OnlyDrams – The government’s Orwellian history with our distillers
The opening line of ‘1984’ feels apt for the start of this article covering the British Government’s historical bureaucratic mistreatment of the Scotch whisky industry.
OnlyDrams – Japan’s whisky industry was born of both Hiroshima and Glasgow
The entire enterprise of Japanese whisky came from one man, Masataka Taketsuru, who came to Glasgow University in 1918 to study organic chemistry.
OnlyDrams – People may not age well, but whisky certainly does
Whisky science isn't so far from Jurassic Park: ‘Your distillers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should’
OnlyDrams – A long time ago in a bar far, far away… he’s not...
'I can’t help but draw comparisons to Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker’s iconic scene and the reaction of Frank and I to being identified as parent and child...'
OnlyDrams – One drink to rule them all, one drink to bind them…
Much like Bag End, you enter the whisky bar I ply my trade at through a green door, although rectangular in shape rather than round.