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The Nightcap: 30 AugustThis week may have been shorter, but you’d have never guessed with all the booze news stories in The Nightcap (and because of how long it felt)! Gosh, what a…
Perfect booze for the bank holiday!Come rain or shine, bank holidays are an ideal excuse to indulge in your favourite drinks. There’s nothing quite like looking ahead to a week of work and realising that…
The hell of airport drinkingEver had a crappy cocktail at an airport, a piss-poor pint at a festival or a glass of watery wine at the theatre? Then this one’s for you. Nate Brown…
The Nightcap: 16 AugustAnother busy week of booze news has occurred, and we’ve corralled it up into one handy blog for you to take into the weekend – it’s The Nightcap! The weekend…
New Arrival of the Week: St. Patrick’s MoonshineThis week we are mostly drinking a traditional Irish spirit made to an old family recipe from St. Patrick’s Distillery in Cork. The Walsh family have been distilling a long…
Drinks Billionaires: Keeping it in the FamilyToday Ian Buxton takes a closer look at some of the illustrious families of the drinks industry such as the Haigs, Bacardis and Ricards, and reveals which great brands are…
The Nightcap: 26 JulyYou know what Friday means by now, it can only be the Nightcap! This week we’ve got all the digs on The Macallan’s newest release, Coupette’s mouthwatering Summer menu, the…
Roe & Co, a Dublin distillery rebornLast week saw the next step in the revival of a great name from Irish whiskey as the new Roe & Co distillery opened in Dublin. Our in-house bartender Nate…
Terroir in spirits: the myths and the marketingNate Brown says that the word ‘terroir’ is becoming increasingly meaningless as producers and marketers deploy it to describe a whole range of inappropriate products. It’s time we stopped using…
Talking Irish single malt with The Sexton’s Alex ThomasThe Sexton Single Malt is an Irish single malt that has done a good job of establishing itself in a competitive market. We talk to creator Alex Thomas to find…
Go Foraging with Bushmills WhiskeyWant to live off the land, but no idea where to start? We talk hogweed Old Fashioneds, preservation hacks, and the quickest route to becoming a botany expert with the…
New Arrival of the Week: J.J. Corry The BattalionA blended Irish Whiskey with mezcal and Tequila cask influence is our timely New Arrival of the Week… In a week where The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) announced that it…
Take a Global Distillery Tour with Lonely PlanetWe visit a lot of distilleries here at Master of Malt, but not as many as Karyn Noble from Lonely Planet. She has put a book together taking in the…
Roe & Co kicks off Irish whiskey productionExciting news out of Ireland – Diageo’s €25 million Roe & Co whiskey distillery has started production in Dublin! Located inside the former Guinness Power Station at St James Gate,…
New Arrival of the Week: Dingle Single Malt – Batch No.4Our New Arrival of the Week is something fans of Irish whiskey fans all around the world will have been waiting for… Dingle Distillery is doing a very good job…
The Nightcap: 24 MayPowers, plastic straws and pineapples – plus a few things that don’t begin with ‘P’. It’s all here in yet another edition of The Nightcap! Today is Friday, and many…
