Rampant Scotland Directory! Scottish culinary delights such as haggis - when in season... and many other traditional recipes can be found here. Of course, whisky companies pour onto the page and there are places to go to eat and drink.
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Traditional Scottish Recipes is an ever expanding collection of all the old favourites from drop scones to Scotch Broth plus cakes, desserts and cocktails. Look out for the recipes using Drambuie liqueur! The site has about 100 recipes and is growing all the time. Scotland Food and Drink from Edinburgh University has an extensive article here on culinary delights from Scotland, including haggis and meat pies. Elsewhere there is a special Prize-Winning Clootie Dumpling recipe which may have had its origins a long time ago in the Sunday Post Another comprehensive set of Web pages of Scottish Recipes covers such delicacies as Clapshot (an Orcadian potato and turnip(swede) dish) and Cranachan, Crowdie, Skirlie and Stovies as well as Aberdeen rolls (also known as Butteries and Rowies). There is a specific recipe for making Highland Oatcakes. Whisky Web has a selection of Recipes Using Whisky. Scottish Recipes is a very large selection of popular recipes plus some not often covered - Weetabix Cake, Collops, Empire Biscuits, Bacon Puff Parcel. Classic Scottish Cookery is by a real chef who explains some of the mysteries of cooking. Large recipe sites with search engines to allow you to find Scottish recipes include Internet Chef On-Line Magazine which provides even more Cooking Related Links. Welcome to Nick Nairn presents his restaurant and hotel and some of Nick's Recipes which are "international" rather than specifically Scottish. Stirrin' Stuff not only has recipes but also runs cookery workshops near Kirriemuir in Angus for 8/13 year-olds and has a campaign to encourage families to cook together. Celtic Connections Cookbook is in association with the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow to celebrate music and food as international languages that bring people together. The cookbook features a collection of favourite recipes from the many stars of the Celtic music world that have played at the festival over the past few years. Chef Recipe Archive covers a wide range of recipes, the search engine for Chef Recipe Archive turns up a number of Scottish items such as: This is the site of the 'World Porridge Making Championship' which has been running since 1994. In addition to providing details of the winners, the 'Porridge' page has recipes including the current champion's tips and the Porridge & Oatmeal Thesaurus. ("Spurtle" is the Scots word for the wooden spoon traditionally used to stir the porridge).
If you want to know about where to eat in style in Scotland, the book "A Taste of Scotland" has long been a useful guide. Now these select establishments are listed and described on this Website. You can wander around by region or town, or view the Winners of the Macallan Taste of Scotland Awards. I'm hungry already!
The Web version of the printed magazine concentrates on restaurants, bistros, cafes and bars in Glasgow (and Edinburgh). There are more than 800 places to choose from, covering all styles of eating and cooking from Scottish to Mexican and French to Chines. You can search by city, style and type of cooking or even alphabetically by name of restaurant. There are also special restaurant deals and booking facilities at selected establishments across the country. This UK-wide guide to restaurants and inns has a Scottish section leading to sub-pages on a number of Scottish towns. A feature of the site is presenting sample menus for each of the establishments listed. This site has a long lists of names and addresses of reastuarants in main cities and regions across the country with links to reviews. While these may increase over time, when the site was last visited (summer 2002) most had the message "We are currently waiting for a review to be submitted for this restaurant."
An extensive list of the best hostelries around Scotland. Dr Dave's Favourite Scottish Pubs is similar. Glasgow Pubs gives ideas of where to have a "wee refreshment" in the city. It includes graphics of some of the locations, including the famous Horsehoe Bar with its 114 feet island bar. Some serious research has gone into Glasgow After Dark, an extensive review of pubs and clubs in and around Glasgow.
A group of like-minded restaurant proprietors offering something to suit every taste and palate. You can find out about the style of food they offer in their Menu & Wine Guide. Included are excellent establishments such as Martins (my personal favourite in Edinburgh) and Prestonfield House plus Le Café Saint-Honoré and The Witchery By The Castle (much frequented by affluent tourists) and Jacksons. Haggis gets the French provincial treatment at this restaurant located at Eyre Place, Edinburgh. Malcolm K. Duck offers a range of Scottish and French cuisine and a wine list for the connoisseur. The wine list is on-line and you can examine the menu and even make an online booking. Contains advertisements for places to eat, as well as what to do and where to shop. This restuarant is situated in the heart of Royal Deeside, adjacent to Crathes Castle just 15 minutes from Aberdeen, offering contemporary European cuisine using the finest seasonal ingredients from Grampian's abundance of fresh seafood, game, poultry and beef. Open "from morning sun 'til dine", the food is served in picturesque surroundings and can provide bespoke menus, a private helipad, live jazz, fun casinos and all the paraphernalia of corporate entertainment. This "Taste of Scotland" restaurant in a remote location in the Galloway hills offers decadent light lunches such as smoked salmon scramble with champagne, or perhaps succulent panini grill of smoked chicken with Tarragon & Lime Creme Fraiche. In the summer season, the restaurant will often open for dinner by night. The restaurant is licensed and offers fine wines and champagnes. Located in Glen Nevis at Achintee, Fort William, at the very start of the Ben Nevis path and close to the end of the famous West Highland Way. In a 200-year-old building, it provides a wide ranging menu, live entertainment and spacious beer garden.
The Auld Alliance is situated in the heart of the Marais district in Paris, close to the Hôtel de Ville and the Bastille. The Web site gives a location map and information on Scottish Ales, Contemporary Scotland, Scots Literary Greats and Scots Links.
Arbroath Smokies sells online not only Arbroath Smokies, traditionally smoked and prepared in Arbroath, but also Hot Smoked Salmon. Ardtaraig Fine Foods of Scotland have been supplying smoked salmon for over 17 years and have added fresh oysters from Kilbrandon off the West Coast of Scotland, kippers and gourmet hampers and gift boxes of Scottish food Ayrshire Farmers Market Group are direct producers/suppliers in Ayrshire of meat, fish/game, fruit and vegetables, cheese and eggs, vegetarian foods and home baking. They have come together on this Web site to display their wares. Blackface.co.uk invites consumers and the restaurant trade to purchase Scottish meats 'direct from the hill' - Scottish heather bred organic lamb, haggis, iron age pork, oven ready grouse, partridge and bronze turkeys available to order online, direct from the producer. The lamb, haggis, organic lamb and mutton are all from the Scottish Blackface breed of sheep. The site also has a number Recipes showing how to cook lamb, pork, duck, partridge, pheasant and grouse. Bouvrage is a natural raspberry drink made in Alloa Scotland with the aim of making available the taste of fresh raspberries all year round. The juice of 1lb (450g) of Scottish Raspberries in every 750ml bottle - that's 50% Raspberry juice in every bottle. It's slightly sparkling, not too sweet and not alcoholic. Brits Abroad is your cornershop for British - and Scottish - products. Just try and ignore the Union Jack while you drool over Baxters jams and soups, Scott's Porage Oats - and John West Smoked Kippers! British Corner Shop supplies a wide range of British food and drink products to expats, whether Scottish or not. Items include magazines and books as well as food and drink. British Delights are based in Boston and has a wide range of food products - the Scottish-related items include Duncans chocolates, Walkers shortbread, Scots Porage Oats - and Irn Bru. The British SuperMarket has a wide range of UK and Scottish products including tasty McVitie's biscuits and quality Baxters soups. Caledonian Curry from a Scottish Kitchen based in Sutherland, supplies mail-order ready-made Indian food made from Highland beef, heather fed hilltop lamb, wild game and venison (ever tried Venison Vindaloo?) using traditional Indian techniques with a Scottish twist. Orders are delivered overnight. Caledonian Kitchen can supply award-winning traditional haggis in North America, particularly for catering and Burns Suppers. They also supply Irn Bru and Many Other Scottish food items. Casa Marchini established 1910, is Aberdeen's oldest Italian Ice Cream business in the true tradition of the many Italian Ice Cream businesses Scotland with over 60 different flavours. The company has a retail outlet in Aberdeen and is developing the wholesale ice cream and ice cream cake/gateaux side of the business. Now, if only ice-cream could be ordered over the Internet! The slogan for Duncans of Scotland for many years has been that Duncans is "The Scots word for chocolate". The site provides the story of the company and some of its products. Dundonnell Smoked Salmon has an on-line ordering form for the purchase of their smoked salmon from the head of Loch Broom. Exclusively Aberdeenshire has fine Scottish products such as shortbread like granny used to make, delicious smoked salmon from the river, fruits of the sea from the wild coastal waters, game from the hills and glens, arts and crafts and of course, tartan - the choice is yours. Expat Corner was developed to meet the demand for a "British Isles Supermarket" in Canada. It aims to provide a one stop shop for English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish food imports available for delivery in Canada and the USA.They carry over 160 products in over 30 different product lines. Expat Essentials is a British online supermarket where you can browse, shop, view recipes, exchange information through the message board, explore the links section, check the latest news from back home or find out about specific cultures and countries through the country guides. They can deliver right to your door in 237 countries worldwide. If you can't find what you're looking for, send a Product Request and they will do their best to respond within seven days. Expat Pantry has more than 20 themed parcels providing British expats with their favourite branded products. Scottish items are thin on the ground here but there are Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Biscuits, McVities Digestives and Golden Syrup Cake. Foods of Scotland is a catalogue containing details on over 220 companies located in Aberdeenshire, where you will find the whisky, shortbread, seafood, game, confectionery and much more. Galloway Smokehouse, based on the banks of Wigtown Bay, produces prize-winning smoked foods from kippers to locally caught salmon using whisky-cask sawdust. There's also trout, crab, lobsters, shellfish, cheese, paté, and game. Global Whisky Shop has a selection of single malt whisky for sale. They deliver it gift wrapped, anywhere in the world it is permitted to do so. You can search the site by distillery, name and region. Golspie Mill in Sutherland, is driven by water from the local burn (one of probably only three traditional water mills still working) and has been making a high quality range of flours and meals since being fully restored in 1992. Many of their products are organic; all of them are entirely free from additives and made with pure, milled whole grains and pulses. Among their specialities are peasemeal and beremeal, which are low in gluten and suitable for special diets. Gourmet's Choice despatches mail-order Scottish Smoked Salmon from the harbour at Portsoy in the North East of Scotland. The site has a description of the smoking process used. Great Glen Fine Foods is a Scottish Speciality Food Shop at North Ballachulish at the foot of Glencoe, which stocks almost all of the quality speciality foods made in Scotland. They have a selection of the best and most popular foods available by mail order or through our On-Line Order Service. Groovy Chocolate have developed a patented process to allow high-quality artwork to be displayed on a bar of chocolate using edible food dyes. They supply their individual and corporate gift chocolate all over the world. Hampers Online has perfected the art of simplifying your purchases of Scottish products whether corporate hampers or personal gifts. Hebridean Smokehouse is a small family run business located on the island of North Uist, part of the Outer Hebrides, set in the wild waters of the North Atlantic, west of the Scottish mainland. From their pristine environment they select the finest fish and, using only sea salt and peat cut from the Uist moors, they use traditional methods to produce smoked salmon and seatrout with a unique and distinctive peaty flavour, which they then send all over the world. Highland Beef is produced from one of the world's oldest breeds of cattle. The herd was established near Beauly, Inverness-Shire in Scotland and this naturally produced food can now be supplied and delivered throughout the UK. The site also has recipes which use Highland beef as a main ingredient. Highland Glen Scottish Market is a Californian company, run by Scots, with a range of foods and other products from Scotland. Dean's Shortbread, biscuits, and cookies, tea, coffee, and real Scottish Fudge made with real whisky (or without). Also Scottish tartan products from the Highland Glen Gift Shop. Inverawe Smoke Houses is a small family business, based on the west coast of Scotland, maintaining traditional smoking techniques, producing succulent, smoky flavours. Isabella's Preserves is an award-winning range of jams, marmalades and relishes made in a small production unit on a traditional Aberdeenshire farm using recipes developed by Isabella. Where possible, locally grown produce are used and they are attractively packaged with a real tartan ribbon seal. Just Miniatures is dedicated to the supply and distribution of alcoholic miniatures. They have an extensive range of Scottish Whisky miniatures, and have recently introduced Irish Whiskey, New World Whiskey, Whisky blends and a vintage collection. Laroch Foods in Argyll prepare and smoke its salmon and trout today as it has been for centuries - in a traditional smokebox over oak. Add a personal touch with one of their cards from the Scotland's Artists' range with your choice of message. Maciver’s of Scourie in the Scottish Highlands offers an international gift service which focuses on food hampers and Tea Fruit Cakes which use a recipe which has been passed down four generations of the family. Mackenzie Fine Food has a wide range of luxury foods from appetizers to desserts including Finnan Haddies and Loch Fyne kippers as well as smoked salmon and trout plus fresh Caviar, fine cheeses, Goose Foie Gras. On Line ordering and serving tips. Macsween Haggis Specialists, a Scottish family business which specialises in the production of traditional Scottish haggis. The award winning Macsween family recipe, handed down from generation to generation, is still used today. Marrbury Smokehouse is a traditional Scottish Smokehouse set amidst the Galloway Hills in south west Scotland run by the Marr family who come from a long line of Net and Cobble salmon fishermen on the local River Cree. Michelin star chef Andrew Fairlie describes it as the best smoked salmon he has ever tasted. Oysters From Loch Fyne also has smoked Scottish salmon, mussels, smoked shellfish, king scallop and, of course, tasty Loch Fyne kippers. There is an on-line ordering service. Paterson Arran Scottish Foods is a site for two companies - Paterson's specialises in traditional shortbread, biscuits and oatcakes while Arran Fine Foods produces preserves, mustards, chutneys and salad dressings. Pettigrews of Kelso have been supplying quality chutneys and preserves for over thirty years and their products are now available to order on the World Wide Web. The range of foods includes many speciality Chutneys such as Classic Tomato, Orchard Apple and Hot Gooseberry. In recent times these have been joined by Spiced Red Onion, Old Fashioned Plum and Spicy Pear. There is also a range of biscuits, shortbread. marmalades, jellies , preserves and mustards. Rerrick Cheese are cheese makers supplying retailers, delicatessens, hotels and consumers with Scottish semi-soft cheeses from their cheese farms near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. Scottishfoodanddrink.com is an online buyers' guide to thousands of Scottish companies and products; hundreds of links; trade leads; up to date news and events; business development initiatives. Scottish Food Boxes is a family business based in the Scottish Borders offering a range of quality products including small and large gift hampers with smoked salmon from Loch Fyne, wild venison from Rannoch moor, pates, salmon, trout and kippers from Inverawe Smokery on the West Coast, fresh oysters, mussels and langoustine, herring from Orkney, MacSween's famous Haggis, oatcakes, shortbread from the farmlands of the Borders, pickles and chutnies, marmalade and preserves, heather honey, fine teas and coffee, hand-made chocolates from Edinburgh and Malt Whiskies from across Scotland. Scottish Food Overseas is a supplier of traditional Scottish foods and merchandise. The company is based in Stirling and can deliver to the UK or overseas. Product list ranges from Baxters' soup to Tunnocks Caramel Wafers and tinned haggis to travel rugs and the "Oor Wullie" Annual. Special requests are welcomed. Scottish Grocer has a long list of Scottish food available in North America including Haggis and Irn Bru. Scottish Quality Trout from farm to shop promotes its products to both retailers and consumers with the overall aim of securing and developing the Scottish trout industry. Scottish Smoked Salmon Co. has a smoke-house is a mere two miles from the fishing grounds and after being smoked with island woods, the hand-sliced, vacuum-sealed packs are flown to Maryland. They even have salmon smoked with Tobermory Single Malt Whisky. The Scottish Store has Scottish food - smoked meats and fish, and a large range of cheese, selection boxes, tasty jams, preserves and chutneys too. Scottish Seawild Smoked Salmon - For the last five generations this company has caught and smoked fish in each passing on to the next, the unwritten recipe for the brining and smoking of the fish that gives Scottish Seawild Smoked Salmon its unique flavour. Spice of Life is a Scottish supplier of dried herbs and spices including an organic range with no artificial flavourings or colourings. Based in Bridge of Don in Aberdeen, they have an extensive selection of curry blends and a range of "easy peasy" curry packs to enable the home cook to replicate their Indian restaurant favourite. Spoff - Highland Muesli with fruit, nuts, herbs and flowers is a breakfast cereal made by Brin Herb Nursery in Strathnairn, by Inverness. Spoff is a unique range of mueslis using Scottish oats, organic branflakes and their own dried herbs and flower petals. The flavour of the herbs and flowers combines with dried fruit, nuts and seeds to produce an interesting range which includes Gluten Free, Wheat Free and Organic varieties. Stars & Stripes Catering based in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, can cater for functions big and small. They also make cakes in avariety of designs from team football shirts to Winnie the Pooh or can design one to your specification. Stockan & Gardens are well known for their prize-winning Orkney oatcakes - they have over 100 years experience in making these hand-made products from natural ingredients. But they also make delicious shortbread and a range of savoury biscuits. Sunfish Handmade based in Edinburgh makes wedding cake bride and grooms from wood, fabric and polymer clay. All handmade, with kilted grooms a speciality, sold to shops and also direct to brides worldwide. There is a large choice of trim colour, including 13 tartans, choice of hair colour and suits, tartan trews or kilts. Taste of Moray is a restaurant located at Gollanfield betweenInverness and Nairn, specialising in fish and shellfish, Aberdeen Angus steaks and other Highland specialties. There's home baking, and menus for lunches and afternoon teas as well as evening meals. Recipes at Ticky-Boo Tea Shoppe which is an on-line version of a printed cook book, has items such as Faux Haggis, Highland Hash, the Queen's Crumpets and Ross Clan-Bangers and Mash. Need I say more? Uig Lodge Smokehouse produces smoked salmon above Uig bay on the far West coast of Lewis, the largest of the Outer Hebrides. Only the finest locally sourced salmon is used for all smoking throughout the year. Uig Lodge has supplied its simple and traditional smoked salmon to several top hotels and stores for many years. Whisky Cakes is a range of single malt Whisky Cakes made to a traditional fruit cake recipe and produced in the Highlands of Scotland by Ashers, family bakers since 1877. The first showcases the characteristics of the Highland malt, the second highlights the smoky, peaty flavours of the Islands while the third reflects the smooth, refined tastes of Speyside. This is a perpetuation of the myth rather than the reality of the haggis but it also has the words of the Burns' address "To a Haggis" There are different varieties of Haggis Recipes including a vegetarian version. Haggis! - all you ever wanted to know about Scotland's famous "beastie" with loads of links to pages on the haggis! The Scottish Haggis Website is from haggis makers McKean's of Scotland, with information on the great chieftain o' the puddin' race, including how to cook it and also Burns' "address to a Haggis", Based on a book on the subject, the site describes the basics of cheesemaking and the history of its manufacture in Scotland. The impact of deregulation of milk marketing in the UK is also covered.
The World Of Scotch Whisky has a clickable map for each region with all the whisky distilleries marked on it. There is basic information about each distillery and also links to the owner's web site, where available. Opening hours for vistors, if available, are also given. Note that on each page, "more detail" gives more information including a photo. A first class and very comprehensive guide to all aspects of malt whisky. There is a Glossary & How Whisky is Made and a list of whisky companies and Who Owns Whom. Finding where the whisky is made is aided by an Active Map showing where they are located. The Whisky Historical Archive has a search facility to help you to track down information. There is factual information such as Mike Padlipsky's Research Notes While we may have our own favourites in whisky we don't usually get the opportunity to taste nearly all of them. The results and ratings here by Mike Padlipsky is an invaluable survey. Alternatively, refer to the tasting notes provided by Lapointe & Legendre. There is also a Malt Whisky Quality/Price Index and an Excel Spreadsheet There is even a library of Sound Clips (au or wav format) on how to pronounce all the names of the whisky. NOW you know how to pronounce Glenmorangie!
This site lists every available brand of Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Single Grain Scotch Whisky, Pure Malt Scotch Whisky and Blended Scotch Whisky. Sections of the site include suppliers to the Scotch Whisky industry, Scotch Whisky retailers, the distilleries of Scotland, the Scotch Whisky manufacturing process, how to drink Scotch Whisky and the Scotch Whisky collectors service. A comprehensive site giving a History of whisky and help in Enjoying Whisky (as if any help is needed - but the finer points are explained). There is also an extensive list of distilleries and malt whiskies. This is a very large site dedicated to all aspects of whisky - how it's produced, history, distilleries and brands, stockists and distributors. There is also a whisky store and books about whisky plus a whisky events calendar. Presented by the "Alternative Whisky Academy" in Denmark, there is a whisky lexicon, whisky encyclopedia, and an index of different whisky brands, with whisky pictures, whisky test notes and whisky information. Arthur Bell's Whisky Connoisseur Column in the Scottish Radiance online magazine has created an "Alphabet of Whisky" where you will find a word defined for each letter of the alphabet - from A for "age" and B for "Bond" to Y for "yeast" and Z for "Zing". Many of Scotland's distilleries were established on Speyside, among the northern foothills of the Grampian mountains. Seven of these distilleries and one cooperage (making the barrels for the whisky) have come together under the banner of 'The Malt Whisky Trail' to offer visitors to the area the opportunity to experience first-hand the history and the process behind the production of one of the world's greatest drinks.
All the distilleries listed are open to the public and there are details of each distillery:
Where to find the distilleries offering tours and a visitor centre in Scotland. The site has links to further information on all the locations. An A-Z guide to distilleries which are open to the public, particularly those in Speyside and the "Malt Whisky Trail". This is a destination guide to distilleries as well as a guide to scotch whisky, a shop, a gallery, free web based email and much more. Basic information about a number of malt whiskies, namely: And fine Blended Whisky is not forgotten either:
The group owns and operates seven malt whisky distilleries with a total capacity of over 22 million litres of alcohol - estimated to represent over 10 per cent of total industry capacity. The Edrington Group is also 50% owner of North British Distillery in Edinburgh, the largest Whisky distillery in Scotland, producing nearly 70 million litres of alcohol (nearly 20% of the grain whisky produced in Scotland). The site offers a Distillery Tour and individual distillery pages on the site include:
A nice site from the Glen of Tranquillity with a History of Glenmorangie and a Tour of the distillery . Describes the creation and history of its whisky and has details of its visitor centre. Heather Cream Liquer is produced here as well as the specific Malts : A brief history of the Aberlour distillery and whisky in general, including St Drostan's Well named after St Columba's nephew who established a missionary at the Aberlour site. He used the pure well water for baptism - a stone was later erected to mark the spring’s location and is depicted on the Aberlour label. The site also provides a few toasts to accompany the drinking of their whisky - and a screensaver. An unusual mixture for a premium brand whisky. A "Career Toolbox" in which Chivas Regal has gathered advice from respected career consultants - and they're at your disposal. Plus financial planning, entertainment - and a "Reality Check".... And there's a screen saver and entertainment too. Information about Scotland's oldest distillery and its conference centre and visitor centre plus a voucher that entitles you to an additional free dram at the Tasting Bar. There are also on-site competitions, streaming videos and an online shop. And of course, the range of malt whiskies available. The recipe dfor Whyte and Mackay fine Scotch whisky blend dates back to 1844, with over 40 of the finest malt and grain whiskies, the heart of which is the Dalmore Single Highland Malt. The site, with Macromedia Flash, is about the whisky, football, festivals and lots more. The Web pages of this popular brand of blended whisky contains information not only on how whisky is made but also illustrations from their quirky bird advertisements. There are also details of the Scottish Rugby Union (sponsored by the company) and other products in the Mathew Gloag range. There is a list of quirky links too! There are details on The Balvenie malt whisky here plus facts and anecdotes and some humour - and a contest with a bottle of Balvenie as a prize.
Information on the ditillery and how the malt is made, plus pages on 12-year-old and 21-year-old whiskies and their 30 year old Cigar malt. There is also information on the auction of a 62-year-old Dalmore which sold for £25,877.50, a world record for one bottle of single malt. This whisky has been reflecting the personality of this unspoiled jewel off Scotland's coast since 1810 and in addition to describing the distillery, the site also has notes on Jura itself. Whisky facts and history covering both malt and blended brands. Readers are invited to an "Online Whisky Tasting" where language used in whisky tasting is examined. Useful contributions earn their authors a free signed copy of a new book on whisky tasting! The history and nature of the following blended brands are covered in illustrated pages: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society "began as a group of friends who shared the price of a cask of fine malt whisky; only after many years did the syndicate open its doors wider". It has an on-line version of its Newsletter described as the only publication in the entire world 100% dedicated to malt whisky! Unfortunately the Tastings of malt whisky for Members of the Society cannot be on-line! The Society's UK Home Page provides access to articles from their printed newsletter, including extended descriptions of Lagavulin and Glenkinchie malts. Surprisingly, there is also a long article about bottled Highland Spring Water presumably to have with the whisky. There is also a detailed description of the traditional Burns' Supper Within these pages you will find a wide selection of mail order drinks, including what is claimed to be the largest selection of whisky available on-line. If all these descriptions of Scottish whisky have given you an appetite for the water of life then you can place an order, on-line, from a selection of 400 blended and malt whiskies. Selling over 250 different malts in bottle and miniature, plus how to order personalised labels with your own name on them. Whisky Rarities is a small specialist company based in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, which makes available online rare and unusual whisky for collectors and connoisseurs. There is an eclectic selection of out-of-the-ordinary malts and blends including Cask-Strength, Dead Distilleries, Limited Editions, Single Malts, Vatted Malts, Deluxe Blends. This site is only in German. It also has a quiz with a bottle of malt as a prize and a special culture section including a Burns Supper menu and recipes for Scotch Eggs and Mealie Pudding - all in German! With all the Web pages on whisky it is easy to forget that there is a large brewing industry in Scotland too. Caledonian Brewery provides a history of the company, its brands of beer, a list of pubs where it is on sale. It is claimed that heather ale has been produced since 2000 BC. The Web site gives some of this history and a list of suppliers - and how to brew it yourself. Scotland's "other national drink" making a change from all those whisky pages. The official Barrs Irn Bru site includes lots of technology from animated GIF's to Shockwave and plug-ins (if you have the plug-ins). The Tizer site is bubbling over with colour and fun, including the Smelsoft Driver (Version 1.3) and a competition entitled TIZ and TIZN'T. Setting a can of Tizer free does not, unfortunately, result in you getting a free can! Not a mention of the company and its product (at least, not directly!)
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