For the past few years, I’ve been running a whisky blog with my friend Clutch. We’ve visited some lovely places (mostly in Scotland), tasted some wonderful whisky, met some fascinating people – and even made some music as part of that little venture. Plus, people sent us whisky to try. Bonus. This year, we’ve kind [...]
Tagged: writing
Earlier this week, I went to visit my friend Clutch at his home in the seaside village of Burntisland in Fife, Scotland. We have a whisky blog together (called, unsurprisingly, Dubber and Clutch), we’re co-writing a book about whisky (along with a bunch of other authors), and we’d arranged to visit a couple of distilleries [...]
I was asked by a friend to recommend a whisky to buy for his father’s birthday. I came up with a few suggestions, and thought that actually, since I get asked this quite frequently, I might as well blog it as well, since we’re now on the lead-up to Christmas… I thought I’d leave aside [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Aberlour, Ardbeg, Balblair, Glenrothes, jura, Lagavulin, Longrow
Last week, I was up in Rothes, which is in the Northeast of Scotland. I flew to Aberdeen from Birmingham – with an unscheduled stopover in Edinburgh because Aberdeen airport was temporarily broken – and then took a 90 minute drive into the countryside and out to the river Spey. I was there in my [...]
