Have you ever had to suffer your way through an ill-prepared Irish coffee? Not a classic Irish coffee that you’d get from a bartender or mixologist, but the kind of Irish coffee where a friend has thrown a splash of whisky into hot coffee? You’ve probably had a nice meal and – rather than opting […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll probably have read the study that found that putting water in whisky definitively improves the flavour of it. (Well, in so far as taste is highly subjective and a matter of opinion.) Did you miss it? Here’s a quick watered-down recap. (Get it, because it’s about putting […]
Last month, we kicked off a new series of blog posts that placed the focus on the bottlers that produce the incredible whisky we love to drink with a look at Signatory Vintage. This month, Kingsbury step into the limelight. In case you missed it, here’s why we started this series: At Whisky Foundation, […]
If you’re anything like the team here at Whisky Foundation, you’re a fan of beer as well as whisky. If that is the case, then you might have noticed the recent trend of hazy IPAs cropping up all over the place. They’re the current ‘in-thing’, and for good reason: they have enhanced aromas, are smooth […]
Every so often, we hear a whisky tale so good that we just have to tell you here on the Whisky Foundation blog. This story isn’t just a great anecdote, but it’s full of other little titbits about the whisky industry at large and – best of all – ends with a message that […]
There’s nothing we love more at Whisky Foundation than seeing an independent bottler appear with a bang and then consistently produce whisky after whisky after whisky that blow us away. (Well, there is: drinking whisky after whisky after whisky that blow us away.) And, if you’ve never heard of Rest & Be Thankful, then you’re […]
If you’ve read any of our other posts, you’ll know that here at Whisky Foundation, we’re all about stripping away the crusty image of whisky drinking. That’s because we know that there’s a lot about whisky culture – the whisky words, the attitudes, and the elitism – that can be off-putting to the casual […]
If you’ve ever tried to introduce independent bottlings to a friend – even a friend that enjoys a dram or two – it can get a little bit complicated. You’ll probably talk of how bottlers buy whiskies from distilleries but then release them under their own labels after maturing and finishing them. You might talk […]
As you might have noticed, we love independent bottling companies here at Whisky Foundation. We’re mad about them. We love seeing new independent bottlers getting started and releasing their first expression. We love to see them bringing a new twist to a whisky that we didn’t think could get any better. And, of course, we […]
If there was ever a collection of whiskies that epitomised the independent bottling ethos, it would be The Maltman series. I mean, check out this quote from their website. If it was in Latin, it’d pretty much be the motto of the independent bottling industry: Our Maltman range, all single cask releases, is without any […]
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