A caption competition?! That takes us back! Why, we haven’t run one of those in years! Just as we were searching through the archives, indulging in many lolz and contemplating prizes, along came the friendly folks from Esker Spirits with their final bottles of Esker Honey Spiced Gin. The game, friends, is on!
Full of wit and a fan of all things gin and honey? This is the caption competition for you. Behold the image below. Yes, we have a cat holding, nay, clinging to its precious honey, with a scowl fierce enough to fend off any and all potential assailants. We appreciate the cat’s clear dedication to the liquid gold that is honey, and have accordingly made it the subject of the aforementioned caption competition. High praise indeed.
What’s up for grabs? Esker Spirits’ very final bottle of limited edition Honey Spiced Gin! Oh, and a 30ml dram for half a dozen runners-up too! Released at the end of 2017, the gin’s been a sell-out success and is due to join the distillery’s core range later in the year, but why wait?
Come up with a caption to win!
Want to play? Simply come up with a caption worthy of this fantastic feline and its glorious honey. We’ll choose our favourite, and a bottle of Esker Honey Spiced Gin will be sent with haste into your waiting drinks cabinet. The gin is so tasty that we’ve even had some drams made for our top six runners-up. We like to share the love.
Full T&Cs are below, but to enter you simply need to leave your caption as a comment either at the bottom of this blog post, or on any competition post on on our social pages: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Google+. Leave your quip of excellence before the end of Friday 6th April and you’ll be in with a chance to win the bottle. Simples.
Esker Honey Spiced Gin is a warming concoction that sees honey and other spices added to the classic Esker Gin recipe up at the Royal Deeside distillery in Scotland, resulting in a smooth, herbal and surprisingly complex gin. Essential for cocktails, and a delightful sipper.
Here’s what you could win!
Think you’re funny, do ya? Do ya?! Then prove it and win this tasty treat!
Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions
2018 Esker Competition Terms
The Competition is not open to any employees of Atom Supplied Limited trading as Master of Malt (or any associated company), their family or friends. The Competition is open to private individuals only.
There is one main prize for the winner of the Competition (First Prize) and six “runner-up” prizes (Runner-Up Prizes). First Prize is a 70cl bottle of Esker Honey Spiced Gin and each of the Runner-Up Prizes is a 30ml Drinks by the Dram sample of Esker Honey Spiced Gin. All prizes include packaging and carriage to any address within the United Kingdom.
If we ship any prize to a destination outside of the United Kingdom, the prize may be subject to import duties and taxes which are applied when the delivery reaches that destination. There may also be administration charges imposed by foreign customs authorities or by our delivery agents. Please note that we have no control over these charges and we cannot predict their amount. The prize recipient will be responsible for payment of the import duties, taxes and charges referred to in this paragraph.
To enter the Competition, a person must post a comment including a caption about the “cat image” chosen by Master of Malt. Posts can be on this Master of Malt blog or in response to any of Master of Malt’s other “2018 Esker Competition” posts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Google+ channels. To be entered into the Competition, entries must be posted on these channels between 11:00:01am BST on 29 March 2018, and 23:59:59pm BST on 6 April 2018 (such times inclusive) (such period being the Competition Period). Multiple entries are permitted.
Let’s be sensible, people. By commenting on our website and on social channels which we are running the Competition on, you agree to only post comments that comply with our Acceptable Use Policy. This roughly means that any captions that are defamatory, obscene, offensive , infringes any intellectual property rights, invades another’s privacy, be likely to harass, embarrass or alarm any person, made in breach of any legal duty such as duty of confidentiality, encourages, endorses, promotes, advocates or normalises illegal and violent activity, any unlawful act such as computer misuse; any captions which encourage or endorse or normalise the excessive consumption of alcohol, the consumption of alcohol by those under the age of 25, anti-social behaviour (including any criminal activity) or irresponsible drinking (including rapid drinking), which links the consumption of alcohol with popularity or other social success, bravado, technical skill, good fortune, the operation of vehicles or other machinery or therapeutic benefits, or which refer to the consumption of alcohol whilst potentially dangerous activities are being undertaken will be disqualified.
No purchase is necessary, and no payment is required to participate in the Competition.
Competition entrants warrant and undertake that they own all rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) in any part of their entry. As between each competition entrant and Master of Malt, Master of Malt shall own all rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) in any entry. Competition entrants waive all moral rights in their entries to which they are or become entitled under Chapter IV of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (or any similar right or entitlement anywhere in the world).
Competition entrants must be 18 years old or older (and of legal age to purchase alcohol in their country of residence) in order to participate. Ineligible entries (howsoever received) and illegible entries will be discarded.
Master of Malt will select one winner and six runners-up in Master of Malt’s absolute discretion. The selections made will be final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
The name of the Competition winner and runners-up will be announced on the Master of Malt Blog as soon as practicable after the end of the Competition Period. We will make reasonable efforts to contact the winner and runners-up. If any winner or runner-up cannot be contacted or is not available or has not claimed their prize within five days of the announcement date, we reserve the right to select another winner and/or runner-up. We cannot accept any responsibility if any winner or runner-up is unable to take up the prize.
The prizes are supplied by Master of Malt, and cannot be exchanged for the equivalent cash value or for other items. The prize is not negotiable or transferable.
In order to accept a prize, each competition winner or runner-up shall be required to agree that we can use his or her name and county, state or region of residence (as applicable) when announcing the winners and runners-up of the competition and for other reasonable and related promotional purposes (nothing sinister, and we won’t sell the winner’s, any runner-up’s or any other entrants’ details to anybody else – we promise). In order to accept and for us to deliver the prize, each competition winner or runner-up shall further be required to provide a valid address for the purposes of having the prizes deliver. The winning caption may also be republished on the Master of Malt Blog and on other social media platforms. We may contact the winner and runners-up for feedback in respect of the competition and/or prize and may use any feedback provided when announcing the results and promoting the competition or subsequent competitions.
We will send the name and county of the competition winner and runners-up to anyone who writes within one month after the closing date requesting details of the winner and runners-up and who encloses a self-addressed envelope to the address set out below.
We reserve the right to hold void, suspend, cancel or amend the competition where it becomes necessary to do so. If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms or any attempt to circumvent or to frustrate them we may, in our sole discretion, exclude any person from participating in the competition.
Insofar as is permitted by law, we will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate any competition winner or runners-up or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by our negligence (or the negligence of our employees). Entrants’ statutory rights are not affected.
These terms shall be governed by English law, and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
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