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Sam Smith is a writer and author and sometime writer for the Master of Malt blog.

Have Yourselves a Brilliant Burns Supper This Sunday!
Have Yourselves a Brilliant Burns Supper This Sunday!

On Sunday the 25th of January, folk around the world will be taking part in a Burns Supper to celebrate the life and work of Robert Burns, one of Scotland’s…

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Free Shipping on Mr Lyan Cocktails for New Year’s Eve!
Free Shipping on Mr Lyan Cocktails for New Year’s Eve!

Picture the scene – you’re hosting a New Year’s Eve party for your friends and want to serve them something delicious to drink, something more original than the New Year’s…

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Drinks by the Dram Christmas Crackers!
Drinks by the Dram Christmas Crackers!

Before we get started, yes, we know. We’re banging on about Christmas and it’s not even Halloween yet. Most of us at MoM Towers are only just putting the finishing…

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The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Malt… Sometimes Go Pretty Well!
The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Malt… Sometimes Go Pretty Well!

An autumnal morn I come to find, Some lovely folk have been very kind. A box on my desk! Who left this behind? A curious thing. I suppose to me…

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Ballantine’s Want To Make #WhiskyEmoji Happen
Ballantine’s Want To Make #WhiskyEmoji Happen

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. If this is true, then emoji means you could write a novel in no time at all. If you’ve not got a…

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Kitten who is the new Famous Grouse mouserThe Importance of Cats in the Workplace (Specifically in Distilleries)

Earlier this week, Amy Hopkins over at the Spirits Business posted a fantastic article that really spoke to us here at Master of Malt, all about the most famous mousers…

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The London Whisky Weekender – A Weekend of Whisky Fun (In London)
The London Whisky Weekender – A Weekend of Whisky Fun (In London)

What are you doing on May 16th to May 18th? If you’ve got plans, cancel them. If you don’t have plans, make some and then cancel them, because the wonderful…

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Peaty Whisky Returns To Knockdhu
Peaty Whisky Returns To Knockdhu

Considering that the Knockdhu distillery was founded over 100 years ago in a land brimming with peat, they’ve certainly taken their sweet time bringing out some peated whisky in the…

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Caption Contest #5 – Winners Announced!
Caption Contest #5 – Winners Announced!

So it seems there was a Caption Competition announced a couple days ago and we need to declare some winners. I was out of the office on the day it…

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VIP Balblair Distillery Tour Winner Announced!
VIP Balblair Distillery Tour Winner Announced!

Twitter is all a-buzz like a bag of bees in a barber shop with lots of gossip about winners. They must have heard that we were announcing the winner of…

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Highland Park FreyaHighland Park Freya

The sun is starting to peek through the clouds once more and there’s that glorious feeling of love in the air. Is that because Valentine’s Day is creeping closer and…

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Wizards of Whisky 2014 Winners!
Wizards of Whisky 2014 Winners!

For the longest time, I’ve had a suspicion about That Boutique-y Whisky Company being full of powerful wizards, what with the lightning-bolt shaped scars on their heads, their ability to…

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Plunder a Free dram o’ Rumbullion! for Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Plunder a Free dram o’ Rumbullion! for Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Garr! What be this shiny box? What be a blog? Can I fight it? Garr! Ahoy there, mateys! It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day, it be! Well, it…

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