I have to confess that this was an unknown name to me and I had to look it up. It was situated in Alloa but was closed in 1983 and demolished in 1992, and the most surprising thing is that it seems to have been a grain distillery. My only previous experience of single grain [...]
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Master of Malt tastings – #1 – Balmenach
February 27th, 2011 
Bill A while back Mike passed some samples on to me from Master of Malt. Due to house moves, bereavements, and a catalogue of other matters they were put aside for a while intending that we taste them together, but as our respective calendars have left little time for such events I felt it was time [...]
Sweet spirit from the Highland line – Glengoyne
February 6th, 2011 Bill The world of single malt whisky is wonderfully diverse and though it tends to be the big names that take most of the publicity there is plenty going on in the less famous distilleries that deserves to be better known. I recently received some samples from one of those via a friend of mine who [...]
Give yourself an early Xmas present
November 24th, 2010 Bill Get a free bottle of single malt when you take out a SMWS membership via us. As I indicated at the end of the last post we had a pleasant surprise towards the end of the SMWS tasting – an extra three drams to consider and a generous offer to pass on to our readers. [...]
Nov 2010 tasting at SMWS
November 14th, 2010 Bill It’s been a busy last few months for both Mike and me; Mike has moved to a new job and got married, while I have bought and moved into a new house and my mum died a few weeks ago, so neither of us have had time to blog until now, with the latest of [...]
The SMWS July 2010 Bottlings
July 4th, 2010 Bill Tasting time again for the bloggers, this time at the Scottish Malt Whisky Society’s original home at the Vaults in Leith. While Queen St is a fine venue, particularly the boardroom with its views over the New Town, the Vaults have an atmosphere all their own that Mike and I appreciate. Olaf told us that [...]