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The Famous Grouse Festival

By Jim • Aug 25th, 2011 • Category: Whisky Festivals & Events

The Famous Grouse Festival – Glenturret Distillery Crieff, Friday 12th August and Saturday 13th August 2011
The Whisky Boys received an invite to be the guests of The BIG Partnership, Edinburgh the PR Company for the Famous Grouse brands. Both Jim and Nicola were once again going too meet up with Rosie Niven and Kat Drew [...]



Islay Malt & Music Festival 2009 - Day 7

By Jim • Jul 8th, 2009 • Category: Whisky Festivals & Events

Here we are, our last full day on the Island of our dreams. Today is Bunnahabhain Distillery Open day - one of our favourites. As it was our intention to go to Bunnahabhain around noon, we used the early morning after breakfast to pack away most of our bags for our return trip [...]



Islay Malt & Music Festival 2009 - Day 6

By Jim • Jul 8th, 2009 • Category: Whisky Festivals & Events

Here we are Thursday morning and the gang of four are still here, but alas this is our last day together as Iain and Nicola head off home via different means at different times, but at this point we were all together organising plans for another day. The main event for our day was [...]



Islay Malt & Music Festival 2009 - Day 5

By Jim • Jul 8th, 2009 • Category: Whisky Festivals & Events

Wednesday 27th May 2009 and we move onto day five of the Islay Malt and Music Festival, and there are now four for breakfast, Jim, Jacqueline Iain and our latest arrival Nicola. The morning got off to a humerous start where Nicola (Jim’s daughter) decided to put his left over Whisky from the night [...]



Islay Malt Whisky and Music Festival

By A Wife • May 15th, 2009 • Category: The Wife's Woes

Islay Malt Whisky and Music Festival (now only 9 sleeps and 6 working days to go)
Nine sleeps and 6 working days until we are off to Islay. The Islay magic has started to work on me already. I was driving to work the other day and had a sense of calm, the thoughts that I [...]