [...]

A Quick Dram, a New Year & a New (ish) Bar

January 7, 2017 by Chris +

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To begin 2017, Tiger, Graeme, Jason & I have vowed to blog more, and get Edinburgh Whisky Blog back to being a busy website again. Tiger has been doing well to keep it going, but we 3 will be chipping in more this year. [...]

The Kaleidoscope Bar with Charles MacLean

December 6, 2016 by Chris +

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Following on from a £300,000 refurbishment of its Queen Street venue, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has now launched a rather special whisky selection in its new Kaleidoscope Bar. This is the first time non-SMWS whiskies [...]

EWB’s 6th Birthday Bash

February 5, 2015 by Chris +

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Unbelievably, a whole year has passed since the last blog birthday – it was a fairly epic night if the photos on my phone are anything to go by, so in true EWB fashion we’re throwing another birthday bash this year [...]