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Whisky company embracing social media
By Jamie | October 22, 2007
Dug the dog
Last Thursday I was invited along to a whisky tasting evening hosted by Spencefield Spirit and Mike of Digital Agency. Spencefield Spirit are a small company (Alex and Jane) that sell Sheep Dip and Pigs Nose whisky.
Without the deep pockets of larger competitors, Alex and Jane, along with some help from Digital Agency have been using digital and social media to expose their brands and create a customer experience. For example their whisky featured in the Burning Man festival, they blogged about it and uploaded the photo’s to flickr. Jane mentioned on the companies Facebook group, Sheep Dip Fold about her Christmas Cake recipe, after a number of requests Jane uploaded the recipe to the blog and along with photo’s on flickr.
Alex, Dug and Jane
Before you ask, here are the reasons for the names of their whiskies:-
Sheep Dip
The name came about because British farmers have long referred to whisky as Sheep Dip. There was a time when farmers distilled their own “home-made” whisky and in order to avoid paying taxes to the revenue man hid the whisky in barrels marked “Sheep Dip”. Farmers’ merchants continued this tradition by entering cases of whisky as “Sheep dip” on farmers’ bills and so “pulling the wool” over the farmers wives eyes.
Pigs Nose
The blend contains a high percentage (40%) of malt whiskies, principally from Speyside imbuing the product with their characteristic softness; the name comes from the farming expression “soft as a pig’s nose”
Whisky and Passion
Okay Spencerfield are not going to take on the big boy’s over night, but its important to show the company (Alex and Jane) have a real passion for their brands, that can’t be manufactured or purchased off the shelf (I’ll have 10 blog posts about my business please!). Its probably more important for niche brands such as theirs to show this passion.
So if your a whisky fan, keep an eye out for Sheep Dip or Pig Nose in your local or alternatively purchase some online.
Topics: Events, Marketing & Social Media, blogging, facebook |
Article Tags>> blogging | Business | edinburgh | Events | facebook | flickr | scotland | whisky
October 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Interesting post, Jamie and it just makes me sorry I wasn’t able to be there for the tasting last week: getting into the Burning Man festival sounds extremely lateral and i’d love to know how many degrees of Kevin Bacon were involved.
Slainte mhath!
Tim
October 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for this I am in New York selling the brands in ! Today Brooklyn tomorrow Hoboken.
Back to Fife 5th Nov pint in the Iliccit Still?
October 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Tim
Thanks for coming along on Friday night, I hope bill things went well.
Alex
Hope New York is going well, yeah I could be around for a pint in the Illicit Still.
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