Interview with the august 2008 commenting winner

Last month we ran a competition on Whiskygrotto.com. The purpose was to increase the commenting on the posts. Traffic on Whiskygrotto.com is quite high, but it’s a quite traffic. So, a bottle of Auchentoshan, sponsored by the same awaited the top commentator and community poster.
The winner was Matt Henry from Arizona, USA under the nickname [...]

Details of Ardbeg Blasda is sipping out

 On september 28th Ardbeg are about to release a new bottling called Ardbeg Blasda.
Ardbeg will launch a digital drive some time the coming weeks to promote the new expression. The campaign, created by Story, will target Ardbeg customers to create a buzz around the new drink, Blasda, which is means ‘sweet and delicious’, in Gaelic [...]

The August Challenge Winner

Dear visitors. It gives me great pleasure to present the winner of the August Comment and Community Challenge 2008 - Orangedotofglory aka Matthew Henry.
Matthew wins the prize because of the way he’s actively has kept the community alive as well as posted relevant comments over the last month. It was not an easy decision as [...]

Whisky Chef - Martine Nouet shows why an Islay whisky is different

Well, I’m not 100% sure it’s only the weather. But this wonderful video from SingleMaltTV on YouTube that features Whisky Chef - Martine Nouet challenging a force 9 gale on Port Charlotte pier in the name of her favorite winter malts at least makes me wanna go Islay hopping.
Enjoy!

 
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The making a bottle of Lagavulin 16 yrs in mosaic

Santi. Artist, freak, lover and friend according to his YouTube profile had a client coming into his studio. The order? A bottle of Lagavulin Single Malt Whisky 16 yrs made purely in mosaic.
In a series of 5 videos on YouTube we get to follow how Santi (who by the way thinks lagavulin is a [...]

More whisky in the tank

I wrote yesterday about Lagavulin being used as fuel. Well, didn’t take long before I had another strange whisky fuel experiment in my inbox. This time it involved Bruichladdich.

BBC filmed an unusual biofuel experiment on the whisky island of Islay.
The experiment involved TV’s wine expert Oz Clarke and Top Gear’s James May attempting to run [...]

A local of Islay pour Lagavulin whisky into his 1978 Rolls Royce

 

Newstrack India got a little post about a different (and quite stupid) way to beat fuel costs.

With the cost of fuel going up day-by-day, crafty islanders have discovered a unique way to keep their wheels running - fuelling cars with whisky.
The locals of Islay have been running their cars on nothing but whisky, a fine [...]

Spot the parachute-jumping whisky barrel on Islay

Local charities on Argyll’s Isle of Islay are going to drop a whisky barrel on a parachute from a plane. Choose the position where the barrel will end up on our chart and YOU COULD WIN up to £250,000 cash!
Spot the Whisky Barrel is a unique fund raising competition from the Scottish whisky Island of Islay.
The rules are [...]

10000$ on the table as Basil Hayden’s Kentucky ask you to dress him up

 

 
The Kentucky straight bourbon brand Basin Hayden’s has partnered with Out and Chicago  Home + Garden magazines for a design competition.
The rules are simple. To enter, create an
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Read the feed from WhiskyGrotto.com in any language (almost)

Hey whisky lovers. I just wanted to let you guys who doesn’t enjoy reading the WhiskyGrotto blog in English that I’ve added the possibility to read my feed in any preferred language.
Look for the MLOOVI banner to the right. It contains our feed in Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, [...]

Make your voice heard and you might be the lucky winner of a bottle of Auchentoshan

This is a blog and blog-owners love when people leave comment on posts. On top of that I launched a small community the other week and I’d love to have more people giving recommendations on whisky, destinations, whiskyclubs, websites and more.
So, in order for something to happen I’ve decided to launch a competition that I [...]

Matt Mullenweg featured on Single Malt Scotch Episode

Who?
I think many of you might wonder, who the hell is Matt Mullenweg. Well, he’s actually the reason why this blog exists. In a far far way that is. Matt is the founding developer of Wordpress, the technical platform loved by thousands of bloggers around the world - me included.
So, when I noted that [...]

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