If you read our last instalment in the Women and Whisky series, you’ll know that women have a long and important history with our most precious of liquids. They invented the alembic still, they ran bootlegging operations and they repealed Prohibition. Many of them also burnt at the stake for selling whisky during the Middle […]
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Dear readers, we have a confession to make. Brace yourselves. On occasion, when the weather is hot, we treat ourselves to a couple of summer whisky cocktails. Now, we know that to a lot of you, this is the ultimate sacrilege (‘Scotch should be drunk straight!’ we hear you cry.) but hear us out. When […]
It’s World Music Day today, so what better excuse for us to dig through our record collection and pull out our favourite songs about whisky? One thing we discovered writing this list: there are lots of songs about whisky out there. Most of them are pretty terrible. It seems that, if you’ve ever picked up […]
Before we start, here’s a quick recap of what this series of blog posts is all about, just in case you missed last month’s entry: As you know, at Whisky Foundation, we’re all about the independent bottlings. And, while reading about malts, casks and behind-the-scenes stuff is all well and good, it doesn’t quite compare […]
If you’re new to the world of malts and peats, then you might never have heard of floor malting. And there’s good reason for this – it’s not common practice anymore. It hasn’t been for the past half a century. The vast majority of distilleries stopped the process in the 1960s and have moved on […]
Socks. Something to do with sheds. A power tool. A DVD compilation of the 100 Greatest Premier League goals. A book on the history of World War II. A musical tie. A ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. We’re willing to bet you’ve resorted to buying your Dad at least one of these things for Father’s Day […]
If you’ve found your way to this page, then we’re going to assume that you’re familiar with at least a few whisky terms; you probably know your blends from your single malts, your Scotch from your bourbon and the difference between whisky and whiskey. But, if you find yourself nodding and taking long sips of […]