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Pikesville 6 Year Old 110 Proof Straight Rye is Back in Stock!
Pikesville 6 Year Old 110 Proof Straight Rye is Back in Stock!

Cast your mind back to November of last year and you might just remember seeing a fantastic rye whiskey come through our doors – the Pikesville 6 Year Old 100…

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Build Your Own Tasting Set!
Build Your Own Tasting Set!

At Christmas we launched a fancy new ‘Build your own Advent Calendar‘ service so you could select your own 3cl drams to enjoy in the run-up to the big day…

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That Boutique-y Whisky Company Adds Age Statements
That Boutique-y Whisky Company Adds Age Statements

That Boutique-y Whisky Company has announced that they’re introducing age statements to all future releases with immediate effect and, right on cue, they have a raft of new and exciting…

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It’s 105 Day! Get Free Shipping plus Win Signed Bottles of Glenfarclas 105!
It’s 105 Day! Get Free Shipping plus Win Signed Bottles of Glenfarclas 105!

It’s the 14th April 2016 and that means just one thing… it’s the 105th day of the year! So why not celebrate with the fabulous 105 Cask Strength from our…

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Our English Whisky Co. Single Cask Bottlings & an Interview with Andrew Nelstrop!
Our English Whisky Co. Single Cask Bottlings & an Interview with Andrew Nelstrop!

Long time readers of the Master of Malt Blog will know that we visited the home of the English Whisky Company in Norfolk all the way back in 2009 –…

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Yamazaki Lottery & Auction Roundup raising over £2,800 for Malaria No More UK!
Yamazaki Lottery & Auction Roundup raising over £2,800 for Malaria No More UK!

Now that the action is over, it’s time to let you know how it all went… To recap, our allocation of Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2016 was 6 bottles, so we…

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World Whiskies Awards and World Drinks Awards Winners
World Whiskies Awards and World Drinks Awards Winners

Yesterday saw the World’s Best whiskies and spirits crowned at the World Drinks Awards, including the World Whiskies Awards. Before we get into the results though, some good news! Drinks…

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Master of Malt named Global Online Retailer of the Year 2016!
Master of Malt named Global Online Retailer of the Year 2016!

The results of Whisky Magazine’s Global Icons of Whisky were revealed last night, and we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that following our Rest of the World win, we’ve now been…

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Allocations, limited releases, bastards, speculators and gobshites
Allocations, limited releases, bastards, speculators and gobshites

Right. We last talked about this when we knackered up the release of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection back in November, but, well, there have been quite a lot of…

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Kingsbarns Distillery Passes Some Big Milestones…
Kingsbarns Distillery Passes Some Big Milestones…

The Kingsbarns Distillery in Fife has just passed some big milestones – not only was it their first anniversary in November last year (they launched the Kingsbarns Distillery Founders’ Club…

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Receive a Free Riedel Tumbler when you Pay with PayPal
Receive a Free Riedel Tumbler when you Pay with PayPal

Do you happen to enjoy a beautiful drink as well as a beautiful drinking vessel? Well you’re very much in luck, as in honour of Burns Night, if you pay…

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Burns Night: Traditional vs. Untraditional
Burns Night: Traditional vs. Untraditional

So. Burns Night. That’s next week. Burns Suppers date back to 1801, with the first one being held by friends of the celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns. They’ve continued ever…

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Ardbeg Ships Free This Christmas!
Ardbeg Ships Free This Christmas!

You know how we hate charging for shipping? We want to banish the mere concept of “shipping charges” to the land of wind and ghosts where it can stay. In…

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Whisky Christmas Crackers! Gin Christmas Crackers too!
Whisky Christmas Crackers! Gin Christmas Crackers too!

Last year Drinks by the Dram gave us spirits-and-liqueurs-filled Christmas Crackers and everybody saw that they were good. Very good. Frickin’ awesome, in fact! They made Christmas dinner (one of…

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We’re Indie Islands Bottler & Grain Bottler of the Year!
We’re Indie Islands Bottler & Grain Bottler of the Year!

After being named Highland Independent Bottler of the Year in 2014 at Whisky Magazine’s Independent Bottlers’ Challenge, we’re extremely proud to announce that for 2015 Master of Malt have picked…

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Around The World In 80 Drams – Week 11 – James Sedgwick Distillery
Around The World In 80 Drams – Week 11 – James Sedgwick Distillery

Gosh, it certainly takes a lot of effort to run over 5,000 miles. The Proclaimers only walked over 1,000 (or at least they said they would), I wonder it took…

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