Ardbeg distillery on Islay has announced the sale of 1,000 bottles of whisky with a difference. Each one weighs 6.5kg (14lb), is 52cm (20.5in) high, and will be priced at £350. Ardbeg Mór 10-year-old is 57.3% cask strength and is claimed to be the largest bottles of single malt on sale anywhere in the world. [...]
Archive for August, 2007
4.5 Litres of Whisky in One Bottle
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Rabbie’s Hip Flask Auction
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An 18th century hip flask, which once belonged to poet Robert Burns, is to be auctioned in Edinburgh later this month. No doubt it was well used when it was owned by Scotland’s hard drinking national poet. He gave it to a Captain Rutherford at Hunthill, near Jedbirgh, in the Scottish Borders, when the poet [...]
Whisky Heated Hospital
Posted in Articles on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Whisky distilleries use a lot of heat in their processes and normally that heat just gets lost in the atmosphere. But Pulteney Distillery in Wick in the far north of Scotland is already piping its waste heat to local homes and from October, Caithness General Hospital will be connected to the system – making it [...]
Edinburgh’s Highland Fling
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The biggest Highland Games ever staged in Scotland will be held at Holyrood Park (seen here) in Edinburgh in 2009. It will be part of a year of “Homecoming Scotland” events aimed at attracting people from around the world to visit or emigrate to Scotland. The games are being scheduled for the same weekend as [...]
Fire Closes Princes Street
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Edinburgh’s principal shopping street was closed on Friday as a result of a fire on the third floor of the historic Romanes and Paterson store in Princes Street. Police sealed off the surrounding area and it took firefighters four hours to bring the blaze under control. Firemen had to fight hard to stop the blaze [...]
