Tag: gunmakers
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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Hello. I’m in Scotland, surrounded by snow and equipped with inadequate footwear, a combination of facts that should make post(s) later this week a beacon for schadenfreude tinged enjoyment. Anyways, as whisky distilleries treat weekends in February with appropriate level of contempt (they’re working but don’t open for tourists, as there are only four of [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: arran, clynelish, compass box, glendronach, glenfarclas, gunmakers, lagavulin, peat monster, whisky squad
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It’s the end of the year and it seems that buying booze is towards the top of people’s minds. As such I’ve been hidden away at TWE Towers, poking the website, processing orders, picking bottles and generally running around like the famed blue arse fly of proverb. So, now that I’m sat on the sofa [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: balvenie, glendronach, glenisla, gunmakers, hibiki, kings ginger, whisky squad
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I am heartbroken – I missed a Whisky Squad, my first since number 4. Through the inconvenient scheduling of The Whisky Show I ended up late at work preparing for a weekend of backbreaking toil rather than sitting around above The Gunmakers surrounded by whisky. Luckily Alan stepped up to the plate and wrote it [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: aultmore, ben nevis, cadenheads, craigellachie, fettercairn, glenburgie, gunmakers, jonny mcmillan, whisky squad
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Keeping up with Whisky Squad meetings has been more difficult than usual recently, what with there being one every two weeks since the beginning of June. (Un)fortunately I’ve had an intervention of life and work, much of which was taken up with 5 days of drinking different boozes each day last week, filling all of [...]
Posted: July 19th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: bernheim, darren rook, eagler rare, four roses, georgia moon, gunmakers, jack daniels, sazerac, the whisky guy, whiskey, whisky squad
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Hot on the heels of this month’s first birthday Whisky Squad the chaps managed to squeeze in another a mere two weeks later. Offered the back room at The Gunmakers for a larger than usual whisky and dinner affair they took up the challenge and matched the occasion with Diageo’s Colin Dunn, returning for his [...]
Posted: May 1st, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: caol ila, clynelish, colin dunn, dufftown, gunmakers, johnnie walker, singleton, whisky squad
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As the year draws to a close the season of Christmas parties is upon us. I missed my office Christmas party for the last Whisky Squad (the unblogged #8a, which involved BYOB, chocolate and some impressive drunkenness – Jason managed to write something down and then read it back again, the latter part of which [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2010 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: berry brothers, berry brothers and rudd, cameron bridge, christmas, darren rook, duncan taylor, glen scotia, glengoyne, gunmakers, ledaig, master of malt, octave, smws, whisky squad
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September flew by a bit for me and shortly after I finished writing up last month’s Whisky Squad another one appeared on the horizon. In honour of the fluffy top lips of a chunk of The Squad this session’s theme was Movember. Whisky Gandalf Darren, the man behind Whisky4Movember and random chap for Master of [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2010 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: ardbeg, blasda, caol ila, charlie maclean, dalmore, darren rook, dave broom, extra black, gunmakers, highland park, marcin miller, master of malt, mo'land, mo'rkney, movember, richard paterson, serge valentin, smo'key, smokehead, whisky squad, whisky4movember
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Another month, another slab of Whisky Squad related delight Chez Jeff, the lovely landlord of The Gunmakers. This month we were treated to another special guest following in the rather hefty footsteps of Colin Dunn – Rob Whitehead from Berry Brothers & Rudd. Regular Whisky Guy Darren was off recovering from a whisky related sojourn [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2010 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: aberlour, bbr, berry brothers, berry brothers and rudd, bunnahabhain, glen mhor, gunmakers, invergordon, ledaig, st magdalene, whisky squad
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A bit of a unexpected move by The Whisky Squad this month. Having gone through various high powered single malts this meeting’s theme was to be the whisky snob’s enemy – the much maligned blend. The idea behind this was to help further put down the theory that blended whisky is by its very nature [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2010 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: adelphi, ardbeg, bailie nicol jarvie, ben nevis, compass box, glenmorangie, gun, gunmakers, hedonism, serendipity, whisky guy, whisky squad
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