Exams and Escapades

Myself and Jess were on a whisky course in Edinburgh last Friday; the Certificate of Expertise in the Sale and Service of Whisky, courtesy of the Whisky Heritage Centre. If you ever get the chance, it's well worth doing.

We'll find out how we got on in the exam sometime this week, fingers crossed!

Day 2: Meetings

So today I met with the Business Gateway folks; again, no-one laughed in my face after I explained my idea. WHY AREN'T PEOPLE LAUGHING AT US?!

Anyhoo, we've been enrolled on a start-up workshop on the 8th of September (recorded here for posterity!), and we should be receiving details soon about receiving a grant for market research, as well as a complete list of the details of our potential competitors in the whisky market of Aberdeen.

We're also looking into some sort of whisky tasting qualification; it's all very good saying we know what we're talking about, it's quite another having a piece of paper that declares it to all the world with reckless abandon. Apparently.

Day 1: Investigations

Today was spent being baffled by how forthcoming the good people of Aberdeen have been. Managed to get an interview for business startups arranged (eek!); got a price list from MacBeans for coffee wholesale (surprisingly cheap); and visited the famous Dyce Costcutter (which really wasn't what we're expecting).

Online!

Hopefully we'll get some content up soon. Make the place seem homier. (That's a word, right?)