Soft pasture land, small rivers, natural harbours and a people who know that good thing take time. It’s a land where legend and fact become easily blurred, where folktales take on the mantle of truth. Some historians claim it started in 1276, though if the story of monks taking distilling with them when they went […]
Nothing is straightforward in whisky. Here is a distillery which makes the biggest selling malt all over the world, but still uses coal-fired stills, a technique most distillers have abandoned for being too expensive and liable to give variable results. It’s a light dram produced from tiny stills when industry wisdom maintains that small equals […]
Whisky is made from a cereal; some (or all) of it malted, that has been ground into a rough flour then mashed by passing hot water through the flour to extract a sweet liquid. This is cooled, yeast is added and the mixture ferments, turning into a crude beer. This is then distilled in either […]