Highland Park 50 Years Old Edrington Group The Highland Park 50 Year Old, designed by Scottish born, multi award winning jewellery designer Maeve Gillies was chosen by the team of judges as the standout overall winner of Best Design from the products entered into this year’s awards. Inspired by Orkney, the concept around the design [...]
Hidden across the UK are 10 bottles of Shackleton’s Replica Whisky… You may remember that a few years ago, Whyte & Mackay did a safari hunt promotion, where a member of the Whyte & Mackay team went across Glasgow and London with £500 of whisky in a backpack, giving off clues where he could be [...]
The Allendale Tar Barrel Festival Villagers called “guisers” carry burning whisky barrels and torches as they take part in the Allendale Tar Barrel festival in Allendale, England. An annual event since the dark ages, locals dress up in a variety of costumes, before carrying whisky barrels containing burning tar on their heads around the village [...]
Ardbeg “Double Barrel” Ardbeg Distillery, one of the most celebrated whisky distilleries in the world, has issued the Ardbeg “Double Barrel”. This ultra-rare single cask bottling truly takes the mix of hunting and whisky in a direction even a vehement NRA hater could support. Each ‘Double Barrel’ comes with two bottles of single cask bottles [...]
Automatic Whisky, 1960 Here’s a fascinating old photo from the pages of Life Magazine. At the Second Automatic Vending Exhibition in London, a woman helps herself to a vending machine that serves whisky. The automatic machine could also mix your whisky with a choice of either soda or water. Now, the only thing that could have [...]
Radioactive material flung into the atmosphere by nuclear bomb tests is helping scientists to fight the multi-million dollar trade in counterfeit antique malt whisky. Bottles of vintage whisky can sell for thousands of dollars each, but industry experts claim the market has been flooded with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but [...]
Infrared Spectrometer Authenticates Scotch A new method for detecting bootleg Scotch whisky could help safeguard one of the country’s most important industries, it has been claimed. The technique, developed at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, examines ethanol concentration in undiluted samples and the residue of dried whisky. Unlike other methods, it does not involve expensive lab-based analysis. The new [...]
1965 Bowmore Single Malt Scotch Whisky On the island of Islay on the west coast of Scotland, only 114km west of Glasgow there lies The Bowmore distillery, Scotland’s oldest distillery which dates back to 1779. The island itself covers just over 600 square kilometres and a large part of the land mass is peat… which [...]
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