15 Products That Will Change A Whiskey Fan's Life

I'd rather be someone's shot of whisky than everyone's cup of tea.

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1. Whiskey Rocks, £18

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Keep your booze cool without diluting it, with these nifty soapstone rocks. Although, experts encourage you to add a splash of water to your glass, to release the aromas.

2. Whisky Pastilles, £9.99

Harvey Nichols

These punchy pastilles have a real kick to them – they're the "only confectionery product on the market with such a high alcohol volume (6-8% abv)". The pack also includes two cocktail recipes to accompany your sweets. Ideal.

3. Whisky Cocktail Pack, £42.50

Shaken Cocktails

Shaken Cocktails is a cool subscription service that sends you the ingredients for several cocktails each month – you can choose from whisky, gin or rum as your base spirit.

I've tried the gin one, and it's great – generous measures, interesting ingredients, and craft producers.

If you don't fancy signing up, they also sell direct here.

4. 101 Whiskies To Try Before You Die, £9

amazon.co.uk

What makes this book particularly useful is that's it's not a ranking – it's just a list of 101 really good whiskies, and why you should try them. Egalitarian, we like that.

5. Distiller, Free

Distiller

Distiller

This cool app is basically Yelp for booze – in a bar with a whisky you've not tried before? Pull up the app, check the ratings, and avoid splashing out on something you'll hate.

Get it for iOS here and Android here.

6. London Distillery Company Tour, £15

LDC

Take a tour of London’s first whisky distillery since 1903, and sample a cocktail while finding out more about the whisky (and gin!) distilling process.

And if you're in Dublin, you must tour Teeling's Distillery, which is my whiskey of choice at the moment.

7. Carry-On Old Fashioned Kit, £19

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This nifty kit allows to you to dodge a poorly-mixed drink while in the air. All you'll need to do is bring along your whiskey of choice and ask for a glass and ice cubes. Then you can sip away in style.

8. Whisky Truffles, £11

johnlewis.com

So decadently delicious that you won't want to share at all.

9. Mac and Wild Small Batch Cocktails, £35.45

Mac and Wild

Mac and Wild

These delectable small batch whisky cocktails are created in Edinburgh and use locally sourced Scottish herbs and botanicals. For example, the Auld Pal includes Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old whisky, bianco vermouth, wild chamomile, gorse flower, dandelion & burdock bitters.

They're then sold in conjunction with Scottish game restaurant Mac and Wild (if you ever have the chance to try their wild heather brownie you must, it is mind-bogglingly good.)

10. Mature Your Own Whisky Kit, £124.99

firebox.com

This kit comes with an oak barrel and two bottles of malted barley spirit, to allow you to mature your own whisky. Here's the fun bit: once you've used the barrel for both bottles, why not mature a batch of old fashioneds in it?

And then, if you want to take it to the next level, mature another batch of malted barley spirit in the old fashioned barrel. Delicious.

11. Whisky Map of Scotland, £4.99

Collins

Collins

Well, if you're going to do a whisky trip, you may as well do it properly.

12. The Whisky Wedge, £19.99

firebox.com

This glass is an ingenious solution to a common problem – how to chill but not dilute? The answer is to change the shape of the ice, obviously. The idea here is that the slab of ice has a larger surface area, so melts slower.

13. Scottish Whisky Tasting Set, £29

amazon.co.uk

amazon.co.uk

You get five different whiskies, plus a glass for your money. Each whisky is from a different whisky-producing region of Scotland, and the measures aren't stingy either.

14. Whisky and Chocolate Macarons, £12

etsy.com

Two words: whisky ganache. YUM.

15. This print, £10.99

etsy.com

Which fittingly ships from Scotland.