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  • 06/04/12 — ‘excellent visit, good tasting’
  • 24/02/12 — ‘Absolutely Brilliant’
  • 07/06/12 — ‘Very interesting!’
  • 04/06/12 — ‘God Save the Queen! And St. George’s Distillery. Joy lived up to her name. Your tour puts Islay distilleries (Ardberg) to shame! Bravo!
  • 20/02/12 — ‘top tour’

Traceability

Highlighted this month by the shocking news of  horse meat being discovered in processed food, it is reassuring to know that at lizzie blogEnglish Whisky Co. we take traceability seriously!  As standard, we know which region our barley has come from, where it is malted, where our waste goes and where our water comes from, but we have also started a new journey in traceability.

 

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English Whisky Solera (and that’s not the ice cream)

lizzie blogSolero ~ is an ice cream brand, part of the Walls range, it is an ice cream lolly covered with fruit purée

Solera ~ Wikipedia states ‘is a process of ageing liquids by fractional blending in such a way that the finished product is a mixture of ages, with the average age gradually increasing as the process continues over many years. A ‘Solera’ is literally the set of barrels used for the process’. English Whisky Co. uses theirs for making St.George’s Pedro Ximenez. Continue reading

Winter Warmers

English flagWhat do you put in your hip flask? As a girl who loves to be outside as much as possible at all times of the year I am always looking for new hip flask fillers with this year being no exception. Usually this consists of a homemade sloe gin but last year was a busy one and my store cupboard is disappointingly dry! So I left my desk and headed down to the shelves of St.George’s Distillery to see what was there.

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