Author Archives: Sam

This One Weird Mushroom Trick Might Make Your Barley Better

Fungus in whisky – that’ll be the yeast, right? Well, yes – our relationship with[...]

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A Sense of Place, Part III – The Scottish Folklore Series

Tied to the landscape In my last entry, I gave the spotlight to our Scotch[...]

A Sense of Place, part II – The Scotch Whisky Express

Theming a Series   Two weeks ago, I wrote about a ‘Sense of Place’, and[...]

Why a Sense of Place is Important, Part I

Why a Sense of Place is Important, Part I Let me take you back almost[...]

Colour in Whisky

  The Brown Mushrooms In the 1980s, there was no such thing as a Portobello[...]

Five Chinese Tasting Notes You Didn’t Know You Knew

5 Chinese Tasting Notes You Didn’t Know You Knew Since whisky tasting notes began to[...]

Crabbie’s Distillery: A Whisky Titan Rises Again

Under Lockdown, with Toddy I write this to you now, surrounded by pillows and blankets[...]

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Holyrood Distillery: Edinburgh’s New Set of Stills

Edinburgh Distilleries: New Stills in an Old Town Edinburgh was once a town of illicit[...]

The Truth of Grain

The Truth of Grain Scotland produces far more grain whisky than single malt whisky, but[...]

Keeping the ‘Scotch’ in Scotch Whisky

Keeping the ‘Scotch’ in casks of Scotch Whisky   There are many rules that legally[...]

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