Food Fest: Whiskey Galore

Published on Tuesday 19 August 2008 20:00

COOLEY IRISH WHISKEY ||WEBSTART||www.cooleywhiskey.com||WEBSTOP|| Visitors to the stall of Ireland’s only independent whiskey distillery at the Foodies producers market will get the opportunity to sample and purchase its award-winning pioneering brand, Locke’s eight-year-old single malt. A piece of Ireland’s whiskey history in a bottle, it was named after one of Ireland’s great distilling families and won a gold medal in the 2001 International Wine and Spirits Competition.

GLENGOYNE www.glengoyne.com Glengoyne has preserved the essence of its core single malt’s flavour for decades by using air-dried barley rather than barley dried using peat smoke. The result is a more subtle, complex whisky in which the delicate flavours can freely express themselves. Try one of the single malt range at Foodies.

MACLEOD DISTILLERS LTD, www.ianmacleod.com One of the largest and most widely respected independent family companies within the spirits industry. Try its “As We Get it … Straight from the cask”, unique and quirky single malt whisky made the old-fashioned way, bottled straight from the cask in the traditional manner.

WHISKY KITCHEN www.whiskykitchen.com Masterclass 1pm Saturday and Sunday. As Scotch whisky continues to rise in global appreciation and understanding, the timing of the Whisky Kitchen cookbook is perfect. Recipes such as Lochnager Chanterelles and Glenfiddich Rasin Bread are among the recipes which combine the food and whisky perfectly and make sense within the kitchen and the distillery.

HEBRIDEAN LIQUEUR CO www.hebridean-liqueurs.co.uk The family-run company created its whisky liqueur as a result of a customer’s request in 1996; it took a year to develop and is a top seller throughout Britain. It also produces a William Shakespeare whisky liqueur, which is sold in bottles identical to the style used in Shakespeare’s day. Its Clan Fraser ten-year-old pure malt scotch whisky contains single premium malts selected from Scotland’s prime whisky-producing regions.