Guide to Whisky

Wei De's Journey: Maltstock Part 2

Day 2 at Maltstock Let's start with our morning breakfasts at Maltstock... It was prepared meticulously by The Hielander Scottish restaurant, a ter...

Wei De's Journey: Maltstock Part 1

Disengage, calibrate With travelling restricted and tight barriers put up around entry of visitors to different continents around the world, the i...

Why should you shake your whisky bottle?

Ever been at a whisky festival, seeing someone shaking the bottle saying "I am checking if it really has higher alcohol strength as the label says...

What's the best whisky for the summer

Just like wine or beer, whisky has different flavour profiles that you can match to different seasons. We tell you what the best kind of whisky for...

Top 5 best whisky cocktails for the summer

In this article we're going to give you our top 5 best whisky cocktails for the summer - and there's not a Highball or Old Fashioned in sight!

Should You Have Whisky with Ice this Summer?

Should you add ice to whisky this summer? It’s one of the most controversial questions of our age: ice in your whisky; nuclear disarmament; jam or ...

12 Year Old English Whisky – The Single Cask

By Sorren Krebs It is truly a very exciting time for English whisky scene. It is the dawn of a new era, it is the birth of a new industry sector a...

When is a whisky ready to bottle?

One of the questions we are commonly asked is how we decide when a cask is ready to bottle, as well as how we go about finding ‘good’ casks in the ...

Secret Spirit's Rum's Revenge tasting set

Top 5 Father's Day gift ideas!

Our top five gift ideas for whisky loving dads on Father's Day 2021.

Why Cask Strength Whisky is the Perfect Gift

Why Cask Strength Whisky is the Perfect Father's Day Gift

Cask strength whisky goes straight from the barrel and into the bottle. Distilleries often add water before they bottle their single malt whisky. ...

What is New Make Spirit?

Whisky is what happens when you put new make into a barrel and wait. If it’s scotch, that means taking new make and putting into an oak barrel for ...