I promised in my last email that I would write to you again with all the final details for the live webcast we will be doing at Maker’s Mark distillery in Kentucky so here they are.

The online event will be happening on Friday 25th September at 8pm Kentucky time which I’m told is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). I believe that works out at 1am on Saturday 26th for the UK. I know this isn’t an ideal time for our FOLs in Europe but for anyone who can’t tune in, the video will be available a week or so later on the Laphroaig website for you to watch at your leisure.

Of course I hope as many of you as possible tune in live as you will be able to submit questions to the panel (Kevin Smith from Maker’s Mark, John Hansell who is the Editor of ‘Malt Advocate’ and of course myself) during the show. Anyone whose question is read out during the live broadcast will be sent a special prize as well so remember to include your email address when you submit the question.

We also have a special webpage set up which has a countdown on it as well as some further information on the event. If you go to http://www.distillerylive.us.com and make sure you bookmark the page so that you don’t forget the address on 25th!

Since my last email I have had a few emails from FOLs who don’t know what time the show will be on in their country. I’m going to update the webpage with the time in some countries but there will I’m sure be too many to list so you can also try looking online to work out the time conversion. On the www.distillerylive.us.com website we have now got a link to a page which will show the time of the show in your country.

As I mentioned in my last email we will be tasting a range of Laphroaig expressions including the 10 Year Old, the new 18 Year Old and finally the 25 Year Old. There are also some special items I am really excited about. The guys over at Maker’s Mark have found a famous chef who is going to come and cook some lovely food for us, designed to compliment Laphroaig and Maker’s Mark whiskies. Hopefully I can get hold of the recipes in advance so all you culinary experts can try out the recipes too.

As I mentioned in the last email we will also have a cocktail section. Thanks to everyone who has already emailed me their suggestions for cocktails, we’ve had a lot of fun trying out your recipes. Remember anyone whose cocktail is made during the show will win a special prize. If you still haven’t emailed your suggestion you still can, just drop me a line at info@laphroaig.com with the subject line: Distillery Live recipes.

In other news I have created a Twitter account – I am still a bit of a novice but am really enjoying connecting with some more FOLs from around the World in real-time. If you would like to follow my ‘tweets’ (as I have been told they are called) then go to http://www.twitter.com/laphroaigwhisky. I will be updating my twitter with news in the build up to Distillery Live but I will of course also be updating the FOL homepage.

Slàinte,

John Campbell

D Johnston & Company (Laphroaig) Ltd, 310 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, registered in the United Kingdom, registration number SC028072