Gateshead Whisky News – 17th January 2020
Gateshead Whisky News We’re past halfway through January folks! If you’re still de-toxing from the festive period, never mind! You can keep up with the [...]
Gateshead Whisky News – 10th January 2020
Gateshead Whisky News Happy (whisky) New(s) Year folks! Since Connas still hasn’t broken his only ever New Year’s resolution (FYI – “avoid becoming an Olympic [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: Ragtime Rye
I don’t drink a lot of American whiskey these days, and it’s about time I addressed that, frankly! There’s been huge interest in the UK [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: Clydebuilt Coppersmith
It’s an exciting time for new distilleries folks. They’re popping up all over the place! And the more the merrier as far as I’m concerned, [...]
Gateshead Whisky News – 13th December 2019
Gateshead Whisky News It’s Friday Whisky News time Loungers! And as we write, you will no doubt be aware that an exercise in Democracy has [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: Bruichladdich Big Guns
I had a brief email chat with Rab from Bruichladdich recently. To condense the tale, he ended up letting me know that he was about [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: Glen Moray 21 YO Port Finish
A chap at one of my tastings recently proclaimed that Glen Moray “can’t be that good, because it’s cheap”, thankfully I didn’t have to give [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: Three Drinkers do….bottling?!
The Three Drinkers have been busy. They’ve been off on the road recording the second series of their show (without a certain slightly puce-faced Geordie [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: New Arran 10 Year Old!
Frequenters of our weekly news blog may well have noticed that the folks at Lochranza Distillery on Arran had a complete re-brand of their packaging [...]
Connas’ Stunnas: Octomore-ish!
There’s always excitement around the arrival of a new Octomore. In 2002 the folks at Bruichladdich set out to create a monster, and it seems [...]
