Whisky Stories Podcast

Iain Forteath is back! He was our first ever Master Blender on the podcast so it was good to get him back on for some more chat.
This time it was all about Tomintoul. And he brought in plenty of it for us to drink during this episode.
We spoke about how he got into whisky, but then dived right into casks and the process he goes to when it comes to sourcing casks to use. We spoke about 40% abv, chill filtration and adding artificial colouring.
It was a great laugh as it always is with Iain with some really good insights as well.
Enjoy

Ali makes it a hat trick of appearances on the podcast with his third time back on.
He is the Head of Visitor Experience for the famous Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh.
So this was only going to be about one thing; what makes a great whisky experience and how do we do it?
Ali talks us through his role, how he's learnt how to create experiences that bring whisky drinkers and non-whisky drinkers in for something they'll never forget.
Loads of laughs, a lot of fun and some great drams too!

It was great to get Pete back on for a chat. And what a chat it was.
We were down in the Woven Blending Room in Leith for this one hearing all about how things are going with Woven Whisky.
Pete also chatted through his time working at Edrington and the changes in the whisky market that he's experienced in his time working in whisky.
We spoke about the importance of blending, how blending whisky actually works and the power of grain whisky.
It's another cracker.

Is there anything in whisky that Brendan McCarron hasn't done?
Brendan talks us through his career from a Diageo graduate to running the whole of Diageo's Islay Group. Creating Ardbeg An Oa, learning from Dr Bill Lumsden, distilling for Deanston, Tobermoray and Bunnahabhain, and then starting how own business.
His career has been an incredible journey and he's got some great stories from everything he's done.
Pour a couple of drams for this one.

We wanted to talk through some controversial whisky opinions of our own and from our listeners.
It was a chance for the 4 of us to catch-up, have some drams and talk through some whisky opinions that might split the room.
I don't know if I should put a trigger warning on this episode, but some of the topics definitely caused some debate.
Pour a dram, sit back and give it a listen and tell us your own controversial whisky opinions.