Laphroaig Distillery Live Webcast from Kentucky

Depending on where you are, and I guess most readers are from the UK, you can watch Laphroaig Distillery Live tonight, or better Saturday morning 26 September early, at 1.00am. The reason for this late night/early morning broadcast is the fact that the event will be held at the Maker's Mark distillery in Kentucky USA. If you are a friend of Laphroaig, and who isn't, you will have received your copy of the newsletter a couple of weeks ago and another one again today. In the unlikely event that you are not a friend you can read everything below and, if you like, sign up as a friend on the Laphroaig website. So far a staggering 361160 others signed up before you and they now have their own plot of land on Islay. Having your plot of land opposite the distillery gives you the right to claim your rent, a dram, annually in person at the distillery so what are you waiting for? You can signup at www.laphroaig.com/friends

Laphroaig Distillery - click for full size panorama

Back to Laphroaig's annual live webcast event. A quote from John Campells email: The online event will be happening on Friday 25th September at 8pm Kentucky time which I’m told is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). I believe that works out at 1am on Saturday 26th for the UK. I know this isn’t an ideal time for our FOLs in Europe but for anyone who can’t tune in, the video will be available a week or so later on the Laphroaig website for you to watch at your leisure. Continue reading.....

Of course I hope as many of you as possible tune in live as you will be able to submit questions to the panel (Kevin Smith from Maker’s Mark, John Hansell who is the Editor of ‘Malt Advocate’ and of course myself) during the show. Anyone whose question is read out during the live broadcast will be sent a special prize as well so remember to include your email address when you submit the question.

We also have a special webpage set up which has a countdown on it as well as some further information on the event. If you go to www.distillerylive.us.com and make sure you bookmark the page so that you don’t forget the address on 25th! We will be tasting a range of Laphroaig expressions including the 10 Year Old, the new 18 Year Old and finally the 25 Year Old. There are also some special items I am really excited about. The guys over at Maker’s Mark have found a famous chef who is going to come and cook some lovely food for us, designed to compliment Laphroaig and Maker’s Mark whiskies. Hopefully I can get hold of the recipes in advance so all you culinary experts can try out the recipes too.

As I mentioned in the last email we will also have a cocktail section. Thanks to everyone who has already emailed me their suggestions for cocktails, we’ve had a lot of fun trying out your recipes. Remember anyone whose cocktail is made during the show will win a special prize. If you still haven’t emailed your suggestion you still can, just drop me a line at info@laphroaig.com with the subject line: Distillery Live recipes.

Slàinte, John Campbell, Friends of Laphroaig web site

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