Category: event
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Burns Night 2025
The birthday of Robert Burns on 25 January is an opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s southern-most whisky distillery. We probably all associate Robert Burns with his love of whisky, but we sometimes forget that he was also an excise officer – fighting the smugglers and illicit stills. Poetry wasn’t big business in those days and when…
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St Andrew’s Day 2024
St Andrew’s Day and time to celebrate a Scottish gin. I was in Galloway last week and took the opportunity to seek out the Dark Arts distillery in Kirkcudbright. It’s a wee gem. It’s part of the Johnston – a former primary school – which also houses the Dark Space planetarium. You can’t miss the…
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Island adventure
Manx Lit Fest I’ll be visiting the Isle of Man this month. I’m hosting an evening of stories, music, art and gin at the Fynoderee Distillery in Ramsey on 27 September. There’s a G&T on arrival before my talk about modern gin-making and what inspires the people crafting the spirit. I will be joined by…
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Festival time
Author on the stage at Edinburgh Foodies 2 August
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Summer Garden Party
What makes gin Scottish? Find out at the Summer Gin Party on the terrace at One Square at the Sheraton, Edinburgh on Friday 12 July. Bite magazine and One Square, the bar at the Sheraton hotel, are putting on a gem of a gin event. There will be serves of One Square Gin, Garden Shed…
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Big Big Masterclasses
Festival date The Gin Clan author Fiona Laing will be giving masterclasses on Scottish gin at the Big Big Gin Festival at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on 26 and 27 April. The festival brings together all things gin over three sessions and Fiona will join a line-up of experts for breakout sessions for festival-goers who…
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Blackwell’s launch
Gin Clan Launch event, 2 April 2019 Time to have a formal launch of The Gin Clan and Blackwell’s on the South Bridge in Edinburgh is hosting it on Tuesday 2 April. My close neighbour Leith Gin is sponsoring the event so guests will be welcomed with a G&T. You get the chance to meet…
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