Aberdeen Gin Fest: Tipple and Tonic
When Life Gives You The Lemon Tree Go there, drink neat and forget absolutely all of your responsibilities. Or at least that’s what I’m planning to do. This will be our first time at the Aberdeen Gin...
View ArticleSpirit of Speyside: Distilled 2019
Whisky In My Jar We thought it would be a good idea to let Scott, whisky connoisseur and Aye 2.0, write about our time at Spirit of Speyside: Distilled. Now that you’ve been warned, take it away Scott…...
View ArticleOur Glasgow New Year: What Even Happened
Auld Acquaintance Was Forgotten Aye Aye, it took 4 days for the Glasgow New Year hangover to subside. It’s February and only now am I brave enough to write about my New Year plight. I’m making out that...
View ArticleAll Aye’s on the Citi Hotel Aberdeen
Citi Slickers 48 hours in the big smoke! We never get 48 hours in the big smoke. I felt full-on Carrie Bradshaw as I strutted around the city streets. We live in Cruden Bay so a trip into Aberdeen is...
View ArticleGranite Noir 2020: Poisoned Cocktail Party
Cocktail Killers Aberdeen’s unique writing festival has returned with the theme of crime and murder. We went along to the Poisoned Cocktail Party at the Carmelite Hotel for a nose and some poison. Our...
View Article9 Cheap Alcohol Brands that Taste just as Great
Alternative Cheap Alcohol Brands Looking for good cheap alcohol? Well, my friend, you have come to the right place. I was born and bred in the Highlands of Scotland where alcohol was put in the baby...
View ArticleAldi Cider Alska VS popular brand Kopparberg
Aldi Alcohol – Alska Cider I have been a fan of Kopparberg ever since Summer was first introduced to Scotland. We might only get one or days per annum of really good, really hot, really...
View ArticleJust a Johnnie Walker Black Label Whisky Review
Whisky Me Away My first experience with Johnnie Walker was on a flight from New Orleans to London, after a week of non-stop working (drinking) at Tales of the Cocktail. It was a Johnnie Walker Red...
View ArticleA Scottish Garden Brunch: Lockdown Saturdays
But Officer, It’s Just Tea Lockdown life is a drag huh? Well, not all the time. Sometimes it’s super fun, mindful and packed to the rafters with zen. But sometimes, it’s a drag. A real draaaaaaag. But...
View ArticleGin Tasting on The Edinburgh Gin Tour
Edinburgh Gin Tour It was a dreich Tuesday afternoon in Scotland’s capital city. We had been in Edinburgh for 4 days and finally the day of departure was upon us, so we decided to go out with a bang....
View ArticleNew Orleans Day 1: Initiation Station
My New Orleans Initiation Station One way ticket to the moon I have been in some states, but never have I been in 3 states in one day. By the time we reached Louisiana mama, American Airlines had...
View ArticleWilliam Grant & Sons Love Supreme Party TOTC 2017
William Grant & Sons Love Supreme Party And all that jazz After a busy day of boozing and snoozing, we were raring to shimmy on down to Love Supreme. When I say raring to go, what I really mean is,...
View ArticleBob Peters Punch Pop-up at The Ritz Carlton
8 Glasses of water a day seems difficult, 8 cocktails a day does not Our sensational escapades through the New Orleans streets brought with them a rather special invitation from the classic Ritz...
View ArticleAlma Grown Louisiana Cane Juice
If I cane drink it, anyone cane The Tales of the Cocktail registration process in the Hotel Monteleone was edging on testing for many in the queue. Us first time Tale tellers were so busy taking in the...
View ArticleMeet the Distillers Happy Hour TOTC 2017
A Grand Afternoon ‘If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it’ – Willy Wonka Meet the Distillers is an...
View ArticleSailor Jerry – Interview with Brand Ambassador ‘Gravy’
It’s all Gravy, baby The Louisianan humid heatwave was sending me in to a thirst frenzy and the thought of a raunchy rum packing a punch was a fate worse than teasing. Meeting with ice cool Sailor...
View ArticleBombay Sapphire Most Imaginative Bartender Spirited Dinner
Celebrate good times Bombay Sapphire is the gin that showed all other gins that gins are king. In the current gin craze, with our home of Scotland making 70% of the UK’s gin, we are excited to see how...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg Party with Diageo
Welcome to The Dogg House During our media trip in New Orleans, we attended the worlds largest cocktail festival. It is called Tales of the Cocktail and it is the complete opposite of pointless. We...
View ArticleThe Singleton of Glen Ord Distillery Tour
The Singleton and I go way back Scott loves whisky, I like gin. However sometimes when whisky is free, I like whisky and gin. During our initial run in with The Singleton Whisky, I was up to my eyes in...
View ArticleClydeside Distillery Whisky Tour Glasgow
Clydeside Whisky [one_half padding=”5px 5px 5px 5px”] [/one_half] [one_half padding=”5px 5px 5px 5px”] [/one_half] Glasgow is number one in Scotland for lots of things; size, music, sport, media,...
View ArticlePutting Gordon Castle Gin to the Test
Gordon Castle Gin Yet again, I’ve been caught sipping gin but that probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering everything. Gordon Castle Gin comes from the beautiful Scottish walled gardens...
View ArticleTomatin Distillery Tour
Single Malt Whisky on the Tomatin Distillery Tour What convinced me to start blogging? Could have been the whisky, might have been the gin. However, it mostly derived from my passion for travelling and...
View ArticleThe Teasmith Gin – Putting the TEA in G&T
Cuppa Teasmith There is nothing better than coming in from the elements to a nice, homely cup of tea. But what if that tea was mixed devilishly with a tasty kick of gin? You heard me right my friends....
View ArticleTales on Tour 2018: A Shot of Edinburgh
Tales on Tour BABY Question 1: Where is the best place in the world to drink? Answer: Scotland Question 2: Where is the second best place in the world to drink? Answer: New Orleans All the way from...
View ArticleThe Printing Press Edinburgh Review
Bite Me We were recently invited for a meal and cocktails at The Printing Press within the Principal Hotel because we have a really difficult life sometimes. They must have picked up on our ample...
View ArticleTales on Tour: The Edinburgh Highlights
It’s Beginning to Look alot like Cocktails We recently welcomed the Worlds Largest Cocktail Festival, Tales of the Cocktail to Edinburgh for Tales on Tour 2.0, The Scottish Holiday. The Tales of the...
View ArticleCaffeine Dreams: July’s Tipple Box Cocktails
I Like to Sleep all Day and Party all Night Ha! Next joke. I like to sleep all day and all night. I am getting old AF and just can’t handle boozin’ like I used to. If anything has improved over the...
View ArticleBramble Stoker: August’s Tipple Box Cocktails
Let the Games be Gin You can’t buy class. But you can buy cocktails. And that… is the next best thing. Cocktail creation can become a pretty ‘spensive hobby if you haven’t a flippin’ clue what you’re...
View ArticleStormy Boozing with September’s Tipple Box
Storming through September’s Tipple Box Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock’n’roll, you’ll know that the UK recently had its first named storm of the year. Storm Ali arrived in all her windy glory...
View ArticlePreparing for a Luxury Christmas with Prestige Hampers
It’s a Prestige Hamper darling So guess who spent the weekend in her pyjam-mery, doused in chocolate and dusting breadcrumbs off her top? Ding ding ding. Moi. We actually missed our Prestige Hampers...
View ArticleLet it Sloe: Sloe Berry Foraging for Sloe Gin Liqueur
Let it Sloe, Let it Sloe, Let is Sloe Oh, the weather outside is delightful, but not for long. So now is the time to get out in the countryside with the birds and the bees, for a hunt through the trees...
View ArticleHot Stuff: November’s Tipple Box Review
It’s all fun and games until someone gets drunk Which was me. I totally get what SIA meant when she talked about swinging from the chandelier. Except I did it in fluffy socks and a coconut-coloured...
View ArticleBiggar Gin Review: 3 Easy Winter Cocktails
When the weather outside is frightful Which it was. Particularly on the North East Coast. We got the remnants of Storm Diana and wowza, did she shake her big stormy ass over Cruden Bay?! Our windows...
View ArticleWhat is Kombucha? No.1 Kombucha Review
Please Mr Postman We get boxes delivered to the house and I have literally no idea what’s inside them. Luckily Victoria’s in control of the madness that is our lives and usually guesses before I...
View ArticleCraft56° Scotland’s Craft Gin Discovery Club
You’re too shy shy Hush hush, eyes on the prize. So, on a scale of 1 to “would you be interested in finding out more about Craft56°: a new Scottish Gin Club? But the only rule about gin club, is you...
View ArticleHappy Hour: December’s Tipple Box Review
Shake Shake Shake Senora It’s unfortunate that Harry Belafonte couldn’t have joined us for our recent Tipple Box experience. But unfortunately, that banana boat has sailed. And you can probably tell by...
View ArticleThe Teasmith Gin: 3 Easy Tasty Cocktails
Take it easy, but take it I am all about the gin. Any excuse for gin and I’m in. But I’m not huge on gin and tonic, which makes gin tastings slightly awkward. But if there’s one thing that I’ve learned...
View Article5 Fun Places For A Drink In Edinburgh
5 Fun Places For A Drink In Edinburgh It won’t surprise any visitors to learn that Edinburgh has its share of wonderful bars. For that matter, it’s more or less a given that any big, or even...
View ArticleEvery Rose Has Its Syrup: Yandra Tea Company
A rose by any other name Would taste as sweet. My first experience with a rose drink was in a hotel which we reviewed last year. When asked what I would like to drink, I asked the barwoman to surprise...
View ArticleFebruary’s Tipple Box: French Gin Martini Recipe
Voulez Vous Ah ha… Ah ha… I feel like it has been way too long since I reviewed a Tipple Box. And this totally isn’t through choice. Imagine having no time to drink? What a life burden. I have had a...
View ArticleCold Town House: Something’s Brewing In Edinburgh’s Grassmarket
I’m just a Cold Town girl I’ve been itching and scratching to get into Edinburgh’s exciting new £4m development in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket. I’m actually kind of devo as we recently stayed at The Apex...
View ArticleSailor Jerry Returns to Scotland: Ahoy Alba
A Spiced Rum Always Made a Good Sailor Where did our love story with Sailor Jerry begin? Well, SJ and I go waaay back. Trust me. But Scott was a Sailor virgin until he popped his spicy Jerry at the...
View ArticleMy Pirate Life: Sailor Jerry Trims and Tattoos
May your cork always be loose I thought love was only true in fairytales, meant for someone else and not for me. But I found spiced rum. And the rest is history. When I was a kid, I didn’t want to be a...
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