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Well-aged whisky with Balblair, Old Pulteney and AnCnoc

Posted on 30 December 2015 by Billy

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For our final tasting of 2015, we welcomed Inver House Distillers to showcase some of their whiskies, focusing on an aspect of whisky that most companies are not talking about much these days: long ageing….

anCnoc 18 Year Old and 1975 – Modern Tradition

Posted on 3 June 2015 by Billy

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Knockdhu is a strangely anachronistic distillery. Founded in 1894, at the time it was a thoroughly modern facility, with a steam engine, railway sidings, and all mod cons. However, not much has changed since then,…

Peaty AnCnoc – Rutter and Flaughter

Posted on 23 April 2014 by Billy

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Peat smoke. To many it’s the key flavour in whiskies and for others it’s the reason they don’t drink whisky. While only relatively few whiskies are actually noticeably peaty, it’s become one of the best-known…

A trip to Knockdhu

Posted on 24 August 2011 by Billy

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[This is Part 4 of Billy’s trip around the Inver House distilleries. If you haven’t already, you should check out his scribblings from Balblair, Pulteney and Speyburn] After leaving Speyburn we hacked back over to…

Billy on Rum vs Rhum – molasses, agricole and sugarcane honey:
Sugar cane honey is filtered and evaporated sugar cane juice. It's thicker and stays fresh longer than pure juice, but doesn't go through as much of a refining process as molasses.
Posted on: 3 December 2018
carol gouyer on Rum vs Rhum – molasses, agricole and sugarcane honey:
Hi, what is the difference between molasses and sugarcane honey ?
Posted on: 3 December 2018
Philip Hurst on Shackleton's Whisky – Mackinlay's Reborn:
Not a comment on the whisky, but the alleged advertisement mentioned at the top of the page (which was almost certainly fake, featuring as it did American spelling) refers to the later “Imperial...
Posted on: 17 November 2018