As you can see from the logo there was going to be a good turn out from some of the newer distilleries as well as the more established and of course a great bottler.
Twenty free tickets were made available and all were snapped up quite quickly - as well as the usual band of dodgy bloggers and vloggers there were some locals visiting the House of Malt shop in Carlisle for some free drams.
This blog gives an overview of the evening and I'll do more in-depth blogs of each of the dram providers!
The Great Big Malted Meetup 2017 took place at The House Of Malt in Carlisle
The shop is owned by Ben, Mike works there! They sell a large range of whiskies, gins and vodkas and an ever growing range of craft beers. They also sell online from www.houseofmalt.co.uk
It's a great venue to hold a whisky tasting..
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| Inside The House of Malt |
...but we actually started off with some Temu Gin, House of Malt have a UK exclusive on this Monk distilled gin all the way from Finland!
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| Crafted from rare wild forest ingredients deep in the Finnish Taïga—the last primitive, untamed forest wilderness of the North |
The meet up was due to start at 7pm but all those thirst bloggers turned up early to swap samples, meet face-to-face for the first time and share stories. It was really great to meet people for the first time when your only previous contact had been over twitter!
All the bloggers sat at the back of the room leaving the front for the locals!
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| Blogger's Corner! Photo @JWBassman_ |
It was great to meet Grimm @GentlemanGrimm, Vin @NNWhisky, John @JWBassman_, Daniel @Whisky_Viking and Sarah @iheartwhisky for the first time 'in the flesh'.
A few samples were exchanged, some from secret suitcases!
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| Sample Suitcase! |
As each of the distillery / bottler reps arrived introductions were made, more samples were tried and stories swapped (we hadn't even started for real!).
The drams to be tasted were lined up, unfortunately the Lakes Distillery were a little late so I didn't get them included in the line-up:
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| Part of the line up! |
The plan for the night was:
- Abbie and Chris from Cooper King, but drinking a dram from Tomatin (Read more here!)
- Jan from Douglas Laing (Read more here!)
- Maltman Mike and me presenting Wolfburn (Read more here!)
I'll add links to the individual blog entries above over the next few days!
Lots of whisky was drunk, some cake was eaten (some people ate a lot more than some others!) and real as opposed to on-line friendships made!
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| Me, John, Vin & Grimm |
It was a fantastic evening, many thanks to Maltman Mike for organising, House Of Malt for use of their beautiful premises, the dram suppliers Tomatin, Douglas Laing, Lakes Distillery & Wolfburn, Cooper King for driving all the way over from Yorkshire to tell us about their plans and all my fellow tasters for making it great!
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