JUNE AUCTION NOW LIVE (ends Sunday 25th June)
…place your bids at http://www.whiskyhammer.co.uk/
With an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits there is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, invest, enjoy!
Speyside Food and Drinks Festival Returns with a Larger Serving
Following the soaraway success of a festival launched last year to celebrate one of Scotland’s most fruitful food and drink regions, Spirt of Speyside: Distilled is to return – with an even greater range of home-grown flavours.
World leading drinks brands will join small artisan producers for the weekend festival at Elgin Town Hall on September 1 and 2 in a showcase of Speyside’s finest whisky, gin, beer and food. Classic drams will be served up alongside contemporary cocktails with speciality coffee to try alongside grown-up fudge.
This year’s event has been extended to cover two floors of the venue with even more opportunities to sample food and drink and meet the producers passionate about Speyside and its produce.
It’s not just about the tastes that makes the Speyside region – home to more than half of Scotland’s malt whisky distilleries – renowned across the world for its food and drink. Distilled gives opportunities to experience and learn more about the flavours, through a range of tutorials or ‘masterclasses’ staged by experts.
Tickets for Distilled go on sale on at 9am on Friday, June 16 and with limited places available, food and drink lovers are urged to get in quick to ensure they don’t miss out.
Distilled is delivered by the same team behind the world-famous Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival and the inaugural mini-festival went down a treat with audiences last year.
Festival manager Pery Zakeri says, “Distilled is a melting pot of fantastic flavours and wonderful personalities sharing their enthusiasm for fine food and drink. It offers the chance to enjoy so many different tastes, as well as broadening knowledge of food and drink through our menu of masterclasses.
“We were delighted with the feedback from our inaugural event last year, which introduced a much younger audience to Speyside’s food and drink offering, and we are building on that with this year’s offering.
“We are proud to be playing a lead role in championing the region’s booming food and drink industry by bringing producers and the public together under one roof in celebration of the Speyside larder.”
Distilled drew gastronomes from all over Scotland as well as visitors from overseas who wanted to be part of first festival of this kind to be held in Speyside. The big global players of the drinks industry stood shoulder to shoulder with small, up-and-coming producers in a mix that went down well with audiences.
Masterclasses ranged from the chance to sample rare and cask strength drams, to cocktail making and food pairing. A range of masterclasses are being offered again this year, costing an additional £15 per person, with full details of the range and times to be announced on the event website.
This celebration of Speyside’s food and drink features four different sessions and these take place from 1-5pm and 6-10pm each day. Tickets are priced at £20 which includes entry, six vouchers for tasting samples of gin, whisky or beer, a lanyard and a Glencairn crystal nosing and tasting glass.
All whisky, gin, beer and foods on offer will have a Speyside provenance and there will be the chance to purchase products from stand holders. There will also be festival merchandise available to buy.
For more information and to book tickets visit www.distilled.scot
Distilled is active on social media at www.facebook.com/distilledscot on Twitter and Instagram @distilledscot. Follow the festival at #distilled17
Pictures – Distilled, a delicious mix of Speyside’s finest food and drinks, returns to Elgin Town Hall on September 1 and 2.
Poland’s first whisky festival, which premiered in August 2014 in Jastrzebia Gora, founded and organised by Polish whisky bar Dom Whisky.
Our whisky festival is the only Polish event that gathers the greatest personalities of the whisky world, whisky enthusiasts and people just starting their whisky adventure all in one place.
We’re not about imposing rules, but showing people how to extract the most from the world of whisky. Guided by the motto ‘whisky is like a friendship, the older, the better’, we believe that together we create a unique atmosphere at the festival, and our relationship will mature over the years like the precious ‘water of life’.
The fourth edition of the festival will offer:
– More than 600 whiskies to taste at very attractive prices,
– Masterclasses conducted by the greatest personalities in the world of whisky
– Whisky bottles available at very attractive prices
– Presentations, tastings, workshops and live music.
The first show brought together 1,500 guests, while the second event grew to 4,000 guests. The third gathered more than 6,500 people. This year, we are looking forward to Your visit.
In the last few years, Milroy’s has seen the light and has fallen in love with great quality American whiskey. We are offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire the unicorn bottle that is the Michter’s Celebration of the Cask whiskey. Decades of expertise, love and dedication have contributed to this; the rarest Bourbon we can get our hands on…
Due to its rarity and price we would like to offer the chance to buy (unlimited) tickets for raffle so that some extremely lucky person can walk away with this beautiful spirit at a fraction of the cost. 180 Tickets will be available.
Tickets ONLY £25
The bottle is valued at £4500, being 1 of 4 bottles that exist in the UK. This is not a raffle to miss.
Comprised of Kentucky Straight Bourbon and Kentucky Straight Rye taken from the most extraordinary barrels in Michter’s stocks, the 2016 Release of Michter’s Celebration Sour Mash is a unique blend of first-use barrel whiskeys aged anywhere from over one decade to over 30 years old. The bottle only hits the shores once every few years, so buy your tickets whilst you can!
As if this wasn’t enough, 4 runners up will walk away with another bottle from the Michter’s Range. A bottle worth more than twice the ticket. WARNING: TICKETS WILL NOT LAST LONG Raffle to be drawn once tickets are reserved. Good luck, we are all counting on you.
JUNE AUCTION NOW LIVE (ends Sunday 25th June)
…place your bids at http://www.whiskyhammer.co.uk/
With an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits there is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, invest, enjoy!
Fathers day – June 14th (A gentle reminder.)
Nothing says Fathers day like a truly great Whisky.
The Milroy’s web store is filled to the brim with great gift ideas for your father this year, lets be honest, he probably deserves it. Treat your Dad to a bottle from our epic selection and be the favourite child this year. Take your pic from; Scotch, Bourbons, Whiskies from around the world, Tastings, Or, if none of these tickle your fancy, pop by to the Milroy’s bar and our excellent staff will guide you through whiskies of all guises. (Again, that’s June 14th. Don’t forget)
Fathers day special
Glenfarclas 15
ONLY £47.95
4 DAYS TILL FATHER’S DAY! AUTUMN SHOW – SEPT 15-16 2017
If you haven’t heard already, Midlands Whisky Festival is returning to Birmingham at thestudio venue this September for it’s biggest show yet! Get those palates ready – we’ll be inviting even more distillers to the show for a weekend celebration of all things whisky!
– WHISKY EXHIBITORS –
From Japan to England you’ll always find yourself a new whisky. Be it a heavily-sherried Taiwanese single malt or a newly released bourbon, you’ll stumble across both new releases and old and rare bottlings at Midlands Whisky Festival.
– MASTERCLASSES –
If you’re looking for an exclusive tasting experience with well-known industry faces, our Masterclasses are definitely worth a look at. In past festivals we’ve had the pleasure of hosting Richard Patterson and the exquisite Constellation Collection, and George S. Grant of Glenfarclas tasting six different 40-year-old whiskies as he turned 40 himself. This year’s Masterclasses TBC.
– EARLY BIRDS –
We are now down to our very last few Early Bird tickets so if you’re like us and don’t like disappointment, be quick to grab yours today! As one day just isn’t enough, this year we’ve added a Friday evening session, giving you chance to discover even more whisky over two days.
Friday Ticket £35
Early Bird Saturday Ticket £35 (Last few tickets)
Combo Friday & Saturday Ticket £70
Saturday 16th Sept 12:00pm – 5:00pm (last pour at 4:30pm)
Robbie’s Drams Whisky Merchants are delighted to announce the winning results from last weeks festival.
These whiskies were chosen by the attendees on the day as their favourites and over 80% of our discerning guests cast a vote.
First Place
Glenfiddich 21 Year Old Gran Reserva Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Second Place
Glenfarclas 25 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Third Place
Berry Brothers & Rudd Glen Garioch 1989 24 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Many Congratulations to Bill Bowman of Ayr who was the lucky winner of a £50 Gift Voucher.
