The Wild Drink Blog

Finally I’ve got a whisky distillery visit under my belt! I took a trip up to Edinburgh on Wednesday and was lucky enough to get a very comprehensive tour of a benchmark distillery at Glenkinchie.

Glencinchie is one of only three remaining Lowland malt distilleries, it was established in 1825 and is situated about 20-30 minutes form Edinburgh. They operate tours for all visitors but I felt like we received some extra attention during our stay from Bill who has been involved with whisky for decades. [...]

A week in to the new job and already i’ve been fortunate enough to spend the day in Bristol (…keep reading, it gets better) at a Johnnie Walker Blue Label tasting with Ian Williams the master distiller.

If you want to know a bit more about Johnnie Walker feel free to contact me, but the general gist is this: John Walker started blending whisky back in 1820 in his grocers shop in Kilmarnock [...]

I’m back from Caffe Culture after some high and low points over the last few days.

High Point…

During the show I spent most of my time on the CMA stand demonstrating on the Plus 4 You. This is my first time demonstrating like this and on the whole it was very enjoyable chatting to people about espresso and espresso equipment.

I’ve been meaning to go to Belgium for years now and do a really good beer tour, but Amsterdam provided me with more than a little taster of what spending an afternoon drinking some of the worlds best beers could be like.

The first pub which we went to was called De Bekeerde Suster, which translates to ‘The Converted Sister’, this is because back in 1554 nuns started making ‘beer’ on the site of this pub so as not to let their male bretherin have all the fun.

There doesn’t appear to be a rum timeline anywhere on the net, or at least not a comprehensive one. All of this information has been colated from other websites and a couple of books, i’ve just put it in order with dates.

It would be pretty cool if this resource could grow, so if you have any interesting and relevant dates or facts in rums history drop a comment and i’ll include it. [...]

Just thought i’d share (the picture of) my signed bottle of Pampero Anniversario, scrawled on by none other than the master distiller of Pampero, Luis Figueroa.

It’s pretty cool because the bottle comes in a kind of suede sack, so I can drink the rum and replace the empty bottle with a new one, but still have the signature on the sack! [...]

Stephen Morrissey is the 2008 World Barista Champion, well done mate!

I remember chatting to Stephen at this years UKBC before he had competed in Ireland, we spoke about competition etc. and now he’s only gone and beat everyone! Great for Square Mile Coffee as well since he used coffee from the new roastery, roasted by none other than Anette Moldvaer who roasted the winning baristas (James Hoffmann) coffee last year!