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Scottish Whisky Bottler Chapter 7 Liquidates After Sales Collapse
Published 04/11/2025
Chapter 7 was once a respected name in the slightly obsessive world of independent whisky bottling — the sort of world where people discuss casks the way poets discuss sunsets, only with more spreadsheets. Founded in Perth in 2014, it specialised in buying barrels from all sorts of distilleries and releasing them under its own label, usually in quantities small enough to make collectors twitch with anticipation. When the world slowed and locked its doors, Chapter 7 kept going.
Scottish Whisky Bottler Chapter 7 Liquidates After Sales Collapse
U.S. Giant MGP Sales Plummet
Published 04/11/2025
MGP is one of the largest whiskey-making facilities in the United States, a place where industrial distillation has reached a scale that could only have been conceived by humans who felt copper, steam, and optimism should all exist in equal and incompatible quantities. They make whiskey for themselves, whisky for other brands and on optimistic days for people who havn’t even born yet. Whiskey comes out by the tanker-load, as do financial reports full of numbers that sound optimistic until you read them.
U.S. Giant MGP Sales Plummet
The First Rye Whisky of Islay
Published 03/11/2025
On the far-flung Scottish island of Islay—famous for whisky, rain, sheep, more rain, and whisky made to taste like someone set fire to a bog for tax purposes—there stands a distillery called Bruichladdich. The name is pronounced broo-ick-ladd-ick, unless you’re a visitor, in which case the locals will wait patiently while you attempt a Gaelic throat-exercise that ends in embarrassment and possibly medical attention. Locals pronounce it in a way that instantly identifies outsiders, usually by how much they cough in the attempt.
The First Rye Whisky of Islay
Irish Whiskey Gets a Hangover
Published 03/11/2025
For a long while, Irish whiskey was the sort of tale people told in pubs when they needed cheering up. It was the plucky young underdog that got up off the mat, dusted itself off, found a barrel, and said “Right, let’s try that again, only this time with better marketing.” The Americans loved it, of course. Americans like a good comeback story, preferably bottled at 40 percent and shipped by the crate.
Irish Whiskey Gets a Hangover