http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary WWW.WHISKY.CO.UK Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:14:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ladybank members have begun a series of London based tastings to look closely at different malt whiskies and how the production process influences a variety of single malt whisky characteristics. Not only the peat level, and how young peated whiskies are becoming a very impressive new trend (surprising results have been created ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/27 While this is how things looked on Friday 6th, what is becoming far more interesting about the project to create a membership distillery at Ladybank are the real foundations of how we are approaching making whisky as a club. The foundations are the people we have and how they are behind the project and  interacting with it. We are having our second members meeting in London this week. These meetings, the first time ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/26 Now that our building conversion is progressing - and there are the early signs of where we will distil, where we will entertain etc - we asked a few local members to come round for an informal meeting. Amongst our current 350 worldwide members just over 10% are based in Scotland ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/25 You can see exactly how we are tackling our old buildings, starting with some re-roofing, in the online photo galleries links below. We are using a photo album that draws pictures from our www.flickr.com account so people can comment, or ask about any particular photograph, if they click through to ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/23 This was where the Stillroom roof had got to yesterday. The two stills will sit in the space photographed, but on a mezzanine floor level. The oak roof trusses have been designed to allow enough space for the top of the stills to reach up into the roof space. This is the ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/22 It is not commonly known that the different styles of Single Malt whisky are not determined by location; it's just that - to be general -  mostly the Islay region produces smokey whiskies and the Speyside region produces less smokey whisky where some sweetness and cereal fragrance is easier to identify. That's pretty general ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/21 Cleary there are many, and existing members are able to choose what level of involvement suits them. For example on July 4th we lanched our Online Distillery Boardroom where members are currently comparing thoughts and ideas about the finer details of how the club will be structured to their benefit. ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/18 This is our stillroom! No roof, no still, no whisky yet. I expect the whole of the oak frame roof to be pretty much completed by the end of next week - so we'll update with a new round of pictures then. http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/17 Another new distillery is being built in Norfolk and work started a few months ago. Here at Ladybank we had to go as far as Norfolk to find enough reclaimed pantiles to restore our roof in the traditional way. The guys at the Norfolk distillery meanwhile had to come as far as Scotland ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/15 A nice journalist from New Jersey, Mark Gillespie, has been recording whisky related news via downloadable audio files (podcasts) from his whiskycast.com site. Mark kindly rang up this morning to do a quick interview for his 56th podcast which he says will be available in a few days.   I was in a bit ... http://www.whisky.co.uk/diary/archives/14