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Level 4 Lockdown – Sampling Time!
We write these pages for you with three goals in mind – to reflect on whiskies we have experienced, to (hopefully) educate on whisky-related matters, and just to have some fun!
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“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 …
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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 …
Want to get creative during lockdown? I admit that lockdowns come with a whole range of less-than-wonderful side effects: queuing to get into the supermarket and everyone watching you buy toilet rolls, not being able to get a proper latte, not being allowed out, and rubbish TV programmes (if you don’t count the Paralympics, which …
