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Black Bull 12 year old blended whisky (50%)
Discover Whisky | December 3rd 2009 by michael briggs
I would generally avoid a blended whisky at all costs, too many Christmas and New Years where I’ve been offered a whisky of generally suspect vintage which has been lying at the back of a cupboard for longer than the owner cares to remember and read more
Have just tried ... Whyte & Mackay 40 years old
Whisky For Everyone | October 21st 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
Whyte & Mackay is one of the world's best known whisky companies. It was founded in Glasgow in 1844 by whisky merchants James Whyte and Charles Mackay and by the late 19th century their popularity was growing rapidly. Whyte and Mackay's first b read more
Great places to drink whisky ... Albannach, London
Whisky For Everyone | October 1st 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
On Wednesday 30th September, we were lucky enough to be invited to the launch night of the newly refurbished Albannach restuarant and whisky bar in London. Albannach (pronounced al-ban-nack) translates as 'Scotsman' from the Gaelic language and the read more
Have just tried ... Lauder's Original
Whisky For Everyone | August 21st 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
Lauder's Original is a Scottish blended whisky. It is consistently a best selling whisky in Scotland and is one of the oldest blends to still be in production today. The blend was created by Archibald Lauder in 1834. Lauder owned a grocery store i read more
Have just tried ... Grant's Family Reserve
Whisky For Everyone | August 11th 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
Grant's Family Reserve is one of the world's best selling blended whiskies. It currently lies in third place for total sales in the UK (which is its main market) behind the Famous Grouse and Bell's and fifth overall in the world behind Johnnie Walker read more
Have just tried ... Hankey Bannister Original Blend
Whisky For Everyone | August 6th 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
Hankey Bannister is an award winning range of blended whiskies. The most popular and readily available whisky in the range is this Original Blend. This is joined by a 12, 21 and a 40 years old (the age stated on a blended whisky is the youngest whisk read more
Origins and History of Bourbon Whisky
Cocktail Lovers Online World | August 6th 2009
The first waves of British settlers in North America were a thirsty lot. It is recorded that the Pilgrims chose to make final landfall at Plymouth, Massachusetts, even though their original destination was elsewhere, primarily because they were almo read more
Classifications of North American Whiskies # 2
Cocktail Lovers Online World | August 5th 2009
United StatesKentucky produces all types of North American whiskies except for Tennessee and Canadian. It has the largest concentration of distilleries on the continent.Tennessee started out as Bourbon country, but today its two remaining distillerie read more
Classifications of North American Whiskies # 1
Cocktail Lovers Online World | August 5th 2009
North American whiskies are essentially classified by the type or variety of grains in the mash bill, the percentage or proof of alcohol at which they are distilled, and the length and manner of their aging.Bourbon Whisky must contain a minimum of 51 read more
All About Bourbon, Tennessee, Rye & Canadian Whisky
Cocktail Lovers Online World | August 5th 2009
Taken sanely and in moderation whisky is beneficial, aids digestion, helps throw off colds, megrims and influenzas. Used improperly the effect is just as bad as stuffing on too many starchy foods, taking no exercise, or disliking our neighbor. - Char read more
All About Scotch Whisky
Cocktail Lovers Online World | July 28th 2009
Whisky is, in its most basic sense, a spirit that is distilled from grain. Sometimes the grain has been malted, sometimes not. It is aged, often for long periods of time, in wooden barrels (usually oak). This barrel-aging smoothes the rough palate of read more
Have just tried (Spanish edition) ... Dimple 15 years old
Whisky For Everyone | July 23rd 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
Dimple is one of the world's most popular aged blended whiskies. Most blends do not carry any age statement but when they do it indicates the youngest whisky that is present in the blend. Therefore, the youngest whisky here is 15 years of age and t read more
Have just tried (Spanish edition) ... Vat 69
Whisky For Everyone | July 22nd 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
Vat 69 is a blended whisky that was first produced in 1882 by a man called William Sanderson. He owned a whisky liqueur company in Leith, Edinburgh and decided to branch out in to the area of blended whiskies in 1880, which was a time when the blend read more
What goes better with Whisky - Water or Soda?
Cocktail Lovers Online World | July 16th 2009
Whisky is preferred with water more than soda as soda is carbonated water and it kills the taste of whisky. But real connnoisseurs of whisky like to have it neat or with water on side or with two cubes of ice. read more
Why should you never drink on an empty stomach?
Cocktail Lovers Online World | July 16th 2009
Experts say eating food before drinking retains alcohol in the ~ where it is absorbed slowly into the blood stream. This gives the liver more time to break the alcohol down. Otherwise, it is directly absorbed without being broken down into simpler co read more
What is Single Malt?
Cocktail Lovers Online World | July 15th 2009
Single malt is so-called because the malt comes from a single distillery. It is a whisky refined by a single distillery, using malted barley as the only grain ingredient. Each distillery has its own distinct taste, flavour and style and single malts read more
What is Blended Whisky?
Cocktail Lovers Online World | July 15th 2009
Blended whisky is a mixture of single malt whiskys and ethanol derived from grains. Developed for those who could not stommach the strong taste of whisky, it is a combination of malt and grain whiskys. First distilled and bottled by Andrew Usher in E read more
Have just tried ... The Famous Grouse
Whisky For Everyone | July 9th 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
The Famous Grouse is the UK's biggest selling whisky. It is a blend that is made up of single malts from the Glenrothes, Glenturret, Highland Park and Macallan distilleries and some grain whisky. The four distilleries are all owned by the Edrington read more
Have just tried ... J&B Rare
Whisky For Everyone | June 22nd 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
J&B Rare is the second best selling blended whisky in the world. It lies behind the Johnnie Walker Red Label by some distance but still accounts for around 6% of all worldwide whisky sales. It is a complex blend of 42 different whiskies, primar read more
New releases ... Hibiki 12 years old
Whisky For Everyone | June 16th 2009 by whiskyforeveryone
The Hibiki are a series of blended whiskies from the Japanese company Suntory. They rose to prominence in 2008 when the 30 years old version won the 'Best Blended Whisky' category at the World Whisky Awards - the first time that a Japanese whisky had read more
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