Loch Lomond Distillery's Spearhead single grain Scotch whisky is paying tribute to Rabbie Burns by organising the Spearhead Alternative Burns night with a range of events in bars and pubs across the UK, predominantly in Scotland. With special cocktail menus, live music and entertainment, Spearhead is offering a contemporary Burns Night offering. I really hope you can include this in your news/what's on column.

Linking up with many bars Spearhead will lead the drinks offering with cocktails and serves appropriate for a Burns Night celebration - see below for what is happening in each bar. Spearhead is distributed in the UK by Mangrove Global.

Spearhead is bold and sweeter in style, similar to a Bourbon. It is crafted at Loch Lomond's distillery in Alexandria, and distilled using a continuous Coffey style still, allowing for a lighter spirit to be created.  The spirit is then aged in ex-bourbon barrels before finishing in a combination of fire and infrared-toasted virgin American oak barrels.

Here's a list of the venues participating in the Spearhead Alternative Burns night:

Lower Third – London: A gig with a DJ and a Scottish singer

Acme Fire Cult – London – specials menu with food pairings

Alley cats – Chapel Allerton – Scottish tunes playing all night, spearhead cocktail menu and Scottish food

Sylvan – Glasgow: Cocktail menu and possible music

Fierce – Edinburgh: Cocktail menu and possible music

Lunar – Glasgow: Cocktail menu and possible music

99 – Aberdeen: Cocktail menu and possible music

The Church – Birmingham: Cocktail menu and Scottish menu

Tom Thumb – Newquay: cocktail menu and live music

The Rock Inn – Porthcawl: Cocktail menu and Scottish piper

The Hideout – Bath: cocktail menu and live music

Lost in Leith – Edinburgh: Live music and cocktail menu

Beehive Inn – Edinburgh: Live music and cocktail menu

Summerhall Drinks Lab – Edinburgh: Alternative poetry (Kate Ailes) and cocktail menu

Northern Monk – Manchester: Live music and cocktails

Tonne – Leicester: Cocktails and quiz and Scottish food

Spearhead whisky:

The innovative infrared barrels allow for an exact level of toast that extracts natural properties in the barrel, releasing a range of flavours from the wood that are then caramelized to give a complex range of sweet notes. Using a combination of traditionally fire toasted and infrared toasted barrels, the result is ultra-smooth, with a depth and complexity to the flavour. Loch Lomond Distillery is currently the only distillery in Scotland to use infrared barrels to finish whisky.

Displayed in a striking Bourbon-style bottle, Spearhead offers notes of vanilla pod, blackberries and dark chocolate, making it a deliciously light neat dram, or an exciting base for longer serves. Spearhead is an ideal expression for those who enjoy American and Irish Whiskey and are keen to venture into the world of Scotch.