Desserts are delicious. Drinks are delicious. What do you get when you combine the two? Double deliciousness. Here’s a tiramisu, cranachan, and cheesecake recipe, all featuring booze. It’s been an…
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People love a good chat about casks in the whisky world and we’ve noticed there’s more peated whisky casks about at the moment, so let’s find out why that is with the…
For his first column of 2023, Nick Morgan looks into the state of whisky and spirits criticism today and asks whether some writers are too close to the industry giants…
Campbeltown’s first in more than 180 years, Japan’s bright new star, and an emerging giant in New Zealand. Here’s five whisky distilleries we have our eye on this year. New…
Whether you’re doing Dry January, or Dryish January, there is now a delicious range of bottles that contain no alcohol whatsoever but have plenty of flavour so you can still…
Lagavulin, GlenDronach, Millstone and more made our top ten whiskies released in 2022. What was your favourite? Lots of whisky was launched in 2022, but only a select few have…
Following on from our most-read and silliest stories of the year, it’s time for our top ten favourite posts from 2022. This might not be the most popular but they…
Hamsters that can handle booze better than elephants, a Kentish bison fighting climate change, and monks expelled for drinking whisky all make our top ten list of silliest stories from…
The stories you read the most this year include The Macallan releasing its oldest ever whisky, peated malt shortages on Islay, and if Scotch whisky stole Fèis Ìle. Seeing out 2022…
24 drams of Christmas comes to an end with a gorgeous sherried Speyside whisky. Let’s finish our Advent journey with Glenfarclas 15 Year Old! All good things must come to…
We round off another year of Nightcapping by raising a glass to Icons of Whisky winners, raising an eyebrow at £50m worth of whisky sold, and raising a hand to…
We’ve reached day 23 of our 24 Drams of Christmas and we’re diving into the Drinks by the Dram Vodka Advent Calendar, plucking out a delicious little bottle of Cîroc…
This is it – your last chance saloon for Christmas drinks. Get your orders in by 9pm this evening! We have a very important PSA for you, fellow drinks lovers….
With the long-awaited whiskies from Blackwater in Ireland soon to be landing at Master of Malt, Ian Buxton talks to Peter Mulryan, the distillery’s outspoken founder about his problems with…
Our last batch of MoM bottlings for the year features an Italian blend, a trip to tropical fruit territory, and a final 2022 secret from Speyside. After the past few weeks’…
Well, folks, we’re almost there. There’s still time, however, to whip open your Drinks by the Dram’s Japanese Whisky Advent Calendar to unveil Yamazaki 12 Year Old! If you’re the…
This week we’re making a Yuletide take on a classic cocktail through the clever addition of tawny Port. It’s the Christmas Negroni! We’ve also thrown a seasonal take on the…
Day 21 of our 24 drams of Christmas brings us an absolute classic gin, inspired by the good ol’ days when people would mix up their tipples in the ‘tub….
If a spaceman came travelling and said, “all I want for Christmas is booze,” then we would point them to this list. Yes, that was lame. But you kinda liked…
It’s time to start pretending you’re not in when carolers come calling because Christmas is just a stone’s throw away! We’ve approached that time people. You know what I mean….