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Alcohol has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, even when the healers of history didn’t always know they were distilling alcohol when they made… Read More

Welcome to a new year, fans of the Water of Life! That’s exactly what we’ll be talking about on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. “The Water… Read More

By Mark Gillespie Updated August 7, 2020 – While epidemiologists have warned of a “second wave” of Covid-19 outbreaks in many regions as the flu… Read More

Tourism has become a major part of the Scotch Whisky industry, with two million people visiting distilleries in both 2018 and 2019. 2020, the “Year… Read More

This week, we’ll wrap up our two-part tour of Gladfield Malt in New Zealand, where Gabi and Doug Mitchell have turned the family’s barley farm… Read More

There’s still a lot left to discover about whisky, even though the “water of life” has been around for centuries. Scientists are still unlocking the… Read More

By Mark Gillespie March 18, 2020 – For more than two decades, whisky lovers have flocked to Scotland’s Isle of Islay at the end of… Read More

By Mark Gillespie March 15, 2020 – Pubs are a way of life in Ireland, but the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the Irish… Read More

By Mark Gillespie Updated March 15, 2020  – As the impact of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic spreads, more whisky events are being cancelled or postponed… Read More

March 10, 2020 – Longtime Bruichaddich manager and Ileach Duncan McGillivray has died at the age of 68. McGillivray died last night after several years… Read More

This week on WhiskyCast, we’re sharing a special story of strength. Not the kind of strength one can build in the gym, but the inner… Read More

There’s a long tradition of fathers and sons in whisky distilling, but Kentucky’s Jeptha Creed Distillery is one of the few distilleries where mother and… Read More