Archive for 'Whisky'
After two years of doing blind tastings at the monthly Whisky Squad meetups I’ve become quite fond of the technique. It’s shown me a number of drams that I wouldn’t have usually touched and helped strip away a number of my whisky prejudices, both conscious and unconscious. I like to think that it’s made me [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: dramming
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I quite like sacrilege, especially in the world of drinks. My first blog post at work was about whisky cocktails, a subject that raises ire amongst many whisky purists, and I’ve championed the use of decent whisky in cocktails ever since. That said, I also hate whisky in lots of cocktails and find recipes that [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2012 under Cocktails, Uncategorized, Whisky.
Tags: dean callan, monkey shoulder, olivier ward, red lion, whisky squad
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Today I received a parcel in the post containing a book. It’s a rather exciting book because it contains my first printed writing about whisky.
Posted: May 11th, 2012 under Books, Whisky.
Tags: 1001 whiskies, Dominic Roskrow
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How time flies. A mere two years ago I was an occasional drunk who sometimes wrote things up on his blog, who then bumped into Andy and Jason of WhiskySquad at a couple of booze events, leading to my attendance of almost every one of their sessions. These days I’m a professional drunk who still [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2012 under Tastings, Uncategorized, Whisky.
Tags: ardbeg, arran, elements of islay, glenfiddich, glenglassaugh, glenmorangie, glenrothes, lagavulin, whisky squad
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Yet again it’s been too long since I did one of these, so here’s some stuff that I’ve randomly had a sip of in recent times that hasn’t quite merited a full burst of obsessive writing for whatever reason. Usually laziness.
Posted: April 19th, 2012 under Absinthe, Beer, Quick Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: ancnoc, auchentoshan, bowmore, brewdog, glendronach, la fee, lost abbey
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It’s been a while since I’ve been officially involved in a Twitter whisky tasting. I gatecrashed Steve Rush‘s last one, thanks to a few random minis of Cooley whiskey I had knocking around, but I’ve stayed away from them to let other people get involved – one of the things that makes a Twitter tasting [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: daryl haldane, highland park, steve rush, the whisky wire, tweet tasting, twitter
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I like the folks at William Grant’s. Over the last few years they’ve been doing more and more interesting PR stuff, and this year’s focus for the crazy is Monkey Shoulder, their blended malt whisky. They kicked things off a couple of months back with some cocktail nights at Callooh Callay and event #2 is [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2012 under Cocktails, Whisky.
Tags: monkey shoulder
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I haven’t posted about any single drams I’ve tasted recently, as in general I seem to do ‘proper tastings’ in flights or just not get around to writing about them. However, every now and again something comes along that’s a little bit special and deserves some extra attention – one of those popped up on [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: glenfiddich, jamie milne, jonny mccormick, whisky live
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This week has been ‘hard’. By ‘hard’ I mean that my normal ‘work’ has been supplemented by even more events than usual, culminating in the 2-day fungasm (fungasm might be going too far, I will admit) that was Whisky Live London 2011. I was at there under the auspices of work and I have at [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: ardbeg, arran, bistro du vin, glen craig, glen scotia, laphroaig, mws, rosebank
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Today is St Patrick’s day, a fact I know due to a) it being the day after my mate Adam‘s birthday (happy birthday Mr A) and b) Diageo having died their lake green. Again. In celebration of this holiday that I have no particular personal attachment to I have decided to live the stereotype to [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: black bush, bushmills, cooley, gunmakers, inishowen, jameson, locke's, midleton, powers, redbreast, tim forbes, whisky squad
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