Posted in Uncategorized on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hairy Bikers star at Accrington, originally uploaded by Spencerfield Spirit.
Despite the snow the good people of Lancashire flocked to the Accrington Food Festival where the hairy bikers Dave Myers and Si King topped the bill - it certainly proved worth the trek for everone and we were thrilled when the boys after two busy days [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Selby Game Fair
Originally uploaded by Spencerfield Spirit
Snowdrops fading, daffodils flowering and spring advancing we set off for Selby Game Fair - that was after extensive remedial work to Dolly the Truck and the resultant MOT. It was touch and go whether works would be completed on time but they duly were and we arrived in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
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Here we go, again…back on the road, again…. la, la, la ………….and looking forward to it. Alex is just back from stores in Houston, Dallas and Austin, Texas then headed on to CostCo stores in Danville and Mount View, California. He was easy enough to spot as was the only one wearing tartan trews and looking sad because state California Liquor [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Drammies Award
Well a big THANK YOU to everyone who voted for us in the drammies. We did exceptionally well and as well as having the vote of three of the best whisky writers in the world have the accolade of being the second-most underated whisky in the world - not bad for a very small company and Glenfarclas who [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have produced a great little back-bar piece - a little wooden barrel, lined with sheep skin (fake) with brass banding. We tested them at the newly opened “Illicit Still” in Edinburgh last December at a whisky tasting with a great bunch of young and not so young people from Scotland, England New Zealand, France and Sweden and they proved [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Poor Dug, originally uploaded by Spencerfield Spirit.
It was a long, not-so-hot summer and a busy autumn Christmas rush so Dugs had his work cut out getting all those dispatches loaded and other general supervisory duties. Sad to say, whilst indulging in a few games of tag and general rough and tumble with Purdie, one of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
James Anderson, his wife (born at Spencerfield Farm) and five children left the farm in Inverkeithing in 1791 and crossed the Atlantic to work in Virginia.After a year or so, he was employed by George Washington as his farm manager at his Mount Vernon farm, the farm was mainly wheat and fruit. Interestingly it had [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Back to work Dug, originally uploaded by Spencerfield Spirit.
After a couple of weeks in the office wrestling with VAT and the likes we finally have a wee bit of professional help - in the form of a real bookeeper, with experience, to keep us right. Susan hails from Dunning a village in the Ochils somewhere in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
This from Jamie following last week’s Whisky Tasting:
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When we had a spare moment or two the other evening, we uploaded some new stuff to our ever-growing Flickr photography collection.
We’ve got photographs of the shows we’ve been to, pictures of Spencerfield, who we are, lots of shots from our tastings, and of course a whole bunch of the real star of the show [...]
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