If you’ve ever been to a Scotch whisky distillery, you’ll know how proud they are of their stills. Distillers will tell you that each still has a personality, and that has a huge impact on the style of spirit it creates. In fact, some distilleries go so far as naming their stills, like Janis and … Continue reading “The Role of Stills in Whisky: Loch Lomond Case Study”

Welcome to the fifth installment of our regular Whisky Under Fifty reviews, where we review a different whisky (or whiskey) that you can buy for less than £50! If you’d like to know more about why we’re doing this series, read our introduction post here. Today’s whisky is James Eadie Trademark “X” blended scotch whisky.  … Continue reading “Whisky Under £50 Review 5: James Eadie Trade Mark X”

It’s very unusual for us to feature only one distillery in one of our monthly tasting boxes, because one of our core missions is to help people explore whisky. So you know that when we do, it’s for a very good reason. If you’re not already familiar with Loch Lomond Distillery, they have one of … Continue reading “Distillery Spotlight: Loch Lomond”

This month’s whisky tasting box centred around some incredible independent bottlings from cask-strength fanatics, The Single Cask. We really enjoyed trying a selection of Scotch whiskies that were all a little bit different from standard distillery releases, so we tracked down Ed, from their UK team, to find out a little bit more about them. … Continue reading “Interview with: The Single Cask”

Hello Dram Teamers, and welcome back to our series on how whisky is made! This is the second installment in the mini series The Art of the Cask, where we delve into one of the most important aspects of our favourite spirit. Today’s post is all about whisky blending – a crucial step in production … Continue reading “The Art of the Cask: Blending”

Welcome to the fourth installment of our regular Whisky Under Fifty reviews, where we review a different whisky (or whiskey) that you can buy for less than £50! If you’d like to know more about why we’re doing this series, read our introduction post here. Today’s whisky is Tomatin 12 Year Old.  Tomatin 12 Year … Continue reading “Whisky Under £50 Review 4: Tomatin 12 Year Old”

Hello Dram Teamers, and welcome back to our series on how whisky is made! We’re kicking off a small sub-series focusing on one of the key elements of whisky-making: the cask. The Art of the Cask will explore all the ways the humble whisky barrel can influence our favourite spirit. Since this month’s tasting box was … Continue reading “The Art of the Cask: Whisky Ageing”

Hello Dram Teamers, and welcome back to our series on how whisky is made! In this blog, we’re looking at rye whiskey.  Today we’ll be taking a look at the most pun-friendly of whiskeys, rye (long time members will know that we love a good whisky pun). Both a category of whisky and an ingredient, … Continue reading “How Rye Whiskey is Made”

As a small, independent company, we feel a lot of affinity to independent whisky bottlers. In fact, we’ve written at length  about why we think more people should be seeking out whisky from these “incredible indies”. Not only that, but we also dedicated a past box to veteran indies, Douglas Laing. So that’s why we’re … Continue reading “Incredible Indies: The Single Cask”

Welcome to the third installment of our regular Whisky Under Fifty reviews, where we review a different whisky (or whiskey) that you can buy for less than £50! If you’d like to know more about what we’re doing with this series, read our introduction post here. Today’s whisky is Kilkerran 12 Year Old.  Kilkerran 12 … Continue reading “Whisky Under £50 Review 3: Kilkerran 12 Year Old”