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Oct 31, 2020
Distillery Tales Scary Enough to Chill your Whisky
Distillery Tales Scary Enough to Chill your Whisky
With Halloween fast approaching, we decided to share some spooky d...
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Jan 18, 2020
Investing in Rare Whisky
Investing in Rare Whisky
The events that followed the Credit Crunch lead many people to realise that obscure investme...
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Jan 2, 2020
Tax Free Shopping in Edinburgh
Tax Free Shopping
Are you a visitor from outside the European Union and want to buy Scotch whisky? Then we have good ...
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Sep 21, 2019
Lost in time not in spirit
Brechin (AKA North Port), Glen Albyn, Glenury Royal and Millburn distilleries are now sadly defunct distilleries. The...
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Sep 14, 2019
How versatile is Scotch whisky?
Yes, you've seen them before, whisky cocktails, whisky pairings and whisky dinners. Talk to anyone who has tried a wh...
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Dec 9, 2018
Christmas drams
It's that time of the year again, tinsels, baubbles, Christmas music and mulled wine are all around us. Most of us ...
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Sep 7, 2018
Meet the Maker: Benromach Single Malt
After our first 'Meet the Maker' instalment with Esker Gin went down so well, we thought we would continue on with th...
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Aug 16, 2018
Five of the best whiskies to enjoy with the Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a time of arts, creativity and performances. People from all around the world flock to S...
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Aug 9, 2018
Where to smoke cigars in Edinburgh?
Yes we know, the smoking ban in Scotland is a blanket ban. It has its advantages of course the ban has made pubs enj...
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Jul 22, 2018
Meet the Maker: Esker Gin
In the first of our 'meet the maker' series we reached out and spoke to Scottish gin distiller, Esker gin. These guys...
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Jul 12, 2018
Is Gin and slim tonic the perfect summer drink?
The warm and sunny days are here. Many of us have planned holidays to the beach or the countryside and are eager to e...
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Jun 26, 2018
Is it Whisky or Whiskey?
The word whisky has Gaelic origins. Over time the Gaelic spelling was anglicised to 'whisky'. Industrialisation, competition and quality concerns pushed distillers in Ireland and Scotland to differentiate their products using a different spelling.
Newspaper editors all over the world issued stylistic guidelines in the 1960's and due to the different spellings in different countries many words were changed and their spread.
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