Archive for January, 2012

January 27, 2012 0

Dave Broom on buying whisky: How much? As a present? Like wine, like whisky?

By in Tasting, The Butler Wine-Show

A final word from Booze Admiral Dave Brown while we had him. Something we find in the shops is people balking at the price of some lesser known or rare spirits: but some of them, as Cameraman has found out every night since we made our Rum special, are worth throwing in the extra penny [...]

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January 24, 2012 0

Burns Night Whisky with Dave Broom

By in Occasions, The Butler Wine-Show

It’s Burn’s Night: which means a sheep’s stomach filled with oats carried in by a man saying unintelligible sentences. Its also apparently means me wearing Cameraman’s kilt which he claims to have never worn with underpants, nor to have washed it for 14 years. We went to the laboratory/home of Whisky Dave Broom, one of [...]

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January 3, 2012 0

National Toss-A-Fruitcake Day

By in The Butler Wine-Show

Out with the old and in with the new – that’s the idea of National Toss a Fruitcake Day. It sort of works: shouting “piss off” to all the stodge and spice of the festive season by hurling the greatest symbol of it across a park accompanied by a primal scream. It being Pantomime season [...]

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