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Bushmills Whiskey Trip: Day One
Bushmills Whiskey Trip: Day One

So after a slightly shaky start this morning (you may have guessed that the pristine looking cup of coffee posted on the blog this morning was put there merely to…

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Bushmills Whiskey Trip: Day Zero
Bushmills Whiskey Trip: Day Zero

Wouldn’t usually write a blog post before I’ve been on a trip – sort of defeats the point really, but as I’m sat here in the departure lounge having legged…

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Bourbon vs Sherry
Bourbon vs Sherry

The two most popular choices for whisky ageing – sherry casks and bourbon barrels – offer a totally different style of single malt and here at Master of Malt, we…

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Meantime Brewery and the College Beer Club
Meantime Brewery and the College Beer Club

We’ve long since been firm advocates of the Meantime Brewing Company, and it’s largely because they’ve had such great success in fighting against the rather dull mainstream of mass-produced lager…

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Breaking News: Last Stocks of Karuizawa Acquired
Breaking News: Last Stocks of Karuizawa Acquired

We’ve just received this press release from the Number One Drinks Company. This is literally the biggest thing to happen to Japanese whisky in decades! The entire remaining inventory of…

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Dailuaine 27 Year Old Whisky
Dailuaine 27 Year Old Whisky

It must be said, we’ve been on a bit of a bottling frenzy recently; in the last few of months alone we’ve put our name to four new casks, including…

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New Product entitled… erm… “Brown Drink”
New Product entitled… erm… “Brown Drink”

So – we’ve been doing our Drinks by the Dram whisky sample service for almost a year now, and in that time have decanted ‘loads’ of 700ml bottles into…

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The Winner of the Glenfarclas Competition
The Winner of the Glenfarclas Competition

You may remember a little while ago, we launched our biggest prize giveaway yet – a chance to win a 50 year old speyside, single cask, one-of-a-kind bottle of Glenfarclas…

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Guess that Booze!
Guess that Booze!

Okay then – new competition / announcement / sort of thing… If I told you that these images represented the ingredients of a brand new concoction we’re currently putting together,…

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Bar Review – Purl
Bar Review – Purl

Astonishing. It’s an easy term to bandy around (and god knows I’m possibly more guilty of doing so than most), but from time to time, one is simply so taken…

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Courvoisier Cognac with an Age Statement
Courvoisier Cognac with an Age Statement

For the first time ever, one of France’s big Cognac houses has started putting age statements on its products. Courvoisier have begun labelling Cognacs just like we do in the…

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Ardbeg Alligator
Ardbeg Alligator

Well, as far as the world of whisky goes, it doesn’t come much bigger than a new release from Ardbeg. We don’t mind telling you that we’ve been absolutely fit…

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Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Five
Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Five

We drove over to Kilchoman early in the morning, knowing the Feis Ile bottling would be in high demand. We were right too, as the queue of excited whisky lovers…

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Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Four
Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Four

After a hearty breakfast of bacon, eggs, black pudding, white pudding and potato scones, we left the cottage for Bowmore. There were only 100 bottles of Bowmore’s official 2011 Feis…

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Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Three
Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Three

By this morning, the weather had lifted, and whilst power had not yet returned to our quaint little cottage, we felt like our fortunes were changing for the better. With…

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Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Two
Feis Ile – The Islay Whisky Festival 2011 – Part Two

Well, as we write this post we’re basking in the warm glow of the candelabra, and the unforgiving light of a laptop screen, which is down to its last 20%…

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