It was early on Friday the 22nd of October 2010 when Nicola called in at Jim,s with a view of having Jacqueline as our nominated driver and taking a drive to the Canal Inn which sits on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal, between locks numbers 15 and 16.

It was early in December 2009 when Jim and Dougie (together with our nominated driver, Jacqueline) set out down the road to the Castlecary House Hotel, which for the record is one of our most favourite haunts.
Before we get onto the selection of drams that are kept here we will give you a little background [...]

Ho Ho Ho and a tale of Castlecary.
Well how did we get to the end of October so quickly ? It is really scary how time is flying past at a rate of knots. Like most folks we have the impending tsunami that is Christmas about to wash over us. The shops have already started [...]

On a recent visit to Edinburgh Jim popped into the The Whisky Shop and collected the Summer edition of their magazine “Whiskeria“.
In this edition (amongst many other wonderful stories about all things Whisky) is an article entitled “Our Readers Top Ten”..  Now this is something, we at the Whisky Boys, try to avoid writing about [...]

The Whisky Shop
Princes Mall
Edinburgh
EH1 1BQ
telephone 0131-558 7563
Jim and Dougie have a tale to tell about their trip to The Whisky Shop in Edinburgh.
Once upon a time Jim opened his e-mail and was very excited to see an e-mail from Darren Leitch inviting us to a tasting in association with Douglas Laing.
As both Jim and Dougie [...]

The Ingram Bar,
138/138 Queen Street,
Glasgow,
G1 3BX
Saturday 1st November approx 12 noon.
Jim, Dougie & Nicola together with the spare baggage (Jim and Dougies Wives) were heading for the SECC to attend the Whisky Live Exhibition (the wives going to the BBC GOOD FOOD exhibition) when Dougie said there is apparently a good Whisky pub in Queen [...]

Yesterday I visited one of my most favourite pubs in falkirk Behind the Wall 14 Melville Street, Falkirk FK1 1HZ.
This is a very popular local pub that caters for a wide range of drinkers.  My favourite part of this hostelry is the Eglesbrech Ale & Whisky Bar which is upstairs, for this reason I am [...]

Malt Whisky Shops worth a visit.
Are you going to Speyside, Aviemore, Inverness, Elgin, Peterhead, Banff, Kingussie, Nairn or visiting Culloden?  Then you must, must visit the Whisky Castle in Tomintoul.
If you are a Whisky drinker then you may think that you have died and gone to heaven, the selection is fantastic, the owner / [...]