I've been a busy little bever since I last posted. Since then I have been:
Visiting Ludo and Becki in london
Meeting a jap whisky importer
Reviewing more whiskies
Installing Googles +1 button
Getting new samples to try
Ramping Up the twitter followers and building relationships
All in all its been a busy old time for me. I have a few blog posts ready to go live and I've got my fingers crossed that I will in a £4k bottle of whisky on fathers day!
Plans for the near future?
Well... publish those posts, get some Naked grouse in for review, review eagle are 17 at long last, organise a whisky event, take some decent whisky photos and publish them... oh and publish a calculator i've been working on.
Anyway, thats all for now.
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
No enough time for everyone
As the 24th of may aproaches everyone at the blog is getting excitied about a short trip to london we have planned to talk to WIlliam Grants whisky global ambasador Ludo Ducrocq and the lovely Becky.
This all started off while talking to about whisky on twitter on our whiskytimes twitter page and we got talking to Grants. Now blended whisky isn't normally our bag but becky was convinced she could turn us into blended whisky drinkers and asked if we would like to smaple there more up market whiskies. So naturally being the open minded modern and relativly noobile whisky drinkers we are we agreed.
Thats not where the story ends though, as that would be extravagantly dull. WHat happened next is that Becky offered us the chance to be taken through the whiskies they would send us by the Global Ambasador Ludo via video Skype chat... naturally we were taken aback and very pleased, but we had an even better idea! Wht not meet up in person and make an evening of it?
Becky agreed, we picked a date, and the rest will be history.
Since then we have been inundated with offers and interest from online retailers, importers, bloggers and all kinds of people. So now the london trip is jam packed full of visits to make (sadly there is not enought time for everyone) so watch this space to find out who we met and where.
This all started off while talking to about whisky on twitter on our whiskytimes twitter page and we got talking to Grants. Now blended whisky isn't normally our bag but becky was convinced she could turn us into blended whisky drinkers and asked if we would like to smaple there more up market whiskies. So naturally being the open minded modern and relativly noobile whisky drinkers we are we agreed.
Thats not where the story ends though, as that would be extravagantly dull. WHat happened next is that Becky offered us the chance to be taken through the whiskies they would send us by the Global Ambasador Ludo via video Skype chat... naturally we were taken aback and very pleased, but we had an even better idea! Wht not meet up in person and make an evening of it?
Becky agreed, we picked a date, and the rest will be history.
Since then we have been inundated with offers and interest from online retailers, importers, bloggers and all kinds of people. So now the london trip is jam packed full of visits to make (sadly there is not enought time for everyone) so watch this space to find out who we met and where.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Deciding What This Whisky Blog is About
I have decided what this whisky review blog is now. It is a blog about a blog (how lame).
I want to use this blog to talk about all the behind the scenes stuff that goes on at with my main whisky blog and to keep a journal what whats going on.
Writting a good blog means you have to analyse what you are saying and make the Spelling and grammer as perfect as you can. That is not what this site is about, I want to track the progress of my main blog, blogging about who im talking to, how articles come about and that kind of thing.
Blog posts noramlly take hours these one will take minutes.
With that in mind ill sign off now and get back to the main blog.
I want to use this blog to talk about all the behind the scenes stuff that goes on at with my main whisky blog and to keep a journal what whats going on.
Writting a good blog means you have to analyse what you are saying and make the Spelling and grammer as perfect as you can. That is not what this site is about, I want to track the progress of my main blog, blogging about who im talking to, how articles come about and that kind of thing.
Blog posts noramlly take hours these one will take minutes.
With that in mind ill sign off now and get back to the main blog.
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Talking About Whisky from Japan
Just a quick note to let you know I have been talking to a few poeple about whiksy from japan and its popularity in recent times. To me it seems that just like any other whisky producing country japan has its fair share of good distilleries and bad, it just seems when they are good, they are VERY good.
So from now on I am keeping a special eye out for whisky from japan to get my grubby mits on and try. if you have any ideas about which ones to try im all ears!
So from now on I am keeping a special eye out for whisky from japan to get my grubby mits on and try. if you have any ideas about which ones to try im all ears!
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Whisky times is Launched
I've long been a fan of real ale and now I’ve moved onto whisky reviews.
There was a real gap in the market for young modern men when i came to whisky, so James and myself took it upon ourselves to be test rats of the benefit of the whisky world. We started buying and testing all kinds of single malt whiskies just to see what was what in the whisky world, then we blogged about it.
Being a talented design James have no problem knocking up a whisky review theme, and I being a a blogger, marketeer and twitter addict meant we were up and running in no time.
Now the whisky review Blog Whisky Times is up and running you can read our whiky reviews and get some interestingly written whisky information.
We look forward to writing more and more interesting and top quality whisky reviews with whisky pictures, whisky recipes and more.
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