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This isn’t Birmingham in the 1920s, but as Blinders fandom hits its Peak, you’d be forgiven for thinking the UK has stepped into a time warp. The streets of Britain are awash with waistcoats, peaky flat caps and circular glasses as the classy style of the hit BBC drama takes over – much like I’m […]
‘O thou, my Muse! guid auld Scotch drink!… …Inspire me, till I lisp an’ wink’ Och aye, it’s fair to say Scotland’s National Bard was giy fond ae a dram. He mused about it, wrote about it, and of course, drank plenty of it. Many a word was scrawled on a cold Scots night with […]
For so long these two friends have sat side-by-side at the table, or the bar, looking over at one another – just like old friends ought to. Each day, these two may never directly blend but regularly accompany one another, each complimenting the other in half pints and half measures. Whiskey and beer. Beer and […]
Bread and Butter pudding is a festive favourite for people across the UK, and this winter warmer doesn’t just rely on the bread to warm the cockles and put a wee glow on your cheeks! Whisky and some sweet doughy pudding is enough to have us salivating, but add in the marmalade and we’re almost […]
Rarely does a drink end up in a bracket more concerned with the icons, heroes and legends of a country. Rarely, yes, but never? Not quite. Legend is a term all-too loosely attributed these days, but to Redbreast, it’s perhaps the only title that fits. It’s one of those rare drinks whose story, history and […]
Ingredients: 50ml of Bulleit Bourbon 4-5 cloves 1 lemon twist 7ml lemon juice 1 tsp hot demerara or brown sugar Hot water Method: To begin, fill up glass or mug with fresh boiling water and let stand While mug is warming up, cut a lemon twist and stud it with cloves Next, throw out the […]
The story of Scotland’s smallest whisky region, the distillery producing award-winning single malts there today and the future of this historic style. The history of Campbeltown whisky Whisky making on the Campbeltown peninsula dates back to 1636 when a farm at Crosshill made a return for six quarts of Aqua Vitae payable to the town […]
Discover the incredible story of Thomas Blake Glover and meet the whiskies that so proudly bear his name. When Thomas Blake Glover left Aberdeen for the Far East in the mid-19th century, never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that 160 years later people all over the world would be drinking a whisky […]
Written in 1873, Jules Verne’s acclaimed adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days saw Phileas Fogg and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in just 80 days on a £20,000 wager. Now, in 2017, World Whisky Day founder Blair Bowman will attempt to go around the country (Scotland) in […]