My son in law Scott, also known as Whisky Boy Nicola’s husband and the Apprentice Whisky Boy, has decided to run the Bank of Scotland’s Great Scottish Run, 2011 Half Marathon in Glasgow on the 4th September to raise money for Diabetes UK Scotland.
Scott has been Type 1 diabetic for almost 8 years, this means [...]
As Jim is a subscriber to the great Scottish magazine, The Scottish Field, he applied a little while ago to be one of their reviewers to visit a specific type of hotel and write a short review for publication.
So a couple of months ago Jim was asked to take part in the review of a [...]
The Whisky Boys have several bottles of Whisky lined up for our tasting table for the up and coming weeks.
Up and Coming Tastings
Cask Strength and Carry On – Isle of Arran Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Cask no. 1554 Distilled 1998, Bottled by the Cask Strength Boys in 2011, only 92 Bottles, 49.9% Alc/vol 70cl.
Powers John’s [...]
On the 10th of June The Whisky Boys received an e-mail from Roseanne Niven (An Account Executive with The Big Partnership, Edinburgh) that on behalf of Cutty Sark we were offered a pair of tickets to the Opening Night Film and the Opening Night Party of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Wed 15th June.
The [...]
The Whisky Boys were pleased to receive from Roseanne Niven an Account Executive with The BIG Partnership in Edinburgh an invite to the media launch evening for The Snow Grouse and the Naked Grouse, the Whisky Boys gladly accepted.
This event was held at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh on the 18th May.
It is late afternoon and [...]
This was a special event to celebrate all things “Arran” and both Jim and Nicola attended for the second day, Sunday 15th May, the Square being George Square in the centre of Glasgow.
“Arran in the Square” is a showcase for many island producers. Visitors will have plenty of time to sample Arran food and drink [...]
As a result of our “Whisky on the Menu” editorial in The Falkirk Herald on Thursday 10th March 2011 we received a letter together with a wee story from one of the Falkirk Herald readers, a Mr Joseph Foster.
Last night I gave Joe a wee phone to ask him all about his story. Joe is [...]
It is 7 pm on Wednesday 9th of March and Jim and Scott are sitting in the car park at Glengoyne Distillery awaiting the rest of the students led by our lecturer John D. Lamond. No sooner said than done and the mini-bus arrived with the rest of the gang and we all made our [...]
It is Tuesday 8th of March at 6.30 pm, and all of John Lamond’s students have gathered at the Glasgow Metropolitan College.
Everyone was in good humour and the chat and banter was in good spirit. The exam was made up of 50 multiple choice questions followed by a Whisky Tasting, we had to identify [...]
It is early evening on Monday 28th February at McTear’s Auction and in the new tasting room, The John Cor Room, all the 173 Lots were out on display. On this occasion the lots were not in lot number order but in Distillery order.
McTear’s Whisky specialists, Johnny Walker and Stephen McGinty were on hand to [...]
