Firstly, to celebrate our 2nd Birthday (WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) we gave the Whisky Squad website a little bit of a spruce-up over the weekend… so that’s exciting.  It’s not purely cosmetic – the booking system now includes Google Maps, and we’ve put online payments for ticket bookings into play!  Hopefully it’ll make everything easier, faster, and nicer for all.

However the second thing – and quite exciting it is too – our friends, the team over at The Whisky Lounge, are running a London Whisky Festival on April 20th and 21st in the Royal Horticultural Halls in Pimlico.

Having acknowledged that setting up awesome & fun whisky festivals is more of a strength of theirs than designing t-shirts, they’ve set up a competition in which a moment of creative inspiration can win tickety joy!

If you can come up with a design for a whisky-themed t-shirt, send it to info@thewhiskylounge.com with the subject line “T-Shirt Comp”, or tweet your entry to @TWLJoe.

The design can be anything relating to your favourite whisky – be it your favourite dram, favourite way to enjoy whisky, favourite place… anything, really.

The person who produces the one which The Whisky Lounge crew select as the best will win (you ready for this?):

• 2 x tickets to the Friday session of the London Whisky Festival (5-9pm)
• a presentation of their designed t-shirt at the festival
• a year’s membership to The Whisky Lounge (which is a prize in itself, as it includes a 20cl bottle of The Whisky Lounge festival blend, 2 tickets to a Whisky Lounge tasting anywhere in the country, entry to the “Speakeasy” at any TWL festival plus two free tokens, 10% discount on any TWL bottlings, priority news & updates about all TWL events and bottlings, and the opportunity to part-own casks with TWL – a new initiative for the future)

Entries close at 18:00 on Friday, 13 April.