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Come Fly With Me: The Redbreast Mano a Lamh, Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey
As we speed away from Burn’s night and head towards St Patrick’s Day, it’s time to start cracking open some Irish whiskey. Once long forgotten, the rise of Irish whiskey has seen a plethora of new...
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I Can See Clearly Now: Kininvie 23 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
It was exactly one year ago today that I found myself hopping up to Scotland to take part in the Ardbeg Islay Half Marathon.As you would expect from an event held on an island in the Inner Hebrides, in...
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Merry Christmas from Springbank. In August! : Spirit Of Freedom 30 YearOld...
It is yet another Friday on the global procession towards Christmas. For those of you who work in or around retail, you’ll be aware that around this time business start to propose their Xmas line ups...
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Competition Time: Win a chance to Choose the Next Overeem Release!
As our regular readers well know, we like to cheer people up on gloomy days - especially ones following a particularly tasty bank holiday break (despite the incessant rain here in South London)This...
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That's Shallot...
Thank you. It's been Emotional. As posts go, this one will certainly go down as one of the most memorable ones that we have ever written on this humble website. As many readers know, we began...
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Competition Time: Win a chance to Choose the Next Overeem Release!
As our regular readers well know, we like to cheer people up on gloomy days - especially ones following a particularly tasty bank holiday break (despite the incessant rain here in South London)This...
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Merry Christmas from Springbank. In August! : Spirit Of Freedom 30 YearOld...
It is yet another Friday on the global procession towards Christmas. For those of you who work in or around retail, you’ll be aware that around this time business start to propose their Xmas line ups...
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Everybody's Changing: Laphroaig Select Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Before becoming professional whisky writers, Neil and I both worked in the music industry at different major record labels, doing A&R.A&R is the department within a record company that is...
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Absent Friends: Lagavulin & Caol Ila Feis Ile Bottlings
Bling comes to Paradise IslandFor the better part of a decade now, Caskstrength has been trekking up to Scotland on an annual pilgrimage to Islay, for the annual Festival of Music and Malt, the Feis...
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The Guide to Home Smoking: Ardbeg Kildalton
Blimey, that was a swift three weeks! Our recent inactivity over the aforementioned period was largely down to travelling, spiritual enlightenment and a mixture of other interferences, but we return...
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Employee Of The Month: American Maturation at Heaven Hill
To Dream, The Impossible Dream...America: land of dreams and opportunity. Visiting is always a joy (despite ever increasing security checks at Heathrow- yawn) and it highlights one of the great things...
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Hug A Hoodie: Quick Fire Ramblings: Highland Park Dark Origins & Bowmore...
Well, it's bloody hot today. At this time of the year in the UK, it's clearly impossible to predict any kind of temperature in advance. A day ago, I was sheltering from the howling gale and rain under...
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All Hail The Cooper: Glenfiddich Excellence Single Malt Scotch Whisky
The great author Jonathan Swift once wrote that “he was a bold man who first ate an oyster”. It is this sort of gastronomic experimentation which has given us such great delights as a human race,...
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I Come From The Land Of The Ice And Snow: Benromach Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Snow Joke: My Trip To BenromachOne of the scariest drives I have ever done in my life was early one March morning from Perth to Forres, a small town near Inverness. It was a Monday and I was up around...
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I Can See Clearly Now: Kininvie 23 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
It was exactly one year ago today that I found myself hopping up to Scotland to take part in the Ardbeg Islay Half Marathon.As you would expect from an event held on an island in the Inner Hebrides, in...
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EXILE CASKS - OUR NEW PROJECT!!
WE'VE RISEN FROM THE GRAVE! Kind of anyway! Yes, Caskstrength has been dormant for nearly a year now, in readiness of our brand new website, WorldsBestSpirits.com, which is officially launching on 1st...
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The Trojan is Here!
The wait is almost over folks... Tomorrow (Thursday 31st March) sees the release of The Trojan- our first whisky from the Exile Casks project that we've been working on.The Trojan was distilled on 19th...
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