TOP TIP FOR CHOOSING A WHISKY FOR YOUR RESTAURANT
“Trying to fit every taste of whisky into three bottles on the shelf is like my sister trying to fit all my niece’s gear into the car for a family holiday. It isn’t going to happen.”
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If Only I’d Have Drunk This 10 Years Ago – Glenmorangie 1989
Whisky, for me, was always a trying experience. I used to drink the worst supermarket plonk money could just about buy as a student and until about 18 months that’s shaped how I felt about spirits in general. I wasn’t just drinking shit stuff, I was drinking cheap and nasty shit stuff, so no wonder …
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The Slippery Slope At The Spirits Tasting
In a few weeks’ (ah shit!) time I’ve got my spirits exam for my WSET Diploma. I used to think spirits were shite and over rated, as when I was younger I hadn’t any kind of inclination to bother find out about them. I was used to drinking the crappest and cheapest stuff in the …
What’s Your Favourite Whisky Moment?
Any whisky geeks out there, before you say it, I know! It’s like being asked which is your favourite kid, or which is your least favourite football player. It’s an impossible question to answer as it changes on a daily basis. I get that, and I’m sorry for asking such a generic question. But I’ve …
New Whisky Kids on the Block
For years the world was full of generic booze. I grew up with my parents drinking Gordon’s green bottle gin, Captain Morgan Rum, and Famous Grouse. Not that there’s anything wrong with those drinks as such, but the generic entry level stuff most people drank just wasn’t interesting, and failed miserably to spark interest into …
The Whisky World Has Passed Me By…Until Now!
I’ve never been a whisky drinker. When I was younger, spirits in general were just not my thing. I just couldn’t get over the harshness of it all. Then at uni, when I started drinking them, it was all about the supermarket-own-brand paint stripper. That’s not the kind of stuff to make you come back …
Slowly Getting Into Spirits, Anyone Else Found It Tough?
Until a couple of years or so ago I found drinking spirits pretty tough. All of them infact. Whisky, gin, rum, tequila, you name it. I’d drunk them in the student bars and pubs and whinced nearly every time. I just couldn’t work out why you’d do this to yourself?! Funny how things have …
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The Booze 4
I’m in training at the minute to run the Marathon du Médoc. It’s a full marathon, so 42km, through the vineyards of the Médoc in Bordeaux. Slight twist is that it’s a wine marathon, with different châteaux along the route opening their doors to the runners to try their wines en route. They also kindly …