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Whisky

shakerman said:
The price isn’t bad, though I’d suggest the samples supplied are likely to be young and/or low abv. There are several online stores that sell whisky samples if you wanted to go that route, the key benefit being you can pick the whisky yourself.
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I'm not also convinced about these plastic pouches...I got free samples of the new range from Loch Lomond and they came in plastic sachets. I'm convinced they left a strange aftertaste
 

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£59 at time of posting usually a lot more, never tried it though I do have a bottle.
 
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Old Prestonian said:
I haven't been drinking or buying much of late but I'm seriously tempted by the latest AD Rattray offerings.
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Got my email but haven't had a look will check it out.
Haven't bought much at all this year so far probably single digits, but @bernardbresslaw has been to Campbell town this wee and has bagged us a few bottles from the cage and shop along with a couple of bottlings from the cadenheads tasting he done.
 
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moanjam said:
Got my email but haven't had a look will check it out.
Haven't bought much at all this year so far probably single digits, but @bernardbresslaw has been to Campbell town this wee and has bagged us a few bottles from the cage and shop along with a couple of bottlings from the cadenheads tasting he done.
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My reservation about buying the Rattray bottles is due to me heading to Campbelltown at the beginning of September.
 
moanjam said:
Got my email but haven't had a look will check it out.
Haven't bought much at all this year so far probably single digits, but @bernardbresslaw has been to Campbell town this wee and has bagged us a few bottles from the cage and shop along with a couple of bottlings from the cadenheads tasting he done.
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You're only allowed one per person per week from the cage now so you've got to be creative 😉
 
A clip from a recent Dramface article which touches on the Cadenheads shop and desperation and/or general wankiness of some customers
“Springbank shop was operating an initial six-person maximum, so when the gates finally creaked open, the two camping chair boys rushed in past the staff member, who was still securing the ground bolt for gate. They appeared 20 minutes later each carrying a case under both arms and decanting it into a nearby VW camper van, before heading back into the shop. They did this three times and, sensing the growing disquiet among the patiently waiting patrons, announced to us all they’d been here for three days already, and had done the same thing each day. Between eight and 10 cases each day means they took quite the haul - potentially 140 or more bottles of whisky between two blokes. Some in our queue looked impressed.”

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Cee Jay said:
A clip from a recent Dramface article which touches on the Cadenheads shop and desperation and/or general wankiness of some customers

“Springbank shop was operating an initial six-person maximum, so when the gates finally creaked open, the two camping chair boys rushed in past the staff member, who was still securing the ground bolt for gate. They appeared 20 minutes later each carrying a case under both arms and decanting it into a nearby VW camper van, before heading back into the shop. They did this three times and, sensing the growing disquiet among the patiently waiting patrons, announced to us all they’d been here for three days already, and had done the same thing each day. Between eight and 10 cases each day means they took quite the haul - potentially 140 or more bottles of whisky between two blokes. Some in our queue looked impressed.”

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I struggle to believe that tbf. The staff are usually quite stringent and will only let you in the shop once. And they implement the one bottle per person, per week strictly too. Taking the piss like that would easily see you banned. There's been many a release where I've fancied trying my arm at snatching a couple but don't want to get banned from the shop so have just left it. Been lucky on a couple of occasions and found the odd duplicate a week or more later when popping back in. I've actually seen the SB staff kick people out of the queue when they've re-joined in the past. For a recent LB release, the Chinese were dotted all over the queue, when one group came out they were jumping into cars/vans, getting changed and re-joining with their friends. People twigged though and they got peddled.
 
black-cat said:
I struggle to believe that tbf. The staff are usually quite stringent and will only let you in the shop once. And they implement the one bottle per person, per week strictly too. Taking the piss like that would easily see you banned. There's been many a release where I've fancied trying my arm at snatching a couple but don't want to get banned from the shop so have just left it. Been lucky on a couple of occasions and found the odd duplicate a week or more later when popping back in. I've actually seen the SB staff kick people out of the queue when they've re-joined in the past. For a recent LB release, the Chinese were dotted all over the queue, when one group came out they were jumping into cars/vans, getting changed and re-joining with their friends. People twigged though and they got peddled.
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Does seem hard to believe that level of piss taking and that staff would allow it…I would say that the reviewers/contributors on there seem pretty legit and nothing else posted since Dramface started has remotely seemed to have a whiff of bullshit about it.
 
Cee Jay said:
Does seem hard to believe that level of piss taking and that staff would allow it…I would say that the reviewers/contributors on there seem pretty legit and nothing else posted since Dramface started has remotely seemed to have a whiff of bullshit about it.
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I've been somewhat of a regular in the shop over the past couple of years, well not quite but been in a fair bit, and everything is labelled up as 1 per person, occasionally they allow 2 on some bottles. But that's yer lot, and they enforce it. The only way they could be getting 8 cases each at any one time is if each case is made up of completely different bottles, and being as SB don't sell enough different bottlings at any one time to allow that, I'm definitely calling BS. The only way to get around the bottle limit is to call in once the staff have changed over I'd suspect, but then you run the risk of being banned if a serial offender. I've seen them tell people off before, and chuck folk out of queues as I say
 
black-cat said:
I've been somewhat of a regular in the shop over the past couple of years, well not quite but been in a fair bit, and everything is labelled up as 1 per person, occasionally they allow 2 on some bottles. But that's yer lot, and they enforce it. The only way they could be getting 8 cases each at any one time is if each case is made up of completely different bottles, and being as SB don't sell enough different bottlings at any one time to allow that, I'm definitely calling BS. The only way to get around the bottle limit is to call in once the staff have changed over I'd suspect, but then you run the risk of being banned if a serial offender. I've seen them tell people off before, and chuck folk out of queues as I say
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Yeah I mean I contacted Mitchell’s before about some clear piss taking retailers and they were clear that they wanted to stop owt like that.

Not like the article is some random bloke on FB though, maybe a fair bit of exaggeration going on
 
Cee Jay said:
Yeah I mean I contacted Mitchell’s before about some clear piss taking retailers and they were clear that they wanted to stop owt like that.

Not like the article is some random bloke on FB though, maybe a fair bit of exaggeration going on
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Just a bit, aye
 
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