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 [...]
Last two weeks for SMWS membership offer
January 15th, 2011 Bill In an earlier post Give Yourself an Early Xmas Present we told you about an offer of a free bottle of whisky for anyone taking out a membership with the Scottish Malt Whisky Society through this blog. The particular whisky has now sold out but the SMWS have replaced it with another from the same [...]
Whisky iOdic – A Periodic chart of whisky (iphone app)
December 30th, 2010 Mike So I now have my nice new iPhone 4 (its rubbish at calls and sending text messages but great at Internet things) and as usual when sat at lunch I started looking for apps to download for it. As befits my tastebuds I immediately started searching for “whisky” in iTunes. The first app which grabbed [...]
Seeing Whisky from a different age
December 1st, 2010 Bill I recently moved into a new house, and an important part of that process allowed me to retrieve many of my books from my ex-wife’s house. In sorting them out I came across the first book I ever owned on whisky – Scotch: the Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story by Sir Robert Bruce [...]