Just look at that! Hello beautiful! Of course we’ll have to wait and see what the implications are for the bottle being on the side like that – has the whisky reached the cork and perhaps partially eroded it? Has the ice and water got inside the whisky? Such mysteries still to find out!
Continue reading about Latest Shackleton South Pole Whisky pic is biggest tease yet
While I’ve been away in the US, there’s been some developments with the Shackleton Whisky as the links below will tell you: Towards zero – defrosting the whisky to zero degrees A new home for Shackleton whisky Visitors come from far and wide to see the Shackleton Whisky, including a Whyte & Mackay employee (but [...]
Continue reading about The latest on the South Pole Shackleton whisky…
I’m heading along to a Tales of the Cocktail chat about using social media. Now, I mentioned this to Craig McGill, who as the Creative Guy at Contently Managed, said he would give me some pointers that I could pass out to others. Well, he’s gone and written a fairly comprehensive blog post about using [...]
Continue reading about Tips and advice on how pubs & bars can use social media for #totc
There’s been interest in this since last year when I mentioned it the Shackleton whisky in a podcast (iTunes link, non iTunes link), a video and a blog post. People have been asking me constantly “when will Shackleton’s whisky be available? What’s the latest? Is it off the South Pole yet? How much for a [...]
Continue reading about The Shackleton South Pole Whisky now in New Zealand – whisky off the rocks
Tales of the Cocktail is shaping up to be fun. I’ve already mentioned on Monday and Tuesday what I’ll be doing there, but if you can’t make it to New Orleans there’s still plenty of ways to follow the good times online, so why not get a bottle of Whyte & Mackay, Jura or Dalmore [...]
Continue reading about Want to follow the Tales of the Cocktail fun but can’t be there…? #totc
During lunch with Catherine Stanton Schiff and others yesterday, Catherine sneaked out a few pictures that she put online. Now as you would expect, I look fantastic, but for a bit of fun – and two prizes (though at this point I have no idea what they will be. Whisky will figure in though) – [...]
Continue reading about Some early #totc fun: a caption competition with whisky prizes
Apparently, some of you Americans were missing me, so here I am back again for some more whisky and cigar adventures (well, in places you’re allowed to smoke anyway…) and here’s what I’m up to – hopefully get to meet a few of you…
Continue reading about AMERICA! I’m back! I hope Boston, New Orleans and Dallas have whisky
Sadly, I wasn’t able to make it over to WhiskyLive Dallas but one of my colleagues Trent Roberts did and he tells me that Jura and Dalmore went down a storm – almost as much as the sales team and the North Texas Caledonia Pipes and Drums (and here they are on YouTube). Anyway, he [...]
I can’t be there due to the US trip but there’s Twestivals in Glasgow and Edinburgh (as well as many other places) tonight and they look set to be a lot of fun while also raising funds for Concern Worldwide. And if you’re at the Edinburgh one, there’s also an added whisky element to the [...]
