Who Have You Met From The Forum?

by **Wave** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:44 pm

I met C_I at the Speyside festival as we were both at the same B&B in Elgin and the nice chap from Cadenheads (sorry I can't remember your on-line name, I'm out of my element!) and Monday I met Willie JJ for a few (!!) drams, had an excellent time!

Cheers!

by **Ryguy** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:54 pm

Wave, It sounds like you're having a great time!! Enjoy the rest of your trip!!

by **Wendy** » Thu May 15, 2008 5:19 am

Lawrence wrote:At the Spirit of Toronto this last weekend I met Frodo, MarkG, Harry Pulley and Peter Alcamo.

Wendy was there also!

Nice to put faces to names finally!

Lawrence

This time around, I didn't meet anyone "new" from the forum, but it certainly was lovely to see everyone together and enjoying one another's company at the Spirit of Toronto festival.

Cheers,
Wendy

by **TheShrink** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:30 pm

TreacleSponge.

But she's mad as a sack of rats, so best avoided

by **martin grant** » Mon May 19, 2008 2:18 pm

This weekend I had the great pleasure of meeting up with (in no particular order)

bobbyb
butephoto
john mcgill and
willie jj.

A pretty good weekend indeed

by **Spirit of Islay** » Mon May 26, 2008 5:12 pm

Met up with bobby(b) yesterday at Bruichladdich , today at The Maltings caught up with Patrick (Corbuso) who also let me look at his bottle of Port Ellen ( well done for getting that !) . Just as we were finishing lunch in The Old Kiln Newbie came across and introduced himself .
Still have to see the others who i know are here , hopefully Willie will be either tonight or Wed morning and hopefully John McGill and Vitara7 will show at some point !
Hope they are enjoying the sun and festivities as much as we are .

by **Spirit of Islay** » Tue May 27, 2008 10:09 am

Finally got to meet the Life and Soul of the WM Forum "Oor Willie" , some guy ! Who , by the sounds of it , got into full swing of the festival as soon as he got to Caol Ila from the ferry.......

by **jmrl** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:06 pm

Wille j j, Nick Brown, Brucecrichton, Yangbrucey, Leither, Butephoto (almost forgot the 'e')

And perhaps Lawrence.

Are you the Lawrence from Canada with the camera case fitted out for bottles?

If you are then I'm the guy from behind the bar at the vaults, we had a few drams back at my flat when I lived over the road. Despite attempts to meet up since its been unpossible. Next time.....

If you're not him I've not met you (yet)

by **Deactivated Member** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:34 pm

jmrl wrote:Wille j j, Nick Brown, Brucecrichton, Yangbrucey, Leither, Butephoto (almost forgot the 'e')

And perhaps Lawrence.

You've also met Calliope, although you might not have realized it at the time.

by **jmrl** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:44 pm

Of course.

And Wave.

by **Lawrence** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:48 am

jmrl wrote:Wille j j, Nick Brown, Brucecrichton, Yangbrucey, Leither, Butephoto (almost forgot the 'e')

And perhaps Lawrence.

Are you the Lawrence from Canada with the camera case fitted out for bottles?

If you are then I'm the guy from behind the bar at the vaults, we had a few drams back at my flat when I lived over the road. Despite attempts to meet up since its been unpossible. Next time.....

If you're not him I've not met you (yet)

Yes! That's me. You kindly gave me a dram of the first bottling of the Society Longrow. Glad we've finally connected once again,

Lawrence

by **Spirit of Islay** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:12 pm

jmrl wrote:
If you are then I'm the guy from behind the bar at the vaults,

Now you've got me wondering which Barman (or ex-barman?) you are ?
Going off the initials i'd say not Callum , Dean or Steve....
Aah.... just realised you could be the ex-John, Mark, Robbo guy....... in that case i've met you at first the Newcastle Tasting then in the Vaults (when you were first getting showed around the place .

by **jmrl** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:10 pm

No Gordon,

I also 'work' in Cadenheads Whisky Shop in Edinburgh. So I'm sure I should add you to the list of 'who have you met'.

We've got a couple of 14yo 46% Bourbon hogshead Ardbegs.......

by **Spirit of Islay** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:25 pm

jmrl wrote:No Gordon,

I also 'work' in Cadenheads Whisky Shop in Edinburgh. So I'm sure I should add you to the list of 'who have you met'.

Aah Mark ?
Long time since i was down there , couldn't keep up with the CadBegs ! I think i gave you a try of a PC sample the last time i was down there (so summer 2005 or earlier) .

by **Lawrence** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:53 am

Nobody has met anybody else since JUNE????

:shock:

by **Deactivated Member** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:44 am

Peat-Chaser is a regular in The Arc, so add him to my list.
MT

by **Willie JJ** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:09 am

There were so many forum members at the Whisky Fringe that it is impossible to count. The ones that I remember speaking to were, in order of meeting:

bobbyb
butephoto
Leither
The Fachan
Redland Hill
jmrl
Nick Brown
Oiler_Kiwi99
toshie

Apologies to anyone I forgot, or anyone that I was speaking to whose forum name I don't know, or didn't connect. I know many others were there, but there was so little time for proper talking (and proper tasting).

Cheers

by **Rosebankfan** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:42 pm

I bumped into you at Waverley Willie as you were waiting for a friend to (maybe) get off the train. It was a great day.

Rosebankfan

by **Ganga** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:46 pm

I have met my good friend WhiskyHill on several occasions. Looking forward to my next meeting with him. Either October or January. :smoke:

by **irishwhiskeychaser** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:33 pm

Met Cathac and we had a grand chat over coffee :roll:

I know coffee .... my fault though being off the gargle, I was on call also so a double whammy otherwise we might of met for a sly one.

Good to meet and hopefully we'll create ever decreasing circles and eventually all contacts will form the nucleus o an Irish Whiskey Club :thumbsup:

by **cathach** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:37 am

irishwhiskeychaser wrote: the nucleus o an Irish Whiskey Club

And if not then we may at least get a grant from Tha Boord O Ulster-Scotch.

Don't feel too bad about not having a gargle, I wasn't on the dry anyway!

by **Ryguy** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:52 pm

I haven't been able to meet anyone from the Forum yet...

But I did speak with bcrossan on the phone the other day, top notch guy!

Also I just spoke with lohssanami (aka Tim) on the phone as well, it was very nice to finally speak with him!

by **bcrossan** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:34 pm

ryguy wrote:I haven't been able to meet anyone from the Forum yet...

But I did speak with bcrossan on the phone the other day, top notch guy!

Also I just spoke with lohssanami (aka Tim) on the phone as well, it was very nice to finally speak with him!

by **lohssanami** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:33 am

ryguy wrote:I haven't been able to meet anyone from the Forum yet...

But I did speak with bcrossan on the phone the other day, top notch guy!

Also I just spoke with lohssanami (aka Tim) on the phone as well, it was very nice to finally speak with him!

Ryan, I wish we could have met, but I didn't realize how little control I had over our schedule here. HAHA. Visiting Maine with parents, sister and nephew, and I knew we should have tried to squeeze in two more days of time here.

Finally back at the hotel in Bangor, and I fly out tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM EST.

Next time for sure, and good to place the voice with the typing at least.

Cheers...

by **Deactivated Member** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:28 am

Time for an update:

Malt-Teaser wrote:I'm just tying to recap here,
so far I have met:

lbacha (Len from USA)
Crieftan
BruceCrichton (I think it was Bruce at WL Glasgow, 2006)
Nick
TheLaddie
PeatChaser (now a regular at The Arc)
PlamenPetroff

I also met Matt, Damien and the WM team at WL Glasgow 2006.

Please do remind me if I have missed any names, especially as I met so many people in 2006 at WL Glasgow and I also look forward to meeting many more of you and updating my list. (Plus giving away the free forum drams at The Arc).
MT

SuzyWong
WhiskyBembel

Now including M.R.J. who called in to The Arc yesterday evening

by **Muskrat Portage** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:50 am

Ryguy wrote:I haven't been able to meet anyone from the Forum yet...

But I did speak with bcrossan on the phone the other day, top notch guy!

Also I just spoke with lohssanami (aka Tim) on the phone as well, it was very nice to finally speak with him!

Oh, phone calls count? Then, I've spoken to Mr Fjeld on the 'phone, just before we were going to do a live tasting. I thought it might be nice to put a voice to a name, so gave him a quick call. I certainly surprised him, I guess the Canuck accent is a bit of a surprise when you're expecting Norwegian!
... Eh!

Muskrat Portage

by **Novice Scotch Fan** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:52 am

I havent met anyone in person but will be in Boston from Nov 17 -20th and staying at the Liberty Hotel near Beacon hill. So if any Boston residents want to meet for a drink, I am up for it.

by **Ras Mazunga** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:41 am

A few weeks ago I pm'ed Sampaio for some info on whisky in Lisboa, Portugal. He replied that I had to call him on arrival. We made an appointment in a whisky shop/museum(12000 bottles).
We tasted a few fine whiskies: Nikka Black, Yoichi 10(?), Bruichladdich 15, Blantons Gold and A'bunadh #23. And a Portuguese drink called Aguaventura bottled in 1937! This drink had an everlasting finish.
After the whisky we had a delicate lunch.
I had a nice day with some nice conversation, whiskies and food. Hopefully we'll doi this again one day.
Thanks JoÃ£o for making this possible. :thumbsup:

It's nice to meet people of the forum hope to do it again.

by **Mr Fjeld** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:13 pm

Muskrat Portage wrote:
Ryguy wrote:I haven't been able to meet anyone from the Forum yet...

But I did speak with bcrossan on the phone the other day, top notch guy!

Also I just spoke with lohssanami (aka Tim) on the phone as well, it was very nice to finally speak with him!

Oh, phone calls count? Then, I've spoken to Mr Fjeld on the 'phone, just before we were going to do a live tasting. I thought it might be nice to put a voice to a name, so gave him a quick call. I certainly surprised him, I guess the Canuck accent is a bit of a surprise when you're expecting Norwegian!
... Eh!

Muskrat Portage

It was a very surprising and also very nice telephone call; a soft and most pleasant canadian accent which makes you feel comfortable. I swear that if I didn't know it was Peter and he called right now he would probably succeed in selling me shares in Lehman Brothers

I'm looking forward to speak to Peter again

by **Elagabalus** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:02 am

I haven't met anyone from the forum because I am a sybaritic self-indulgent nitwit of a misanthropic ponce. I'd be too afraid someone would rape me or abuse me in some terribly atrocious, yet fabulously trendy, sexual manner. Or so I would hope.

by **lohssanami** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:26 am

I met peergynt after WhiskyFest in SF, but I'm not so sure he will remember it.

I think he enjoyed the beverages.

by **cathach** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:39 am

Elagabalus wrote:I haven't met anyone from the forum because I am a sybaritic self-indulgent nitwit of a misanthropic ponce. I'd be too afraid someone would rape me or abuse me in some terribly atrocious, yet fabulously trendy, sexual manner. Or so I would hope.

Trendy.....? Surely we're all too post-modern for that?

by **Lawrence** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:16 am

A quick update since the list below was posted, in September in Edinburgh I met Spirit of Islay (Gordon), Leither (Paul), Willie JJ (Willie) LMRL (Mark) and Misako Udo who I seem to recall has posted on this forum although infrequently.

Lawrence wrote:OK, here's the full list (I think);

WestVanDave
Wendy
RonThompson
Mr.T (& Mr. Picky)
BadMonkey
Cam
DaveM (who has now left)
CI
LenBacha
Wendy
Rob Allanson
Les Taylor
Plainly Jane
SuzyWong.

A good start.

by **Deactivated Member** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:29 pm

Just today, I met my very first Forumite - Les Taylor. He came up to Milton Keynes to pick up some malts that I'd got him. Unfortunately, Les and I had an all too brief yammer over a coffee. But it was brilliant to put a face to a name.

Maybe, I'll bump into another Forumite or two in Edinburgh. I'm up two or three times a year to see my father-in-law, who stays in Chesser.

by **Deactivated Member** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:11 pm

Updated - I have met:

jmrl
suzywong
Bill
Oiler_Kiwi99
BruceCrichton
MrTattieheid
rthompson
Malt-Teaser
Crieftan
Ikendal
C_I
The Fachan
martin grant
Leither
Matt Page
vitara7
Mr Intrepid
Calliope
rosebankfan
butephoto
Willie JJ

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