Billy's Booze Blog

Flicking through my notebook to remind myself of what I’ve been up to of late (I don’t bother storing such information in my brain any more, it’s too full of useless facts that I’ve accidentally learned from Wikipedia) I came across a bunch of tasting notes from Whisky Live London. Rather than let them sit [...]

As I don’t think I’ve written about whisky enough recently (sarchasm) I thought I’d put something down on paper/the screen/the interwebnets about Whisky Live London 2011. I’ve been almost entirely fail-y when it has come to writing about whisky shows in the past, mainly as a day of walking around pouring whisky down my neck [...]

This blog is currently descending into whisky obsession and to cap that out this weekend I’m off to Glasgow to go to Whisky Live 2010. To add to the joy of my day of whisky related shenanigans I’ll be doing some live coverage via Twitter and Richard Paterson’s blog (as he and Whyte and Mackay [...]

I like big butts and I cannot lie… My week up in Scotland recently not only introduced me to Benromach whisky, but also to the idea of putting whisky in new casks. Now, this may not sound like a particularly wild idea, but the majority of whisky is matured in casks that have already held [...]