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Whisky in Space (2015: A Space Oddity)

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2001 A Space Odyssey

Space. The final front ear. Home of paranoid robots named HAL, space stations that ain’t no moons, cats and David Bowie. Recently whisky has also been crowbarred into this list with alarming regularity. So much so, that I thought it was time to take another look at it all.

You see, having inexplicably found myself in Disneyland Paris for a few days back in August, during which time I naturally took up residence on Space Mountain, I now quite reasonably consider myself to be the office expert when it comes to all things space.

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Categories : Japanese Whisky, News, Scotch Whisky, Vodka, Whisky
Tags : Ardbeg, Ballantine's, Blended Whisky, Douglas Laing, Peaty Whisky, Single Malt Whisky, Stolichnaya, Suntory
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Master of Cocktails – If The Umeshu Fits…

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Master of Cocktails If The Umeshu Fits

Greetings all. Time for a cocktail?

This week we’re going to be making a very Japanese-y cocktail, heavily inspired by the amazing work of Zoran Peric, a Brand Ambassador for Suntory Whiskies, whose work we’ve got a lot of time for here at #MasterofCocktails. We’ll be making a ‘If The Umeshu Fits…’ recipe, a name that will make sense when you see the ingredients.

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Categories : Cocktails, Japanese Whisky, Liqueurs, Whisky
Tags : Bitter Bastards, Blended Whisky, Hibiki, Master of Cocktails, Suntory
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Irish Whiskey – Everything You Need To Know! (Part 3)

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Ireland

Blimey, it’s Friday already! A Valentine’s Day Friday, no less! Well, today we only have eyes for delicious Irish Whiskey as we move onto the third and final instalment of this bumper blog post.

Back at the start of Part 1, I mentioned Teeling Whiskey Company‘s recently confirmed plans to build a new distillery in Dublin, the first in 125 years. This post will cover this and many other projects that could see the number of distilleries in Ireland double, treble, or perhaps even quadruple!

First though, I’ll try to briefly run through some other news and developments, starting with the fact that in 2011 Beam Inc. bought Cooley, introducing another big player alongside the giants of Pernod Ricard and Diageo and leaving Ireland without an independent distillery once again (albeit briefly…).

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Categories : Gin, Irish Whiskey, News, Vodka, Whisky
Tags : Blended Whisky, Grain Whisky, Jameson, Kilbeggan, Midleton, Pot Still, Redbreast, Single Malt Whisky, Suntory, Teeling, Tullamore Dew
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Master of Cocktails – The Highball

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Master of Cocktails The Highball

For this week’s #MasterofCocktails, we’re making a Highball. Incredibly refreshing, and probably in my all-time top three aperitifs. Well, top 5 anyway… (Martini, Negroni, Campari-Soda…) Yep. Top 5.

Now, whilst this may seem a very straight-forward cocktail (and in many ways is), it’s all in the balance and execution. I had one of my favourites a couple of weeks ago at Bincho (a Japanese Restaurant with its own ‘whisky joint’ in the basement), where they paired Hakushu 12 single malt with Fresh Mint.

We’re going to use Lemon Peel as the ‘garnish’ in our drink, but we want it to be very, very subtle. More on that later…

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Categories : Cocktails, Japanese Whisky, Whisky
Tags : Hakushu, Master of Cocktails, Single Malt Whisky, Suntory, Yamazaki
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Suntory Whisky Tasting

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Suntory Whisky Tasting

On Monday we took the train up to London for an event we’d been looking forward to for some time. London in summer is quite possibly the best combination of city and season the world has to offer, it has to be said. So we were in high spirits as we arrived at the Saatchi Gallery for a Suntory tasting entitled “The Art of Japanese Whisky”. More…

Categories : Absinthe, Whisky
Tags : Hakushu, Hibiki, Nikka, Suntory, Yamazaki
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