On the Saturday the 4th of September, Whisky Boys Jim will be 60 years old and will be celebrating with a party for family, close friends and neighbours.

Whisky Live Glasgow - The Boys are making there third visit.
It’s back, Whisky Live Glasgow and being held in The Thistle Ballroom, Glasgow on Saturday September 11th 2010 and will be open from noon until 5 pm.
As Dougie will be up in Aberdeenshire due to work commitments, this the third visit to the biggest and [...]

Whisky Boy Jim goes to Ireland.
From some of Jim’s previous blogs you can read about his visit to Kilbeggan Distillery ( the highlight of the trip) and his recent tasting of Tyrconnell Whiskey, but it is what happened on other not so quite Whisky related days.
Jim and his wife Jacqueline travelled over the sea to [...]

Where did the Irish get the Eeeeeeeeeeeee from ???

 
Now here is the question, where did the Irish get the “E” in Whiskey from?   As you may have gathered from previous blogs, we were recently in Ireland and as you can imagine we had a variety of Celtic debates, for example which nation was first to create [...]

Whisky Boys Jim is off to Ireland

On Monday the 28th of June 2010 Jim and his wife Jacqueline are heading of to Ireland for a 7/8 day break.

The Whisky Boys have a few books that they use for reference and we thought we would share them with you and tell you about our favourites.

Scotch Whisky Sales are up Worldwide
These really are dark cloudy days, between news of the economic downturn, the volcanic dust clouds that have grounded flights over Europe causing desperately restricted travel, and that perishable food is rotting in aircraft hangers. It is good to hear some news of a Phoenix rising from [...]

Some folks like to go to Scotland to bag Munros or follow the Whisky Trail. My recent trip to Scotland had a much more flavourful goal: I made it my mission this trip to stake out a Sticky Toffee Pudding Trail.
While this dessert is known (and loved) in Britain, I have to tell you it [...]

Well folks, we hope you all had a very good Christmas and New Year. I thought you might like to know how Whisky Boy Jim and I spent our Christmas Day.
It is the first time that we have not had Christmas Dinner in our own home, but we felt it appropriate this year to [...]

The Whisky Boys thought it might be a good idea to share with you some history regarding the tradition that is Hogmanay, as only one nation in the world can celebrate the New Year with such revelry and passion - the Scots!
It may surprise many people to note that Christmas was not celebrated as a [...]