If you’re a whiskey enthusiast or just like a browse of the drinks aisle when you shop, then you’ll know Buffalo Trace whiskey. It’s both the name of a suitably…
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Have you heard of Vapour? It’s a system that promises to transform spirit production. The idea is that it lets you track the whisky-making process from start to finish on…
Scotch whisky can be an intimidating drink. It feels like there’s a lot of rules on how to drink or not to drink it. We will always say it’s your…
The term “best” is subjective when it comes to anything, never mind whisky. Taste comes down to personal preference. If you enjoy bold, medicinal flavours with a heavy smoke profile,…
If you’ve been hanging around whisky circles or even the occasional cocktail bar, you’ve probably come across Monkey Shoulder whisky. It’s one of those whiskies that shot to fame in…
User Reviews are very important to us here at Master of Malt. You may have noticed that you when buy a product from Master of Malt, you get asked to…
The best-selling whisky brand in the world is Johnnie Walker. Thanks for playing, everyone. Oh, ok. We’ll explain a little more. Because working out what the best-selling whisky brand in…
We love a bit of rye whisky from Denmark’s Stauning Distillery. So it’s always exciting when more of it hits our virtual shelves. This week, we’ll mostly be drinking: Stauning…
The year 1824 was really something. It’s the year when Beethoven’s 9th (Choral) Symphony, often regarded as his greatest work, premiered. It was the year that “the greatest crime in…
Most Scotch whisky distilleries are named after places. A fair few of them have the word ‘glen’ in them. You would think that would make them nice and easy to…
Hibiki – meaning ‘resonance’ in Japanese – does just that. It resonates. The name, the packaging, the whisky itself. For anyone familiar with Japanese whisky, Hibiki is a blended brand…
When I first saw the word ‘Bruichladdich’ I didn’t know where to start with it. As a Canadian expat living in the UK, I’d gotten used to pronunciations that differed…
This week news got around that Kahlúa Coffee Liqueur – a staple for Espresso Martini, Baby Guinness, and White Russian cocktails – is not only not technically vegan, but not…
We have a shiny new Tequila to get all excited about here at Master of Malt: Volcan Blanco Tahona. Inspired by the silky white smoke that blankets a volcano post-eruption,…
Tomatin Distillery has unveiled a trio of new single malts as part of a range called The Sherry Collection. It celebrates sherry’s “modern renaissance”, driven in part by the growing…
Big news from Glenmorangie: Glenmorangie The Original 10 Year Old is being replaced by Glenmorangie The Original 12 Year Old. Out with the old, in with the older The Highland…
To each person out there reading this, the word ‘luxury’ will signify something different. It could be the luxury of being able to take a holiday, to step away from…
At the start of July, some of the MoM team attended Imbibe Live, one of the UK’s leading drinks trade shows since it was established in 2010. I hadn’t been…
While we all love our whisky here at Master of Malt, nobody knows who any of us are. So who cares? These whisky drinkers are legitimately famous. What they all…
For the last six years, the person who has run this here blog was Henry Jeffreys. Henry Jeffreys became a writer after working in the wine trade and publishing and…