The Malt Impostors Abroad: The Impostors visit Bruichladdich
When we pulled into Bruichladdich, it was my third time to visit the distillery in the last three years. It was the first visit for both John and Bill. My [...]
Distillery Visits
The Malt Impostors Abroad: The Impostors visit the Ardbeg Café
We’d spent the morning at Bruichladdich, and at the end, Jim McEwan had been holding court. We didn’t want to leave, but we were on an important [...]
The Malt Impostors Abroad: The Impostors visit Clynelish
[Editor’s note: The write-ups of our distillery visits from earlier this summer appear here in no particular–and certainly not chronological–order…] [...]
The Malt Impostors Abroad: The Impostors visit Bowmore
[In what follows, rather than attempt a complete description of all that befell us and all that we learned, I’ve focused on those snippets that were particularly [...]
The Malt Impostors Abroad: The Impostors visit Laphroaig
Tasting notes: We arrived at Laphroig minutes before the “Water to Whisky Experience” tour was to begin. (At £79, it was one of the more expensive tours that [...]
An Impostor Abroad: Stephen visits Caol Ila
After our brilliant time at Lagavulin, we drove back through Bowmore and popped into Bruichladdich to pick up the bottles Jim McEwan was kind enough to sign for us [...]
An Impostor Abroad: Stephen visits Lagavulin
The day after visiting Ardbeg, the weather turned, as it’s wont to do on Islay, and we found ourselves late and driving through light rain to Lagavulin for a [...]
An Impostor Abroad: Stephen visits Ardbeg
On an uncannily gorgeous June day, my pulchritudinous traveling companion and I strolled out of the bright sunshine into the incomparable Ardbeg Café, which offers [...]
An Impostor Abroad: Stephen visits Compass Box
One Saturday afternoon after completing a couple of weeks of work in Oxford (I was there on a grant funding my research on Bill’s formidably fantastic ferret [...]
An Impostor Abroad: Stephen visits The Balvenie
After an amazing day in which I was fortunate enough to go on extensive tours of both Bruichladdich and Bowmore, I used the half day I had left on Islay to attend a [...]
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