Formerly known as Drambusters Whisky Festival

Our 12th Whisky Festival took place on a dreich day at our usual venue, Easterbrook Hall in the Crichton Estate, Dumfries. The damp conditions didn’t put off the large queues forming in advance of the doors opening and the crowds piled in at 12 noon with the hall filling up quickly. There were 43 stands of drinks including a couple of foodie ones for extra choice and our on site shop was busy from the start. As always, we had a full complement of staff both around the hall and in our pop up shop.

Andy, our brand and web developer was on hand taking photos and videos of it all happening and these will be posted up as soon as we can. Many of you would have spotted him dotting around with his big stick .. to much amusement on the day!

The Golden Dram was a return to the fray by Claxton’s Spirits with their Mannochmore 34yo Warehouse No. 1 Single Cask. You may remember that they won in 2022 with their Ben Nevis 25yo. Interestingly, the second place in the votes is worth a mention as it was the Bladnoch 19yo PX Cask which won the Golden Dram in 2023

The 43 stands showcased 229 different products from locally homemade tablet at £3.50 to the Bladnoch 30yo at £880 so there was something for every pocket. As normal, the ‘whisky cloakroom’ was really busy with customers making their purchases as they tasted (and before the favourites sold out) and leaving them in the safe keeping of our ‘cloakroom’ staff to be collected on departure, or from our shop in the following week.