{"id":769,"date":"2011-01-24T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:02:14","slug":"is-it-a-whisky-is-it-a-bourbon-no-its-valt-vodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/is-it-a-whisky-is-it-a-bourbon-no-its-valt-vodka\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a whisky, is it a bourbon, no &#8211; it&#8217;s Valt Vodka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strathlevendistillers.com\/valt\/valt-story\/\">Valt Vodka<\/a> a few weeks back but didn&#8217;t want to throw down \u00a325-\u00a330 on a rash buy.<\/p>\n<p>Well I went round round the <a href=\"https:\/\/scotlandstradefairsonline.com\/\">Scottish Trade Fair<\/a> on Sunday as a recce mission for future exhibiting and I spotted their stand. Disciplined I wandered round the rest of the food section before reaching it.<\/p>\n<p>I got a wee sample and it was very strange. Vodka made from malted barley so it smells and tastes like whisky. Was not unpleasant, although I&#8217;m unsure if I could drink much of it. Certainly not in one sitting.<\/p>\n<p>The fair was very strange, a mixture of jewellery, textiles, greeting cards, novelty condom wrappers, seats made from highland cow horns and t-shirts with anti-English slogans on it. And more tartan than you could shake a stick at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard of Valt Vodka a few weeks back but didn&#8217;t want to throw down \u00a325-\u00a330 on a rash buy. Well I went round round the Scottish Trade Fair on Sunday as a recce mission for future exhibiting and I spotted their stand. Disciplined I wandered round the rest of the food section before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,8],"tags":[564,794],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-random","category-vodka","tag-valt","tag-vodka"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}