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		<title>The Dramming.com Blind Tasting Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After two years of doing blind tastings at the monthly Whisky Squad meetups I&#8217;ve become quite fond of the technique. It&#8217;s shown me a number of drams that I wouldn&#8217;t have usually touched and helped strip away a number of my whisky prejudices, both conscious and unconscious. I like to think that it&#8217;s made me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whisky Squad #34 &#8211; Whisky in Cocktails with Monkey Shoulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1001 Whiskies You Must Try Before You Die&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I received a parcel in the post containing a book. It&#8217;s a rather exciting book because it contains my first printed writing about whisky. 20+ writers, 1001 whiskies, several hundred images, a very Jim Murray introduction and a couple of kilos of paper and card. I had a read through my entries today and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbblog.org.uk/2012/05/1001-whiskies-you-must-try-before-you-die/</link>
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		<title>BrewDog&#8217;s #PunkAGM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BrewDog are a weird bunch. I mentioned on Twitter the other day that their advertising both makes me annoyed as a long-standing fan of tasty beer in the UK and very happy as a shareholder interested in the company making decent profits, and this division in my mind hurts my tiny brain. However, the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whisky Squad #33 &#8211; Raw Spirit (aka the 2nd Birthday)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m a professional drunk who still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbblog.org.uk/2012/05/whisky-squad-33-raw-spirit-aka-the-2nd-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye old friend&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post today to wish a brief farewell to a good friend of mine &#8211; my bottle of Angostura bitters. Despite being a big fan of aromatic bitters laden drinks over the last decade I&#8217;ve never finished a bottle. This fact stood unchallenged until this weekend, when an excellent rye Old Fashioned emptied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbblog.org.uk/2012/04/goodbye-old-friend/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tastings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet again it&#8217;s been too long since I did one of these, so here&#8217;s some stuff that I&#8217;ve randomly had a sip of in recent times that hasn&#8217;t quite merited a full burst of obsessive writing for whatever reason. Usually laziness. BrewDog/Lost Abbey Lost Dog &#8211; a collaboration between BrewDog and Lost Abbey, a &#8216;monastically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbblog.org.uk/2012/04/quick-tastings-10/</link>
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		<title>#HPTT &#8211; Highland Park Twitter Tasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve been officially involved in a Twitter whisky tasting. I gatecrashed Steve Rush&#8216;s last one, thanks to a few random minis of Cooley whiskey I had knocking around, but I&#8217;ve stayed away from them to let other people get involved &#8211; one of the things that makes a Twitter tasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbblog.org.uk/2012/04/hptt-highland-park-twitter-tasting/</link>
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		<title>The Monkey Shoulder Chocolate Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the folks at William Grant&#8217;s. Over the last few years they&#8217;ve been doing more and more interesting PR stuff, and this year&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbblog.org.uk/2012/04/the-monkey-shoulder-chocolate-trail/</link>
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		<title>Imperial Ghisa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have tragically discovered that I&#8217;m running out of beer. This is a good thing, as increasingly I&#8217;m finding that my &#8220;I can&#8217;t drink that yet, I&#8217;ve only got one of them&#8221; attitude is leading to occasionally spoiled beers and the increasing lack of bottles is forcing me to crack them open. However, the the [...]]]></description>
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