Month: January 2015

Tasting Experience of Old Bushmills

by Leif KWA on 22 January, 2015 in Distilleries

In 2013 KWA went to Ireland. Bushmills is located on Northern Ireland near the cost just around 40 km from Islay. So from Bushmills you can almost smell the peat smoke from the distilleries on Islay. But Bushmills doesn’t make whisky with peat. Bushmills whisky is a in the opposite direction, triple distilled and very smooth. The distilling in the… Read more →

Two down, three to go: the story of the visit to the famous Lagavulin destillery is here!

by Leif KWA on 18 January, 2015 in Distilleries

On the 2012 journey KWA visited Lagavulin. Lagavulin is located at the Lagavulin bay on the south cost of Islay. The area around the bay was ones a time the smugglers paradise. In the middle of the 1700 it have use to ben around ten illicit distilleries around the bay. So the area is holy ground for whisky lovers. It… Read more →