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Scotch Malt Whisky Society – Promo Offer for Valentine’s Day

By Nicola • Feb 5th, 2012 • Category: News and Press Releases

As members ourselves we would highly recommend all our readers (worldwide) to log onto their website www.smws.co.uk and join up now to receive a fantastic Valentine’s offer.
A great gift for Valentine’s day, buy a SMWS membership now on-line and receive over and above the fantastic new members package a “A lady of the Night” bottle [...]



Highland Park Thor | Day 2 & 3

By Nicola • Feb 1st, 2012 • Category: News and Press Releases

Following on from my post on Monday regarding the release of Highland Park’s newest release “Thor“.  I have received some more cryptic clues and messages in the post… see below:
Day1:
“In the beginning was the rain beating its relentless tune into the elemental Scottish isle. The storm that will bring him is coming”
Day2:
“Hail lashes the [...]



Highland Park - 16 yr Old Thor Has Been Released

By Nicola • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: News and Press Releases

Highland Park - Thor - Whisky of the Gods

A very intriguing parcel arrived for the Whisky Boys this morning, and after a read through and a look at the cryptic clue, we deduced that we had in our hands some fabulously coordinated material from Highland Park (nice work).
This new limited release is available from today [...]



Islay 2011 (Whisky & weans)

By Nicola • Apr 25th, 2011 • Category: Distillery Visits, Lead Story

The kids are off school and we have nothing organised so early on Saturday morning (9th April) I decide, lets go to Islay….

We get on the phone to Margaret at Port Charlotte Holidays to ask if she has any availability for tomorrow until next Saturday, YES she does….



Speyside Visit - Chivas Brothers

By Nicola • Mar 27th, 2011 • Category: Lead Story

Jim and I are very excitied to be invited by Chivas Brothers to visit 4 fabulous Speyside distilleries over the next 2 days and also to get a chance to meet and chat with their Brand Embassador, Alex Robertson and Ballantines Master Blender, Sandy Hyslop…



Whisky Monthly Puzzle - December 2010

By Nicola • Dec 17th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

Now lets get our thinking caps on, this is our first Whisky Crossword and we are hoping to continue this on a monthly basis.

Some of the answers are contained within the Whisky Boys site.



Q&A - Jim McEwan of Bruichladdich - Part 2

By Nicola • Nov 23rd, 2010 • Category: Spotlight on Whisky

Following the results of our first Q&A with Olaf Meier of SMWS last week, we have now published below the answers provided by Jim McEwan of Bruichladdich.
There are still a few more to come so look out for part 3 of our Q&A’s which will be published next week.
See Jim’s answers below :
1. Q
When did [...]



Q&A - Olaf Meier of SMWS - Part 1

By Nicola • Nov 17th, 2010 • Category: Spotlight on Whisky

A couple of months ago we posed a few Whisky related questions to some of our friends within the Scotch Whisky industry… We tried to choose questions that would show you the fabulous personalities behind our best export. Please feel free to post your answers to these questions in the comments section at the [...]



October is Bourbon Month

By Nicola • Oct 21st, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

At Whisky Boys we are trying something a little different, we have decided to dedicate the full month of October to Bourbon. So for this month we will not let anything pass our lips within the tasting room apart from Bourbon. This could prove a hard challenge as you know we love our Malt Whiskies at Whisky Boys



Whisky Boys day out in the Capital

By Nicola • Aug 23rd, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

Today we are venturing into Edinburgh, not for one engagement but two, I hope we are up to it…. time will tell, or should I say our followup post will tell.

Once we arrive in Edinburgh out first stop is Leslies Bar (Edinburgh’s finest Ale and Whisky House) at 4pm for a tasting of 4 delicious Glengoyne Single Malt Whiskies.