Christy McFarlane on Friday, 25 May 2018
Those who make the pilgrimage to Islay for the Malt and Music Festival (Feis Ile 2018) are in for a treat this year. We always throw a lively party and are often very fortunate with the sunshine, but this year things look and feel a little different....
by Christy McFarlane on 5th February 2018 in Exploring History
Today was a prominent day in Islay's history. The 5th of February marked 100 yea...
by Carl Reavey on 20th December 2017 in On Barley, Talking Whisky, Exploring History
We have now been distilling organic grain since 2003, fourteen years that have s...
by Iain Morrison on 11th December 2017 in Our People, Exploring History
Many moons ago the Scotland rugby giant that is Ian “Mighty Mouse” McLauchla...
by Carl Reavey on 31st May 2016 in Exploring History
The story of the Yellow Submarine has been full of character and characters righ...
by Carl Reavey on 8th April 2016 in Place, Exploring History, Other stuff
Hole and Corner is a magazine that celebrates "craft, beauty, passion and skill"...
by Carl Reavey on 27th November 2015 in Exploring History
Guard Archaeology have now completed the fieldwork phase of their investigations...
by Carl Reavey on 23rd October 2015 in Exploring History
The archaeologists working up at our new warehouse site at Coultorsay just south...
by Carl Reavey on 1st October 2015 in Exploring History
Our new warehouse project is starting to look as if it might unearth some intere...
by Carl Reavey on 19th August 2015 in Exploring History
Archaeologist Steve Mithen will be giving a public presentation about his lates...
by Harry Glennon A... on 27th April 2015 in Talking Whisky, Exploring History
By the Middle Ages, the wooden cask had consolidated its position as Europe's pr...
by Harry Glennon A... on 14th April 2015 in Talking Whisky, Exploring History
By the latter days of the Roman Empire, the use of casks was clearly widespread....
by Harry Glennon A... on 19th March 2015 in Exploring History, Other stuff
The cask gets its first written mention in the 5th century BCE when the Greek hi...
by Carl Reavey on 11th February 2015 in Exploring History
Stuart Graham of Portnahaven has produced an important book which collates all k...
by Harry Glennon A... on 2nd December 2014 in Place, Exploring History
Sadly the population of Islay is in decline....
by Harry Glennon A... on 26th November 2014 in On Barley, Exploring History
Peat is found in the acidic and waterlogged ground of bogs and fens. The anaerob...
by Carl Reavey on 2nd April 2014 in The Distillery, Exploring History
A team of engineers from Northern Fabricators in Elgin arrived at Bruichladdich ...
by Carl Reavey on 20th February 2014 in The Distillery, Exploring History
This rather poignant photograph shows Bruichladdich staff in 1994. It is evident...
by Carl Reavey on 10th January 2014 in Exploring History
It is over 80 years since the end of Prohibition in the USA in 1933. Since that ...
by Carl Reavey on 25th November 2013 in Exploring History
Lochindaal Distillery was built at the same time as the village of Port Charlott...
by Carl Reavey on 8th November 2013 in Exploring History, Place
The Rhinns of Islay is the western peninsula that comprises around a third of th...
by Carl Reavey on 27th September 2013 in On Barley, Exploring History
As a succession of wonderful Bruichladdich uber-provenance single malt whiskies ...
by Carl Reavey on 28th June 2013 in Exploring History
Was the spirit distilled at Bruichladdich when the brand new distillery first op...
by Carl Reavey on 24th June 2013 in Exploring History
Uisge beatha is just the Gaelic name for whisky – right? Well, not exactly....
by Carl Reavey on 3rd June 2013 in The Distillery, Exploring History
Three veterans of The Battle of Britain attended a signing session at Shoreham A...
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