It is the few days between Christmas and New Year and Jim and Nicola have poured a wee dram each and are looking at oaberlour-abunadh-gold-corkur selections and shortlists for our 2011 Whisky Awards….
Jim and Nicola sat down last night with a couple of choice drams and made a start on our Whisky Awards for 2011, below you can see we have listed our nominations for Whiskies for 2011.
We have both agreed that it is not at easy as you may think, some of the one’s we have [...]
It is that time of the year again when Jim and Nicola sit down and review all things Whisky and give out our coveted Corks (Gold, Silver and Bronze) Awards.
Categories Include:
Best Scotch Single Malt
Best Scotch Blend
Best Non-Scotch Blend
Best On-line Whisky Shop
The Whisky Boys have designated October 2011 as Irish only tasting month and so far we have a few bottles all sitting there to be tasted, and the list includes :-
Midleton Barry Crockett Legacy
Locke’s 8 Year Old Single Malt
Redbreast 12 Year Old Single Pot Still
The Irishman Single Malt
Green Spot Single Pot Still
Kilbeggan Blended Irish Whiskey
Bushmills [...]
In Jim’s back garden he has just got built this fabulous Bar-B-Q log cabin and The Whisky Boys intend to use it for some special intimate (up to 8 guest tasters) Whisky tastings.
So The Whisky Boys are asking all of you out there to give us some help in giving this cabin a Whisky related [...]
Congratulations to winner of the Whisky Boys Whisky Live 2011 Competition.
At the start of the month we gave our readers the chance to win a pair of Full Day and Blending Room class entrance tickets at Whisky Live 2011. All we asked was that you answer the following question:
Which Masterclass at Whisky Live Glasgow [...]
We have something special for all our readers, a chance to win a pair of Full Day and Blending Room class entrance tickets.whisky-live-glasgow-2011
All you have to do is to answer this simple question.
It is Wednesday 8th of June and the time is 8 pm. The Whisky Boys have organised a blind Whisky tasting and invited 8 guests to the Canal Inn in Camelon, Falkirk.
As a subscriber to the Scottish Field, Jim was reading April’s edition and on page 36 was an article looking for Dads. The advert read “we are looking for dads to take part on our tasting panel for the Summer challenge”.
As you can expect it did not take Nicola long to ensure we sent off [...]
It was early March when Nicola and Jim received an e-mail from Patrick Roberts (Cognis Public Relations London) detailing an invite from Dr Nick Morgan, Diageo’s Scotch Knowledge and Heritage Director and Christine McAfferty, Diageo’s Archive Manager to visit the world leading Diageo Archive, based in Glenochil House Menstrie, which also shares this site with Diageo’s [...]
