Posted in Enthusiasts, Misc, Sheep Dip on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The Sheepdipper will shortly be carrying the Spencerfield’s colours to the race tracks of UK, He is a four year old bright bay out of Weldnaas and Good Job (a Deep Run mare) Hes heading to Overton near lanark for his first race track on Feb 16th to have his first race track outing - after racing!!! [...]
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Posted in Enthusiasts, Sheep Dip on January 15, 2008 | No Comments »
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Considering the ingredients of a Haggis, (particularly the casing) isn’t Sheep Dip the perfect whisky to accompany a Real Burns Supper?
We think so. (Well we would wouldn’t we?)
With the great date, for the great man looming, we thought some of our readers [...]
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“George? …who’s George”…please get in touch, George. George kindly sent Paul O’Grady a mini Sheep Dip and a mini Pigs Nose explaining that his friend on Skye put his longevity down to a Pigs Nose each morning and a Sheep Dip each night …. please try this at home
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Last Thursday Alex delivered the first of the Spencerfield Spirit tutored whisky tastings for our FaceBook; Sheep Fold Group held in Edinburgh. The tasting focused on identifying the elements, which combine so beautifully to produce Sheep Dip and Pig’s Nose whiskies and on recognising the contribution made to the nose and taste by the [...]
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Thanks Nev, you’re a gent.
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Alex is in New York this week and will be at the WhiskyFest tonight.
The Malt Advocate magazine’s 10th Annual WhiskyFest is from 6:30 to 10:00 pm (last pour at 9:30 pm) and should prove to be a cracking evening.
With an amazing line-up of brand owners, distillery managers and master blenders from Scotland, Ireland and the [...]
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Posted in Sheep Dip on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We just received the following e-mail from a gentleman in America which made me think about the old debate over what, if anything, should be added to (presumably to enhance) whisky.
“Can you believe it, here I am, 76 years of age and I recently purchased my first bottle of Sheep Dip. Man, what a surprise. It surpasses [...]
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Posted in Pigs Nose, Sheep Dip on October 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We have been “on the road” so much this muddy summer that I quite forgot to make our Christmas cake. (Flickr set here.)
Walking with Doug and watching the tractor ploughing up the barley stubble jolted me from seasonal confusion and behold!, two Christmas cakes are in the larder maturing and steeping in the luxurious [...]
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The venerable and very well informed online magazine Whisky Pages wrote a nice piece about us this week.
Providing it’s readers with an outline of Spencerfield, a mini-bio of Alex and a decent tasting review of Sheep Dip and Pig’s Nose.
You can read the article yourself, on the www.Whisky-Pages.com website here:
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Once again we were out and about with the Spencerfield Horsebox at a fantastic country show.
This time it was the Scottish Game Conservancy Fair at Scone Palace, Perthshire.
With hundreds, nay thousands of visitors being introduced to the delights of Sheep Dip and Pigs Nose over the 3 day event, by way of our free tastings [...]
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