Featured Distilleries
Amrut Distillery
Amrut is one of the most renowned whisky manufacturers in the Asian region, and operate at a great price-performance ratio. Make sure to taste the exotic Indian single Malts from Amrut. Smoke fans sho... View Amrut
Isle of Harris Distillery
If you are looking for the Isle of Harris Distillery, you will find it on your whisky map in the extreme north-west of Scotland. Founded in 2015 in Tarbert, the distillery is, along with Abhainn Dearg... View Isle of Harris
Lochlea Distillery
Lochlea distilled their first fresh whisky in 2018, putting them in good company in the Lowlands.The Lowlads region is enjoying a significant revitalisation, as no other whisky region has seen more ne... View Lochlea
Whisky has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whisky than bullets
--Winston Churchill
Latest Articles
A Short History of Beer
Published 19/08/2025
Before copper stills and dunnage warehouses, there was hot mash and cool fermentation. For much of urban history, beer wasn’t just a treat; it was infrastructure—a reliable daily drink when town water could be suspect. This is a historical sketch of how that came to be, and how IPA later extended beer’s keeping power for long journeys. 1) Ancient beginnings: bread you can drink In the grain cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt, beer sat on the bread–beer continuum.
A Short History of Beer
The Bread–Beer Continuum
Published 19/08/2025
The Bread–Beer Continuum Long before modern breweries, grain-eating cultures treated porridge, bread, and beer as points on a single spectrum rather than separate foods. Heat a mash a little longer, bake it, or ferment it—each choice traded texture for shelf life, flavour, and portability. This is the bread–beer continuum in a nutshell, and it sets the stage for the wider story in Beer: A History and the evolutionary angle of the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis.
The Bread–Beer Continuum
Quadruple distillation & Bruichladdich X4
Published 15/08/2025
New to the basics? Start with Whisky production, then the hardware primers on Pot stills, Condensors, and the Spirit safe. For context, compare with Double distillation, Triple distillation, and Mortlach’s selective “2.81 times” in The Wee Witchie. If you’re thinking about columns, see Continuous distillation and What is a Coffey still?. What is quadruple distillation? In batch (pot-still) whisky-making, quadruple distillation means the spirit is effectively run four times through copper.
Quadruple distillation & Bruichladdich X4More Distilleries
Old Midleton
A distillery was established in Midleton in 1825 by the Murphy family, who also operated a brewery in Cork. Two years earlier, the regulations on alcohol taxation were relaxed, so that the distillery ... View Old Midleton
Scapa
The Scapa distillery is located on the island of Orkney, south of Kirkwall on a picturesque bay. The island’s other whisky distillery is less than 2km east of it. The Scapa Distillery is one of ... View Scapa