Cooley’s Irish Whiskey Tasting Friday 16th March 2012
Held in the Station Hotel, over 100 Drambusters sat down to a selection of Irish Whiskeys, blended, grains and malts. Gordon Hughes, the speaker for the night was very grateful for the warm welcome received. We all learned a lot about the Irish Whiskey industry and the history of it and the favourite whiskey of the evening was the Greenore 8yo Single Grain. It was a smooth silky sweet and luscious dram.. perfect on its own or with a pint of Guinness!

Drambusters Whisky Festival 2012
Tickets will be on sale from May 1st for our second Whisky Festival. We have organised two Master Classes, Bruichladdich and either Tomintoul or McKillop’s Choice. More information will follow both in the newsletters and also online, so keep an eye on our email newsletters, website and facebook pages as well as our tweets @drambusters.

DRAMBUSTERS DATES FOR THE DIARY
Friday 27th April – Kilchoman Whisky tasting – details enclosed
Friday 1st June – Morrison Bowmore tasting – details enclosed
Saturday 30th June – Arran Malt & Music Festival – detail enclosed
Friday 13th July – Carn Mor tasting by Scottish Liqueur Centre (winner of the ‘Golden Dram 2011’ at our whisky festival with their Beinn a’Cheo Macallan)
Saturday 24th November – Whisky Festival

We are also trying to organise the following:
A ‘Whisky & Cheese’ tasting at The Room @ The Troqueer Arms as well as a rum tasting and a trip to Springbank and Glengyle distilleries later in the year with an overnight stay.. details will follow as soon as we know more!

Kilchoman Tasting Friday 27th August 2012
STATION HOTEL 7.30 for 7.45pm £13.50 per member

Dueto the success of our Whisky Festival in November last year, Anthony Wills of Kilchoman Distillery was very keen to do a tasting of his whiskies for us. As Kilchoman is a relatively new distillery, as well as tasting the whiskies, we are sure that the talk will be extremely interesting on the history of the distillery and the highs and lows of setting up and running a new distillery from scratch. With the tasting being just two weeks away please reply as soon as possible to avoid any disappointment. Please use the booking form enclosed with your newsletter that is coming through the post. If you wish to become a DRAMBUSTER so that you can attend this tasting please follow this link CLUB MEMBERSHIP

Morrison Bowmore Tasting
Friday 1st June 2012 STATION HOTEL 7.30 for 7.45pm £13.50 per member

Paul Goodwin, Whisky Ambassador for Morrison Bowmore, will be our guest speaker on the night. Paul took the Glen Garioch Master Class at the Whisky Festival last year. We will be trying whiskies from four distilleries on the evening, Auchentoshan, Bowmore, Glen Garioch and Yamazaki. The booking form will be sent out in next month’s newsletter.

ARRAN MALT & MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012
(formerly known as Arran Distillery Open Day) Saturday 30th June 2012 £50 per person
Due to the overwhelming success of last year’s visit and the very keen interest already shown for this year’s trip, we will be organising a bus for Saturday 30th June. The format will be the same as last year and please note that neither the bus nor the ferry will wait for any latecomers on the way there or on the way back! PRIORITY PLACES GO TO MEMBERS AND THEREAFTER TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. The distillery has organised a special tasting for us (taken in two groups of 26) and times will be confirmed for this later.

ITINERARY
7:15am BUS LEAVES FROM WHITESANDS FOR ARDROSSAN
9:15am ARRIVE ARDROSSAN approximately
9:45am FERRY DEPARTS ARDROSSAN
10:40am ARRIVE BRODICK, ARRAN
10:50am BUS LEAVES FERRY TERMINAL FOR DISTILLERY approximately
11.30am ARRIVE ARRAN DISTILLERY approximately

15:30pm BUS LEAVES DISTILLERY (DON’T MISS IT!!)
16:10pm ARRIVE BRODICK FERRY TERMINAL approximately
16:40pm FERRY DEPARTS BRODICK
17.35pm ARRIVE ARDROSSAN
17:45pm BUS LEAVES FERRY TERMINAL AT ARDROSSAN approximately
19:45pm ARRIVE DUMFRIES WHITESANDS (approximately)

On arrival at the distillery you will receive a goodie bag which will include a tasting glass and vouchers to taste some Arran Malt Whiskies. The price of £50 is fully inclusive of the following

Return bus to Dumfries
Return ferry
Bus to and from Distillery
Entry to the Open Day
Special Drambusters tastings

There are only 53 seats on the bus for this fantastic trip, so if you want to come along, don’t dely and book today! Please use Booking Form enclosed with your newsletter coming in the post. Again, if you wish ensure that you are able to attend this trip, and you are not a member please follow the link above to join our Whisky Club. It only costs £10 to be a member until the end of the year. BRIAN’S MOBILE NUMBER IS 07872 937 439. SHOULD THERE BE ANY PROBLEMS ON THE DAY THEN PLEASE PHONE HIM. PLEASE ALSO ENSURE YOU LET US HAVE YOUR MOBILE NUMBER WHEN BOOKING FOR THIS EVENT.

EXTRA SPECIAL OFFERS

In addition to our fantastic Glenfarclas 15yo offer as per our email last week CLICK HERE IF YOU MISSED IT!

We also have the unmissable offers below on a selection of Old Malt Cask whiskies…

NORMAL PRICE SPECIAL PRICE EXTRAVAGANZA PRICE

BALBLAIR 20YO 50% £70 £50 NOW £40
DISTILLED JUNE 1990, BOTTLED JULY 2010 ONE OF 637 BOTTLES
NOSE: DARKLY SPICED, SOFTLY OAKED- GINGERY WITH LATE GRIST & HONEY
PALATE: MOUTH-TINGLINGLY SPICED – PEPPERY & FRUITY WITH BARLEY
FINISH: BUTTERSCOTCHED, STILL GRISTY & SPICED WITH A SOFT FADE

BLAIR ATHOL 15YO SHERRY BUTT 50% £54 £44 NOW £38
DISTILLED NOV 1995, BOTTLED NOVEMBER 2010, ONE OF 545 BOTTLES
NOSE: OPENS SWEETLY CARRYING GOLDEN SYRUP AND ORANGES
PALATE: WARMINGLY SPICED RUNNING TO A SWEET MOCHA CHARACTER
FINISH: LONG, STILL SPICY WITH A TANGY BURNT ORANGE PEEL QUALITY

LAPHROAIG 12YO 50% £55 N/A NOW £40
DISTILLED MARCH 1999, BOTTLED JUNE 2011 ONE OF 303 BOTTLES
NOSE: SWEETLY FRAGRANT WITH PEATED BARLEY & LATE SALT & CITRUS
PALATE: MOUTHCOATINGLY OILY/ASHY/TARRY & LATE GRIST AND HONEY
FINISH: BUTTERSCOTCH, DEMERARA SUGAR WITH PEAT & LATE LIQUORICE

AND FINALLY…
For those of you who are ‘DRAMBUSTERS’ having paid your £10 membership fee, your snail mail version of this newsletter will be popping through your door in the next couple of days. Be sure and reply quickly so you don’t miss out on any of these great events. JOIN HERE IF YOU NEED TO! 🙂

Our mailing address is:

T.B.Watson Ltd.
11/17 English Street
Dumfries, Scotland DG1 2BU
United Kingdom