2010 Whisky round up
Posted on | January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
Happy New year to everyone who follows So what about whisky? Well,
target="_blank">The Whisky Guy site/blog and thanks
for hanging in over the last couple of months while posts have been
a little sparse. We’re into a new year whisk(e)y fans and it
promises to be filled with some delights from around the globe.
Some basics mainstays for 2011 include the Islay Whisky Festival in
May, Maltstock in September and a new one on my annual calendar is
the November Glasgow Whisky Festival.
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alt="" width="136" height="204" />However, twenty ten was a
great year and I want to take a minute to look back at all it had
to offer. To start with on the net we’ve seen the rise of some
great bloggers such as Joshua at JSMWS, Billy at the BBBlog plus
Caskstrength, Dr Whisky (hopefully we’ll see more of Sam when he
moves to London), Edinburgh whisky blog and many others* continuing
there hardwork to tell us what is new and interesting. For myself
2010 saw me leave the amazing team at The Scotch Malt Whisky
Society in London (don’t worry it was left in the extremely capable
hands of Mr Joe McGirr) and join the might retail force of href="http://www.masterofmalt.com" target="_blank">Master of
Malt. Heading to MoM has been great in itself , however,
the major highlight of the year (excluding my beautiful wife being
pregnant) was travelling to the States, Detroit, to catch up with
the guys a from CARL & MSU to learn more about their distilling
technology and meet some amazing artisanal distillers. Damn – fresh
apple vodka is amazing, plus distilling organic Rye whisky with an
accidental amount of horseradish in the mix burns the eyes like a
mother! Other note worthy events are:
for the
href="http://www.whisky4movember.com" target="_blank">Whisky for
Movemberteam who raised over£1700 for Prostate Cancer
awareness,
bottling with support from Richard Paterson.
Whisky Atlas,
Edinburgh,
3yo and could officially be classed as whisky, plus much more other
great stuff…
the Panel of the
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target="_blank"> BIG awards picked out five top drams
of the year. I’d agree with those selected and add in the Adelphi
41yo Bunnahabhain, Makers Mark 46, the Lagavulin Distillery shop
bottling, NOH 1977 and Double Distilleries to the mix for my
personal top ten. We’ll I look forward to sharing some great drams
with you soon and hope you all stay Passionate and Spirited!
Darren
Comments
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TWG on Twitter
- @the_casks when's your little one due? We're Feb 17th, the nct are good for cheap baby stuff. Whisky - perfect for these occasions
- Shooting a podcast of making sloe gin. Will go up on iTunes later today
- @cowfish I've got some new makes on my sampling shelf! Great idea.
- @jasonbstanding, see already drank loads at the mere thought of it!
- Was curious what people drank or would drink when their partners gave birth? My wifes due in Feb. so thinking some very young.
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