Charles Maclean has been researching and writing books and articles about whisky since 1981.
George cooks food while making you laugh.
Fancy five free drinks? Two of the world’s leading alcohol experts return with a hilarious quiz show that gets the rounds in – in more ways than one.
Arbikie is Scotland’s leading field-to-bottle distiller and the world’s first single estate distillery producing vodka, gin and whisky from the crops (barley, wheat, potatoes a…
Celebrate the return of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at V&C with this relaxed, tutored tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines: Prosecco, Metodo Classico, Spumante and more.
Start your day with a campatious event fuelled by quality wine, a tasty snack and some low tone.
Since we were formed in 1983, we’ve believed in doing things differently.
Join The Rhythm and Booze Project duo as they play you a set of stomping blues music and serve you three top quality drams.
Join Francesco Cardinale for an informative, informal relaxed tutored tasting of delicious sparkling Prosecco, Metodo Classico and other fine fizz.
The Scottish Gantry Rum Sessions will welcome you to enjoy some of the best rums in the world.
Charles MacLean has been researching and writing books and articles about whisky since 1981.
The Scottish Gantry Gin Sessions welcomes you to enjoy some of the best gins in the world.
The Scottish Gantry Whisky Sessions will welcome you to enjoy some of the best whiskies in the world.
Dramspotting: The Ultimate Whisky Podcast, Live.
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
In this fully immersive tasting experience, you sample five different whiskies from the very young to the old and rare.
A sensory experience, teaching you how to nose and taste whisky, helping to discover the perfect dram for your palate.
Come taste and learn about whisky with Blair Bowman, the author of the bestselling Pocket Guide to Whisky, featuring the WhiskyTubeMap.
Arbikie is Scotland’s leading field-to-bottle distiller and the world’s first-single estate distillery producing vodka, gin and whisky from the crops grown on our farm (barley,…
Robert Graham is celebrating its 145th Anniversary this year and we have organised some fantastic educational whisky tasting afternoons in our atmospheric underground tasting room …
Step behind the old horse stable doors and discover Summerhall’s very own brewery: Barney’s Beer.
Home of the largest single malt, single cask collection, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society invites you to a three dram tutored whisky tasting like no other, in the company of our bran…
Discover a world of flavour on an expert-led guided tour at Edinburgh’s only single malt whisky distillery, the first in the capital for nearly 100 years.
Join Francesco Cardinale for an informative, relaxed tutored tasting of delicious sparkling Prosecco, Metodo Classico and fine fizz.
Take a gin jolly with Pickering’s Gin in their home at Summerhall Distillery.
Brand-new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage.
Stand-up comedy with real food, cooked live using power tools, and then the audience eats it at the end.
Come, taste and learn all about Arbikie’s family of world award-winning field-to-bottle gins from the Arbikie Ambassador team.
Get off the tourist drag and on the gin trail! See the New Town through gin-tinted spectacles with gin cocktails, G and T marshmallows, chocolates and gin-cured salmon on this fab …
You first descend into a low-ceilinged basement.
Experience authentic light jazz by our in-house pianist, while also enjoying the Scottish Cafe’s award-winning afternoon tea.
A Whisky Masterclass with the legendary Charles MacLean.
Escape the crowds and explore Leith with a local through its beer scene, past and present.
Each evening we will be performing our sultry cabaret which includes three free samples of either whisky or gin in your free shot glass as we inform you how whisky and gin are made…
A boozy history of Scotland held on the most unique of venue – on board The Lochrin Belle canal boat.
Experience all that is great in Scotland.
Fringe first for this unique, entertaining, interactive single malt experience, featuring a taste of Scotland’s best gastronomy at Cannonball.
Two actors play 25 characters in this Edinburgh and London hit transplanted to a specially created 1940s-style venue unique to this show, celebrating the 50th birthday of Croft and…
Home of the largest single malt, single cask collection, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society invites you to a three dram tutored whisky tasting like no other, in the company of our bran…
Two actors play 25 characters in this Edinburgh and London hit transplanted to a specially created 1940s-style venue unique to this show, celebrating the 50th birthday of Croft and…
Take a gin jolly with Pickering’s Gin in their home at Summerhall Distillery.
Join us exactly 50 years after the first TV broadcast of Croft and Perry’s classic sitcom to celebrate the show’s golden anniversary, as two actors play 25 characters in vintage ep…
You are guaranteed to be off to a great start when you step into the gorgeous Merchant’s Hall with a G&T in hand.
Katherine O’Neil really knows gin.
George Egg is a hybrid chef and comedian.
If you’re also the kind of person who thinks that you can’t go wrong when starting with a G&T then this is the event for you.
Sherlock Holmes, whisky lore, and a wee dram in a haunted venue! Join Scots whisky expert Charles MacLean and Sherlockian author/expert Bonnie MacBird as they talk history, murder …
Take a journey to a woodland campfire hideaway within the unique setting of a former biscuit factory.
Ever wanted to drink whisky, eat cheese, chocolate and scotch eggs while cruising along a canal? Well now you can! Scotch Egg Club brings you a Whisky tasting with a difference, wh…
A Scottish malt whisky tasting in the historic Captain’s bar.
Join a small group tour of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town, followed by a tutored tasting of four Scotch whiskies.
Bluebird Tea Co are on a mission to make you happy with a cuppa.
Pardon me, but The Gin Whore Tour may have affected my ability to form coherent sentences.
Embassy Court’s time-travelling cocktail bar is visiting the future.
Shit-faced Showtime is the all-singing, all-dancing, all-drinking phenomenon from the professional piss-heads behind Shit-faced Shakespeare.
“Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Join the brewers of Gem Electric house ale Bison Beer and host i-am-Doe (“An original and infectious talent”, (The Evening Standard)), for a fun evening of music, comedy and delici…
Brighton’s award-winning Curry Leaf Cafe is running a series of interactive talks & cookery masterclasses at its new Kemptown Kitchen.
George Egg, the stand-up comedian who cooks onstage using absurd and innovative techniques, returns.
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Join us at Foodies Festival, the largest food and drink festival in the UK, returning to Hove Lawns this summer on the bank holiday weekend of April 29th - May 1st.
Much has been said and written about gin but Dorothy Parker probably uttered the most appropriate for this event.
The Edinburgh Fringe ‘smashed’-hit Shit-Faced Shakespeare returns in its seventh year to perform Measure for Measure in its unorthodox and unique inebriated manner.
Gin is on the up.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
Imagine you’re fifteen.
Global sell-out show 2010-2015.
Discover the history of the Auld Alliance with a very special oyster and champagne tasting at Cannonball Restaurant and Bar, situated in a 16th century townhouse at the top of the …
Edinburgh Gin’s Evening of Literature and Liquor returns for a second year after last year’s sold out dates.
Your chance to meet our whisky ambassador and learn about the history of whisky.
Howdy partner! There’s a western movie week you can’t pass up.
Scran, bevvy, general flumgummerie.
Experience the delights of India with a blend of delicious Indian street food and traditional dance.
The two most award-winningest comedians at the Fringe ever (probably) being really funny in a tent for free (bring money).
The Gait Bar, 232 Canongate Royal Mile hosts a special Fringe Craft Beer and Food Matching event: four to six courses paired with beers from different Scottish craft breweries ever…
Join a fun and informative walking tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town, followed by a tutored tasting of four single malt Scotch whiskies.
This is an entertaining and informative tasting, aimed at those who would like to improve their knowledge of whisky.
A screening of Satyajit Ray’s 1963 classic ‘The Big City,’ accompanied by Indian street food.
Five afternoons of energising art, food and wellbeing! Eat your happy and put a tang in your step this May.
Embassy Court’s time-travelling cocktail bar returns to celebrate this modernist building’s 80th birthday.
Population growth, climate change and food inequality mean we need to take a fresh look at what’s on our plate.
Gin has a bad reputation. Encounter the history and the mystery of this most British of Dutch drinks. A cabarlesque tutored tasting of one of Britain’s favourite tipples.
May 6 marked the official opening of Brighton’s famous Fringe Festival, with glorious sunshine all day and a wonderfully warm evening, the British weather played its part in…
Get creative and learn to blend your own teas with Brighton’s tea mixologists, Bluebird Tea Co.
Enjoy a taste-bud-tickling day out at the UK’s biggest celebration of food and drink.
Much what it says on the tin, Edinburgh’s Gin Night of Literature and Liquor waltzes you through the history of gin distilling and the drink’s use and abuse by the literary world’s…
The Hendrick’s Emporium of Sensorial Submersion is yet another triumph for the phantasmagorically fertile imaginations of the genial geniuses of gin.
Live podcast recording and variety show in aid of Peruvian Kettle Syndrome.
Like bagpipes, deep-fried mars bars and kilts, eating porridge is one of those ‘typically’ Scottish clichés that gets bandied about far too often.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
A culinary conundrum.
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
If nothing else, Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham have cracked the formula for Fringe success: a crackingly funny show, interesting facts and (perhaps most importantly) lashings of bo…
Foodies Festival attendees are welcomed with some free cider, ice-cream, and a range of other delicious freebies to try.
The Edinburgh Gin Company has left its distillery behind and moved to The Boards in the Edinburgh Playhouse to tell a brief history of the city’s alcohol and gin heritage along w…
In this debut performance, Miss Bellini will play, sashay, season and sauté an evening of song and salacious sensations that will pique your senses and get your juices flowing wit…