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I thought you might be stuck for things to do over the summer holidays. So I have been feverishly scouring the interweb to ferret out some things that I found interesting for you to pass some time with. Well, not feverishly, exactly – a glass of whisky, a keyboard and a mouse and following links …
“Moonshine” Whisky has been distilled illegally on the Lammermoors since the 1860s. But I think that what Lammermoor Distillery produces now would be a far cry from the stuff that was made 160-odd years ago! The moonshine whisky was made for the thousands of gold miners travelling the Dunstan Trail. The Trail was created during …
Continue reading “Lammermoor Distillery – whisky from paddock to bottle”
For the last 40-odd years McCashin’s Brewery have been supplying New Zealand with the iconic Macs beers. And now they have turned their skills to the production of NZ whisky – luckily for us! The company have been unobtrusively making whisky for the last six years. In that time two really good whisky expressions have …
