A good friend of ours (and fellow whisky fan), the brilliant photographer Tomas Whitehouse was over in the UK from Helsinki to visit family. He stopped in for a dram or two during the Christmas period with his partner Tuuli, and we talked long into the night about all manner of things. Along the way, […]
Categories: Thoughts
Tagged: Ardbeg, cigars, Jura, lagavulin, pipes, thomson
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- January 2, 2012 – 2:16 pm
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- By Dubber
My wife and I are expecting a baby boy VERY soon. I have a desire to be debt free by the time he arrives (he’s scheduled to land on the 19th April…) as I feel that it’s one of the more responsible actions I’m likely to take in my adult life, and seeing as I’m […]
Categories: Investment,Tasting
Tagged: Ardbeg, Bowmore, bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Collection, Distillery, Feis Ile, glenglassaugh, islay, lagavulin, Laphroaig, Octomore, Supernova, tastings
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- March 24, 2009 – 4:46 pm
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- By Clutch
Wheeee! We rented bikes on Islay and this has been our main mode of transport in fair weather and torrential downpour. We did a good, leisurely 7 or 8 miles yesterday just to get the hang of it again after all these years. Within that range from Port Ellen (where we’re staying) lie Laphroaig, Lagavulin […]
Categories: Tasting,Travel
Tagged: Ardbeg, lagavulin, Laphroaig
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- September 11, 2008 – 11:11 pm
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- By Dubber
It was a Monday night, and that seemed a perfectly good reason to go and visit Clutch for a whisky tasting. It was, after all, his turn to host. Oddly, we’d both been of the same mind – each had brought a 16 year-old along. Mine a blonde (the Glenlivet Nadurra 16), and his a […]
Categories: Tasting
Tagged: frog, glenlivet, lagavulin, phrog
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- August 12, 2008 – 5:00 pm
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- By Dubber
I travelled northwards on Monday night, with the intention of becoming a surprise guest at my Dad’s 60th birthday, and expanding my knowledge of all things malt. Obviously the best approach to this would be to sample as many as I could, and thanks to my father’s generosity and extensive collection, I managed to do […]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: glenglassaugh, islay, lagavulin
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- June 29, 2008 – 8:54 pm
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- By Clutch