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Dalmore, Darts & Dram Challenges: A Trip to the Lomond and Clyde Festival · Whisky Stories Podcast

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  Right. I guess you know today.
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  Clap us in. Welcome to the Whiskey Stories
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  podcast. I see your driver speaking.
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  Oh. Quite apologize for the delay
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  I've been. Informed of problems with
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  overhead wires. What have you had so far?
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  Row one row. One, this is actually a 17 year
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  olds 7 cask finish. 7 cask finish. 7 cask finish.
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  Yeah, I'm going to retract on the wankiness of.
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  I think time and place is a big. Part.
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  I think there was people that. Was the time and it was the.
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  Place welcome along the Whiskey Stories podcast with myself,
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  Graeme Colgar and we are not in the athletic armor stickers.
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  We're on a training. Yeah, we're currently in in
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  transit. We're on the way to Helensburg.
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  We're on the way to Ellsborough for the Lomond and Clyde Whiskey
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  Festival. We're making our way through WI
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  Think right now. This is the furthest W we've
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  ever been. Furthest West we've ever
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  recorded until we get to Arden American.
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  This is that with Glenn going was probably the farthest W
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  we've been. Yeah.
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  Last weeks episode where we were, we were taken around the
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  Glen Going distillery by Gordon Dundas and we were treated to
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  malt master experience with Jake Adkuk who talked us through how
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  to blend Glen Going. Yeah, I guess you're still
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  bitter about the results of your your, your blend.
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  Are you OK with that now? I'm OK with it because I was
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  trying, I was trying something different.
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  It didn't work out, but I thought you know, rather than
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  you 2 just went along with what Jake told you today.
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  I just thought, well, you went, yeah, quite right.
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  Have you? Have you, have you, have you
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  tried your bottle? Since I have.
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  And I have to admit, I really liked the bottle when I was
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  blending it in the blending room.
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  I was like, you know what? I'll create something I really
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  like here. Personally, I think this is
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  really good. I've tried it since and to be
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  honest I'm a little bit. Disappointed.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I went back to mine and I was
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  alright with that. Yeah, yeah, I was a wee bit.
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  No, I wish. But you know, for about a week
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  after I did that, I kept thinking, now what if I'd done
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  it like this? Yeah, what if I'd just done it
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  like that? I basically I want about four
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  more goes on it. Yeah, well, we just need to go
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  back. Well, I do only think I can
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  crack. It well, I'd like time goes, I'd
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  like to try it again, but also I'd like to go back and I'd like
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  to go to Rose Bank and do the Tambu experience because the
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  Tambu experience that Rose Bank. Tam do whiskey as well as like a
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  decolor to me and you talked about Yeah and really fond of.
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  I, I mean, we're still getting the 15% discount at Rosebank.
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  If you want to do one of these tours, WSP 15 if you go in and
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  check, check out. But Chuck, you've, you've not
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  been on the pod for a couple of weeks.
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  How's things? Things are all right.
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  You enjoying the train trip so far?
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  Yeah, so I'm just smiling myself because the squeaking.
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  Yeah, if anyone's listening to this on a train, the audio
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  quality is Scotrail's fault, not ours.
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  Yeah, exactly. I'd love to say, in fact, this
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  could be a sponsorship opportunity.
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  It's like if you brought to you by ScotRail do.
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  You think we can get a discount code for?
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  ScotRail, absolutely. I think we can get sponsorship.
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  If you're travelling anywhere in Scotland to get to a distillery,
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  there's no better way to do it than by train.
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  Imagine the seats embroidered with whiskey stories podcast.
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  I'll be absolutely fantastic. But yeah, I don't think many
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  people have ever recorded podcasts on a train, no.
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  So this is one for the one for the ages.
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  There's also one for the train spotters.
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  And potentially when you listen back to it, we want to know why
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  people don't do it. Yeah, I mean, you'd probably.
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  Say why we're going to Helen's brother.
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  Well, yeah. Off to the Lohmann and Clyde
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  Whiskey Festival, Yeah. Another whiskey festival that
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  we're going to tick off. Yeah, organized by the
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  Collectors Club, We. Have collectors club
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  competitions. Christmas time last year, wasn't
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  it? That's right before we've got
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  what we have with us and you'll see the video of this will be
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  plenty of content that maybe has already gone out, but we are
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  travelling. Sure, sure.
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  Yeah, a big a big cardboard box, but.
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  What's in the box A. Wheel of Fortune a wheel of.
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  Fortune yes, we're doing some big giveaways this afternoon at
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  the at the Loman and Clyde Whiskey Festival and it's I'm
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  looking forward, I'm looking forward to it.
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  But on the subject of that, we did have a a listener question
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  from Jason Hargreaves, who who spent a lot of time who spent a
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  lot of time at our stand when we were working at at Whiskey
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  Fringe. Jason was a good friend with
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  Jason. He is a great guy and a big
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  lover of Glenn going as well actually.
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  So he's he's he's asked a question.
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  I just bought tickets for Fife and in the festivals next
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  February, March. Yeah.
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  Got 2 questions for you Lanyards wanky or useful right.
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  What are we going with, Chuck? I mean, I think they are useful,
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  but I also think they're wanky, right?
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  OK, I mean I know it's one or the other, but I don't use them
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  personally. No.
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  I probably should because you both saw me at Whiskey French
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  and I probably needed them both hands.
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  I think we needed a lanyard for you because you were supposed to
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  film the content and when I I was cursing you when eventually
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  sobered up. Is that right?
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  I'm going to upload all the footage that that you were
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  supposed to be getting at Whiskey fridge.
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  Is this it? Is this all we've got?
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  Chuck was there for four, 8 hours.
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  We're sweating. We were doing all the work, we
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  were speaking to everybody, We were flogging stuff.
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  You were having a good old trolley.
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  You didn't even take the camera with you.
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  I didn't think about it. Oh, I can't get it.
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  Was you just zooming in and out of our faces for 10 minutes?
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  Yeah, I mean, I've bumped into like loads of people used to
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  work in hospitality and I hadn't seen them in like 2 years.
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  So I got distracted, I had far too much to drink.
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  I'm embarrassed myself so frankly after that.
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  No, you were fine. You were fine, but.
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  I mean, but it was good. I did really milk the free
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  ticket and didn't help it out. So hopefully right to buy that.
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  This one, but that merges in with the the brand values of
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  whiskey stories both gives you all this is milking free
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  tickets. It's another because I mean look
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  when it comes to lanyards. You would back to the original
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  point, I mean my tuppence were for whatever it's worth.
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  I would say useful but not necessary and probably wanky
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  outside of a whiskey festival. But in the confine, I mean,
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  yeah, anyway, if. I showed up to a restaurant.
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  I'm wearing a whiskey lanyard. They won't let me in.
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  Oh no, Actually, I bet somebody's done it for the next
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  for the best. We get lanyards today, which I'm
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  assuming we will hope we will if we do get lanyards today, right?
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  We're all turning up at Diggers for the next recording with our
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  lanyards. And every time we get a
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  Glencairn glass, we're sticking it in there and just walking
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  around Diggers proudly with our land, our drama.
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  I would say, right. First of all, I put this in the
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  newsletter when when Jason asked this, and I would say I think
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  the general consensus, I put it into the whiskey storage group
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  chat as well to just to get your opinions in case we weren't be
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  able to put it down. Ross came straight off the bat
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  with, let me just double check what he said here, but it was on
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  the lines of, yeah, so lanyards are wanky for me is what Ross
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  said. But I'd say like the the person
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  who invented the Glencairn lanyard, it's a bit of a, it's a
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  good bit of engineering there. I think I think the intention is
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  nice. Like, I mean, I think when I was
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  in in Chichibu at Chichibu Fest, that was a big, like that was a
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  big area festival. Yeah.
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  There was like 3 buildings, like 2 tents and I had a whiskey
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  lanyard thing. I used it, yeah, because it was
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  a long day and I needed to. Get your arms were getting tired
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  I was getting tired I. Was looking at bottles, taking
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  pictures of bottles. Yeah, that was.
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  You need your hands. Free.
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  Well, absolutely, and we'll be walking around today with
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  microphones. For the whiskey podcaster, it's.
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  Very awful. Yeah, I'd also agree.
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  I mean it's but the argument is also mute because if I'm doing
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  all that stuff I am being a whiskey wanker.
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  Yeah, 100%. I mean, embrace the I mean,
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  we've embraced the wanky tasting notes, so embrace the wankiness
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  of wanky, wanky lanyard. Yeah, but.
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  The word wanky too. Much but but, but the, what I
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  would say is I'm terrible for it is when I get speaking to people
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  is I'll put my glass down and, and suddenly then and keep
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  getting roofied and that well, no, not that no, I just lose my
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  glass. What I'll do is I'll put that
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  down, I'll walk away. And I think you've also got to
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  remember is that -10 camera, please check.
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  You've got to remember that there'll be there'll be a good
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  few 100 people at these whiskey tastings.
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  And if everyone, if even half of those people are as comes in
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  forgetful as me, then basically what's going to happen is people
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  are going to people are going to put their glasses down, forget
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  about people are going to lift other people's class, etcetera,
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  etcetera, etcetera. But I would say, yeah, I think,
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  I think the general consensus of the Whiskey Stories podcast is
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  that lanyards are useful, but at the same time wanky.
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  However, I am in agreement. I I do think that what we should
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  do is, and I would love to see if anyone who does have a
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  whiskey festival or lanyard or a Glencairn, please please please
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  please please please, please please wear it to your local
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  pub. Wear it in public.
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  Wear it out, Wear it out. Go for a run.
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  Yeah, go. For a run.
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  By Glen Kearn Bag it off your chest and you're not, but I
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  don't. Retain any like.
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  That well, what we're going to do is we're going to wear our
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  lanyard 2 diggers one night right And as soon as we order
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  our DRAM, thank you very much and we're going to clip them in
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  our lanyard and just walk about the boozer with the most.
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  Of the ones like the clip on them as well, yeah.
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  What about? What about if it was instead of
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  a lanyard? If it was a Glencairn tool belt?
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  Right, See. See.
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  Just get a belt. It's like, But that's what.
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  My primary school, you have to reach down.
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  No, but you can have like 4 or five different glencairns in
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  your tool belt and you can have them around.
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  And you can. There's one Mr. Judged Doorway
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  and you're. You're the doctors.
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  Man. Like Fair Player or I tell you
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  what, if anyone's listening and they're organizing whiskey
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  festivals, we've got other whiskey festivals coming up
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  towards the end of the year, but also in the new year, as as
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  Jason was saying in the festival and also Fife Festival.
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  Yeah, we are now. Approaching Del Muir there.
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  We go. We're.
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  Good. Please mind the gap when
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  alighting from this. Train, we don't need to get that
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  right, Del. Muir Now there we are.
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  We don't. Again if anyone is listening to
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  this on a train going shit I've missed my stop.
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  But what I'd say is what about? What about a whiskey holster?
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  All right. Yeah.
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  That'd be quite. All right.
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  Because you could do like I'm thinking about like when you
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  watch the like the FBI agents and they've got the holsters on
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  the inside, they're wearing the holsters on the inside, their
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  jackets. You suggesting you go to you go
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  to a whiskey festival with fake arms.
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  But that's correct. But that's so that's that's
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  number one, you could. Do the reinvention of the the
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  Straw hat, Yeah. And then have.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  No, that's go around and get your that was that was question
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  number one from Jason. This is Billy Connolly.
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  This train is for. Helens for.
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  Essential and the question number 2 is Dunbarton E Thank
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  you. As I say, ScotRail partners of
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  the our official travel partner of the podcast, ScotRail, always
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  making sure you know where we are, exactly where we are and
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  where you're going. Question #2 from Jason here.
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  What are your tactics? Do you plan or freestyle once
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  you get there? At Whiskey Fringe there were
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  some stands I never got to because they just surfed around
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  the stands that looked interesting.
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  To be honest. Spent arguably too long at Glenn
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  Moore stand. Maybe it was the chat or the
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  excellent liquid. Looking at you, 17 year old
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  Poultney. So I would say Jason, it was
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  probably a mix of both and we probably chat, chat.
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  The chat was, I mean I would say.
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  Excellent cameraman work at. That exactly what I would say, I
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  guess, is that, you know, at Whiskey Fringe they dish out
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  awards for the drums and the poultney. 17 won the award, but
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  they don't. Like never mind the rest.
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  We've got the rest. Yeah, but they don't do awards
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  for the chat. And I would say that if there
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  was, I think it was we were given out some award-winning
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  whiskey chat that day as well, I'd say.
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  I mean, I mean, I would, yeah. I I don't ever have it.
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  I've never had a strategy when we've gone to Whiskey Fest, No,
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  because we've we've kind of always done it on the fly a wee.
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  Bit but we've met people. Who have but we've yeah we've
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  met people I mean we we for example, I think Cam big Cam
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  friend of the show Cam you and he said about going three
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  different days and doing right today I'm going to do like in
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  days tomorrow and if. You're going to Whiskey Fringe
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  for three days. You have to have a plan.
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  Well, this is really. Yeah, you can't not but I mean
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  or maybe. Fraser said it.
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  No, you're, if you're going lots of people he's talked about, you
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  know, the order of which you know, I'll try lots of bourbon
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  drams and then I'll try Sherry drams and then I'll.
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  Go well Ross Ross put it out on the on the on the again on the
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  group chat. My festival tactics grain
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  bourbon, non peated, other casks non peated, single casts and
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  then peated. So that's his sort of lineup.
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  That's detailed. Yeah.
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  But then there's other than that's.
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  A tactic that requires you to kind of go around the room
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  several times, which you have to you have.
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  Which you have. To you also remember that I know
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  you're like Graham in the sense you could go to 1 stall and
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  probably spend 20 minutes there and then, oh, you're looking at
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  your watch and thinking, you know, and, and we've probably
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  done that as well at some whiskey festivals where we've
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  not got around everybody just because of the amount, you know,
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  lack of time. With whiskey fringe though, it's
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  unique in the sense it's over 3. I'm not talking.
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  Specifically, but the other thing that's unique about
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  whiskey fringe, which is which is different to like for today
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  and Fife Whiskey festival and others is they have like they
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  have slots. So it's like, oh.
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  I'd like to apologise for the delay I'm leaving down here.
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  I've been informed of problems with overhead wires between down
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  here and compatic. Also been informed that I will
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  get an update as at this point I can't move until I've been
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  updated whether it's safe to continue.
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  So to stay there with me at the moment and I'll keep you updated
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  in a couple of minutes. Once I've been informed what's
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  happening with this, I can apologise.
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  Thank you. Well, thank you very much.
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  Well, I think without further ado, I think all we can do is
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  podcast. Well, we've just been informed
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  that there's some problems with overhead cables in the line.
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  We're delayed. A big shout.
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  Sponsors and our future Scott Our future sponsor Helensburg
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  Cabs. Exactly.
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  Here comes the ticket lady, actually.
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  Yeah, right. 2 seconds special duty.
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  So we're delayed at the moment. I wish we'd brought some drams
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  with us because but but it's a dry train going back to yeah.
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  So I think when you do have the the different slots, because
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  today's there's two, there's the, there's the early slot and
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  then there's the afternoon, the later afternoon slot.
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  Yeah. So actually you're condensing
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  when you look at how many exhibitors and bear in mind if
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  every exhibitor has an average 4 bottles per table and you've got
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  something like 4550 exhibitors, there's just too much whiskey to
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  get through. And especially if you're only
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  going to be there for there's only a three hour, a three hour
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  session as such. So The thing is what I.
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  Would say actually though, is it was quite interesting and again,
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  this is this is a niche audience for this is is when we've
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  exhibited at festival yes. So the Edinburgh Whiskey
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  Festival 5W festival half time is great fun.
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  And actually it's a time where people who have been exhibited
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  and speaking to the general public have a chance to talk and
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  network themselves. And I don't know, I think
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  usually get 45 minutes to an hour.
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  Yeah, of just and drams do get bored in that time as well.
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  But you know, you've also got to remember, like there's a lot of
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  people, this is their work, you know, like so we're going to see
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  some familiar faces. But whilst we're there going, we
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  got the train through, we didn't have to bring just bear in mind,
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  majority of people that are going to these things, they'll
• 15:41
  be driving if they're working because you've got to take,
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  you've got to take two or three cases of, of liquid with you've
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  got to take all your, all your paraphernalia that you'll be
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  setting up with all your marketing materials and things
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  like that. We just have to get lanyards,
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  but we just have to turn up with our microphones and a camera and
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  we're, and our wheel and our wheel of fortune.
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  Yeah. But I, I, I, I, I like the idea
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  of that. And I think when we speak, you
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  mentioned a couple of names earlier on there and I guess and
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  it's like people that work in the industry now, I think when
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  you do speak to someone like Ross, he'll be whiskey fringe in
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  particular. He'll be given free tickets to
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  go as on trade. Sure.
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  So it's like, right, first of all, Ross has actually got a job
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  to do. Yeah, there, which is try liquid
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  that he maybe might be interested in bringing into the
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  bar. So he's got to that's another
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  tactic there. But then you always hear people
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  saying maybe I think it is the Sunday.
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  A lot of people say it's the people that are in the trade
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  that actually go, I'm coming here, but I'm clocking on.
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  I'm not on the clock. Make some business.
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  So they've got, they've done the well, they've maybe done the
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  business part on the Friday. I came on Friday, I checked all
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  the stuff. So they have to have a clear
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  goal. I think we should probably set
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  ourselves, are we challenged, not challenged today, but like
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  have a plan, try and have a plan, Yeah.
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  And then see how well we execute the plan.
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  Because I would say that it must be really tricky if you go up
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  to, let's just say you go up to a stand.
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  I don't know who, who's, who's exhibiting.
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  Pick us an I'll pick a Pick an exhibitor we know pick.
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  Somebody, an exhibitor we know well, I'll tell you.
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  One we do know is Hunter Lane. Right, so we got Hunter Lane.
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  Hunter Lane on slash Arden Hope, right?
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  So someone we know? Right.
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  So Paul Main is going to be there, right?
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  So what we say is we say, right, I'm not really wanting to try
• 17:21
  any of the Hunter Lane stuff, but I want to see what Arden the
• 17:24
  hole they've got on the table, right.
• 17:26
  But then the problem is you go and you see right, there's a
• 17:29
  maybe they have two Arden holes. I don't know how many we're
• 17:30
  going to have. So right, I'll need to try both
• 17:32
  of them so I can see what they are, get the information and
• 17:34
  that's fine. So we've tried that.
• 17:35
  I know. But then they might have
• 17:37
  something really nice from ever ND on and you go, I can't
• 17:44
  because that that obscures my strategy.
• 17:46
  So I can't touch that. Yeah.
• 17:48
  And then it's like, do we? That's where it becomes really,
• 17:51
  really tricky. So I think what we should
• 17:52
  probably do between the three of us now, bear in mind we're going
• 17:55
  to be doing stuff today because we have the Wheel of Fortune.
• 17:58
  We've got dart, a dartboard, right?
• 18:00
  There's a dartboard being there for us today as well.
• 18:04
  I don't know how well drums and darts goes, but it could be a
• 18:07
  feature that could this. TuneIn for Part 2.
• 18:09
  But we're at the hospital. I just got Dart sticking out his
• 18:13
  head. Yeah, yeah.
• 18:14
  Drums and Dart talk well. And I'm apologizing again for my
• 18:17
  I'm. So sorry, I guess.
• 18:19
  I'm so sorry. I should.
• 18:20
  Have filmed and thrown darts and had a DRAM on my land.
• 18:23
  Yard because you have a land yard, so you can play.
• 18:25
  You can play darts. Yeah, exactly.
• 18:27
  Well, I should have a straw, yeah.
• 18:30
  If we ever get there, because facts are travel partners,
• 18:33
  ScotRail, we are we. Are delayed.
• 18:35
  Yeah. But I think this is probably a
• 18:36
  Network Rail issue who aren't our part travel partners, no?
• 18:39
  You can slag them off, yeah. I said, but I would say, let's,
• 18:44
  let's try and think about like. So I guess you, I'm going to get
• 18:47
  you to list. Do you want me to list?
• 18:49
  Do you want me to just very quickly go through?
• 18:50
  Well, as I can go through it, go through it, I'll start a timer.
• 18:54
  Right. OK.
• 18:54
  So I mean, we've got Borders Distillery, we've got Glenrothes
• 18:58
  distillery, we've got Spay Distillery, we've got Cabin
• 19:01
  Heads, Dalmore, Douglas Lane, Annandale, Feb, Rarefine,
• 19:06
  Glenmore. Yeah, we've got Bricklady,
• 19:09
  Murray, McDavid, Gordon, Macphail, Ochentosh and Woven
• 19:12
  North Star Spirits. We've got Glenn Murray, We do
• 19:16
  Duncan Taylor, We've got Loch Loman, Glenn Scotia, We've got
• 19:19
  Stravaek Tricara, We've got Compass Box, we've got Glencadam
• 19:23
  Tom and Towel. We've got Necropolis Spirits,
• 19:26
  we've got Rosin Distilleries, Nikas Chichibu, Uncharted
• 19:32
  Whiskey, Alexia Spirits, Lochley Clyde Side, the distillery and
• 19:39
  been having Deanston Tormore. Right, right.
• 19:42
  Because I've got I've got Tobermory.
• 19:43
  So I've got a wee plan here, right, because we are travelling
• 19:46
  further W there's actually a few things, there's a few names on
• 19:50
  that sheet that we haven't really spoken about much
• 19:53
  already. So I think that's where we
• 19:55
  start. I think we look at going let's
• 19:57
  target. Who have we not?
• 19:58
  Spoke well, for example. Right.
• 19:59
  Well, Necropolis Spirits actually did message me quite a
• 20:03
  while ago when they were sort of setting up and.
• 20:05
  They're not. Familiar with them?
• 20:06
  I'm not, it's not from, not not a name I'm familiar with, but
• 20:09
  it'd be interesting to speak to them because I know they've
• 20:11
  they've spoken to us before. Glenn Scotia, Loch Lomond, I'm
• 20:13
  quite keen to have a wee chat with them.
• 20:15
  I'd really like to go to compass box.
• 20:16
  Compass box, Yeah. I meant to go to see them and
• 20:19
  whiskey French but got distracted along the way.
• 20:21
  But then I massive one of them for a really long time.
• 20:23
  Yeah, I would be interested in speaking to them as well because
• 20:25
  I've been having there as well. Been having, Yeah, let's do a
• 20:28
  bit of having. Yeah.
• 20:30
  And actually might go featuring the spelling challenge.
• 20:32
  Yes, I like it. Well, yeah.
• 20:33
  I'd quite like to go to Glenn Murray just to.
• 20:36
  See Glenn Murray. Glenn Murray.
• 20:38
  Good. Murray, Glenn Murray.
• 20:41
  Is that on your way to Royal Walk?
• 20:44
  All right. I was also so confident as well
• 20:48
  I. Was like.
• 20:49
  Come on, Angus. It's better, His Royal Braca I.
• 20:54
  Saw a. Master Draw Braca.
• 20:59
  So Glenn Murray. Glenn Murray.
• 21:00
  Glenn Murray. Sorry, it's early man.
• 21:02
  Let. Me be sorry we're stuck in a
• 21:05
  trade. Cabin fever.
• 21:07
  Already. Come on.
• 21:07
  Right. Hi, Glenn Murray.
• 21:09
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. He did the Glenn Murray, right?
• 21:11
  And then I, I, but I, I might not if it's just like the core
• 21:15
  range stuff that I'm probably not going to be really pumped
• 21:18
  up. I think they've got a few if I I
• 21:20
  might be wrong here, but I think they have a pitted tequila cask.
• 21:25
  I'll be honest with you, that'll be right at the very end.
• 21:27
  Of the day, yeah, yeah. Because I think I, well, bear in
• 21:30
  mind I might be wrong, but I think I might have heard that
• 21:35
  there's a pitted tequila cask going on.
• 21:37
  They might have. I thought they've they've ever
• 21:39
  got something like that on on their on its way.
• 21:43
  Yes. I think also practicing
• 21:46
  responsible, responsible darts throwing and whiskey festivaling
• 21:50
  is important as well, because not just in the sense that like
• 21:53
  it's a very easy tactic to just fill your boots is the sort of
• 21:57
  tactic. But at the same time what I have
• 22:00
  found is. Clever a wee bit.
• 22:01
  Well, it becomes frustrating because if you drink a lot of
• 22:05
  whiskey in such a short period of time, the whiskey just all
• 22:08
  starts to taste like whiskey. It does a little bit.
• 22:10
  And the danger that you have, particularly in a situation
• 22:13
  where we're very fortunate, is like that different whiskey
• 22:17
  festivals we've been to is you get a chance to drink something
• 22:21
  maybe a little bit special towards the end of the night or
• 22:24
  the end of the afternoon. And if you're getting handed
• 22:26
  something that's very special, you go, this is like a taste of
• 22:30
  a DRAM after a lot of other drams, There's a good chance
• 22:33
  that you're not going to be able to appreciate that as well.
• 22:36
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:36
  So I think what we should do is create a little list, but we
• 22:39
  also I should say we. Should reduce everything down to
• 22:42
  20% as. Jake, I could say.
• 22:45
  That just smells. But we are doing so we are.
• 22:50
  So the plan is we are doing a big giveaway with the
• 22:55
  collector's club competitions today.
• 22:57
  And so the plan is that in my head, this is how it's going to
• 23:00
  work, because bear in mind, we haven't worked.
• 23:02
  If we get there, thanks to our travel partners, Scornell, we'll
• 23:06
  be the the plan is that somebody has to throw a dart at a dart
• 23:10
  board and whatever they hit that will tell them the potential
• 23:14
  prize that they could be winning.
• 23:16
  OK. And there's some good prizes.
• 23:18
  I haven't got it fully confirmed, but there's lots of
• 23:19
  bottles. There's maybe some discounts for
• 23:21
  the Royal Mail whiskies. There's there's even more
• 23:24
  bottles. So there's a lot of prizes to be
• 23:26
  given away right now. Once they've thrown the dart at
• 23:29
  a dart board, they'll find out what potential prize they're
• 23:31
  going to get. Then what they have to do is
• 23:34
  spin the whiskey stories, Wheel of Fortune to work out what they
• 23:39
  have to do as a challenge to to win that prize.
• 23:44
  Now, some of the challenges that we've got lined up so far, and
• 23:48
  as ever, we're very organized in the sense that we haven't got
• 23:51
  anything written down as such yet, but it'll be a 32nd, a 32nd
• 23:55
  time frame, and in 30 seconds they'll have to do something.
• 23:58
  For example, 5 distilleries that they have to spell correctly and
• 24:04
  those distilleries will be pulled out of a hat and it could
• 24:06
  feature anything from Ardbeg Angus.
• 24:10
  How do you spell Ardbeg A? RDEB e.g.
• 24:12
  Brilliant to Glen Geary. All right, I'm.
• 24:18
  Not doing that. Is it GAIROCH?
• 24:23
  Garrick. Oh no.
• 24:26
  It's it's Glen Garrick. This is how you spell it.
• 24:30
  Thank God Hey apologize for the day.
• 24:36
  That's delays been due to. Problems with overhead wires on
• 24:37
  front. Of this service.
• 24:42
  Thank you. You know what's the stories are
• 24:45
  back? Well, we're literally back on
• 24:46
  track. Live update for you there.
• 24:48
  So don't panic everyone who's listening at home.
• 24:50
  We we, I think we do make it to the Roman and Clyde.
• 24:56
  But yeah, so something like that, or here's one for you.
• 24:58
  Right, Right. I'm going to get the timer on.
• 25:01
  Put you under real pressure here.
• 25:02
  Right. Yeah, this is my nightmare.
• 25:04
  A spelling. Test.
• 25:05
  It's not spelling. This is a different.
• 25:07
  One, right, two dislikes. Like I said, I remember we're
• 25:09
  talking about a spelling test. Right, 30 seconds go.
• 25:11
  I want you to have 5 distilleries that begin with the
• 25:14
  letter LL. Leg of Room the Frog.
• 25:18
  Ladyburn, Legic. Nope, it's not distillery.
• 25:24
  It was a distillery from 1972. If you're like close to still 10
• 25:31
  seconds. I can think of 1. 5 seconds,
• 25:34
  Chuck. Little melon.
• 25:35
  OK, you would win a prize. You would win a prize.
• 25:40
  I have 7 close distillery. I don't know if we will put
• 25:43
  close to still, I don't know. I have to clarify that I can't.
• 25:47
  Like should have done like what they come to you.
• 25:49
  Yeah, exactly. I think there's seven.
• 25:52
  I think you, I think if I'm right in the small amount of
• 25:57
  workings I've done on this, yeah, if I can find the fag
• 25:59
  packet that I wrote this on the back of, I'd be able to tell
• 26:02
  you. I think there's seven current
• 26:04
  distilleries, OK, that Lambert Distillery, because that's what
• 26:09
  you're looking at. So we'll do something like that.
• 26:11
  They'll be baby play a little game of player distilleries
• 26:15
  right higher or lowers all that kind of stuff.
• 26:17
  And that's what we are probably going to have to start planning
• 26:21
  at the moment before before we get there, but we are.
• 26:23
  Kind of forgot about that, yeah. Well, we've recorded, we've
• 26:26
  recorded 20 odd minutes of OK, the first part of this podcast,
• 26:30
  yeah. The sober part, yeah.
• 26:32
  The silver sensible part before. Before we record the final, but
• 26:36
  after Chuck's had his tequila. Tequila.
• 26:38
  Glen Murray, Yeah. But there's Jeopardy.
• 26:42
  This podcast has ever it's got background noise.
• 26:44
  It's got members of the public. It's also got jeopardy.
• 26:47
  Will we, will we make it? Will we make it?
• 26:50
  The Lower and Clyde Whiskey Festival?
• 26:51
  That's the first. Part Will we make it back?
• 26:53
  Well, fingers crossed, will we? Will we be the same afterwards?
• 26:57
  Well, will we all be wearing lanyards or the tree in the way?
• 27:00
  Well, that's the key, isn't it? Right.
• 27:03
  I think we've probably, I think we'll probably need to actually
• 27:07
  start organizing. Yeah.
• 27:08
  Something. Well, no further ado, Correct.
• 27:10
  And see how well we've organized.
• 27:12
  Tune in. TuneIn to the an exit.
• 27:14
  Solomon. Will, will the lads make it to
• 27:17
  Helensburgh? Will they have planned a decent
• 27:19
  challenge? Find out.
• 27:24
  If only we had lanyards and this.
• 27:28
  You know what to do. Clap us in.
• 27:32
  Welcome all to the Whiskey Stories podcast at Alumni and
• 27:35
  Glade Whiskey Festival. Hey guys, if you're watching
• 27:39
  this now, you will know we made it.
• 27:41
  We did. We made it.
• 27:42
  We made it just in time. Yep.
• 27:44
  Train wasn't too late it. Wasn't too bad.
• 27:46
  It's now that we're about an hour into the festival now.
• 27:50
  It's been we've got our setup here, we've got dart boards
• 27:53
  behind us, we're ready and everything like that.
• 27:55
  We're getting ready to get our first competition person to come
• 28:01
  and take part in our in our giveaway.
• 28:03
  See we've practiced. Angus, how are you feeling about
• 28:06
  it? I'm feeling.
• 28:07
  Very, very good. I'm looking forward to seeing
• 28:09
  some of the attempts. Yeah, I'm looking forward to the
• 28:12
  challenges. I'm looking forward to seeing
• 28:13
  people try and crack my anagrams.
• 28:15
  Yeah. So yeah, the Angus Grahams.
• 28:18
  The Angus Grahams Angus anagram. Breaking news Breaking news on
• 28:24
  the Whiskey Stories podcast at the Lowman and Clyde Whiskey
• 28:26
  Festival is there are no lanyards.
• 28:30
  Yeah, 1 yard are not given out. However, there are people who
• 28:34
  have brought their own. As if I just walked past.
• 28:36
  With one up. The big question we have to ask
• 28:38
  now is 1 yard wanky or not wanky, Bringing your own lanyard
• 28:44
  to to your whiskey festival, I think that's well prepared.
• 28:47
  I'm not going to call anyone. I'm not going.
• 28:49
  To seize the. Professional if there is.
• 28:50
  Exactly, because at the moment, as we're standing here, it's
• 28:53
  really, really difficult to to juggle a microphone.
• 28:57
  Well, this is the camera microphone and DRAM.
• 28:59
  Yeah. So we've got our trucks actually
• 29:01
  been working really hard. Actually, we we, we've made a
• 29:04
  really bad decision by not bringing our own line yard.
• 29:06
  We're the we're the wanking guys without the line.
• 29:08
  Yeah, this is. The place where it is acceptable
• 29:11
  being in diggers with one on, maybe not.
• 29:12
  No, we're still going to do that.
• 29:14
  We we still have to find blinking lions.
• 29:16
  In hand at the same time. Yeah, no drams, just two drams
• 29:19
  in. Hand.
• 29:19
  Sorry, sorry. And walking about with our
• 29:22
  lanyards as well. So we've got three or what, 3
• 29:24
  drams, right hand, left hand, LAN yard.
• 29:27
  There's what we got right. So we all have a DRAM.
• 29:30
  So what are we dramming, Graham? Good question, but I have a
• 29:34
  Linkwood 9 year old from Northstar.
• 29:40
  I'll be honest with you, the gentleman I asked for the DRAM,
• 29:44
  he said what would you like? I said I'm something easy going.
• 29:47
  It's my first drama day, soft, easygoing.
• 29:49
  It went brilliant. I'll give you this, it's a bit
• 29:51
  it's over 50%. I couldn't actually hear a lot
• 29:54
  of what I said about it, but it's a nice easy going.
• 29:57
  I must admit, Angus, you and I, we were at a tasting last night.
• 30:00
  We were and I, my head was a slightly fuzzier than I
• 30:03
  anticipated it being this morning.
• 30:04
  So this being my first Ram of the day, I'm quite happy with
• 30:07
  that. It's hit the exactly what I
• 30:09
  needed it to hit. Well, that leads.
• 30:11
  Me on nicely Graham because we were tasting last night.
• 30:13
  One of the one of the drams of the evening was a Glenn lossie.
• 30:16
  Yes, finishing a kind of red wine break.
• 30:19
  So I I my first drama the day was a Glenn lossie again from
• 30:22
  Northstar. I can't remember the age of it,
• 30:25
  but it was definitely all single cast bourbon refill bourbon.
• 30:30
  Very, very nice. Nice to try it in that context
• 30:32
  and compare it to what I can remember from last night.
• 30:35
  So. Absolutely, Chuck, what have you
• 30:36
  got? I've got a Clyde, Clyde site.
• 30:39
  I just went something very light.
• 30:41
  Yeah, lower ABV. I'm on my best behavior after
• 30:44
  the last time we were at a whiskey festival and it's like
• 30:47
  95% is what the guy asked me. White, white, something light,
• 30:51
  fresh. So this is 95% bourbon, 5%
• 30:54
  Sherry and takes all the boxes. Man, So I think what we've
• 30:56
  actually done is in the in the time that we've been recording
• 31:00
  on the train to now where we said we're going to try and come
• 31:03
  up with a, a structure with a plan, right?
• 31:07
  What actually has happened is our structure and plan has been
• 31:10
  get something nice, easy and light to get started.
• 31:12
  So there you go. We are.
• 31:13
  We actually have stuck to that and also we're practicing
• 31:15
  responsible festivaling by this is we're now we're in this is
• 31:19
  our first time finest. Of the lanyards, we are being
• 31:21
  responsible. Yeah, we're going to look
• 31:23
  around. There's a few familiar faces.
• 31:24
  These are soonest working on the Gordon Macphail.
• 31:26
  In fact, this few. Friends of the Show.
• 31:29
  As this episode's going out tomorrow night, Fraser Soonest
• 31:32
  will be in the hot seat for our Indie Bottler Spotlight.
• 31:37
  Digger sold out Indie Bottler Spotlight, I should say.
• 31:40
  So if you're listening to this code, I wonder if I can get
• 31:42
  along to that. I'm afraid you can't.
• 31:44
  It's sold out, but it's Gordon Macphail.
• 31:46
  Phone phone us up last minute to see if there's any
• 31:48
  cancellations. Yeah, I, I did say to Fraser, we
• 31:51
  do have it on good authority that there is a chance that the
• 31:55
  generations 85 year old will be on the line up.
• 31:59
  I don't know how big that chance that is.
• 32:00
  I don't think it will be there. But as I'm saying, there's
• 32:03
  always, it could be, it could be there until, until we actually
• 32:06
  have 100% confirmation that won't be there.
• 32:07
  We'll we'll carry that on. However, he did show on his
• 32:12
  Instagram Story last week a lovely sample bottle, but he
• 32:18
  blanked out outside the Gordon Macphail warehouse in Elgin.
• 32:23
  And it was one of those. The first thing I make sure,
• 32:25
  obviously duty paid is the only thing you can see on the label
• 32:29
  when you see that kind of white label duty paid.
• 32:32
  And it's that we've always said, I guess those are the kind of
• 32:34
  bottles that, as Ross would say if it was here, gets their tails
• 32:37
  wagon. Wowsers, right?
• 32:41
  So we've got a drum, we've got some microphones we've got.
• 32:44
  We've got a dartboard. We've.
• 32:45
  Got a dartboard behind us. We've got a wheel of fortune.
• 32:48
  We've got a wheel of fortune over here.
• 32:49
  We've got some prizes that we could be given away.
• 32:51
  Very good prizes. So, yeah, we've, we're we're
• 32:54
  almost, we're almost all set to go.
• 32:58
  The festival is in full swing. Shall we shall we go for a quick
• 33:03
  wonder? Ah, OK.
• 33:06
  Have you been drowning today, chaps?
• 33:07
  Yes, I have. What have you had so far?
• 33:11
  Row one, row one. Is that the way we've been
• 33:14
  asking a lot of people? Do you come to a whiskey
• 33:18
  festival with a strategy now? Just coming to find out, New
• 33:23
  whiskeys, ones I like, ones I'm going to buy.
• 33:26
  Brilliant. And is there anything that's
• 33:28
  caught your eye in row one so far?
• 33:30
  So far, no, no. What's your name?
• 33:32
  Sorry. I'm Stuart Kelly.
• 33:33
  Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
• 33:34
  Sure. Thanks for coming along.
• 33:35
  Now, are you are you up for a drum challenge?
• 33:38
  Yeah. Why not?
• 33:38
  Excellent. Brilliant.
• 33:40
  Superb. Now what we're going to get you
• 33:41
  to do here? You get 1 dart here.
• 33:46
  No, you throw. He's getting the jacket off for
• 33:50
  this. Chucky, this is serious
• 33:51
  business. We got the dart.
• 33:53
  We got it right. No, no practice.
• 33:56
  You can stand on the ochre here. Now what you've got to do is if
• 33:58
  you hit one to five, you'll get a chance to win a pin badge 5 to
• 34:04
  14. You get a chance to win a bit of
• 34:08
  Happen 12, Deanston 12 or a Dalmore 12:15 to 20.
• 34:14
  You get a chance to win your Dalmore 15, Glen Murray 15 in
• 34:18
  the Glen Scotia. If you hit a treble or a double.
• 34:22
  You get a chance to win a 25 LB Royal Mile gift voucher.
• 34:26
  But you have to throw the dart at a dart board.
• 34:29
  Then once you establish what you could win, you've got to spin
• 34:31
  the Wheel of fortune to work out the challenge that you've got to
• 34:33
  do to walk away with your prize. And if I don't hit the board,
• 34:37
  you break a window, right? Let's see what we've got here.
• 34:42
  Up we go then. Oh, he's looking serious here.
• 34:46
  We've got a 19, right? So you're in with a chance of
• 34:49
  winning a Dalmore 15. All right, Glenn Murray, 15.
• 34:52
  Now what I need you to do if you come over here now, spin the
• 34:56
  wheel of fortune. OK, Spin.
• 34:58
  Not looking. Whatever you like.
• 35:00
  Spin it. Spin it.
• 35:00
  That's what we're going. Right?
• 35:01
  We're going. Here we go.
• 35:03
  What have you got to do to have a chance to win a Dalmore 15 or
• 35:05
  Glenn Scotia 15? You've got to try the anagram
• 35:10
  challenge. No.
• 35:12
  Right. So we've got the anagram
• 35:14
  challenge. Angus has the anagrams there.
• 35:16
  You've got 30 seconds. OK to.
• 35:18
  I'm not going to get there. You've got the anagram
• 35:20
  challenge. I'm going to start the chat.
• 35:23
  I'm going to start a timer. You've got 30 seconds, Angus.
• 35:26
  Get one of the anagrams ready. Got.
• 35:27
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  Scotland first anagram up there. Lentil veg.
• 35:36
  Lentil veg is the lentil veg. A distillery in Scotland. 20
• 35:44
  seconds to go. I'm not going to get that.
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• 35:54
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  Do you know that? My heart was going like that.
• 36:00
  You did really well there. Absolutely fantastic.
• 36:01
  How are you feeling? Super.
• 36:03
  And the good news about that is you get to share that with us.
• 36:07
  That's absolutely fantastic. Well done.
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  Congratulations. Well done.
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  There you go. Everyone's a winner.
• 36:13
  Whiskey Stories podcast. Brilliant.
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  I guess you know what to do. Clap us in.
• 36:18
  Right, lads? It's half time.
• 36:20
  Yes, we've made it. We've made it.
• 36:22
  We've made it halfway through. It's been we've got some
• 36:25
  beautiful scenery behind us. Is that Greenock behind us?
• 36:28
  I guess it. Is yeah, we are Port Glasgow,
• 36:32
  Yeah, sort of. We're on the West of West
• 36:34
  coasts, not the fool at farthest West we could go, but it's the
• 36:37
  farthest W we've ever been, Yeah.
• 36:39
  Far West West of Glasgow anyway, yeah.
• 36:42
  Exactly. We've had a few drams, but we've
• 36:43
  not had too many. We're not well actually,
• 36:44
  probably if people are watching this and going.
• 36:46
  I've seen these guys do episodes from from whiskey festivals
• 36:50
  before. They sound a lot more
• 36:52
  compassmentist than they should after.
• 36:53
  Very well behaved. We have.
• 36:55
  We've got a guest here. We've got Glenn.
• 36:56
  Glenn, how are? You, yes.
• 36:57
  Yeah. Pleasure to be here lads.
• 36:58
  How are we doing? Great.
• 36:59
  How are you? Yeah, good, good.
• 37:01
  Feet are a wee bit sore but we're we're still standing, the
• 37:04
  legs are still going, so that's good.
• 37:05
  So you work at White and Mackay, but today you're representing
• 37:07
  Dal Moore, is that correct? Yeah, yeah.
• 37:08
  So work for White and Mackay pouring some some more drums.
• 37:12
  Today. So what's your what's your
• 37:13
  official title? Official title is a premium
• 37:16
  business manager. Premium businessman and Adele
• 37:19
  Moore and Adele. Wow, Yeah, sounds like.
• 37:22
  That sounds like a thick business.
• 37:25
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the title probably sounds a
• 37:28
  lot more sexy than the than the role actually is, but it's no I
• 37:31
  get to look after some some, you know, some brilliant drafts,
• 37:35
  brilliant brands and get to go to some some nice places across
• 37:39
  the. Country and you've made it
• 37:40
  another whiskey store this podcast now.
• 37:41
  That's that's his premium as it comes through.
• 37:44
  I guess what you're head of premium?
• 37:46
  Hi, the premium. Whiskey story, you have to
• 37:49
  subscribe for that Head of whiskey story creation.
• 37:54
  Yeah, only drums, but that's. Something there?
• 37:59
  But you've, you've put us on a strum what we've got here.
• 38:01
  Yeah, so this is the luminary #3 this is the third part of a
• 38:06
  three-part series that we did in collaboration with the VNA in
• 38:10
  Dundee. Nice.
• 38:11
  We partnered with a with a, an architect for each iteration.
• 38:15
  This one's is with Ben Dobbin, who he was the lead architect
• 38:19
  behind the Gherkin building in London.
• 38:21
  If you've ever seen The Apprentice and essentially we,
• 38:24
  it's you know, we created 3 rare bottles and it's get sold the
• 38:27
  auction and all the proceeds got donated to the V and A and
• 38:31
  20,000 collectibles. So this is one of the
• 38:33
  collectibles and this is a this is actually a 17 year olds and
• 38:37
  seven cask finish. 7 cask finish. 7 cast finish.
• 38:41
  Yeah, so it goes through multiple red wine breaks to
• 38:44
  Chateau, enough to pap and some vintage Calvados casts in there,
• 38:48
  some Sherry as you'd expect with the Dalmore, and always spends
• 38:51
  its start of his life in next bourbon, really.
• 38:54
  And so we're up at 49.2% as well.
• 38:57
  One chill filtered, no colouring added.
• 38:59
  So this is one for the whiskey purists that maybe, you know,
• 39:02
  it's not a very Dalmore Dalmore. It's a crackin, crackin whiskey.
• 39:05
  What do you think? Not really, really, really easy
• 39:06
  going. What's the bottle of this
• 39:08
  setting? Somebody back?
• 39:09
  299 is the retail. Pick the guys are the premium
• 39:13
  guys like with the dramas. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:15
  Chum change mate. This is this is very, very, very
• 39:18
  nice. Now you know, we've not had, we
• 39:22
  don't, we've not talked an awful lot about Dalmore.
• 39:24
  On podcast, whenever Dalmore gets mentioned, we just talk
• 39:27
  about Richard Patterson, really. And yeah.
• 39:29
  Yeah. Yeah, the most expensive carpet
• 39:34
  in Scotland. Yeah.
• 39:35
  Exactly. Hello.
• 39:36
  But no. No.
• 39:37
  We've not tried an awful lot of Dalmore, which is probably a bit
• 39:40
  of a shame. But it is.
• 39:41
  But what? Is the reason behind that
• 39:42
  because. I don't know.
• 39:43
  I think I'll tell you. I'll be, I think it's easy to
• 39:47
  fall into the trap where like you see the Dalmore, you see the
• 39:50
  Mcallen's, you see them as like that's the premium.
• 39:52
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And listen, I think you can, you
• 39:56
  can say what you like about the premium brands and there's
• 39:57
  plenty of people that will say, ah, it's just all that.
• 39:59
  But it's premium for a reason. When we had them, we had Craig
• 40:04
  Johnson, who, you know, he worked with Edrington, he'd been
• 40:08
  part of his master blender for the famous Krauss and he worked
• 40:11
  for, in the sort of blending process, wood management for the
• 40:14
  Macallan. And he sort of explained like,
• 40:15
  listen. It's premium and it does get a
• 40:18
  bit of a Rep, yeah. But at the same time, the bottom
• 40:20
  line is it's premium for a reason.
• 40:22
  And he talks about the touch points, talks about the wood
• 40:23
  management program and that be exactly the same with
• 40:25
  yourselves, I'm sure. Yeah, for sure.
• 40:27
  And it's, it's all steeped in, in hundreds of years of, of
• 40:30
  history. And yeah, look, there's some
• 40:32
  whiskeys that go at the top end, like for the, for the rare
• 40:35
  version of the, of the luminary series, you know, 3 bottles have
• 40:39
  collectively sold for over a quarter of £1,000,000.
• 40:42
  And that that's all been donated back to, to the.
• 40:44
  Yeah, of course. Yeah, this is obviously the £300
• 40:47
  is still a fair benefit for a bottle.
• 40:49
  But yeah, I suppose you can't get away from the premium
• 40:52
  nature, of course and. The brand, but that's, it sells
• 40:54
  as well. There's a marketplace for that
• 40:56
  as well. And that's that's the bottom
• 40:57
  line is that, you know, people might say, say what you like,
• 41:00
  you see what people are spending on these kind of drams, Yeah.
• 41:03
  And these kind of bottles. But people are buying it.
• 41:05
  Yeah. So as long as people are buying
• 41:06
  it and you've got to make sure that when someone does buy that
• 41:09
  price, you, you can't suddenly just say, oh, it's just because
• 41:12
  it's the Dalmore. Yeah, you're, you're the quality
• 41:15
  goes into there. Are drums as well, like when you
• 41:16
  first start getting into whiskey, Dalmore 12, Dalmore 15
• 41:19
  are always touch points. Yeah.
• 41:20
  And for me as well, like cigar, the cigar reserve, yeah, was one
• 41:24
  that it was like, oh, paydays in, yeah.
• 41:26
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and that was a great,
• 41:29
  great drama as well. But I suppose the connection
• 41:32
  with it being cigar reserve, immediately I'm like, well, I
• 41:34
  can't afford a cigar. But I mean, you kindly donated
• 41:39
  the Dalmore 15 for our giveaway that we're doing our competition
• 41:44
  and that the first person to play won it.
• 41:45
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Were.
• 41:47
  They happy about. It they were over the moon, you
• 41:49
  couldn't believe it. And he's been walking about with
• 41:51
  it under his arm for the next three hours.
• 41:53
  Yeah. Anyone who's won has walked past
• 41:55
  multiple times. It feels like they've been
• 41:56
  rubbing it in our. Face.
• 41:58
  Yeah, I mean, we've had some, we've had some big winners and
• 42:01
  it's been great to see, see people winning it and stuff like
• 42:03
  that. But as well as the Dalmore, you
• 42:05
  know, you guys have Fetter Care as well.
• 42:06
  You've got lots of other stuff now you're here representing
• 42:08
  Dalmore today. But yeah, there's loads of going
• 42:10
  on. White Mackay.
• 42:10
  Well, why yeah, White Mackay, we've got some amazing brands
• 42:13
  and amazing whiskey brands and we're very focused on on the
• 42:17
  West game and we do whiskey well and, and that's what we're
• 42:20
  focused on on delivering and, and Dura dura as well is, is
• 42:24
  UK's most loved whiskey. You know, it's, it's some, it's
• 42:28
  some fantastic brands to to work with.
• 42:30
  And Fetter Karen's a personal favorite.
• 42:32
  Yeah, it's, it's, I think it's got a little slot in everyone's
• 42:35
  heart. There's a whiskey a whiskey
• 42:37
  lover. What's the new release that you
• 42:38
  brought out? I've got a photo on my phone.
• 42:39
  Back guard. Yeah, I just, I tried that.
• 42:42
  Very, very nice. What's actually very easy going,
• 42:44
  nice and fruity. And I asked, I actually asked.
• 42:46
  I went into Scotch at My World this week and asked Curtis, who
• 42:50
  was behind the bar. I said that I just want
• 42:51
  something, it's my first drama, the night, just something
• 42:54
  easygoing and said well we've just got these in and they gave
• 42:56
  it and I'm really, really nice. So what's the story behind that
• 42:58
  then? Well, so the Vanguard, I suppose
• 43:00
  it actually follows a similar out to the luminary series and
• 43:03
  and down more in the sense that we release our rare bottle, a
• 43:07
  limited, limited release and there's a collectible version as
• 43:10
  well. And Greg, I'm sure you guys
• 43:12
  would know Greg Glass, his way of making whiskey is so visual.
• 43:17
  It's, it's like he's got a really interesting way of going
• 43:22
  about making whiskey. He's got, I think of
• 43:24
  synesthesia. So he tastes in colour and his
• 43:27
  tasting notes are almost done in watercolour.
• 43:30
  So he's looking for a whiskey. He's he's looking for like a
• 43:33
  mainly like a colour that he's looking for.
• 43:36
  And the Vanguard series is, is the the main Halo in that is a
• 43:40
  pink oak, French pink oak, which got his lovely sort of perfume
• 43:43
  kind of characteristics to it. And yeah, so we've got 99
• 43:46
  bottles of the rare Vanguard that's available, one in Scotch
• 43:49
  Balmoral with with Ross. Ross We've just mentioned it.
• 43:53
  Ross So guys, a free drama. Come on.
• 43:56
  There and then, there's the collectible version of the of
• 43:59
  the Vanguard as well. That's when I go out.
• 44:01
  Ross isn't going to give me that.
• 44:04
  Yeah, but so I Glen yourself then, how long have you been in
• 44:08
  your current role? How long have you been working
• 44:09
  for White and Mackay? So I've, I've been with White
• 44:11
  and Cat just under 2 years now. Yeah, I started my, my life in
• 44:16
  the, in the hospitality trades, as many do, you know, working
• 44:19
  in, in bars, restaurants, a wee bit in Edinburgh.
• 44:22
  Yeah. With the, with the Virgin Hotel
• 44:24
  in Edinburgh for, for a wee while and then previously in
• 44:27
  Cameron House running the whiskey bar there.
• 44:29
  So yeah, WW hospitality and drinks in general has kind of
• 44:34
  been my bread and butter for the last 10 years.
• 44:36
  Hotels, where were you there when the fire?
• 44:39
  I wasn't there in the fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:41
  I was just, I was there part of the reopening.
• 44:44
  Right. Yeah, post fire.
• 44:46
  Yeah, post fire. Post fire.
• 44:47
  Good place to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:49
  Mid fire is probably not where you want to.
• 44:51
  Be fire but pre firefight post firefight mid fire absolutely
• 44:56
  yeah so so today then you've got you've got this on the table.
• 44:59
  What's been what's been the popular ones that you?
• 45:01
  Had you know, it's funny you mentioned the cigar.
• 45:03
  The scar mole has just been flying off the King Alexander I
• 45:07
  brought with me thinking there would be a favorite.
• 45:09
  And it's definitely, definitely has been.
• 45:11
  But quite often people say, oh, I've got a damn more at home and
• 45:13
  I've not cracked it open. So this is a really great
• 45:16
  opportunity to interact with whiskey lovers that are like,
• 45:18
  well, do you know what? Let's let's have a taste and
• 45:20
  maybe, maybe they will crack open and.
• 45:22
  Because there's a beautiful bottle and it's a 12 point stag.
• 45:25
  12 point stag, Yeah, yeah. 12 point stag different to the Glen
• 45:29
  FedEx stag which is a. Both 12 point royal point.
• 45:32
  No, it won't be a 12. Point No, no, no.
• 45:34
  Is it not right so? The royal stag is 12 point to
• 45:37
  stag and it's the McKenzie code of arms, right.
• 45:40
  OK, I've been saying this story a lot today.
• 45:43
  Yeah, Yeah, I can give you this meal if you like.
• 45:46
  But yeah, it's a go to Steve's back in history to, you know,
• 45:50
  the 1200 late 1200s of story of King Alexander, a hunting trip
• 45:54
  with the Mackenzie clan and the Chieftain of Mackenzie clan
• 45:58
  saving the King's life and can granting him the emblem of the
• 46:02
  royal stag. 12 point of stack and.
• 46:04
  That is something that's been on your bottle because I've seen
• 46:06
  kind of vintage, vintage, no more bottles and it's still, you
• 46:11
  know, you still had the. Stag.
• 46:12
  It's been there since 1867. Really 1860?
• 46:14
  7. Yeah, that's when the Mackenzies
• 46:16
  took over the distillery and from that moment on, it was the
• 46:19
  first thing they did. They put the 12 point of stag on
• 46:21
  the bottle and it's been there ever since.
• 46:23
  Well, I mean it's the brand kind of travels, doesn't it?
• 46:26
  And I think it as well from a tourist point of view, when
• 46:28
  people see it, it's like, well, you need to have the stag on the
• 46:31
  bottle. It's Elmo.
• 46:31
  Yeah, whiskey with a stag on the bottle.
• 46:34
  When I went to Taiwan, it was one of the things that surprised
• 46:36
  me the most. Just like how much Dalmore
• 46:38
  advertisement. Really, Taiwan's actually one of
• 46:41
  the biggest markets for value. Yeah, it's Taiwan's a huge, huge
• 46:45
  market for us slowing down slightly now, but the yeah,
• 46:49
  Taiwan historically been been a really, really important market.
• 46:52
  Yeah, it's. And the good prices for that,
• 46:54
  because Gordon and I said the pricing in Taiwan for whiskey is
• 46:58
  up there from a single malt point of view.
• 46:59
  Yeah, I, I was there. I mean, it was a pretty flash
• 47:02
  trip when I was. There.
• 47:03
  Oh, you had to go and visit, was it?
• 47:04
  You wouldn't visit? I went.
• 47:05
  And visit my cousin. Because your granny.
• 47:07
  Told you. Yeah, she made me.
• 47:10
  It was good to see it. I don't get that right but like.
• 47:13
  He granny stole the incumbent, I do.
• 47:14
  Remember getting out the airport and it was just like a humongous
• 47:17
  billboard, and it was just the side of the bottle.
• 47:19
  The stag. Yeah.
• 47:20
  I just said dumb like nothing else.
• 47:22
  Yeah, Yeah. And I was like, what the fuck?
• 47:24
  Yeah. I hadn't really thought about
• 47:26
  international, like, branding for whiskey at that time.
• 47:28
  This was like 2018 or something like that.
• 47:31
  So, but I was really, really impressed and even going to
• 47:35
  shops there, I was like, they have a massive collection of
• 47:38
  well, not only like core range stuff, but there was a huge G&M
• 47:42
  selection, what Whiskey society, stuff like that.
• 47:44
  And I was like. They love the whiskey over
• 47:45
  there. Yeah, and dark, dark, dark
• 47:47
  whiskey. So you like when you look at
• 47:49
  like the colouring that you you see on the heavy Sherry stuff
• 47:52
  they get. What is it?
• 47:53
  The Glenn Livet 13 Sherry Taiwan edition.
• 47:56
  I bought, I bought a bottle of that on auction.
• 47:58
  I think I've still got it in the house, but it's like Coca-Cola.
• 48:00
  Yeah. And then I was people were
• 48:01
  explaining to me like if, if you have like over there, they
• 48:04
  absolutely love it. And I suppose with the Dalmore,
• 48:06
  some of the colours that you see with the Sherry cast that you
• 48:09
  use in there must be. For sure, for sure.
• 48:11
  I mean, what we find in those sort of markets is the higher
• 48:13
  the number on the bottle, the better.
• 48:14
  Yeah, Yeah. You guys.
• 48:17
  Which is which is goods, but it's interestingly like the King
• 48:20
  Alexander is such a great seller for us doesn't do particularly
• 48:23
  well in Asia because it's not got a number on the front.
• 48:26
  Whereas, you know, sharing the story with you and the the
• 48:28
  history of the King Alexander and, and the US market, the
• 48:31
  European market goes down really, really.
• 48:33
  Well, you're a big fan of Roman numerals.
• 48:35
  Yeah, yeah. So seeing a day like today then
• 48:39
  having a brand like Dalmore, is it, is it beneficial?
• 48:43
  Does it help because people are like, oh, it's a Dalmore or does
• 48:45
  it do you have to do a bit more work because people say it's a
• 48:48
  Dalmore. It's I would rather go and see
• 48:50
  somebody else because I know that because the Dalmore's
• 48:53
  always there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:54
  So it's like I, I know the Dalmore's there.
• 48:56
  Does it make, is it harder, easier?
• 48:57
  What do you? Like it's an interesting one
• 48:58
  because I think there'll be, there'll be some more
• 49:02
  challenging conversations sometimes.
• 49:04
  But in general, people are just they're, they're, they're
• 49:07
  already massive fans of brand. And I think the situations like
• 49:11
  this are great because you can really connect with the whiskey
• 49:13
  drinkers. Sometimes they think we're the
• 49:15
  premium brand, you know, that they're, I don't know, not
• 49:18
  stuffy, but you know, you know, I mean, maybe they wouldn't even
• 49:20
  bother coming to like a whiskey event.
• 49:23
  But I think for, for me anyway, it's really good to connect with
• 49:26
  the whiskey drinkers and to share.
• 49:28
  Stories. Well, I've seen it myself, like
• 49:30
  over a life, two years of doing the podcast.
• 49:32
  It's like at a time if someone has said to me spending £75 on a
• 49:36
  bottle of whiskey, yeah, what are you doing?
• 49:38
  Like, how can you spend that much money?
• 49:40
  Now I'm at a stage where, you know, Billy Big Bollocks here.
• 49:43
  They like but like, you know? 85.
• 49:46
  Pounds but but you always change but but you look at it but
• 49:51
  there's like you talk about the Polti 17 rare fine Polti 17 you
• 49:55
  got 100 hundred and odd quid and they go as value.
• 49:57
  Yeah, yeah. And I think that's The thing is
• 49:59
  if, and it doesn't matter whether it's a Macau or a
• 50:01
  Dalmore or whether it's a Thompson Brothers or somebody
• 50:04
  like that, if it's a good drum, yeah, you'll pay good money for
• 50:06
  it. But The thing is for the premium
• 50:08
  stuff, it might, there might be people that go, I just can't
• 50:11
  justify spending £300 in a bottle of that.
• 50:13
  But at the same time, so I might try that and go, I have to buy a
• 50:16
  bottle of that because the the whiskey is just so good.
• 50:18
  And I would say I am very much enjoying this, this drama and.
• 50:22
  I and actually, dare I say it, but something you know, at the
• 50:26
  end of the day, a lot of whiskey is bought to be gifted.
• 50:29
  Yeah, and that's a good gift. Something like Dalmore is
• 50:32
  probably a pretty safe bet when it comes to gifting somebody a
• 50:35
  whiskey because it is that recognizable brand and so forth.
• 50:40
  And sometimes if you think about the occasions that you drink a
• 50:43
  whiskey, and I mean, I've been my chat's been pretty atrocious
• 50:47
  today. I've been telling everyone that
• 50:48
  I've put 15 year old Damore in my cornflakes.
• 50:55
  So it's like the train today. Yeah.
• 50:56
  But there's, there's an occasion for every drum, maybe not
• 50:59
  cornflakes in your breakfast, but you know, if, if it's, if
• 51:02
  it's a special occasion, if it's as a wedding or, I don't know,
• 51:05
  you've got a promotion. Yeah, there's, there's lots of
• 51:07
  different occasions that you drink a whiskey and sometimes
• 51:09
  you want to crack open something a little bit special.
• 51:11
  And I feel like Damore really fits that pretty.
• 51:13
  Nicely we we had a lot of feta Ken when we were at.
• 51:17
  We had one particular afternoon where we just yeah, Montrose.
• 51:21
  So we, we, we got went to the, I can't remember the whole story,
• 51:26
  but we ended up in the boardroom.
• 51:28
  Oh really? Due to all.
• 51:32
  Sorts of things. So we ended up there and they
• 51:34
  had a table and it had a couple of bottles of Fair care and the
• 51:37
  guys just the, the, the board of directors at Montrose Football
• 51:40
  Club said, yeah, wire in. Really.
• 51:43
  Yeah, then you took. Full advantage and they said our
• 51:46
  local distillery and all this yeah which is and I it was it
• 51:50
  was fantastic so that was that whenever fair games mentioned
• 51:54
  that's like. Have you been to the distillery?
• 51:56
  No, no, we've never been. Up.
• 51:57
  We need to get you guys out there.
• 51:58
  It's too nice side. But never in my mum lives.
• 52:01
  My mum's moved just to joiners. Oh cool.
• 52:04
  So I like drove and I just took a picture of it.
• 52:07
  Yeah, it's an amazing to sell. It's dude, I love going to Feta
• 52:11
  Caren. Everything's just still it's
• 52:14
  it's really like family orientated and the way they make
• 52:18
  whiskey is really unique. The new make spirit and Feta
• 52:22
  Caren. I'll go out and say that I know
• 52:23
  I work for White Mackay. I'll go out and say in a limb is
• 52:27
  the best new egg spirit in the market.
• 52:29
  It's it's just. What about is it?
• 52:30
  What was it? Florally light.
• 52:32
  Super tropical is that you go into the into the mash house and
• 52:35
  it's banana bread. Yeah, it's, it's just so light
• 52:39
  tropical. It's like a perfume almost and
• 52:41
  and yeah, I just, it's just everything about feta caren
• 52:44
  really is great and you need to go there to experience.
• 52:46
  And you are open to the public. We are, yeah.
• 52:48
  Because it's not an area, it's not an area of Scotland that you
• 52:50
  associate very much with whiskey.
• 52:51
  Is it whiskey making? You know, when you go up,
• 52:53
  everyone's like, if you're going up north, you go to Space
• 52:55
  Islands, but over that side. Now tell me what other brands
• 52:58
  the White and Mackay have under their umbrella.
• 53:00
  Sort of recognizable brands and stuff like that.
• 53:02
  So the Dalmore is right at the top end and the precision, we've
• 53:06
  got Feta Kern and Dura White and Mackay blend, obviously the name
• 53:10
  on the door. We've got Woodsman, which is, I
• 53:13
  suppose, like a premium, a premium blend Gleva, which you
• 53:17
  can't really. Yeah, yeah.
• 53:18
  You know, Gleva keeps ticking over.
• 53:20
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's made it made a bit of a
• 53:22
  resurgence last year. Gleva has been.
• 53:25
  Someone who's worked in hospital, yeah, it very much.
• 53:27
  Yeah, yeah, every bub's got a bottle of Gleva, people.
• 53:31
  Not many pubs that don't have it people.
• 53:32
  Get really upset if you don't have Gleva.
• 53:34
  And do White and Mackay still sponsor the horse racing as
• 53:37
  much? No, not really the horse.
• 53:39
  Because he's been quite iconic. He used to see.
• 53:40
  It was like, wait, Mackay on the horse racing was it?
• 53:42
  Am I right in saying that? I'm pretty sure it was.
• 53:44
  I don't know, I used to. Is it Sorry, no, I completely
• 53:47
  changed the topic, but it's woodwork still in the works like
• 53:50
  the IT was like the experimental stuff that would work.
• 53:53
  Yeah, it was. They had bottles that were like,
• 53:57
  maybe it wasn't White Mackay, but I think it was your master
• 54:01
  blender for doing to like the first Scottish maturation.
• 54:06
  Ohh, so the Scottish yolk. Yeah.
• 54:08
  So yeah, over in Feta Kieran, we've got a Scottish Yolk
• 54:12
  program. Yeah, we had it.
• 54:13
  We had actually our first ever. It was technical.
• 54:16
  It was our first proper whiskey festival that went it was there.
• 54:19
  No, not that was an Aberfeldie Scottish yolk.
• 54:21
  No, we've had a Fetter Kirn 1 as well.
• 54:23
  Must have had a fetter. We have had the fetter kit,
• 54:24
  yeah. The Fettiquet, the Scottish yolk
• 54:26
  program at Fetter Kirn, really in 200 years will be incredible.
• 54:31
  What Greg wants to do is to be able to stand at one point in
• 54:34
  the celery and say this is where the water comes from, this is
• 54:38
  where the barley's growing, this is where the woods comes from,
• 54:41
  and this is the distillery it's all made in and you can see
• 54:44
  every single part of the whiskey making.
• 54:45
  Process that. That's Scottish Oak.
• 54:47
  You hear people talking. It's it's an absolute nightmare
• 54:50
  for working. With it's it's harsh, right, but
• 54:52
  what I'll I'll try and get you a sample of a three-year old
• 54:55
  Scottish oak, right OK, whiskey we released last year, Fred
• 54:58
  Karen turned 200 last year and we released a set as ten sets in
• 55:02
  the world from three up to a 60 year old, each of the bottles
• 55:07
  adding up to 200 years. The three-year old is the same
• 55:10
  colour pretty much as a 16 year old.
• 55:12
  And I might get, I don't know if I'll get fired for saying this.
• 55:16
  I actually think that the three-year old tasted better.
• 55:19
  Really, really tasted insane. Really.
• 55:21
  And we found that. Again out Scott, because I mean
• 55:23
  I've had we had the Aberfelde, but we've also I have we have
• 55:25
  had the fetter care at a whiskey festival definitely have yeah.
• 55:28
  What are you getting out of Scottish Oak?
• 55:30
  What's what are you expecting to get?
• 55:31
  What do people because we've we've talked a little bit.
• 55:33
  Everyone's talking about the Mizanara Glen going yeah release
• 55:37
  at the moment. So everyone's saying that
• 55:38
  Mizanara Oak and what it does and this is what you get and
• 55:40
  what have you, what Scottish oak given.
• 55:43
  It actually gives a little bit of a pepperiness to it.
• 55:46
  There's a bit of spice. So that's probably why a few,
• 55:49
  you know, the cellies have gone away from using it because it's
• 55:52
  quite it is quite harsh. It's an acquired taste, but it
• 55:55
  gives such a complexity of flavour like people often think
• 55:59
  it's like like a really deep Sherry kind of flavour.
• 56:02
  The Feds gear and 18 has a has a finish for a year in Scottish
• 56:06
  oak and I'd recommend giving that a shout.
• 56:08
  And obviously it's it's not there's not a huge amount of it
• 56:13
  out there. And and a three-year old Scotch
• 56:15
  yolk whiskey, you know, is is a bit different.
• 56:18
  Yeah, it would be. But it's it's really
• 56:20
  interesting. And I think like, you know, that
• 56:21
  could be the future of where. Yeah.
• 56:23
  Well, I think from a yeah, from a sustainability point of view,
• 56:25
  you got to look at that. If you've been there for 200
• 56:28
  years, why not look at what the next 200 years would look like?
• 56:30
  Exactly. And that's, and that's the
• 56:32
  forward thinking outlook. And that's what I would say
• 56:34
  about White Mackay is we really, you know, the industry isn't,
• 56:39
  you know, isn't what it was maybe a year or two ago, but
• 56:42
  we're really investing in the future and thinking 200 years
• 56:45
  ahead. And yeah, well, we're thinking
• 56:47
  about 15 minutes ahead because the doors are about to open.
• 56:51
  Round 2 is about to start. We've actually got to go in the
• 56:54
  scavenge again to try and find some a few more bottles to have
• 56:57
  because I think we'll hold. Too many.
• 57:01
  Away. We'll hold off and I don't think
• 57:02
  we'll have to. I mean, I think the longer
• 57:05
  today, I think what we saw is towards the second-half of the
• 57:08
  first, first session. People's competence on darts.
• 57:14
  There is like a sweet spot isn't there?
• 57:16
  Maybe like 2 dramas there. Drams that went off, but then it
• 57:20
  went. I don't know.
• 57:22
  I don't know. I don't know if they'll be
• 57:24
  listed right and maybe they're, well, good luck to them.
• 57:26
  But yeah, but basically a group of 6 Polish people came over.
• 57:31
  I don't know if you maybe chat to them.
• 57:32
  A group of 6 Polish people I haven't got.
• 57:35
  Oops 380-613-8061. They conned us.
• 57:39
  We were, we were ABS. I was like, they'll never die
• 57:42
  that button. One of the women, she threw 3
• 57:46
  darts and they went wildly different directions and then on
• 57:48
  the spin she had thrown another three darts to get 60 points no
• 57:52
  problem. Absolutely.
• 57:53
  Yeah. So literally you've got.
• 57:55
  So the point is, you've got one dart.
• 57:57
  Throw your dart to dartboard. Whatever number you get will put
• 57:59
  it towards whatever prize you could win.
• 58:02
  She did first. Dart didn't even hit the board.
• 58:04
  2nd. But Dart didn't hit the board
• 58:05
  3rd. Oh, you've hit the board.
• 58:06
  Well done. You've got a chance to win a
• 58:07
  prize. It was a bottle of Glen School
• 58:09
  Show. Yeah, yeah, yeah it.
• 58:10
  Was yeah. So, all right, spin the, spin
• 58:13
  the wheel. She spins the wheel, and then it
• 58:15
  comes up saying you've got 3 darts to get 60.
• 58:17
  Like this will be fine. Nailed it.
• 58:21
  AA, AA, AA, AA, AA, AA. You're like fair play.
• 58:25
  Yeah, but but that was she was the third out of the six and it
• 58:29
  was like after the first guy went Oh well done you use of 1
• 58:32
  as a group. Congratulations, you've got
• 58:33
  yourself a bottle. Yeah.
• 58:35
  Can I have a go now? You want to go today, Right.
• 58:37
  OK. Then he didn't win.
• 58:38
  Then the next person that comes in she went, she won.
• 58:40
  So they clean is like they got Glenn Murray 15 and the Glenn
• 58:44
  Scotia double wood is what they I think.
• 58:46
  It was Glenn Scotia like red wine.
• 58:48
  Yeah, double. So look, people have done well
• 58:51
  and like I say, the first guy with the 10 minutes of us
• 58:54
  starting it, the first guy rocks up and walks with a Dalboard 15
• 58:57
  minutes so. But thank you very much, Glenn,
• 58:59
  your time. But thank you for for putting
• 59:01
  the putting the drams up. Thank you for the DRAM as well.
• 59:03
  Not at all. All very best for the next the
• 59:04
  next 3 1/2 hours or whatever we've got.
• 59:07
  Cheers. Yeah.
• 59:07
  Cheers baby, see you at the dart board.
• 59:11
  I guess you know what to do. Clap, I said.
• 59:14
  We're on the whiskey couch. We're on nice and cosy.
• 59:20
  We're on the whiskey couch. Kimbaya.
• 59:23
  We've got, we've got Marcus Mccurley, Mccurley Mccurley here
• 59:26
  with us. Marcus, how are you?
• 59:28
  I'm not bad, man. How are you?
• 59:29
  I'm. Good you're you're not working
• 59:31
  today are. You I'm not working today.
• 59:32
  But you've got a team drum pass. You're just here.
• 59:35
  Yeah, I. Just here.
• 59:36
  Olivia's here, so Olivia, my partner works for Borders
• 59:38
  Distillery, so and Scott and John that run Lomed and Clyde a
• 59:41
  class, so they'll come along. Have a few drums, mingle if you
• 59:44
  have a few good folk, throw some darts.
• 59:47
  Try not to blind anybody. Have a good time.
• 59:49
  Brilliant. Now, you've just recently
• 59:51
  started a new position, So what will tell us what you're doing?
• 59:53
  So I am the new The Face? No, I'm the new brand
• 59:57
  ambassador. Do the sales for Brave New
• 59:59
  Spirits. Brilliant.
• 1:00:00
  So it's brilliant. Angus, do you know much about
• 1:00:02
  Brave New Spirits? I don't know.
• 1:00:03
  Brilliant. Tell us.
• 1:00:04
  So here's a segments of finding out about brave New Spirits.
• 1:00:08
  So Brave new Spirits, we actually just celebrated our 5th
• 1:00:11
  birthday. Brilliant.
• 1:00:12
  So it's quite a relatively young company, but what they've done
• 1:00:14
  in that short space of time has been phenomenal.
• 1:00:16
  Independent Bots are based in Glasgow.
• 1:00:18
  We have warehouses in the centre of Glasgow, also in Campbelltown
• 1:00:22
  and and within that time, you know, we're distributed in over
• 1:00:24
  40 countries around the world. We have our three ranges, which
• 1:00:27
  is cast Masters, we have our whiskey heroes and we also have
• 1:00:31
  our Voodoo series, which is about the connoisseurs range.
• 1:00:34
  And then we have volume brands as well, which again likes for
• 1:00:37
  example, over in Asia and Japan, hundreds of stores over there.
• 1:00:39
  So to do that in five years is absolutely amazing.
• 1:00:43
  Actually they were really kind thought the end they went, do
• 1:00:45
  you want to come along to our first birthday party?
• 1:00:48
  And I thought I feel a wee bit of an imposter syndrome here and
• 1:00:51
  you're doing all the clapping. Fantastic.
• 1:00:53
  I've only been here 3 days but they're really good team.
• 1:00:56
  Really good bunch in the whiskey is pretty smashing.
• 1:00:58
  Yeah. So you're talking about these
• 1:00:59
  warehouses. We were chatting earlier and you
• 1:01:01
  said some of the liquid that you guys must have in those
• 1:01:03
  warehouses. Yeah, the second day and not not
• 1:01:07
  flexing, but it was really cool. Got to try 50 year old.
• 1:01:10
  It's going to be coming out next month, which is a 50 year old
• 1:01:12
  Glen Burgie and it's absolutely banging, man.
• 1:01:15
  It's really good. That's why do the tasting notes
• 1:01:18
  like you're you're you're leaving me responsible to do the
• 1:01:20
  tasting notes for us. Really.
• 1:01:22
  Yeah. So so how did?
• 1:01:23
  How did you get into whiskey then?
• 1:01:24
  What's your sort of whiskey story?
• 1:01:26
  Funnily enough, funnily enough, it was actually doing a tour,
• 1:01:30
  doing a tour and Glasgow, the Clydeside Distillery and went
• 1:01:33
  around there and I thought, you know what, I've kind of, this is
• 1:01:36
  really interesting, like the history behind that kind of
• 1:01:39
  geekery. And from there, four years from
• 1:01:43
  being a tour guide at Clydeside Distillery, Glengoine said.
• 1:01:46
  I'm working at an All Star and now at the mighty Brave New
• 1:01:48
  Spirits in four years, which is just.
• 1:01:50
  Amazing. And we, we our last episode we
• 1:01:52
  were at Glengoine. Gordon Dandas took us around
• 1:01:56
  Great, great distillery. It's beautiful.
• 1:01:58
  Good stuff, good stuff. Now what?
• 1:02:00
  What? What are brave new Spirit?
• 1:02:01
  What? What kind of things will people
• 1:02:02
  see? If people are looking like
• 1:02:03
  what's what can? What can people find online or
• 1:02:06
  buy from brave New Spirits? Yeah, what?
• 1:02:07
  Kind of releases well, I brought another segment we drum that so
• 1:02:11
  I brought a wee miniature with me so we can crack that open.
• 1:02:14
  This is the cast masters range. So this is the old and rare cast
• 1:02:16
  masters. So that's what we have as a 31
• 1:02:19
  year old single cast Glenn Rothes matured then I first felt
• 1:02:21
  all it also hogs said not a bad we DRAM you have in your pocket.
• 1:02:24
  You pull that out there and it's absolutely delicious.
• 1:02:27
  So do you fancy we're not going? To say no to that.
• 1:02:30
  No, no. I've had a few of.
• 1:02:33
  The few days. Over the years, some really,
• 1:02:36
  really good ones. I think it was a four more
• 1:02:38
  particularly that really stood out for me a while ago.
• 1:02:40
  And weirdly enough, when I was in Chichaboo earlier this year,
• 1:02:44
  Chichaboo, wow. Yeah, when I was at Chichaboo
• 1:02:46
  Whiskey Fest and you had guys had a really nice stand up there
• 1:02:49
  as well, so. Well, I'll pop my microphone
• 1:02:53
  back on. The chichaboo was until the 50.
• 1:02:56
  The Glen Burgy 50 comes out next month.
• 1:02:57
  Oh, cheers by the way, Slanger. Thank you Slanger guys, thank
• 1:03:00
  you. Wait, before the Glenbarky comes
• 1:03:03
  out next month, The Chichibu Festival, that was the oldest
• 1:03:07
  whiskey that we released and it was the 34 little mile for the
• 1:03:09
  festival and I heard that was absolutely amazing, so I don't.
• 1:03:15
  Like you wish you had tried that job.
• 1:03:16
  Yeah, I kind of guided about that.
• 1:03:18
  So what would you say, People listen here, right?
• 1:03:19
  You've been in? How long you been in the new
• 1:03:21
  job? I think I've been three weeks 3.
• 1:03:23
  Weeks, right? So three weeks.
• 1:03:25
  I mean, you're talking about day day 2, Day three, you're getting
• 1:03:27
  a chance to try. Yeah, they're really good.
• 1:03:31
  They are a good bunch and they're passionate.
• 1:03:33
  And the corner Alexander Alex, a lovely guy from Germany when I
• 1:03:37
  was only there a few days. We've got a new voodoo series
• 1:03:40
  which came out and I really like the voodoo because it's really
• 1:03:41
  funky with the different cast maturation.
• 1:03:44
  So we we have a bled Atho that's been in rum hogs heads and it's
• 1:03:48
  like a villain casks and like that's pretty cool.
• 1:03:50
  You know, it's got that kind of Pete element behind the bled
• 1:03:52
  Atho. The spirit's really nice.
• 1:03:54
  It's got that nutty profile and I thought, you know what,
• 1:03:56
  something a little bit different.
• 1:03:57
  And I think whiskey, I say this all the time.
• 1:04:00
  I think whiskey should be fun. It should, you know, don't take
• 1:04:02
  it too seriously. There is a time and a place for
• 1:04:04
  that, but with the Whiskey heroes, you know that comic book
• 1:04:07
  style labels with the voodoo and then of course the cast masters
• 1:04:10
  are a little bit more conservative and has that
• 1:04:12
  beautiful kerigami illustrations on it.
• 1:04:15
  There's something for everybody, but most importantly, the juice.
• 1:04:18
  Is really good. I like what's good.
• 1:04:19
  So we want to go, right, OK, pick us for people who are
• 1:04:23
  listening. I may be thinking, right, I want
• 1:04:25
  to check a bit more of these brave new spirits here about it
• 1:04:28
  and things like that. Pick us. 33 drums go, one high
• 1:04:32
  end, 1 mid range, one sort of core range that you're looking
• 1:04:34
  at that you would sort of be recommending and pushing the
• 1:04:36
  people. So you're saying like, let's say
• 1:04:38
  I push the boat out drum, we've got a 31 year old Glenn office.
• 1:04:41
  Yeah, right. Should I imagine?
• 1:04:42
  Gorgeous, Absolutely delicious. Really, really, really good.
• 1:04:45
  It's absolutely insane. I sort.
• 1:04:46
  Of a nice drum to treat yourself with, but something that's he's
• 1:04:50
  going and something that a hoose drum that you can say stick in
• 1:04:53
  the house and have something that you can tap.
• 1:04:54
  It fantastic. So we have a two more 33 that
• 1:04:57
  came out which is in the cast Masters owned in May as which
• 1:04:59
  says they're in the bit under £400 RRP, but but they got 90
• 1:05:02
  points recently at whiskey fund. So everybody's going mad about
• 1:05:05
  it. It's beautiful.
• 1:05:06
  Tomoa is one of those distilleries.
• 1:05:08
  You know, you don't see it very often.
• 1:05:09
  You're now starting to see it more because of course Alexa,
• 1:05:12
  beautiful spider that comes through there.
• 1:05:13
  So I would say you kind of want to go high end or it's still
• 1:05:16
  accessible. Well, it's a lot of money, but
• 1:05:18
  it's this value there. There's value.
• 1:05:20
  There's a good value there. Dormo's a disability I see more
• 1:05:22
  often the more often I drive up to Elgin, Yeah.
• 1:05:25
  It's so beautiful, man. It's such a beautiful spot.
• 1:05:28
  But no, I would say that there's also a Blair Atho, which one of
• 1:05:32
  the first drams I tried there. And that's been again, the Cast
• 1:05:34
  masters range, which was fuel maturation and an all Russell
• 1:05:37
  Hockey gorgeous as well. The whiskey heroes.
• 1:05:40
  I'll keep an eye out. There's a Ben Renis that we
• 1:05:41
  released that's been finished in a first full PX break.
• 1:05:46
  Absolutely stunning. You've still got the robustness
• 1:05:48
  of the Ben Runnister. It's quite, quite weighty, the
• 1:05:50
  spirit, but the PX it doesn't, it doesn't mask over the spin
• 1:05:54
  up. It just it works.
• 1:05:55
  It works really well. And that Blair Athol and the
• 1:05:58
  Voodoo, I think absolutely delicious of the rum hoggies,
• 1:06:01
  the Lagaville and expedited casks.
• 1:06:03
  What's that? Start looking at what you're
• 1:06:04
  talking about. Price point I'd say around about
• 1:06:06
  with the with the cast masters. That's the Blair athols under
• 1:06:09
  £60, right? Good.
• 1:06:10
  So kind of around about 60, just under 6 lbs with the voodoo just
• 1:06:14
  a little bit higher. So again, accessible.
• 1:06:16
  Yeah, good liquid. The Voodoo Small Batch, the Cast
• 1:06:19
  Masters single casks. Brilliant Susan, well, I think
• 1:06:22
  the noise you've heard with people cheering as the first
• 1:06:24
  folk are starting to make their way back in round two lads.
• 1:06:27
  We haven't managed to scavenge and get some other prizes so it
• 1:06:31
  could be it could be a short, short game once we get rid of
• 1:06:33
  them. It's back on the train on the
• 1:06:34
  way home. Mr. Marcus, thanks very much for
• 1:06:36
  the drum. Thank you for coming on.
• 1:06:37
  Great chat. All the very best and enjoy the
• 1:06:39
  rest of the rest of your day. Cheers.
• 1:06:42
  Cheers, Angus. Clap aside.
• 1:06:44
  Welcome back to the Whiskey Stories podcast on the train on
• 1:06:47
  our way home from the Lomond and Clyde Whiskey Festival.
• 1:06:51
  I was we've got we drop in hand. We're on the same squeaky train.
• 1:06:56
  We're on our way home. It's been a successful outing
• 1:06:58
  truck. Yeah, I would say so, yeah.
• 1:07:00
  I think this is the voice of a little bit more hoarse than it
• 1:07:03
  was before, but I know it was a great event.
• 1:07:05
  Really driving yourself. Yeah, it was this.
• 1:07:08
  Train is for Edinburgh Waverly, the next stop.
• 1:07:11
  That's where we're going. Yeah.
• 1:07:13
  So we're on our, we're in, we're currently out in, Yeah, we're in
• 1:07:16
  Cardros. We are.
• 1:07:16
  We're in Cardros. Outside, I tell you what,
• 1:07:18
  looking out, the scenery is lovely if you if you get a
• 1:07:20
  chance to see, it's a lovely part of the world.
• 1:07:22
  Clyde Riviera, Graham. Absolutely.
• 1:07:24
  But like Angus with so that we were we were giving away some
• 1:07:27
  some whiskey today we were. Absolutely.
• 1:07:29
  And we actually managed to give most of it away as well, which
• 1:07:32
  was. Our success, we did quite well
• 1:07:33
  at it. We're a Chap 1, the 14 year old
• 1:07:36
  rare find. All more yeah, I mean, the fact
• 1:07:41
  is right. So first of all, well, first
• 1:07:44
  first person to do part of the charge.
• 1:07:46
  You'll see this on the on the video.
• 1:07:47
  We will be putting a video out for that.
• 1:07:49
  So you see that. But the first person to take
• 1:07:51
  part in the challenge nailed it and walked away with Dalmore 15,
• 1:07:54
  which is but I do have to say I've got a retraction to make.
• 1:07:57
  I just sit here wearing a lanyard, not a lanyard that has
• 1:08:01
  a Glen Karen at the bottom, but it says the team, team DRAM my
• 1:08:05
  pass, which lets people know I'm I'm I'm official, I'm there on
• 1:08:09
  official capacity, but I would say no lanyards are up for
• 1:08:14
  grabs. But.
• 1:08:16
  Not being handed out in a way. I would tell you this right
• 1:08:19
  after a long old day of being at a whiskey festival, I could
• 1:08:22
  really do with a lanyard round my neck with a like care and
• 1:08:25
  resting on it. And actually, how many times
• 1:08:29
  have we? We all lost our glasses about 10
• 1:08:31
  times and we had a table that only we used.
• 1:08:35
  Yeah, we had our own table. We still lost our glass.
• 1:08:37
  Yeah, I'm going to retract on the wankiness of.
• 1:08:42
  I think time and place is a big. Plan.
• 1:08:45
  I think there was people. That was the time and it was
• 1:08:47
  the. Place.
• 1:08:47
  There was a time and a place when you need a lanyard and
• 1:08:50
  there were people who had brought their own lanyards with
• 1:08:52
  them, One guy in particular who who ended up mailing the Treble
• 1:08:54
  20 on there. Some really nice like whiskey
• 1:08:58
  sponge decanter badges and stuff.
• 1:09:00
  Yeah, loads of badges since I get collected his badges and
• 1:09:03
  stuck them all in it. So I'm I'm making a fool.
• 1:09:06
  In one episode, I'm making a fool.
• 1:09:08
  Whiskey Stories Podcast. Graham Cogar. 10 hours.
• 1:09:11
  Yeah, Graham. Cogar is pro lanyard.
• 1:09:13
  I'm, I'm making a reduction on my previous comments where I
• 1:09:16
  will say actually, you know what, not having a lanyard
• 1:09:19
  wanky. Maybe.
• 1:09:20
  Maybe look out into the store because no merch.
• 1:09:23
  We're going to bring out whiskey stories lanyard.
• 1:09:25
  We're going to bring out whiskey stories lanyard.
• 1:09:27
  Maybe, maybe in a couple of weeks, Grace will be nothing to
• 1:09:29
  the listeners, but maybe in a couple of weeks, Graham, when we
• 1:09:31
  go up to Dingwall, we should both go with a couple of
• 1:09:33
  Glencairn lanyard next on the bus.
• 1:09:35
  Absolutely. I think I.
• 1:09:37
  Think the reaction would be worth it?
• 1:09:38
  What drams have we got? We've got, we've all got the
• 1:09:40
  same DRAM. We've all got the same DRAM.
• 1:09:42
  Power the pod Fraser Soonest. Gordon Portfail poured us a nice
• 1:09:46
  DRAM from Gordon Macphail on our way on our just before we were
• 1:09:49
  leaving. A ball Blair 33.
• 1:09:51
  Years, I think a 30 year old, 30 year.
• 1:09:54
  Old Yeah, I. Think 30 in the button, Yeah. 30
• 1:09:57
  year old ball Blair Gordon Macphail on a train on the way
• 1:09:59
  home. I mean, I've had worse strums on
• 1:10:02
  a train, yes. What I.
• 1:10:03
  Would say absolutely slumming it.
• 1:10:05
  We're really, we're really scraping the but Marcos gave us
• 1:10:10
  a lovely 31 year old when Rothfest that was that.
• 1:10:14
  Was actually, I think we were talking about drams just before
• 1:10:17
  we started recording. I think for me that was possibly
• 1:10:21
  the highlight of the afternoon, that drama.
• 1:10:23
  That was probably my favorite drama, closely followed by
• 1:10:26
  actually Tree. Cara had a brave valve.
• 1:10:29
  You like the brave valve, did you?
• 1:10:30
  I think it was a very old Brave. I thought that held up very,
• 1:10:33
  very nicely against the Glenrothes.
• 1:10:34
  It was a bit different, but it was very, very nice.
• 1:10:37
  I'm going to go and say actually I preferred the arrange cover.
• 1:10:41
  Their inch gour was very good. I was one of the, I think it's
• 1:10:45
  Phil Bourbon or something like that. 16 year old in first Fell
• 1:10:47
  bourbon, Yeah. Cracking drum, Yeah.
• 1:10:50
  But there was a drum, Graham. You went back forth twice.
• 1:10:52
  Yes, cameras gone again. Cameras gone again.
• 1:10:56
  That's all right. It's OK, the scar marks had
• 1:10:58
  cameras. It's switch sides.
• 1:11:04
  There we go. We're back in the game.
• 1:11:06
  That's it. So Grimm there was there was a
• 1:11:09
  drama you went back for twice. Yeah.
• 1:11:11
  Which is what breaking the golden rule of a festival is it
• 1:11:14
  I? Don't technically speaking, you
• 1:11:15
  could say if I have my phone, which is somewhere here, I'll be
• 1:11:19
  able to get because there's a lot of drams that you get in
• 1:11:22
  these things. So it's very easy to forget what
• 1:11:24
  you've, what you, what you had. But what I would say is I took a
• 1:11:29
  photo before life because what's today about this DRAM for me #1
• 1:11:32
  it was in a wine cooler, a bucket with ice.
• 1:11:35
  So straight away when you see whiskey in a wine cooler front.
• 1:11:41
  Whiskey Festival. So this was an Arkintosh and
• 1:11:43
  single malt Sauvignon Blanc finish.
• 1:11:45
  Vibrant and fresh. Exclusive, limited edition and I
• 1:11:50
  don't know if it's got an age on it.
• 1:11:52
  I think it did have an age, the guy said.
• 1:11:54
  I think it had I'm I'm going to say I'm I'm.
• 1:11:58
  There's nothing on the label. There was absolutely nothing on
• 1:12:00
  the label. You said to me, it said had
• 1:12:01
  something like 12 years of bourbon and then three years
• 1:12:04
  finished and serving you on block.
• 1:12:05
  I tell you what, it was an absolute cracker.
• 1:12:07
  You didn't like it, Chuck, or you didn't not like it, but it
• 1:12:09
  was the. First, it just won my cup of tea
• 1:12:11
  at all. I thought for that, we were
• 1:12:14
  actually talking about it a couple of months ago, about a
• 1:12:16
  month and a half ago, when one of the listeners asked what
• 1:12:21
  would be a DRAM that you can have on a hot day when they were
• 1:12:23
  off to Egypt. Yeah, we were talking about
• 1:12:26
  whiskey and ice. Or do you put ice in the
• 1:12:28
  freezer? I said the Johnny Walker White
• 1:12:30
  Walker, which is what put in the freezer.
• 1:12:32
  Well, that well, the guy said to me this is a DRAM to have after
• 1:12:35
  a hot spicy meal, and yeah, that kind of fits.
• 1:12:40
  I know the mouthfeel, I really enjoyed it, I really would say.
• 1:12:42
  Is I had the 1st of it but then I was holding onto my glass.
• 1:12:47
  By the time I took the sense it was more.
• 1:12:49
  Again, if you had a land yard, it wouldn't have had a land.
• 1:12:52
  Yard I would have avoided that problem completely.
• 1:12:54
  Yeah, but look, the lads did well organizing.
• 1:12:57
  It was a very well put together festival.
• 1:12:59
  There were some really, really, really good.
• 1:13:00
  Approaching Dunbarton Central. We're in Dumbarton now.
• 1:13:03
  Let's please. Mind the gap when a lighting
• 1:13:05
  from this. Train.
• 1:13:05
  I thought there were some really, really good.
• 1:13:07
  Some really, really good. Just a couple of bombers I've
• 1:13:09
  never seen before. It was a really good turn out as
• 1:13:11
  well. Yeah, this was.
• 1:13:12
  Really good turn out, busy, busy hall and interesting exhibitors
• 1:13:17
  as well I. Got taste living soul stuff for
• 1:13:19
  the first time. I think that that was probably
• 1:13:21
  they had a 10 year old. I actually don't remember what
• 1:13:23
  it's named under, but it was a This is.
• 1:13:25
  T Submarines. Central.
• 1:13:27
  This train is. For Ball and Dallas, right, told
• 1:13:30
  me that was my. Favorite one of my one of my
• 1:13:33
  highlights was when we had we were playing the game and it was
• 1:13:36
  the 14 Glens of space side and the fair girl when she was under
• 1:13:41
  pressure. Glen, Glen, Glen and then Glen
• 1:13:45
  Fuck. I went no, that's she was close
• 1:13:48
  to something like Barclay. Yeah, sounds similar, but yeah,
• 1:13:51
  Glenn, Glenn Fox. Glenn, fuck this.
• 1:13:54
  If anybody wants to found it, a salary in space.
• 1:13:56
  I didn't call it Glenn Fox then, yeah.
• 1:13:58
  I don't know how I'm. Not going to invest but.
• 1:14:01
  Yeah. But anyway, look.
• 1:14:04
  We are on a public transfer thanks to our.
• 1:14:06
  Sponsors Scotland. A big thanks to our sponsor
• 1:14:09
  ScotRail for putting it up with us.
• 1:14:11
  Direct service straight back-to-back to Edinburgh.
• 1:14:13
  And you know what? If you want to spend a couple
• 1:14:15
  hours on a train going through from the East Coast to the West
• 1:14:20
  Coast, seeing some beautiful places and scenery and then
• 1:14:22
  getting some whiskey. I would thoroughly recommend
• 1:14:24
  next year booking your tickets for the Lohman and Clyde Whiskey
• 1:14:28
  Festival, jumping on a train and heading through and trying some
• 1:14:31
  great whiskey, some great drams. Because I mean, there are a lot
• 1:14:34
  of, there are a lot of whiskey festivals in Scotland.
• 1:14:37
  And there are. They're all over the place.
• 1:14:38
  But what I would say about this one is very, very convenient for
• 1:14:42
  the train. It was only about a 10 minute
• 1:14:43
  walk from the station, 5 minute F, 10-5 minute walk from the
• 1:14:47
  station. So very.
• 1:14:49
  Very if you're. Close to a train station, very
• 1:14:51
  very accessible for you to get there and if you use the
• 1:14:55
  discount code, whiskey stories. Train you're getting.
• 1:14:59
  You get no discount. You'll get an error code.
• 1:15:02
  You'll get absolutely no discount whatsoever.
• 1:15:05
  Unless. After this podcast, someone who
• 1:15:08
  enjoys the DRAM and works for ScotRail is listening, contacts
• 1:15:12
  us because we've really enjoyed the train hanging, don't we?
• 1:15:15
  There's actually there's legs in a podcast just of us on a train
• 1:15:18
  drinking drams. I think there's, I think now
• 1:15:20
  that I think now that the ban of drinking alcohol on trains has
• 1:15:23
  been officially lifted in Scotland.
• 1:15:25
  Was that was that on at some point?
• 1:15:27
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:15:27
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, it's been lifted.
• 1:15:30
  So we've. Got an opportunity now to enjoy
• 1:15:32
  a nice jam. We've got a 30 year old private
• 1:15:35
  single cast bottling Gordon Macphail that we could sit back,
• 1:15:38
  relax and enjoy. Tomorrow, as you're listening to
• 1:15:41
  this, we'll be hosting our Gordon Macphail Indie Bottler
• 1:15:45
  Spotlight. The last time ever see Fraser
• 1:15:49
  see this in a professional. Capacity.
• 1:15:54
  No problem. But yeah.
• 1:15:56
  That's that's it's going to be it's going to be a good night
• 1:15:59
  tomorrow night as we record absolutely as you listen to
• 1:16:02
  this. But I mean, what I would say
• 1:16:03
  about Fraser is worst guess we've had the.
• 1:16:05
  Podcast I wouldn't hold that much hope for this Andy bottle
• 1:16:08
  spot no, I think he's going to redeem himself I think he's
• 1:16:10
  going to pull out the bag I think he's.
• 1:16:12
  Going to the final tram he's going to pull out an 85 year old
• 1:16:16
  Glenn Live it generations if anyone government fails.
• 1:16:20
  Listen, I don't think I don't think he's going to do that.
• 1:16:23
  I have a 20 mil bottle. I know I heard a.
• 1:16:26
  Full bottle would be given to every.
• 1:16:28
  Guest, is that right take? Home.
• 1:16:30
  I mean, I mean treat on the whiskey.
• 1:16:32
  Stories podcast actually as we're and that's not value for
• 1:16:35
  money really exactly for £25. This is episode. 98.
• 1:16:39
  Yeah, Friday's episode Indie Butler spotted with episode 99.
• 1:16:44
  Then it's the Big 100 and of course the Centurion triple
• 1:16:49
  figures. And the important thing is to
• 1:16:51
  remember as well is I guess we're approaching our two year
• 1:16:55
  birthday, so we really need to get something planned for our
• 1:16:58
  second year. But it's going.
• 1:17:00
  To. Be good, I'll tell you what, who
• 1:17:01
  might be listening to this on their way up to Edinburgh is
• 1:17:04
  Lance Morgan. He's coming up for the Indy
• 1:17:07
  bottler spotlights with his current wife.
• 1:17:09
  So I'm looking forward to seeing seeing them back in Edinburgh,
• 1:17:12
  back in athletic arms again. Good to see them both.
• 1:17:14
  Can't wait to see you guys. Anyway, listen lads, we've got a
• 1:17:16
  drama to drink. We've had a good old day.
• 1:17:19
  It's been good fun. Thanks again to the guys at
• 1:17:22
  Loman, it's really hyped up the squids.
• 1:17:26
  This could be a. Disaster in the end?
• 1:17:27
  Oh, no, no. I'll call that out.
• 1:17:28
  It's even though it's all fine. That's it.
• 1:17:30
  But. Look guys, have a good, have a
• 1:17:32
  good one. Thanks very much for listening.
• 1:17:34
  Thanks for passing the pod. Share the pod.
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  Please. Be, be, be, keep, keep telling
• 1:17:38
  everybody. Get involved in the weekend DRAM
• 1:17:40
  roll call. Get involved in our Frisky
• 1:17:42
  Stories Facebook group, all the other stuff.
• 1:17:44
  I guess we've done it again. SpongeBob Slime.
• 1:17:46
  Cheers. Cheers.