Last night I worked my first night out of two at the whisky expo which means that right now my head only works at half its normal speed and I smell like an industry of some sort ( Read more... )

It's that time of the year again, that magical day when I actually post something here!

Lately I've had the luxury of indulging myself in two of my greatest areas of nerddom. This last sunday I was at the prerelease of the latest Magic the Gathering set release, Conflux. It was a sealed deck tournament with 29 participants and I ended up at 15:th ( Read more... )

As you all know, I've been working on Stockholm Beer & Whiskey festival for the last couple of weekends and Saturday night/Sunday morning, it was time to wrap it all up ( Read more... )

Let's face it, this year there's only one game that really counts and right now, it's only hours away. Halo 3 is about to be released and I'll be one of those stupid sods who wait in line at midnight just to be sure to get hold of a copy. The store even called me yesterday just to make sure that I'd be there when they opened, as if I'd forget ( Read more... )

It's finally settled, I'm going to be working on this year's Stockholm Beer & Whiskey festival! I'll be working for a company called Pernod-Ricard, those who keep up with this blog know that I've been working for them before. It's usually a tasty experience ;)

It's on in just two weeks and, since I was born on a Sunday, my schedule is absolutely ( Read more... )

I thought I'd make up for my long silence by telling you all about an amazing whisky tasting I attended yesterday. The theme of the evening was the Duncan Taylor series, an independent bottler who recently has made quite a name for himself. Independent bottlers buy individual casks from different distilleries and make their own bottlings of them. ( Read more... )

To begin with, I have nothing against big companies in general. The free market system is a great idea but sometimes companies can be real bastards.

Anybody who knows me is bound to know that I'm a big whisky lover, you have even got a link to my whisky tasting club on the right hand side of this page. On our web page we've got a small web shop ( Read more... )