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https://www.europesays.com/people/226343/ Trump says he plans to remove a 15% tariff on Irish whiskey #Doonbeg #EuropeanUnion #HotSummer #Imports #Ireland #IrishOpen #IrishWhiskey #mmnd #POTUS #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentTrump #record #region #tariff #Tariffs #Trump #whiskey #whisky

Il y a 20 ans : Floyd Landis présente une nouvelle explication à son contrôle positif https://www.cyclisme-dopage.com/actualite/2006-08-09-nouvelobs.htm #cyclisme #dopage #FloydLandis #TDF2006 #Testostérone #whisky #cortisone

Zaya Younan Introduces Younan Wine Estates & Spirits, A New https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750057/zaya-younan-introduces-younan-wine-estates-spirits-a-new/ #bordeauxwines #Cognac #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #Gin #saintemiliongrandcru #vignoblesyounan #Vodka #whisky #Wine #YounanWineEstates #younanwineestates #younanwinespirits

Zero tariff scotch trading with US comes into effect

Home News By Hamish Graham Published:  24 July, 2026 From today (24 July) a ‘zero for zero’ tariff regime has come into effect for scotch whisky entering the US. …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #AmericanWine #America #Americanwine #Gin #PernodRicard #Scotch #scotland #spirits #tariffs #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesWine #US #USWine #USAWine #whisky #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741470/zero-tariff-scotch-trading-with-us-comes-into-effect/

Zero tariff scotch trading with US comes into effect https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741470/zero-tariff-scotch-trading-with-us-comes-into-effect/ #America #AmericanWine #Gin #PernodRicard #Scotch #scotland #spirits #tariffs #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesWine #US #USWine #USAWine #whisky #Wine

Kleine Whisky-Wallfahrt - zweiter Teil: Daaaaaaaanke, liebe Monika Pummer! Alle waren total begeistert!

#Whisky #Spirit #Spiritualität #Geist #HeiligerGeist #Peiting #Tasting

Elisabeth Elling-Ruhwinkel vom "Westfälischen Anzeiger" hat ein Porträt von mir gezeichnet - mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen und Liebe zum Detail, wie ich finde.

#Kirche #Katholisch #Priester #Queer #Heimat #Familie #Sehnsucht #Whisky #Sexualmoral #Sex #Missbrauch #Vertuschung #Hallenberg #München

Uamh an Uisge, Eilean Mhuile.

Larach poite-duibhe ann an uamh mara.

The 'whisky cave' on the coastline in Mull.

#Whisky #WhiskyWednesday #UisgeBeatha #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scotland #Scotch #archaeology #MastoDaoine #IsleOfMull #Argyll #photography

@photography

I'm a well known Glenmorangie fanatic, so it should come as no surprise that a number of the recent arrivals are Glenmo.

The Year of the Horse wasn't an auction lot. That one I'd reserved well in advance through LVMH and picked up at Julio's Liquors. This is the rarest of the zodiac bottles to date, with only 388 instead of 888 bottles as with the previous four releases.

Cask 8664 was a Distillery Exclusive Release packaged like their Rare Cask offerings.

I picked up one of the 10 Year Old special label bottles, with the stills on the back, and the 1996 bottling of the 1974 vintage.

I also picked up four more Speakeasy bottles - 5446, 5448, 9601, & 9629.

Two more The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Glenmorangie bottles were obtained - 125.2 & 125.11

And then several independent bottles. A couple of Cadenhead 'Highland' bottles which my research indicated should be Glenmorangie, and several Westport bottlings - which is 'teaspooned' Glenmo.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Glenmorangie #Cadenhead #SMWS

I suppose with this administration's constant #grifting and skimming and product placement, it was inevitable we would get actual product endorsements.

Jack Daniels has now released the special collectible "Whiskey" Pete Hegseth edition of its famous bourbon. Get one while they last!

#JackDaniels #PeteHegseth #PeteKegbreath #Hegseth #Kegbreath #collectible #hydration #bottle #whiskey #whisky #bourbon #USPol #advertising #endorsement #alcohol #Tennessee #Lynchburg #booze

Following the #CrownRoyal pullout from #Ontario, I decided to do some research on #Canadian #whisky and found that not a single major brand is Canadian-owned. I’m appalled! So I’m working on a story about this and will share it soon. #canBiz #booze

United States Bartenders’ Guild Announces 2026 Officers

The United States Bartenders’ Guild (USBG) announced the organization’s national leadership officers for 2026. …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #bartenders #BoShuff #FredMinnick #IngridShawnRodriguez #JosephJoeyFredrickson #LisaBelczyk #RobinNance #TheFredMinnickShow #TracyGomez #UnitedStatesBartenders’Guild #UnitedStatesofAmerica #USBG #vodkasucks #whiskey #whisky
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/406941/

United States Bartenders’ Guild Announces 2026 Officers

The United States Bartenders’ Guild (USBG) announced the organization’s national leadership officers for 2026. …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #bartenders #BoShuff #FredMinnick #IngridShawnRodriguez #JosephJoeyFredrickson #LisaBelczyk #RobinNance #TheFredMinnickShow #TracyGomez #UnitedStatesBartenders’Guild #UnitedStatesofAmerica #USBG #vodkasucks #whiskey #whisky
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/406941/

Posting a day late as I forgot to post after the fun with the sink.

Day 25

Glenrothes, 11 year old Speyside Single Malt.

#AdventCalendar #Whisky

Day 24

Smoke on the Spey 2017, 10 year old Speyside Blended Malt.

#AdventCalendar #Whisky

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Ash Pearl: a Brutalist concrete ashtray for smoking in style.
The concrete has an aggregate of two types of river sand plus two types of crushed sea shells. By sanding the concrete the aggregate is visible resulting in a terrazzo finish.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1870518220/brutalist-concrete-ashtray-terrazzo?ref=shop_home_active_22&frs=1&logging_key=7619892b80b493abaea2d825339b7afe75f1bfbd%3A1870518220

#whisky #cigars #gentlemen #gentleman #whiskey #smoking #cigarettes #coffee #brutalist #terrazzo #ashtray #tableware #cigarillos #cigarillo #coffeeandcigarettes

Educating Children, Bakers and Tourists: the thread about Castlehill Public School

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

The third chapter of our series looking at the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” investigates the life and times of Castlehill School. This occupied the site of the Gordon House, the 17th century residence of George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon who was Captain and Constable of Edinburgh Castle and is remembered for surrendering that fortification all too readily to the Protestant Lords during the Glorious Revolution of 1689. His property came later into the possession of the Bairds of Saughtonhall who gave their name to Blair’s Close that forms the western boundary of the school plot.

The school was designed by Robert Wilson, architect to the Edinburgh School Board, and was a radical departure in style from its rather austere Collegiate Gothic contemporaries by the adoption of Scots Baronial Revival; complete with turrets, crowstepped gables and mock battlements. This was seen as more befitting of its prominent location at the head of the Old Town. Another change was the use of red Cornockle sandstone from Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire to add a visual contrast with the more usual yellowy-grey from the local Hailes Quarry.

A third change from its predecessors was the extension from two to three storeys; an attic level, lit by rooflights, providing rooms for teaching specialist subjects such as needlework and drawing. This was done to make the best use of a cramped site which amounted to just quarter of an acre; half that of the contemporary Milton House School in the Canongate and even less than the notoriously cramped Bristo Public School. (The only other three storey board school before this was West Fountainbridge, which had a similarly small plot)

Internally, three original mantlepieces from the Gordon mansion were incorporated into staff rooms as was an old entrance door. To the rear (south), the site dropped steeply away down the slope of the Old Town’s Crag and Tail topography. An additional level was therefore required, originally this was an open colonnade, providing a covered extension to the playgrounds, but later it was enclosed to provide additional teaching areas. A tall retaining wall faced onto Johnston Terrace at the rear, with entrance staircases (separate for boys and girls) up to the playgrounds and a three storey Janitor’s house bridged the two levels.

The school opened on Monday December 3rd 1888. Although there was no formal ceremony to mark the occasion, over 800 pupils were marched out of their old schools (those inherited by the School Board at Brown Square, Borthwick and Old Assembly Close and Victoria Terrace) up the hill to their new home. A formal opening would take place exactly 5 months later on May 3rd 1889.

Interestingly, the legend carved prominently into both the front and read façades reads “CASTLE HILL SCHOOL”, even though it was nearly always officially referred to as one word, just Castlehill, a change that was also reflected in the Ordnance Survey maps around the time.

From the beginning the school was also used for evening education. But – maintaining the theme of being different – at Castlehill this was not for adults. Instead it catered only for children under 14, pupils given special dispensation by the School Board to attend evening school on account of them needing to work during the school day to help support their families. In 1898 there were 212 boys and girls so registered. In 1890, the school’s first headmaster, John Davidson, resigned on account of poor health. In May 1898 headmaster William C. S. Hunter died and was replaced by James C. Anderson of Leith Walk School. His salary of £340 being equivalent to around £38,400 in 2025 and his “reign” was formally inaugurated with a presentation by Colin G. Macrae, chairman of the School Board, and concert at the school on Wednesday 1st June that year.

The school and its pupils suffered as a result of the harsh social conditions in Edinburgh’s Old Town in the late 19th and early 20th century. Headmaster Anderson was one of a number of his peers in the district who in spoke publicly in 1904 on “how drunkenness [of parents] affects the children“. 150 of his pupils were on the “food roll” due to the inability of their parents to feed then, with a further 30 receiving relief from the district fund. This was almost a quarter of the school and other children of leaving age (14) were being taught with 7 year-olds on account of how much schooling they had missed. Anderson put this down to drunkenness which he said was getting worse, as was thriftlessness. In 1908, under the terms of the Education (Scotland) Act of that year, the School Board instituted a meal scheme for necessitous children, each receiving a bowl of soup and bread during their school day. This was a great success and was expanded in 1911 by converting West Fountainbridge School into a dedicated central cooking centre. One hundred children from Castlehill were among the first recipients to benefit, but as their school lacked a dining hall they went to the Independent Labour Party Hall on Melbourne Place to eat. The tickets for these dinners issued daily at school to encourage children deserving of the meals to actually attend their lessons. They could also be purchased for 6d a week; with a little bit of liberal rounding they became known as “penny dinners“.

Feeding was not the only effort made to improve the lot of the children of Castlehill. In 1908 permission was gained by the School Board to adopt a piece of ground on Johnston Terrace next to the Church of Scotland Normal School (a teacher training college) for use as a playground, that at the school being completely insufficient in size and aspect. In 1909, under the auspices of Patrick Geddes’ Edinburgh Social Union, a patch of wasteland on Johnston Terrace was converted by pupils at the school into a model demonstration garden of their very own. Geddes established numerous such gardens, believing them as living classrooms for teaching both biology and self-improvement. Vegetable plots 150 feet long and 7 feet wide grew potatoes, peas, beans, cauliflowers, cabbages, turnips, leeks, onions, carrots, lettuces and other salad vegetables which were used in cookery classes in the school. This space was used for teaching natural history lessons and the principles of crop rotation. It also allowed the school to apply for a valuable additional grant for teaching gardening from the Education Department.

The next year, 1910, headmaster H. F. Sim brought the first case of its kind in Edinburgh to the City Police Court under the Children Act 1908, when two shopkeepers were charged with and pleaded guilty to selling “smoking mixture” to to children under the age of 16. Sim had caught boys in the school trying to smoke a pipe filled with the ersatz tobacco and confiscated from them their paper bag marked “The Boys’ Smoking Mixture and Pipe: price One Halfpenny“. On questioning, he had found from them where they had acquired it and reported the matter to the city’s Medical Officer of Health. The magistrate admonished the defendants and said “a warning should be given to tobacconists that the sale of such a mixture was an illegal practice, and that in other cases of the kind the offenders would certainly be punished.“

In October 1912, to remedy a lack of accommodation in the school, the adjacent ancient tenement known as Cannonball House – the last block of old Castlehill – being acquired by the Board for £1,925. It had recently been bought by the Cockburn Association with a view to preservation and the Board spent £3,500 thoroughly renovating and converting into additional teaching spaces. Its four principal classrooms could accommodate 180 children and there were special rooms for practical subjects such as cookery. In the basement were “spray baths“; showers for the children, most of whom lacked even basic domestic sanitation in their homes. The building was substantially altered, with one wing and the old Blair’s Close removed to improve ventilation and daylight. A number of original 17th century features were uncovered during restoration and were retained and installed in the fabric in new locations, making the end result something of a chimaera. The east gable is the biggest give-away way that not all is what it seems with this apparently old tenement; look for the tall classroom windows and the Edinburgh School Board emblem high up on the pediment.

In WW1 the school was requisitioned by to act as a depot and billeting for soldiers of the 5th Royal Scots based out of Edinburgh Castle. The Church of Scotland Young Men’s Guild was given the use of a room the following year to run a canteen and recreation room for them, with a gramophone, games, books, newspapers and writing materials. A teacher at the school, James Bathgate, was injured on war service in July 1915 when serving as a private with the College Company, 4th Royal Scots, in France. In April 1917, Headmaster Sim lost his son, Charles Henry Stuart, who died in hospital having been fatally injured serving with the Royal Field Artillery.

After the war, in April 1922, Headmistress Miss C. E. Anderson retired and was presented with a gold wristlet watch from the parents and her colleagues and a diamond brooch from the pupils. She had been teaching the children of the area since the school opened – a record period of 41 years!

In 1936 a new technological front in teaching was opened up at Castlehill when a room was specifically converted for the use of the Edinburgh branch of the newly instituted Scottish Educational Film Association for the production of educational films. It had been recognised that technology had a part to play in education – in 1931 a group from Canonmills School had been given a trial lesson on the theme of sound recording and reproduction at their local cinema – but further progress was wanting on account of a lack of suitable films for the classroom. The Education Committee thus resolved to make them for themselves: as well as providing the studio for the Association, they also covered the (then) substantial overhead of film costs and in return had a controlling say in the content of films. The first production was a four-part geography film entitled “The Port of London“. The Association would remain at Castlehill until 1957, when they moved to Boswell’s Court.

On the morning of September 1st 1939, children showed to schools all over the city with their coat, a bag or case and a cardboard label – they were being evacuated. Some 200 gathered at Castlehill before heading to Waverley station and destinations unknown. The school remained open for those children that stayed behind and there were still 273 on the roll in September 1940. The logbook records the peculiarities of an education during wartime; there were separate air raid shelters for infants, girls and boys; all children had to carry their gas masks with them; there were weekly gas mask drills and weekly marching drills to and from the shelters.

Additional wartime uses were found for the partially vacant school. A central depot for clothing for evacuees was established in October 1939; donations were received and sorted before being distributed to those in need who had been evacuated and found themselves wanting during their “enforced holiday to the country“. This was organised by Miss Cairns, Superintendent of Domestic Subjects for the Corporation, and she had 50 sewing mistresses from across the city under her direction. The supply of children’s coats proved insufficient and so these “clever-fingered” women picked apart the excess of larger items, cut them down to the required sizes and put them back together again. They were joined by women of the Edinburgh Personal Service League who performed a similar operation for men’s clothing, to be sent via the Red Cross to injured servicemen and prisoners of war. Wartime cookery classes were run in the school by the Corporation’s night school teachers. These were aimed at women to try and instruct them in how to eke out their rations, substitute various items that were off ration to recreate old favourites and how to do so more healthily and with less waste of fuel. Mrs Gray of the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) established a group of like-minded women to make soft toys and dolls and clothing for babies and toddlers who were being cared for in public nurseries, their mothers being on war work. Most of these things were no longer being manufactured during wartime. Such was the success of this endeavour that it later relocated to a dedicated workshop at Bristo School as the Nursery Equipment Centre.

Postwar, a shock announcement in May 1951 broke news that the school was to be closed at the end of that term. It had been built for 800 but as a result of the long term urban depopulation of the city it was down to 293 by this point; there was plenty excess capacity to rehouse them at Milton House, Tollcross and South Bridge schools for the same reason.

A secondary reason behind the closure was that the authorities wanted to establish a Central School Of Bakery and Catering where apprentice workers from the city’s important baking industry (as well as more general cookery and catering) could undertake industry-specific further education. Parents protested the decision but the Corporation was unmoved and voted by 14 to 5 for closure. Its only concession was to promise crossing guards to help children navigate the busy roads that they now needed to transit on their way to their new schools.

The bakery school opened on Monday 19th January 1954, Councillor H. A. Brechin performed the honours and stated “these new premises, together with the modern equipment, give Edinburgh one of the most up-to-date baking and catering schools in the United Kingdom“.

It did not last long however and as a result of changes to further education and the city’s industries, it was closed by 1970. While it once again sought a purpose, during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh that year it served as a temporary museum of regimental history at Edinburgh Castle. In 1971 the main building was converted to offices for the City Engineer’s department and would later be occupied by the Drainage Department of Lothian Regional Council. Between 1972 and 1974 it was also the home for the Theatre Workshop, an arts and drama centre for children, while it was found permanent premises.

In August 1986, Lothian Region accepted an offer for £250,000 from William Muir distillers who proposed to convert the former school it into a whisky museum and heritage centre. £2 million was spent on this project which opened its doors on 3rd May 1988, the building’s centennial year. It was an instant success and is now into its 5th decade of offering a very different sort of education than that the building’s planners had in mind.

Cannonball House was retained by the Education Department when the main building became the bakery school and was used for community education, passing to Lothian Regional Council on the formation of that organisation. In 1984 a Children’s History Centre was opened and the building was later properly converted by the Region for £200,000 for use as a schools education centre modelled on Patrick Grddes’ ideas; the Castehill Urban Studies Centre. It was the first such centre in Britain and I recall school trips there in the early 1990s, the name of the guide was Mrs Quick – I’m not sure why that name stuck with me, but it did!. Between 1999 until the opening of the new Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in 2004, Cannonball House was used as a schools education centre for the temporary parliament housed in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland on the Lawnmarket. In 2013, 100 years after it opened as part of the school, it found a new life as a high-end restaurant by the Scottish-Italian Contini family, who themselves had started out in Scotland a century before.

Want to read more about Edinburgh’s Lost Board Schools? The previous chapter was about Canonmills School.

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Additional photos for the last post.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Glenmorangir #SMWS #ScotchMaltWhiskySociety

The auction lots included a lot of Glenmorangie. Cask 388 is a distillery exclusive - lightly peated Glenmorangie, which should be very interesting. I also picked up an early Signet bottling as it is one of my favorites, and that older packaging was the best.

A 16yr Distillery Managers Choice, laid down July 1, 1983 and bottled May 4, 2000 at cask strength. A 10yr Cask Strength laid down March 16, 1982 and bottled August 24, 1992.

And a Speakeasy bottle, Cask 13039, laid down in 1995 and bottled August 21, 2008.

Finally, eight Glenmorangie bottles from the The Scotch Malt Whisky Society - 125.8, 125.25, 125.29, 125.44, 125.47, 125.59, 125.60, and a wee bottle of 125.61.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Glenmorangir #SMWS #ScotchMaltWhiskySociety

Recent pickups from Julio's Liquors.

First up, Ardbeg Smokiverse, this year's Fèis Ìle release. This just came in for those who had pre-ordered it, as I had, and will be generally available soon for Ardbeg Day.

Next up, Pinhook 9 year Straight Rye Whiskey "The Home Stretch. This is part of the Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society vertical series which sees a new release each year, each one year older than the last. I've been collecting these since it started and I'm planning to wait for it to end, then do a gathering to side-by-side all of them. It will end when it ends - basically whenever another year starts to be too much.

Then Bully Boy Distillers Straight Bourbon Whiskey "Wickeder Dahk". Another Loch & Key bottling, this is obviously a follow up to the earlier "Wicked Dahk" bottle. (If you're wondering about the spelling, think Boston accent.)

And finally, Alma del Jaguar Tequila Nocturne. We tried their range at a recent Whisk(e)y Wednesday at Julio's Liquors - the standard Blanco, Reposado, and Anejo, and this one. Their standard line ferments 20% with champagne yeast and 80% with wild yeast, and they were all very good. But Nocturne is 100% wild yeast and I thought it was the best of the lot, and very affordable, so I grabbed one.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Rye #Bourbon #Tequila #Ardbeg #Pinhook #BullyBoy #AlmaDelJaguar

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The majority of what arrived recently has been Glenmorangie. Let's start off with these, first a bottle of the 21-year Elegance. I have an open bottle of this which is getting quite low, and I saw this going for a very low bid and snagged it.

And then some other bottlings:
- 10-year Cask Strength bottled in celebration of being voted one of the 100 best UK companies to work for in 2003. 217 of 350.
- A special 17-year Cask Strength bottling distilled in 1987 and bottled in 2004 to celebrate the sale of Glenmorangie to LVMH. My bottle was originally presented to Geraldine O'Hagan. 194 of 346.
- 10-year Cask Strength bottled in 2002, Cask No. 1285. It was bottled to celebrate ten years of partnership between Glenmorangie and Bacardi-Martini. 73 of 249.

And two The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Glenmorangie bottlings, 125.51 & 125.70.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Glenmorangie #SMWS #ScotchMaltWhiskySociety

After a busy day of family stuff, this is well deserved. Caol Ila 12 year old Distillers Edition and Vault City Gingerbread Latte imperial stout… very moreish indeed #whisky #islaywhisky #CaolIla #imperialstout #vaultcity #vaultcitybrewing

There are some auction sites which won't ship to MA, so I have to have them sent to a very kind friend in CT who is willing to accept shipments on my behalf. He's been holding a few for me for a while, and we were able to meet up today at WhiskyMentors in Canterbury, CT.

All told I brought home 14 bottles from auctions, and one I picked up while I was there. I'll break it up into separate posts.

The last whisky in the lot is an eight year old German Single Grain from Finch. I'd originally picked this up intending to use it at a German-themed tasting we did in October, but shipping delays meant it didn't arrive in time.

It wasn't all whisky, either.

I picked up a bottle of Don Julio Tequila 1942 because I like it and it was a good deal I spotted while bidding on other lots.

And the rest is rum.

I picked up four bottles of Black Tot Rum - a Finest Caribbean and three of four extant Master Blender's Reserve releases - 2022, 2023, and 2024. The 2021 is still out there. I was inspired to pick these up after seeing The Rum Revival talk about them on YouTube.

And, last but not least, while I was at Whisky Mentors, aka Canterbury Liquors, I picked up a store pick Mad River Distillers Double Barrel Rum - QS01 Reminiscent.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Tequila #Rum #Finch #DonJulio #DonJulioTequila #DonJulio1942 #BlackTot #BlackTotRum #MadRiver

I got behind on posting the past few weeks of pickups from Julio's Liquors.

First up, from a Whisk(e)y Wednesday at Julio's Liquors tasting, I picked up a couple of offerings from Raising Glasses - a four year Queen's Share bottling of Privateer Rum and Rum Passport, a six-nation single cask blend of rum.

That same night I picked up my reserved Glenmorangie A Tale of Ice Cream.

At another WW I picked up a couple of Mad River Distillers bottles - Summit American Single Malt Whiskey and Founders Reserve Straight Rye Whiskey. Both bottles were signed by co-founder Maura Connolly.

That night I also picked up my reserved Wild Turkey Jimmy Russell 70th Anniversary Release 8 year bourbon.

Then I was back in for another WW and I picked up the Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society picked Bully Boy Distillers "Wicked Dahk" wheated bourbon and my reserved High West Distillery A Midwinter Night's Dram Act 12 Scene 2.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Rum #Scotch #Rye #Bourbon #RaisingGlasses #Privateer #Glenmorangie #MadRiverDistillers #WildTurkey #BullyBoy #HighWest

I went to a whisky tasting at Dynamic Earth and, specifically, the planetarium.

I was, well, sceptical. I've been to the planetarium a few times. Been there, done it.

It was, of course, brilliant. The presentation in the planetarium was literally awesome.

A really good evening. Some delicious whisky, and a great experience!

#SMWS #whisky #DynamicEarth #Edinburgh #astronomy

I've been sitting on bottles from Whisky Auctioneer for over six months as the shipping cost per bottle drops significantly as the number of bottles increases. I recently pulled the trigger on shipping and by last week everything had arrived - just in time for me to get sick. I finally opened it all tonight.

I picked up a number of Glenmorangie. The Maltman's Special Reserve 18 year. MH Private Europe 21 Year Cask 9. 1993 Swamp Oak Single Cask. 1991 Mount Everest bottling. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society 125.27 & 125.75. Crom 16 year Westport Warlords & Warriors Edition Thulsa's Choice. And Wilson & Morgan 18 year Westport.

Compass Box also got some love. I picked up Hedonism Maximus - the market release as I already have the LWDW bottling. Two additional bottlings of the standard Hedonism from 2018 & 2019. Canto Cask 17 & 124 - that brings me up to 8 of the 16. The Nectar 10th Anniversary release (I have the 15th). The "Double Single" original Craigellachie Hotel release from 2004. The Peat Monster 2008 bottling. And D is for Demi John.

And then a smattering of others. A Clase Azul Mezcal San Luis Potosi. Amrut Single Malt Rye - the first ever Indian Single Malt Rye. Three Clan Denny Single Grain bottlings - Garnheath 43 year, Invergordon 47 year, and Dumbarton 48 year. Wild Turkey 13 year Distiller's Reserve. Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition - a second bottle as I've shared my first at a few tastings and it is getting low. And, last but not least, a non-auction bottle from Julio's Liquors, Knob Creek Single Barrel Select Rye "Si" for the Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society.

There were four other bottles, but those are for others.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #Rye #Bourbon #Mezcal #Glenmorangie #Westport #SMWS #ScotchMaltWhiskySociety #CompassBox #ClaseAzul #Amrut #ClanDenny #Garnheath #Invergordon #Dumbarton #WildTurkey #Ardbeg #KnobCreek

I'm highly resistant to impulse buying and spending more money than I intended to, unless: 1) big cat for the sake of big cat, 2) I think the item in a question might have practical use on a whim, or 3) I was looking for a reasonably-priced treat but there's this more expensive treat with a hot-ass big cat on it...

#alcohol #liquor #whisky #JustFurryThings

After a very hectic but productive day yesterday, decided to go out for a drink or two, found a surprisingly tasty Belgian whisky, Braeckman 2023 single grain which seems to combine the tastes of bourbon, rye and a little smokiness and pairing it with a 14.5% stout made the taste sensation even better. #whisky #belgianwhisky #braeckman #ImperialStout

Latest arrivals - Compass Box Lady Luck - with the box and playing cards! That's a unicorn down. Rare to see them at auction with the box, let alone the cards. All the cards are there, in good condition.

And a The Scotch Malt Whisky Society 125.28 10cl Glenmorangie bottling.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Glenmorangie #CompassBox #Scotch #SMWS

Anyone who doesn't know me who reads my feed probably thinks I drink like a fish.

And this post isn't going to help.

Today a shipment arrived from Scotch Whisky Auctions. A smaller one this time, with three The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottles - one Hampden Estate Rum and two Glenmorangie, two Compass Box - The Spaniard and a signed, but unfortunately smudged, early The Spice Tree, and, finally, a The Clan Denny 45 year old Single Grain from the Carsebridge Distillery.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Glenmorangie #CompassBox #Scotch #SMWS #Rum #HampdenEstate #TheClanDenny #Carsebridge

Whisky, from grain to glass, how Scotch Whisky is made.
Video by the SWA, Scotch Whisky Association: Learn how three simple ingredients – water, yeast and cereals – are transformed into a spirit full of character influenced by the Scottish environment and crafted from skills honed over 500 years.

https://vimeo.com/796955099

#whisky #distillery #scotch #Schotland #Schottland #whiskey #vimeo #swa #whiskey #whiskytasting #whiskyproeverij #whiskyverkostung

The latest round of acquisitions - local and auctions.

A bunch of Glenmorangie (including that The Scotch Malt Whisky Society UK bottling), a couple of Clase Azul, the Compass Box Bern's #1 I'm really looking forward to comparing with the #2 we've already tried, some rum from last night's Maison Ferrand tasting at Julio's Liquors (the Long Pond and Canerock) and a new bottle of Hampden Rum Fire as the last one gave it's all, a Wild Turkey U.S. 12 year European release I was hearing good things about, and the Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society Catoctin Creek "Leaky Binders" barrel select rye.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Glenmorangie #CompassBox #Scotch #Rum #ClaseAzul #HampdenEstate #WildTurkey #CatoctinCreek #SMWS #Canerock #Tequila #LongPond #Rye #Bourbon

Dat was woensdag een zeer geslaagde whisky-avond voor de ruim 60 gasten At Marcook's smokehouse & BBQ in Enschede. Marco serveerde heerlijke gerechtjes van de grill en tussendoor presenteerde ik de bijpassende whisky's. ​Topavond!

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En ons volgende whisky-evenement staat in de planning, Whisky & Music in de Metropool in Hengelo, vrijdag 22 september.
De organisatie van het Whisky Weekend Twente zorgt voor een zaal vol whisky's en twee masterclasses van theWhiskyteacher, de Metropool zorgt voor een prachtige muziek-line-up.

Tickets via: https://metropool.nl/agenda/whisky-music-2023/

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Neue Whiskyvlog online:
Heute Abend fahre ich nach Ost Friesland, dort wo der Thee zuhause ist, der weite Horizont und mancher Whiskyfanatiker. Die fahrt dorthin geht durch das gefährliche Emsland 🤣🤣.

Die Line-up auf meiner Website: http://bit.ly/whiskyvlog

#whiskydog #whiskyvlog #whiskyblog #whiskyverkostung #whiskyproeverij #Wymeer #Bunde #Ostfriesland #Emsland #whiskyGeschichten #whisky #whiskey #mooieAvond #schönerAbend

Slanté
#SMWS #Whisky #Scotch #BlackAndWhite #schwarzweiss #photography #BlackAndWhitePhoto

Bij ons in Twente worden hele mooie whisky's gedestilleerd, binnenkort is de 2e editie van Twentse Lef beschikbaar. De Twentse Single Malt, threewood finish én ruim 5 jaar oud. 46% vol alc in 0,70 liter fles in originele verpakking.

#dutchWhisky #whisky #twente #mooitwente #Overijssel #TwentseLef #TwentseWhisky #whiskyproeverij #whiskyfestival #singlemalt

Gisteren een erg leuke avond gehad in Borne. De deelnemers proefden onderstaande line-up. En nu op naar mijn club MVV'29 voor de jaarlijkse stamppotdag waar zoon Simon samen met de Kookstudio van Mvv'29 voor 200 deelnemers stamppot bereidt. En als om 9.30u de zon gaat schijnen volgens Weerplaza begint het voetbaltoernooi, de mountainbiketocht en wij gaan de wandelaars voorzien van koffie met kreentnweg. Topdag!

#whiskyproeverij #whisky #whiskey #Borne #Twente #mooieAvond #avondUit #storyteller

theWhiskyteacher new #whiskyvlog online! Met een mooie line-up voor vanavond voor 60 gasten van 't Raedthuys in Losser. Bekijk de video hier: http://bit.ly/whiskyvlog

Line-up van de avond:
#LochLomond Original,
#Teeling Small Batch, #MakersMark Bourbon, #Tullibardine 225 Sauternes cask
#OldParticular Single Grain 18y #DouglasLaing's
#TheIleach peated #Islay malt #caskStrength

#Losser #Enschede #Twente #whisky #whiskyavond #mooieAvond #avondUit #whiskydog #Almelo #whiskyproeverij

Van Robèrt Misset in de @volkskrant:
Investeren in whisky als vloeibaar goud: ‘Ik drink niet, want het rendement smaakt zo lekker’
Een mooi genuanceerd verhaal over investeren in whisky. Ook in de whiskywereld reiken de bomen niet tot in de hemel.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/investeren-in-whisky-als-vloeibaar-goud-ik-drink-niet-want-het-rendement-smaakt-zo-lekker~b6cb23ec/

#whisky #whiskyverhalen #investereninWhisky #whiskyproeverij #DutchWhisky #scotch #Irish #singlemalt

theWhiskyteacher agenda-update:
26 januari presenteer ik een whiskytasting bij Gall & Gall van Albert Heijn Rob Loomans #Hellendoorn
2 februari ben ik in #Assen in het proeflokaal bij Dinercafe Autentieq
29 maart opnieuw in #Enschede At Marcook's smokehouse & BBQ'.

Mijn volledige agenda met boekingsinformatie is hier te vinden: http://bit.ly/whisky-agenda

#whiskyfeest #whiskyconnoisseur #whiskyavond #mooieverhalen #whiskyverhalen #nosingtasting #whisky #whiskyagenda #whiskyverkostung

Thanks to my neighbor for letting me know there was a box for me sitting on the ground by our condo mailboxes. No thanks to DHL for leaving a box full of whiskey from a European auction there with no signature.

But it is safe now. The SMWS is 125.77.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Glenmorangie #CompassBox #Amrut #SMWS #Scotch