12/10/2026
What an incredible evening that was at Kwang Tung restaurant.
Elisabeth Barmby and Alex Ferrand hosted a fantastic wh**ky tasting where The Glasgow Distillery Co. vs Lochlea Distillery.
Both wh**ky shone in their own ways and both attracted their audiences but I think Glasgow just pipped them.
With barflies travelling all the way from London to attend a little wh**ky tasting in Paisley must say something that I cannot comprehend, why do they make the long journey north? Only David Barns Tom Franey and Jon Parish can answer that.
Also in the crowd was local barflies from Glasgow and surrounding areas. Roddie Graham made the train journey to our restaurant along with Paul McKay and his brother.
Arne Wern was in the house too. He designed a fantastic place mat for the tasting too.
Food followed after the tasting and the volume was getting louder and louder as more wh**ky was consumed, stories were exchanged and laughter was heard.
Arne, David and Denise Lee handled the Drambola and they excellently managed to sell all of the tickets with all the proceeds go to the charity of Ayrshire Cancer support.
Next followed the raffle where I got various people to pick the tickets including our youngest staff, Rae.
We even had an auction going too with bids up to £200 for the Bruichladdie from Creative Wh**ky.
Now for the grand total raised for the evening.
We have broke all previous records and expectations, we raised a grand total of £1575 going to Ayrshire Cancer Support.
We must thank the our staff and Family Jason, Rebecca and Rae for their waitoring skills and my brothers for cooking their awesome food.
Well done to everyone who supported the event and having trust in me to make this happen.
What a community this is turning into!
In return I must say my thanks to Lochlea Distillery for the support and prize plus Seb & Libby at Glasgow Distillery for helping us with the bottles and prize. — with Elisabeth Barmby and 7 others.
