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2025 Wrapped: Top Drams of the Year (Official) · Whisky Stories Podcast

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All right, well, happy New year, lads.
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Happy new Year, happy new Year. Happy birthday Chuck as well.
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Happy. Birthday How was the Turkey
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Curry I. Didn't actually have any, just a
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very chill. I think I had Greg's seasonal
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past day. As you do it as you do.
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Went to go see Marty Supreme. A nice relaxing watch which was
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just nail bitingly stressful the whole way through.
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Great film though, highly recommend.
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There we go right. I guess we've got the drums.
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We've got everything we've got against.
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Clap the board. Yeah, clap.
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I see the. I guess you just clap outside.
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I'll just clap us in Welcome to the Whiskey Stories podcast.
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Well, the. Big news is we've got a free
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type up down in leaf. Whoa.
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Yeah, Diggers. Too.
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There they go. Wow, the second dig.
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The second diggers. Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
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I never thought, yeah, when I did the North British, I get the
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football with my dad. I've seen.
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He's so, so proud because all I did that was drinking whiskey.
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I like that. That's all I did.
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Happy New Year from the Whiskey Stories podcast.
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We're back. We're underground then?
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Yes we are. And starting the year as we wish
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to go on underneath the toilet. I know there's a toilet.
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And after last night we've got a table full of drums as well.
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Thought There we go. How are you?
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Really. Really good.
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Really good. I'm.
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I'm delighted. I'm wearing a badge of myself.
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Yes. New Year, New you.
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Is that what we're saying? That's New Year's resolution.
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Yeah. No, it's it's new Year already.
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All the Christmas stuff's away. So I've got the cream egg.
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You've got the cream egg for Easter already.
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For Easter already? Yeah.
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Well, that's the supermarket. How are you, Chuck?
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I'm all right. I've had a bit of a weird day
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today. OK, well, just, well, it isn't.
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And this is going out on the first.
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We're recording this on the 29th, aren't we?
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Right, aye, just in case. This has to be ready in court.
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I mean like so my dad called me like 2 months ago and was like
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what are you doing on the 29th? And obviously I have no idea.
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And he was like, all right, well, I bought tickets for the
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panto and it. Oh no, he didn't.
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Yeah, he was like, it's always been my dream to take my kids to
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the panto. I have just turned 35.
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I have a 38 year old brother and my sister is like 31 or
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something, I forget. And so we went to the panto and
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he also booked the 2:00 PM show. And so it was the kids.
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The Matinee, 2:00 PM. Matinee 2:00 PM show and I went
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with my brother's wife who is 8 months pregnant.
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She's due in like 12 days and he was like, couldn't, couldn't,
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held this off for another year. So yeah, I've just been on the
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pantho. Brilliant.
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And what was it? What was?
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What was? Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Brilliant. Fantastic it.
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Was. Good for you, good one for your
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brother. Yeah.
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Oh yeah, yeah, if I'm really seen.
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There you go. Well, there you go.
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That's a yeah. We drink beforehand.
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I well, I needed a beer to get through it, I think.
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Yeah. And yeah, just just, I could
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just picture the cares, just one.
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They've never been on stage. And a poor guy would have been
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looking out at the audience and he would have just seen this
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line of miserable looking folk that looked like they shouldn't
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be. My dad was loving it.
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Really. Yeah, he's all about that.
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Stuff Really. Did you know that about your dad
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back in the farm that he was big into panto?
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He's always been, he's always been a big fan of musicals.
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Yeah, Really, really loves the Sound of Music.
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Super. The lame soundtrack was in the
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car regularly. Well done and and of course, it
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was your birthday on Boxing Day. Everyone's birthday.
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Hi. Chill.
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Chill. No, really, you're still in a
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food come on the 26th, don't you?
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Yeah, much. So good, just nice and relax.
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Well, we've got a man beside us who's well, well, Ken face.
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He's a well, Ken face. Ken face.
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He was. You were episode #3 yes, you
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were no number, yes, no, no Hazy Drams was #3 you were episode #2
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#2 you were. You were our first ever guest.
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You were before you were. You were before we really got
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going. Although, technically speaking,
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Ross Ross was and still is a guest.
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Until someone better comes. Along.
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Yeah, exactly. That's it.
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But no, you were, you're our first guest.
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And so you're our first guest of 2026.
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There you go. Congratulations.
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Not the first, I would be called the number 2 either there.
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You go, how are you? Good.
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Yes, I was a bit surprised to get the call up this afternoon.
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Yeah, Yeah. Obviously you had a call off, so
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I hope you're. Feeling better?
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Ally Baxter? Yes, Ally Baxter's bedroom
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window. The curtains are shut.
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He's got a hot water bottle on his head.
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Hot Doddy on the bedside table. The thing is, I remember.
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I can't remember who it was that said, if you're Everlun, well,
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the best thing you can do is take.
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What's that? 2 bottles of whiskey and a
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bowler hat to your bed, right? Stick the bowler hat at the
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bottom of the bed, right. Pour large measures of whiskey
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and consume until you see two bowler hats.
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And in the morning your hangover will be so bad you'll forgotten
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what you went to bed, being I'll with the day before.
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So there you go Ally. There you are, please.
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Help me by a doctor. There's no medical bathroom.
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Basic. Responsibly.
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Please be ill responsibly and baby don't try that but a good a
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good Christmas for you. Yeah, I was very busy.
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Obviously we your party time is our our busy thing.
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So yeah, just mental. I get my kids.
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We bit earlier so we celebrated on 22nd, 23rd, sorry and then
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take them back to mums and then she's been mental since then.
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And I saw actually your your lovely current wife doing a
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snippet sippet score it with Buckfast.
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Yes, so a few years ago I videoed or she never tried Iron
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Brew. It must have been Christmas time
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again because we're both pissed and yeah, she's never tried it.
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So we randomly got some Buckfast and a gift bag from Royal Mar
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Whiskies. You know, famous for selling
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Buckfast. So I had a video or trying it
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and it was very surprised to enjoy that.
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I know. That was that was fantastic but
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brilliant. And of course, I came in here on
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it was good to see you, your father, my dad, and it was
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business. Haven wasn't.
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It, it was really I, I don't know what to expect.
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I've done the pub a few times on Christmas Day, never come in
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here before on Christmas Day I should say, but you never really
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know what to expect. Is it just going to be quiet?
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Or I mean, did was it? Was it expectedly busy?
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We're usually pretty busy, but we open up as a service.
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You know there's lots of two-bedroom flats 10 minutes
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roundabout here. You know, once the kids grow up
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and have grandkids and bring them back.
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As you know the flats are pretty small so we're usually a
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service. They can't, you know, the kids
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run right in the backroom and then we we just serve a few
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beers while the Turkey took the Turkey cooks.
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This year was just mental. I think there's a fair few pubs
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didn't open so we got all their overspill, which then they were
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a bit pissed off 'cause we were prioritising not the reserved
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seats for our regulars, 'cause they're here 365 yeah, yeah,
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yeah. Those guys here pitch up one one
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day a year, and no, they don't. They're not gonna.
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Go. I never got a seat, Kev No to
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be. Honest I was.
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Pretty pissed off about having Ramon.
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You could have came down here. Yeah, like.
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I didn't even need to come up, we could just walk straight get.
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Your dad down the stairs. Yeah, really.
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Go. Yeah.
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I had a Glencadam 15 and a pint of Guinness and it was
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absolutely lovely. Yeah, really, really nice.
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What did you have on Christmas Day?
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What to drink? Yeah.
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Did you have a Manhattan? I didn't actually.
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No, I didn't. I would suck yourself out of it
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on the No, I didn't have any vermouth in the house, so I
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couldn't have had a vermouth. So I was actually, to be honest,
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I was on cooking duty, so I was fairly well behaved.
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I didn't have the microwave exactly.
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The microwave was used for the Christmas pudding.
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I was not steaming it for an hour.
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The guests were told in microwave Christmas pudding.
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But no, I had a had a wee Christmas Eve.
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I had a few drums. I had a few wee drums on
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Christmas Eve. So I had a few wee miniatures
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I'd kind of collected over the year bits and pieces.
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So I had a woven pure Moat 20 CL.
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We gift thing we got Yeah, we gift thing.
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There was a been having 21 year old as well and then some of the
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downward that we tried on the last pod as well.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I somehow ended up with that
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sticky fingers. You were quick enough to get out
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of your bag when you know, well, you know, you've got to take
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what Yeah, you got to take these chances.
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So I just had a few E drums at the in the house on the
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Christmas Eve. Actually, that was quite nice.
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But at Christmas Day I was kind of after the food was done, I
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was kind of knackered. So I didn't I don't I don't get
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any whiskey for Christmas. No, I didn't.
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I specifically didn't ask for any whiskey because I get enough
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of it. I've got the UK house.
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Yeah, got a few can heads, a few bits and bobs.
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Yeah, nothing. Yeah, all very tasty.
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Got the living souls. You know you guys reviewed on
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here and that's went down very well.
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Living Souls 3 is absolutely fantastic.
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It's an absolute cracker. It comes with a great sort of
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story behind it as well. Chuck Christmas birthday I got.
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I had the 21 year old stocking filler.
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Raving about that. Yeah, I really, really liked it.
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I thought it, I thought it was Tina Enik, but because I went to
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the shop and they told me it was.
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And then when I went back to buy it on like the 23rd, I was like,
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oh, I heard it was a Tina Enik. And he's like, no, we thought it
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was. It's Taman.
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Oh really? It's 21 year.
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Old 21 year old Taman. Yeah, yeah.
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Ross will be. Over that, I mean great, great,
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great. We drop.
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I also got that's £75, that's 7499.
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And do you know something if you buy and this is not an advert
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for well, it is, but it's not a sponsored advert, But if you buy
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a bottle from Royal Mail Whiskey now you get a 10% voucher, which
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is redeemable in January. I didn't get one of them when I
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went in. Yeah, but I was chatting away
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with the boys. I think you.
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Just I'm going to head up there tomorrow, Yeah, because.
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I'm getting voucher I. Picked up some stuff from my dad
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as well for his Christmas so I don't want to buy him like 2
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bottles for Christmas. So I got him the Royal Bratlet
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12 and I got him that N British that the Thompson brothers did
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with Royal. Just get panel tickets next
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year. I know, yeah.
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Yeah. Just get him the one I don't
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want to be there. And then I bought 2 of batch 5
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mystery malts, opened one of my birthday.
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What did you? Yeah.
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I got a 21 year old clay wheat. Wow, there you go.
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I. Know there.
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You go, got back. That was.
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Trousers. Yeah, class so buzzing about
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that. I could.
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I didn't bring it with me, no. No, no, don't.
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Worry, we never got them this year.
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That was batch 5. I don't know if just run out of
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shelf space, you know, fair. And it's been done pretty well,
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yeah. Well, I mean The thing is like
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it. It was a treat to see it when
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you came into the pub, that black bottle with a question
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mark and you saw a lineup of. But I would imagine from your
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point of view it's difficult because once people like.
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Exactly what happened? And how do you know when you're
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putting the bottles back on like so?
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My understanding is the first time you did it, did you try and
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keep them or was it just a random?
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No, we numbered, we put chopping under the bottoms, right, so
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that each bottle was numbered. Customers could say I've had #4
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so they might be given choice. Another three, number three, but
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this time we had a 21 year old clay leash as well.
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And that miraculous was by far the first one to go, right?
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The people are coming. I've tried 1/4 and two, you
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know, so leaving bottle #3 which was the clay leash, and they
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just all drank that. I mean, once that was gone, the
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kind of interest was was kind of gone.
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It's a, it's a funny one because I've talked about it I think
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before. It's an etiquette with the
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mystery malt is if you're if you're one for taking a picture
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and posting It came into diggers and said I've just had three
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mystery malts and then telling everybody else what they are.
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Yeah. I'm ruining the mystery.
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So it's, it's a, it's a difficult one to do because then
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once people know, well, once the secret's out, the secret's out.
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Even to the extent I suspect people go at the bar.
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Oh, and I'll go back to the table and say, well, by the way,
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if you ask for #2 you're getting a what have you or, or people
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see that Maybe if I, if I post it on Instagram, I've had the
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Klein leaf 21 at *** Great for you because people are going to
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come in, but they're going to go.
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Can I get? The what can I get?
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Yeah. So we, we, we, we say no, you're
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not well, you've got to try them all.
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That's. Part of.
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The but then but then people. I've tried that one and this one
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left with that one. When it worked.
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So it's great. I mean like having that 7 year
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old Tour of eggs and the last one was class like and it and
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tour of eggs had decided that really until this year I hadn't
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really thought much about it. I think I'd had the inaugural
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and I was like. Yeah, unlikely.
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If you'd you would have ever probably sought out a bottle of
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that. Yeah, but, well, that's a
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mystery Moat. You've ended up with a bottle.
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Yeah, and I've and I've gone back and I was trying to write
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two or three other tour of eggs this year and.
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They've been great. This outrun was 10,600 bottles I
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think it was, and the bottom one was a four year Dornick which
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I'd be bloody delighted. I know.
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Yeah, yeah. I opened a bottle on the
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podcast. It was a 5 year old Doric.
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Yeah. And you called it, I called it,
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you called it out. That was a great, that was a
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great Whiskey Stories podcast moment of 2025, I would say.
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Nice to get a victory, yeah? But Green, what was it you said?
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What did it instantly? Bell Peppers or sugar?
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Sugar green bell Peppers. Yeah.
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And certainly you said I get that one.
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Yeah. Well it's funny because we are
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going to be talking tonight about our drams of 2025.
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Yes, because we are recording this on the 29th of December
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2025. I started this three weeks ago
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and I started to write down and I wrote down I've I managed to
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wangle mine down to 25 whiskeys. I've tried this about half an.
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Hour ago I've been planning this for the last three weeks and I
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forgot to tell you guys so about half an hour ago.
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But interestingly, you know, you have to be strict with it when
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you're and I've been strict try to get to 25.
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You're very lucky. And also I don't want to be like
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Ross, Ross Bar, right? And the the Christmas episodes.
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I was, I was a real like check me.
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Out I've had that Martin 36, how about the Balvini 30 or whatever
14:16
fair player Glencadam 18 and. The second best glencadam that
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they do. Yeah, because I would agree
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1515, but Cody Reynolds is over the moon and I think Ross got
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weighed in. But but I was looking at the
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mystery malts and I've had the Klein Leash 21 as well and it
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would be easy to go to the Klein Leash 21, but I think and it's
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how do you judge what your top whiskeys are?
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OK, First things first, it tastes great, but it's also the
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moment and things. And I actually had a mystery
14:42
malt and it was the Glen with us 7.
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And I remember and I do, you know, I know Glenn well, Glenn
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with us fairly well. And you know, they do a great,
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great work up there at the distillery.
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I remember I was at the Palmerston and they had mystery
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malts on the, on the thing. And I thought I'll get a drum, a
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mystery malt. And it was like I can remember
15:05
feeling like because of all the ones you could get.
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Right, it was. Absolutely amazing, and that's
15:11
why I stuck that down. I was like, I'm not going to
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stick all the mystery malts. Yeah, I've had Downers because
15:15
you could, because they're all great whiskers.
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But I think they've got as a surprise package.
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You know the Klein Leash 21 is going.
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To be good, yeah. Thompson brothers aren't going
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to put a shit Klein leash 21 year old in a bottle are they?
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Valentine aren't going to allow that that No they no they
15:30
didn't. They didn't like my suggestion
15:32
when we were talking up at dawn about that.
15:34
You should just do 1 absolute stinker.
15:38
You should add the element of Russian.
15:39
Roulette. I don't think that went down
15:42
well. Well, I've said yeah, but I've
15:43
said you should a feature of on the back of the success of what
15:47
the mystery was said. I think you should do mystery
15:49
toasties. Mystery Toasties.
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I think you should walk in and go, do I want to play safe or do
15:56
I just say I would have a mystery?
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Toasties. You walk in, you go.
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Corned beef. Someone gets marshmallow with
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savvy. Is that a lanky tasting though
16:06
there? We go, it's just the shits.
16:10
I think that's. But I have been, so basically I
16:12
put this out on the Facebook group, yes.
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And I've asked as many people as possible to put in the top 10
16:20
whiskeys and a lot of people in no particular order, just 10 of
16:23
their favorite whiskeys. Thankfully, there is a thing
16:27
called ChatGPT so I don't have to sit there and try and work
16:30
out some sort of scoring system. I've chucked all those answers
16:34
in and they've ChatGPT has collated up to this point what
16:40
the Whiskey Stories podcast Top 10 whiskeys of 2025 have been.
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What I will then do tonight is I'll continue to add hopefully
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if we do get signal in this bunker, if we don't, we're
16:51
scuffled. This will be a quick old feature
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we'll try and add our and whether or not we do 10 each
16:57
because that could be fair or or we just try and Chuck in some
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honourable mentions. Yeah, I'm not going to say what
17:02
is it currently in the league right now?
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No, but that, that's that. So I'll give you.
17:08
So we take. Well, should we do just now what
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we're drinking? Just, well, this is that we do
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have drams in front of us. So, Graham, yourself, you've got
17:15
one DRAM, One DRAM only. What have you got?
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I've got for the woven pure malt.
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A woven pure malt. Any particular reason you've
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got? Yeah, it was a cracking DRAM.
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I haven't tried it since we had it that night, but I'm also as
17:27
this, as you're listening to this, I'll be in.
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Well, it depends when you listen to this, but I arrive in India
17:33
at 2:30 AM Indian time, so I'll be in India on the 1st of
17:39
January and. Oh, you're flying company?
17:41
I'm flying. You'll be in the 2nd of January?
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No. Oh, you're flying on company?
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I fly. I leave here on the 31st at 7:30
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in the morning. Yeah, by the time I arrive.
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I arrive at 2:30 in the morning. OK.
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On the first. Are you going to be?
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Able to keep track of time zones and just start singing
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everything. I mean I am taking up my 15
17:59
month old daughter. Actually just singing, yes.
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So I'll be singing, but I was I was planning on like trying to
18:06
work out every time I cross a time zone and it's it's happy
18:09
New year. I can have a tram, but I don't
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Flying with a baby is not going to happen.
18:14
Maybe if it's because you're going that way, you'll you'll
18:16
you'll only cross it once and then it'll be like 2 and, you
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know, each morning and then yeah, that's it.
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Yeah. So, but anyway, my point being
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with this is what I really like about the woven pure malt is
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number one. They invite us along to their
18:27
their launch, which is great. And you did a snippet slurpeit,
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score it with an oyster. There you go.
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Lovely art Fern. It was a cracker place.
18:35
That was a really great. Yeah, but also a blend of
18:39
Scotch, which is a Scotch blended malt predominantly from
18:46
space side. A Taiwanese whiskey, not the one
18:51
that you're thinking about an Australian single malt that
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likes to use a lot of wine, red wine or wine finishes or right
19:00
wine casks. And an Indian single malt from
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the Goa region, which I I'm going to make a stab in the dark
19:09
as Goa, as as Paul John, sorry. Yeah, so just just as Goa, Goa
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whiskey. So that's why I thought, I
19:17
thought I'm actually. And you're right, because what
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also was great was we got a wee goody bag there and there was a
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wee 20 CL or A50 CL actually, no 20 CL bottle of woven.
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I I kept that in the cupboard, cracked opened it on Chris
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cracked it open on Christmas Eve.
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So I've had it again recently I had in public.
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So I. Still haven't had it.
19:34
Have I tried it? Who?
19:35
Yeah, please. Yeah.
19:36
What have you got hang? So I've gone for two things that
19:39
you've just got behind the bar very recently, Kev, that you you
19:42
pulled out when we arrived. So I have got a fragrant drops
19:47
Glengiri I think 13 year old ex bourbon cask.
19:51
Thanks, First Phil Bourbon. What's first, Phil?
19:52
Bourbon. Yeah, Very, very nice.
19:55
And then I've gone for your favorite Graham or your former
19:59
favorite Manic Moore. First fell Tokaji.
20:05
All right? No, Tokaji.
20:08
Not Tokaji. First fell Tokai Cask.
20:11
I haven't tried this. Yeah, I'm looking forward to
20:12
trying this 'cause I do like my kind of Tokai and my soft earned
20:15
casks. I made that mistake once.
20:16
I ordered a Tokaji Casa graduate and a certain competitors
20:19
problem was quickly told I was pronouncing it wrong.
20:23
Naturally, Tokai, it's OK. So.
20:27
I tonight I'm the man of whore. Yeah, yeah, a big, a big one.
20:32
Yeah, right. OK, Chuck, what were you?
20:34
Yeah, I got the Woodrow's Diggers 7 year old Highland Park
20:38
Classic, which is my first time having absolute banger.
20:41
Honestly, it's perfect. For this time of year as well, I
20:44
also shockingly drinkable at 58. Yes, yes.
20:48
I had the shout out to the Tampa Bay Whiskey Club.
20:52
I had them in and there was the guy and I forget his name.
20:54
He was celebrating his 70th birthday when he was out here
20:58
and he's Highland Park daft. I start, we put that on the line
21:01
up for them and he was really, really unsure about why would I
21:08
drink a 7 year old Highland Park.
21:10
And he's like, I've truly. And he had those photos.
21:12
He's got the 18, the 21, he's got 30s, got special edition
21:14
bottlings and he tries to try it.
21:16
It's great to try these things at a younger age because you've
21:18
tried. He was going on about his
21:20
favorite Highland Park is like the 18 or the 20, whatever it
21:22
is. I'm saying well it's great now
21:24
you get a chance to try it at 7, tried it at that and he was like
21:28
how do they get hold of and he was, he was happy to buy another
21:30
2 bottles if you had any of the stock available.
21:33
So there you go, right Kev? What about yourself?
21:35
I've got, well, the base of it was Tricara Dura, 31 year old,
21:40
but this is my Infinity ball. Oh wow.
21:43
So we've sold a lot of whiskey over the past couple of days, so
21:46
all the dregs just filled up a bottle and I'm just drinking.
21:48
That's actually pretty good there.
21:50
We go. There we are.
21:51
Pretty surprised so. That is literally just.
21:57
Is that a recent Infinity bottle?
21:58
That's something that's been started a few weeks ago.
22:00
Then, well, I started it because I would just use the hand them
22:03
out to customers. Yeah, I always drive home, so
22:06
there's no point me taking, you know?
22:07
Yeah, 10 milk. Not not tonight.
22:09
No, I'm not, Definitely not tonight.
22:11
But so I had, I had them, I started an Infinity bottle and I
22:14
went away and I came back and it was remarkably less and we had a
22:19
member of staff who was stealing.
22:21
Oh yes. Right.
22:22
Swiftly shown the door and he destroyed my Infinity cask.
22:25
He liked the way we Irish coffee, not our Infinity cast
22:27
coffee. Really.
22:28
Yeah. So he was let go and I started
22:31
again. And umpire bugger, he's been
22:32
feeding us, he's been giving us free drabs.
22:36
Yeah, but he wasn't have an Irish coffee, he was just giving
22:40
it to Agus for. Myself, you're more than
22:43
welcome. I've got another 2 bottles
22:44
there. Oh wow, I've.
22:45
Heated one another infinite so I'll try then next.
22:48
Oh wow, cool. Absolutely good, right?
22:51
Well, let's start thinking about a couple of like nominations.
22:56
So we'll not go for our full 10 each, but we can go for like a
22:59
couple if you want me to start. It was actually a big calm when
23:03
we were doing his recording and he said to me, you like Glenn
23:09
Murray, don't you? And I was like, yes, I think I
23:13
do. So.
23:15
I mean, I think Glenn Murray's been one of the revelations for
23:18
me this year, OK. And I'm going to nominate, I, I
23:21
actually think all three merit inclusion in this list.
23:25
I'm going to nominate 3 Glen Murray's.
23:26
So first one is the 12 year old Smokey.
23:29
Yep, the, the, the core release, Yep.
23:32
That was something we had when we went up to the distillery.
23:34
It was absolutely fantastic. It was a complete revelation
23:38
when we were up there. It was absolutely superb.
23:40
The honourable mention, which I won't go into, that's on my
23:43
list. So, yeah, the honourable
23:44
mention, which I won't mention because I'm going to mention
23:46
that because it, it, it for the Glen Murray is the one we had in
23:50
the house. So that you, you, you bought a
23:52
bottle of the Madeira said you weren't going to mention that.
23:54
No, I was going to mention it. Oh, right.
23:56
It doesn't. Don't write it down.
23:57
Right, right. So it's not one of the three I'm
23:59
going to specifically mention. Second one is the IT was a
24:05
travel exclusive 15. I bought, I bought a liter
24:07
bottle of it. I've still got a wee bit left in
24:09
the house. I took that out of the Greece
24:11
for me and I had a drama of it every night I was on holiday.
24:15
That was one of your. That was a drama of the week at
24:17
one point. Yep.
24:18
Yeah. That was absolutely superb.
24:20
I know what's going to come next.
24:22
And I think you might guess what's coming next.
24:23
Not a whiskey. Yeah.
24:24
This guy's this guy. This guy.
24:27
I look so hard to find that. So it's it's a, it's a spirit
24:31
drink. Yep.
24:32
It's a pitted Maple cask. They did it for Spirit of Space
24:35
side gave managed to get his hands on a bottle a few weeks
24:38
ago. We obviously had the shout out
24:40
to Stephen Woodcock, who sent as a sample of that.
24:42
Thank you very much. But then you managed to get it.
24:45
Behind yes, I was listening to that episode you.
24:47
Managed to listen to listen to it, get it behind the bar.
24:49
So those are my first three of my 10.
24:52
I'm going to mention I'm going to have three.
24:54
Can I be a real stickler that I don't think it should be allowed
24:57
because it's not technically a whiskey?
25:01
Well. It is classified as a spirit
25:04
drink. Well, because I was going to
25:07
say, well, maybe we should be the Spirit Drink Stories
25:09
podcast. I was going to say Angus Chuck.
25:12
But yeah, maybe that maybe that doesn't count.
25:14
Well, if you were a Chuck, if you were to keep one, if it was
25:17
room 101 and I would say you're only getting one of them.
25:20
I feel like you'd want to be keeping that one.
25:23
I feel like I'd have to keep that one if I wasn't allowed
25:26
that one and it was between the other two.
25:28
Well, the Glen Money 12P is on my list as well.
25:30
But yeah, that's a whiskey. So if you mentioned the 12, then
25:34
I could keep the 15 travel exclusive?
25:36
I'm just, I'm just trying to be, you know, I'm, I'm the SWA right
25:40
now. I'm.
25:41
Just playing the game here. Right, Chuck, what are you going
25:44
to? Well, if I was going to talk a
25:46
wee bit more about the travels, because the good thing is I
25:48
think it's about 46%. It's not 40 or 43, it's a wee
25:52
bit more. It's a litre, which is great.
25:55
Yeah, yeah, that's Sherry and bourbon, but just classic but
25:59
nice 15 year old. Great, great drama, great Chuck.
26:04
The rarefying B16. Which again, was very probably
26:09
would have been very close to my list, but I think you
26:12
especially. Really, I really, really loved
26:14
it. I feel bad mention it because I
26:16
do technically work for the company, but I didn't work for
26:20
them at the time. They were a client at the time
26:22
and I paid money for a ball, but I think that that's up there for
26:28
me. I thought that was a great DRAM
26:29
and I bought a ball after we did.
26:31
The record of it of the Rasi was it #3 I got a 7 year old
26:37
finished up rye casks that. It was a very nice dramas DRAM.
26:45
The dramas, DRAM cast #3. Yeah, I love that.
26:50
I have bought a bottle of that as well.
26:52
I got £100 as well 96. 95 quid £95 Yeah, that's right.
26:56
Not bad. And you and you've get, you've
26:59
just got rassies. Yes, a really good.
27:02
One cast Rassies, yes. Yes, there's our third bottling.
27:05
But yeah, we went along to their offices at the West End and met
27:11
the team. They pulled out some samples.
27:13
I gave them the budget that, you know, obviously, you know,
27:15
Diggers is all about. It's all good value for money.
27:16
Not not necessarily cheap, but good value.
27:19
But they brought it three samples and I just loved
27:21
absolutely every one of them. But I loved, I loved 2 and
27:24
Claire loved one. Yeah.
27:25
So I thought, you know. Is that the one that had the
27:26
Buckfast? Buckfast, But so.
27:30
So which ones did you love? I loved the the barrel, the
27:33
third litre barrel. So they, they went, they, they
27:36
Alistair wanted them to, to get the Coopers to get 190 litre
27:40
barrel down to a 30 litre. So just the wood was knackered
27:42
apparently. So just had lots of wood
27:44
contact. So the spirit just did the
27:47
talking and then I'll have the the peaty spirit and so turn.
27:50
OK. So that was my fate.
27:51
They were my favorite too. Because I've had the unpeated
27:56
unpeated bourbon. Is it the?
27:58
Was there a Madeira One was there, yeah.
28:00
Yeah, the third one was a Madeira.
28:02
What was the one I had? I've got a picture of it, but
28:05
basically it was, this is where we'll we'll talk about pubs and
28:11
stuff like that. But like Rab, who works here, if
28:13
people who've come into the pub will know, I mean, how long has
28:15
Rab worked here for too? Long.
28:18
So basically I went up to Rab, but he's got a way about them.
28:21
There's. There's Rab, and he's still
28:23
working here it. Wasn't him that was nipping.
28:24
Your balls. But so, yeah, there it is.
28:26
So basically I just said, oh, try one of their asses and I
28:31
said which one do you think is the best or I didn't say which
28:34
one's the best, which one did you recommend?
28:36
And he looked, he looked at me, shrugged the shoulder.
28:38
But well, that one's got the lead.
28:39
That bottle's got the least in it, so it must be popular.
28:43
Flawless logic. So try that.
28:45
And to be honest, an absolute cracker.
28:47
I've already tried the other two.
28:48
It was the octave 60 litre unpeated spirit matured in rye
28:51
whiskey cast, finished in a 60 litre Muscat wine cast.
28:54
Yes, delicious. Really, really, really
28:57
delicious. Yeah, that was Clear's favorite.
28:59
Yeah, I absolutely loved that. Right.
29:01
So, so I mean that that's something that you've done the
29:04
North British, Yep, you did blend as well, didn't.
29:07
Did blend you the North Star blend that's just sitting over
29:09
there? Yeah, must have a little of it.
29:12
There and and this is your third, but it's something that
29:15
you're going to carry on. Doing yeah, of course.
29:16
Yeah, we've all the next one's in the pipeline called with the
29:19
fragrant drops Nice. But yeah, the it's just
29:24
unbelievable. I never thought, you know, when
29:28
I did the North British again for Baltimore with my dad.
29:32
Yeah, seeing who's so, so proud. I was like, oh, I did.
29:34
That was drink a whiskey. I like that, you know, that's
29:38
all I did. You know, could bring a tear to
29:40
his eye that he's like his his oldest.
29:43
Larry's brought it. All.
29:44
Paid off, but he was just so proud.
29:48
And then I thought, yeah, and it was.
29:50
And it was good whiskey. And then they're not, they're
29:52
not stars. It's all right.
29:53
It's great, a highball. It's got the good 50%.
29:56
So it's the also they blend, but then they really selling.
30:02
It you've got boxes and stuff. It's brilliant whiskey.
30:05
It'll change your life. It's £30, yeah.
30:09
All right, that's good. Making no profit off it.
30:12
It does a job. It's great.
30:14
That is actually really good to eyeball.
30:15
And that's what we use, right? And our cocktails upstairs.
30:18
But then the Woodrows, the Highland Park, that's, that's
30:23
just brilliant. That's stunning.
30:24
Alright, that's so, so good. I mean, woodrows do great
30:27
collaboration bottlings. They certainly do.
30:30
And spirit drink and whiskey. As well.
30:33
Glen Elgin Thirteens, that big pile of boxes that's beside
30:36
behind the Yardstaff pile of boxes is the leftover stuff.
30:40
But wait and you get you're selling that stuff.
30:41
Here maybe you say. Yeah, peeling by here.
30:43
It's delicious as well. Limited bottles available.
30:45
Yeah, there's. 18 left I. Think yeah, the Highland Park.
30:48
No the. Glen Elgin, The.
30:50
Glen Elgin I could hook you up if you're.
30:52
All right, there we go. Right.
30:54
So have you got any other? You've so you've got you've got
30:58
a rare fine cast. Brave Al Sorry you've got Rasse
31:00
Drammers #3 is there any other ones?
31:03
Is that your? Tune if I'm getting three.
31:06
I just looked up the picture of it on my phone.
31:09
Did you get 3? I thought we were getting 10.
31:10
All right, I'm back. We're going to the.
31:14
Restaurant. I'm barely warm grey.
31:16
So I went to, I was at whiskey tasting at the Belfry a couple
31:22
months back and it was hosted by Blackadder and independent
31:26
bottlers and I've only ever really had Blackadder when I've
31:29
been abroad. It's not something I've ever
31:31
really seen here and I think there's about 6 drams, all
31:34
really really good. The one that stood out to me the
31:37
most was 5 year old Shizuka bottled by Blackadder, so
31:43
Japanese distillery. How do you spell?
31:46
That SHIZU OK A. OK, there you go.
31:51
And it, it was like stunning. And what are we looking at price
31:55
wise for something like that? I think it would have been
31:57
Spenny. Yeah, To be fair, I think I
32:00
think probably about 200 quest. Yeah, I.
32:02
I can because there's an element of when you're when we're doing
32:04
this as well as accessibility is important.
32:06
Yeah, I mean, this is the least successful thing I've said so
32:09
far. Yeah, by far.
32:10
This is a real Ross Barn move. I've.
32:11
Just done. Yeah.
32:11
Yeah, that's fair. I would also like to point out
32:13
the ABV on. This OK because.
32:15
The ABV was 65.4. Percent.
32:18
And you can drink it all day long.
32:20
Really. Yeah.
32:22
So heavily peated. And I I think I would.
32:24
You recommend drinking all day long?
32:26
No, I would never recommend that to anyone unless you're really,
32:29
really sick and you have a bowler hat in between your.
32:34
But I do think like I did give a tasting though during the
32:39
tasting and I I meant it with the highest compliment of all
32:43
time, but I felt it was quite insulting at the same time is
32:46
that it tasted like a Burger King Walker.
32:49
Like King Whopper, like some poor guys worked so hard to make
32:53
a whiskey. That's perfect.
32:54
But no, it was like, I don't know, it had all the flavours of
32:58
you're eating something you shouldn't be eating, but you're
33:01
loving it. Yeah, but the smoke was like, I
33:04
think it. There's a lot of Japanese
33:05
whiskeys that give off meat. Eva, because I've been in your
33:07
company when you've come out with Not really I've come out.
33:10
What was the one that you guys were sitting there?
33:12
It was a lot of smoked sausage. Smoked sausage something.
33:15
I get that with peat whiskey sometimes, but I would rarely
33:18
say internationally. Many distilleries have done peat
33:21
and whiskey well. Right, OK.
33:23
And I'd say Japan for one of the few, I think Akeshi in producing
33:28
Hokkaido, they do some phenomenal peat and whiskey.
33:31
I think Shizuoka does some really, really good stuff, like
33:34
I suppose Japan. Yoichi as well.
33:36
Would you say, you know, I've had some green?
33:38
To be honest, I haven't had much.
33:40
OK, yeah, I've it's kind of a I've had a few and I've.
33:43
Not very many, but what I've had, I've fought.
33:46
Really, really green peat whiskey.
33:47
Really, really good. I think Japan does it well and I
33:50
I've always got soft support for Bakery Hill guys so they may do
33:53
good. Peer you brought you brought in
33:54
some bakery Hill the 1st in your first episode.
33:56
They're peeing, stuff's good, absolutely.
33:58
Killing ourselves laughing at some of the stories that you
34:00
gave us some fantastic night. Right.
34:03
Well, great. Well that's a good start.
34:04
I'm going to go poultry 17. Which Bolt Micheline team.
34:08
Yeah, well, that's, you know, it's.
34:10
Three different poultry seventeens.
34:11
You've got this. I'm going.
34:12
To go the one at the moment I'm going to go for the one that
34:14
Greg Urquhart has his name on the whiteboard and the whiteport
34:17
great. And I would say like well, first
34:20
of all, who are we to argue with like good folks at whiskey
34:23
friends who nominated that as the DRAM where when you actually
34:26
look at the whiskeys that were on the festival over a three day
34:30
festival, the Pulte 17 and absolute crack.
34:33
I've got a bottle of it in house and of course that leads us on
34:35
because our poultry 17 bottled. I've got some more information
34:39
on this breaking news that's going to have to be drama of
34:43
2026 because we had we've got the one bottle 1 bottle only pre
34:49
released. You're welcome.
34:50
That is here. Thank you very much to this man
34:51
who bottled it and brought it in, but that I labeled it, I
34:55
labeled it or as you the. Stickers are good on that one.
35:03
Stickered it. Well, 49 bottles available with
35:07
that stuff. 40. 8 now 48, you're right, 48 bottles available and
35:12
it's going to be retailing I think round about the 100 and
35:15
115 LB mark, 150 LB mark exclusively through Royal Mail.
35:18
Whiskies. That's not bad to be.
35:20
Honest and will be available I believe from the 8th of January,
35:23
8th of January. So you, if you're listening to
35:25
this on the first, you have 7 days to get to a four.
35:30
It's ready. And let me tell you, if it's
35:32
going through Royal Mail whiskies, it's only 48 bottles
35:35
remaining, Kev. I'll be getting some.
35:37
You know, you know, through the trades how popular these bottles
35:40
can be. Yeah.
35:41
But as I just mentioned earlier on, if you go and buy a bottle
35:45
of whiskey or have bottle bottle of whiskey in December, you'll
35:48
have a 10% gift, which I have one of those.
35:51
I will be using that 10% gift voucher where you can actually
35:54
get that hopefully. I think there should be on on
35:57
that, on that bottle. But like I say, really, really
35:59
exciting to have that. But that probably 17 white port.
36:03
White port cuts names on the label.
36:05
That is a cracking. Dramza I was, yeah, I was going
36:09
to mention it, but I knew it would come out of.
36:12
Yeah, I never tried it. I'm kicking myself.
36:14
I've got a bottle I've. Also got.
36:17
Yeah, I've got woven pure malt on here as well.
36:21
I don't think it's going to make top 10.
36:24
And I've also got that. I've got the, I'll tell you
36:27
what, I'll put Rassie the Drammer's Cask on there.
36:29
There's a doubler. Which one was that?
36:30
That was a one. That's what.
36:31
Oh, sorry, sorry. That's a doubler in there.
36:33
So you can almost guarantee that makes the.
36:36
I will. Chuck's done very well.
36:37
I mentioned the brave. I was 16 for me as well.
36:39
But. And if you want me to, I've got.
36:42
Well, we're going to come back. We're going to come back.
36:44
Yeah, right. What else?
36:46
I'm going to stick one other one on and I want to try and make it
36:49
as as accessible as possible. Yeah, I'm going to have to go
36:53
for the Arden American. You know, that's not, that's not
36:58
accessible. It was the Arden American,
37:00
Dorner Castle, what I've got up there.
37:03
That was a tremendous, that really was fantastic.
37:05
One of the Arden Americans in the mystery mods, which was also
37:09
fantastic. I'm, I'm going to, I've got
37:11
Diggers Highland Park on there as well.
37:12
I'm going to stick. I'm going to go.
37:14
Sorry I'm being really painful here.
37:17
You've had three weeks. I'm.
37:18
Going to go left field. I'm going to go left field.
37:20
Whiskey craft, untamed Isla 8 year old.
37:25
Oh, that's that's what I'm going for.
37:27
Whiskey craft untamed. I was inviting Sonny Charles
37:30
inviting me along. That is the second out turn of
37:32
whiskey craft. And then on the day he said a
37:36
lot of people think I've done a spelling mistake here by saying
37:41
unnamed Isla, He said it's untamed Isla.
37:44
Google it, you'll understand what it could be or I can't say
37:49
what it is, but it could be if you Google our beg call
37:54
themselves the uncamed malt, right?
37:56
So. No point in giggling there.
37:59
Don't bother giggling it, but somebody in the room is it port
38:03
a scag? Someone in the room said sure,
38:05
let's support a SCAG then. That's like 3 distilleries I
38:08
think. Yeah.
38:09
And he, he sort of said, well, it might be, it might not be.
38:11
And I've spoken to somebody else who may know a little bit more
38:14
about that. And he said I wouldn't believe
38:15
everything that person says as fact.
38:18
Whatever it says on Google might be the case.
38:20
So I'm going to stick that down there.
38:23
Right. Well, we'll come back to this
38:24
because we'll have to go through it.
38:25
We'll do the big reveal at the end.
38:26
Kev, there's some big news for yourself in 2026 as well.
38:30
What's going on? Well, I got pissed at Hampden
38:33
with a Scotland game. Which game?
38:35
The Denmark, obviously. Yeah, fair.
38:39
Absolutely pissed and I asked the kids if we want to go to
38:41
America to watch the World Cup after we qualified and they all
38:44
said yes. So now I've got to buy 6 tickets
38:46
to the World Cup. So say that I sell a car or take
38:49
on some pubs so. I've sold my car.
38:55
When I was at the panel they showed the goal and like they
38:59
brought a screen down from the roof and played the goal.
39:02
Didn't they? And you probably were one of the
39:04
only people in the roof. But what's the I was?
39:07
Like tell you what? Pretty good.
39:08
That wasn't Champlain's goal. So one like looked like it was
39:12
from like the midway line. Yeah, yeah.
39:14
That's on the halfway line, Yeah, the.
39:16
Midway line. At the mid point, yes.
39:18
I was, I lost interest. I couldn't see any referee
39:20
action on it, so there. You go.
39:23
Sorry. So you just so again, Right.
39:25
So I'm also looking for tickets, yeah.
39:27
And ways to fund my trip. But I don't think taking on pubs
39:32
will help me not be able to afford.
39:34
So I think that's just going to burn all my pockets.
39:36
So you've taken on more pubs? Yes.
39:38
So we opened up another one on Easter Road and with my business
39:41
partner and that's just a short term thing.
39:43
We'll open up Joseph Pierce's Elm Row.
39:47
We'll trade that for about 6 or seven months.
39:49
That's going to become a managed house for Heineken.
39:51
Right? But the big news is we get a
39:52
free of tie pop down in Leith. Whoa, yeah, Diggers too.
39:56
There they go. Wow.
39:58
The second dig the. 2nd Diggers, yeah.
40:01
Right. So this is how so this is OK.
40:04
So the other ones that you've got are shorter term, yes, but
40:07
this is a. This will be a five year lease.
40:10
The athletic legs. Somebody, well, we're trying to
40:14
think of a name and there are a few names bound about somebody,
40:16
said the muscley legs all. Right leg, arms and the muscley
40:21
legs. Which I have neither of, yeah.
40:26
No. So yeah, Diggers, least probably
40:28
going to be its name. My business, my business
40:31
development manager from Heineken moved on to a company
40:34
called Admiral Taverns. He's always been looking for a
40:36
site for me. This one came available and just
40:39
give me a call. And I said yes, right?
40:41
Straight away. So why so?
40:42
So let's talk about this then. First of all, really, really,
40:45
really exciting. Oh yeah.
40:47
Second of all, like when will this open?
40:49
I get the keys on the 7th of January and I'm looking for a
40:52
quick turn around. I mean, credit to people who
40:55
have it just now, it's the cleanest pub have ever taken
40:57
over, really, unbelievably. They've done such a great job of
41:00
it. There's Chancho, it's called
41:02
Right, OK, Lots of Mexical and tequila and they've got hey,
41:06
Paolo is up, up. Oh yeah, yeah, near Haymarket.
41:09
Yes, yeah. Have that very successful.
41:11
No, sorry. Hepolu is near pubic triangle
41:15
rich. I can't think of the street name
41:16
that is. Bridge St.
41:17
Bridge St. That's yeah.
41:19
Sorry for which one for those. What the hell, I got to just
41:27
Google that. Do not put.
41:32
It on the Incognito mode and then giggle that don't Google
41:36
that work yeah. Pubic triangles too yeah.
41:41
So they've they tried that they were down there, it's just not
41:43
work for them but credit for them they've done they've done a
41:46
fantastic job of maintaining it so we could go in and turn key.
41:50
It's that clean but. You haven't got a mustache.
41:57
And some bread. Don't have any any kegs or cask
42:00
beer so I'm going to need to install some lines.
42:03
Some cell cooling obviously. The behind the scenes stuff
42:07
currently has orange leather seating.
42:09
Right. That's not good, so it has to
42:10
get red. Red leather seating is a sign
42:14
of. Really good in the higher leaf.
42:17
I'll paint the outside green, all right.
42:19
OK, but. You know this is what it is.
42:21
You know, red leather Edinburgh. It's just.
42:24
It's a sign. It's a sign, isn't it?
42:26
We've said it if you a traditional, we've said it from
42:28
day one of this podcast, a real sign of a traditional Edinburgh
42:34
predominant boozer you're looking at.
42:37
There's also, I was talking about this over Christmas.
42:40
We were talking about it over Christmas as a family, and the
42:43
only pub in Kirkcaldy which has it is the Penny Farthing, which
42:47
is again, probably what you would say in Kirkcaldy has been
42:50
described as an institution. Yeah.
42:52
And I've been institutionalized in that place a few times as
42:56
well. But it's a it's a pub that
42:58
survived the it's the the length of time.
43:00
It's a very popular pub and again a very traditional pub
43:03
where you walk in, but it has the red leather upholstery in.
43:05
It well, I'm looking forward to when we can move records down
43:08
there because that's 10 minutes away.
43:10
From that. Well, that's a bit further from
43:12
me and Graham, but. Yeah, that will be nice to.
43:16
No, because it's got like so. So first of all, you know,
43:21
you've already mentioned. So again, the work that goes
43:23
into this, it's now a case. It's effectively a blank canvas.
43:26
For you, basically, yeah, we've I've been on.
43:28
Obviously in my experiences where I've been travelling, the
43:34
perfect bar for me is a Cohoman. You know the whiskey cask ends.
43:39
I've never been either so. I'm sorry you couldn't see
43:42
their, their, their bar front. It's delightful to go gantry.
43:45
I was talking on the podcast, on the Facebook group.
43:48
I mean, what people's perfect back gantry is.
43:51
And I just want big and, you know, in your face.
43:54
Yeah. Pot still, you know, floor,
43:56
ceiling, as as much space as you can get.
43:58
Yeah. Obviously the red leather
44:00
seating, it's all yellows and oranges and pinks and purples
44:02
just now. So obviously I want to change
44:05
all that, build a gantry, fix the lighting, but there's a big
44:09
massive snug. Yes.
44:11
And. Will there be a whiskey bridge?
44:14
I think we thought about it. Yeah, yeah.
44:16
Of. Course we'll be.
44:17
Now the other thing as well is I'm just thinking, right here's
44:20
a wee thing on the floor. When you walk into diggers here,
44:24
yes, there's a there's a compass, right?
44:27
Are you able to get that shifted so it faces diggers leap and
44:31
then you can have one in leap? Then you walk in which faces
44:35
diggers? There you go there.
44:38
That's a good idea. So north or South it's.
44:43
Just if you're leaving here in that direction and you'll reach
44:47
the other place, so right back bar, then we're talking about
44:53
what's your neck roughly. If you're looking at a
44:56
guesstimate at the moment, what you're looking at thinking
44:58
bottle wise because you have the largest open well, we have some
45:03
empty shelves behind us come I. Did that for Kildercan and it
45:06
didn't. There's some nice stuff up
45:08
there, but I think, you know, I want to create a bit better
45:13
rather than just say I've got a double or that as I'll take it
45:15
down. You know, it sells well up here,
45:17
may not sell well down there, but I think, you know, there's
45:19
certain brands here, there's certain bottlers that I'm going
45:22
to work with. It's got the backroom as well,
45:23
which they've never used for quite a while.
45:25
So I'm going to, I'm speaking to some of the bottlers down in
45:28
Leith who want to use that as a sellable space to to host their
45:32
events in and stuff. And so I'll need to make it
45:34
more. Of an indie bottler spot we've
45:36
done a few indie bottler spotless definitely yes yes so
45:38
yeah now the big obvious question here. 35mm of course.
45:43
There we go, everyone. Relaxed, don't have.
45:47
No collection, however. Yeah, the my big it's heady
45:50
because the beer, the beer lineup.
45:52
Well, this is the non tenant, the non tenant, the non whiskey
45:55
question. Will there be tenants?
45:57
I think there probably will be. Will you have T-shirts saying we
46:00
serve tenants? The Wi-Fi password down there we
46:02
have tennis, we have, you know, the Wi-Fi password.
46:05
Here's. The other, the other big thing
46:06
is as well is, you know, as you'll know yourself, the
46:09
further north of anywhere you get or the further South or
46:12
further down the hill to let you get prices get cheaper, Kev,
46:16
Right. So is it going to be, I mean,
46:18
you've got the best prices at this end of town.
46:19
Yeah, that's. Freesty down there so we make it
46:21
you know I can save off the top end really you know obviously
46:24
paying left the left for the beer so.
46:26
It's fantastic. I mean, like you say, it's a
46:28
great. So back to the question, first
46:30
question, when do you reckon this place will be?
46:32
I'm salivating at the. Top.
46:33
I want to open it for the Six Nations, right?
46:36
There will be TV's, there will be sport.
46:38
Yeah, there will be TV, but it's got a small downstairs bar.
46:41
So a doughnut in your face. Yeah, I don't like 85.
46:44
No, no, no. No subtle screens around the
46:47
place so people can can watch sport similar to here.
46:50
But you know you can sit in here and have with your pals and
46:52
drink. You don't even know sports.
46:54
Go on. That's very exciting.
46:56
Though very excited fan for. Me.
46:57
Yeah, because you you don't need to worry about.
46:59
I'm like the least sports orientated person in the world.
47:02
Never got that off you all but. All are shocked.
47:06
All about the. Massive on the curling scene, I.
47:09
Like the curling? I've curled for like 7 years.
47:12
Really. Yeah.
47:12
It's just never come up before, right?
47:15
Wait a minute, you're a curl. You curl.
47:17
I'm a fucking farmer's son, man. Are you a sweeper or a pusher?
47:23
Jesus Christ, you don't even know the rules.
47:25
Yeah. Well, do you start at the midway
47:27
point? And shout or not, everyone
47:29
sweets right? It just depends when it's your
47:31
turn right. I was quite a good lead.
47:33
That's the guy just first, right?
47:35
I've been third a few times, but I main.
47:39
Here's a very quick breakdown of curling, right?
47:43
OK, you have leads, you have second, you've got third, and
47:45
then you've got the skip. OK, everyone throws 2 stones,
47:48
right? And when it's when you're not
47:50
throwing your stones, the 1st and the second are and the third
47:53
are the main sweepers. OK, 4th or the skip, sorry, is
47:58
the one who decides where the stone is going to go, right?
48:00
Fastest finger first curling whiskey.
48:02
Give me the connection. Sorry.
48:04
There we go. Well done the excellent.
48:06
Also, Elsa bottles What? I've got my home Infinity
48:09
blended. Yeah, and it's got the Elsa
48:12
Craig on the. I've still got a few bottles up
48:14
there but the also me one. I've got one of them.
48:18
I've still got a full one of them in my gaffe with the wrong
48:22
it's got. Yeah, there was.
48:23
Got the longitude and latitude that's supposed to show you Elsa
48:27
Craig, but the first one? They went wrong.
48:29
They didn't. Look at where it was.
48:31
So it just goes back in the centre of Scotland.
48:33
Oh, really? Yes.
48:34
And so that's batch 1. But what was what was the bottle
48:37
you brought in with Big Cam? What was it?
48:38
It was a. It was.
48:39
ATC I brought in the IT was AI gave a sample of it 28 year old.
48:45
Well, it was Kenenby. Yes, but what's the name of it?
48:50
Oh good God, what is it called? Al Duni.
48:56
Is it Alduni dead? No, I think it is Alduni maybe.
48:59
Not right, I think. No, it is Alduni.
49:00
It's Alduni Lal. Is that EUN?
49:04
Because that's the focus eyes. That was it.
49:06
That was the 4th of the the, the the the.
49:09
I didn't even think about that I brought.
49:10
That in because I've the Dalrymple is the teaspoon of the
49:13
William. Brown, Elsa.
49:14
Bay, but we don't know what it's teaspoon with, probably.
49:17
Gervin I mean, it's like there. Yeah, no, because it's about the
49:22
most it can't be Gervin. So we don't know what that is.
49:24
But we've had, I've had the Dalrymple.
49:26
Are we? Shocked if it's anything outside
49:28
the Grant's. Family.
49:29
No, it's got to be inside the Grant's family.
49:32
We've had the oh, oh, didn't he? So that's you dropped that off.
49:36
Yeah, Ward head. Ward Head.
49:39
Had that on the pod with Dougal Gordon.
49:45
All right. Oh, yeah.
49:46
Yeah, 20. 7 year Old blended Walt Really, really, really good
49:50
whiskey and we had the well. We've had Burnside, we've had
49:54
sideburns and we've had teaspoon malt from a distillery.
50:00
Despite the legal ramifications, the liquid ramifications.
50:03
Is still the same. I would like to put out there
50:04
that there's a lot of chat going around 2025.
50:08
Towards the end of 2025, there has been a lot of chat about
50:12
trademarks, Yeah, trademarking of one particular, the Burnside
50:16
and then the Sideburn, etcetera, etcetera.
50:19
I saw the, I saw. Is it Southport whiskey?
50:24
Oh, I did see that as well. Don't mention the B word or
50:26
something they've called it, which is a teaspooned with a 30
50:29
odd year old. Actually, yeah, I think what we
50:31
do is we go to Cabin Heads and bring out a collaborated
50:34
Burnside TM. Yeah, no one could come after
50:39
us. Then we've tried the other side
50:41
of it. Go to Burnside.
50:42
Go official. The official collaboration of
50:46
Burnside. The non enigma.
50:48
Yeah, Burnside. There we go.
50:50
That's what we should do. That'd be so.
50:52
Right, Kev, if you're going to be picking some, you're going to
50:54
be part of this top ten. Well, you actually gave a top 10
50:57
already. Yeah, so we don't need to ask
50:59
it. But if we were to go and give
51:01
you some, if you were to look at top, even give us for balance
51:06
because we come in a public list.
51:08
You see everything up on the back bar.
51:10
Give me what you would say off the top of your head would be 3
51:14
or 4 maybe 5 drams of the top sellers.
51:17
The biggest sellers we have just there are Tammyville and Cherry
51:19
Cask. There you go.
51:21
Because Tammyville and Dave drinks that.
51:25
OK. That's his nickname it Old
51:27
Potley, 12. OK, Yeah.
51:30
One of the 1st 70 CLS I ever bought.
51:32
Yeah, Glencaddon PX. OK.
51:35
And. When it's an offer on Tesco's
51:38
Tom and Towel PX. OK.
51:41
And yeah, 'cause that's just The thing is, these are drums.
51:45
These, none of these are what I would choose and nothing
51:47
against. Them, they're just.
51:48
But they're just not what I would.
51:50
Choose people pleasers. Have you got one more?
51:52
From what's big sellers? Yeah, yeah.
51:55
What's the next biggest seller? Then play Glennronic 12.
51:58
OK, here we go. Or has there been?
52:01
Anything that you've had in that's just gone like.
52:03
Hotcakes, that's just you. Know barely milk.
52:07
That was by far with just disappeared like.
52:10
Believable. Yeah, I.
52:11
Remember that. I came in, when I came out, I
52:14
saw you. I ordered one and then I bought
52:16
2 bottles. Yeah, I bought 2.
52:18
I've got 2 bottles as well. Which had prompted on you guys
52:22
bottles, but then they went for crazy money online.
52:24
Oh. Yeah, no one's been over 300.
52:26
Quite, quite mental. Then again, the same thing
52:28
happened with the the Royal walk in the GAR.
52:33
And. Well pronounced.
52:34
Thank you. Very well done.
52:35
You're so, so scared to see that day out loud again it.
52:39
Was it was it was Moira at the at the birthday bash when you
52:45
mentioned it and she just showing from the right in the
52:48
back is. That how it's pronounced, yeah.
52:49
And it was like, what a moment, absolutely proper moment.
52:53
I accommodate that. It's good to know I'm respected
52:55
by the listeners. No, but when that came out for
52:59
the Game of Thrones edition, that is just the regular 12 year
53:02
old. Yeah, Hey, I'm not saying the
53:04
name again in this episode, but that went for £450 on secondary
53:09
market. But.
53:11
I see the empty boxes from a collection.
53:13
Did you for £120? But I mean, The thing is what
53:17
2025 as a year if we're going to?
53:19
Picture a wee bit of that, if that's OK.
53:21
If we're going to go 2025 unwrapped, so to speak, what a
53:24
year for whiskey when you actually look at it, but not
53:27
enough. I mean, when you say what a year
53:28
for? Whiskey year for whiskey.
53:30
It is, it has been a really tough year and one of the things
53:32
that I've found out a lot about is a secondary market has kind
53:38
of fallen a wee bit away, hasn't it?
53:40
Yeah, I mean you because you buy a lot of bottles, Kev, off the
53:43
off the auction. Sites off the reputable ones,
53:45
yeah. So yeah, we actually look, I was
53:47
on this afternoon, it's just been launched again for the
53:51
next, next auction. Yeah.
53:53
It's difficult though. There's for people selling,
53:55
yeah. So it's a buyers market?
53:56
Oh yeah, it's great for. Because we actually, we pumped
53:59
into Jay Cadkook before we got started to shout out to Jake,
54:04
but more importantly, shout out to Jake Adkook's mum.
54:07
Oh. Yeah, right.
54:09
Let me tell you this, Mum of the year, Mum of 2025, what I would
54:13
say to any listener is do not write a letter to Santa Claus
54:18
next year. Write a letter to Mrs. Wilcott,
54:21
Write a letter. Write a letter to Mrs. Adkook,
54:24
right, for the attention of Jake's mum, because Jake put on
54:28
his list that he would. He put a few drams on
54:32
Kleinleigh, 14 being one of them.
54:33
It was one of his, it was his DRAM.
54:35
And he actually put that as a drama 2025, but he put, you
54:40
know, wild Card. Talisker 18.
54:42
And then informed people don't get that from me.
54:44
I just looked at the price. Yeah, and said it was too
54:45
expensive. Yeah, he opened 2 bottles of
54:50
Talisker 18, both from his mum, right?
54:52
And he was like, what are you doing?
54:53
And then it turns like that she'd had, and we've all been
54:56
there, a mishap on the auctions where you've maybe put in bids
54:59
for multiple bottles to make sure you get one.
55:02
And then she won 3 Talisker. Eighteens I've heard.
55:06
Like £100 each pretty much. You know, So when you actually
55:09
look at what Talisker Eighteens sent you back now over £200.
55:12
220, I think it's the RRP, yeah. 220 So it's done very well,
55:16
yeah. The best one I've got is the
55:17
Glen. What is it?
55:18
Glen Fork is 25 and you pick it up for under 100 sometimes.
55:22
There you go. Wow.
55:23
Mental. Wow, that's that.
55:25
Glen Fork was 25 and 21 are the ones I kick myself when I think
55:28
about it because that used to be 21.
55:31
You speed £95 a ball. Yeah.
55:33
Yeah. And I think the 25 you speed
55:35
like 120 if that and I, I was a buyer case of that at some point
55:40
like that will be the thing to do and I'll I just have it and
55:43
then I look at the price now, I think it's like 240 for the 25.
55:47
Mental option. It's a great, great drop that's.
55:50
Fantastic. It's not worth 240.
55:52
No, I don't think many think that.
55:53
No, why? What lesson, what whiskey
55:56
lessons have we picked up for 2025?
55:58
I mean, 2025 has been a big year for us for, for trips.
56:02
We've done some pretty great whiskey trips.
56:04
We've been we've been started off a Port Leith distillery,
56:08
culminating in North British. I am still working my way
56:11
through that vlog. There's a bit where.
56:16
You cut me off filming within the 1st 50 minutes.
56:19
I think you I was going to have to go on.
56:21
There's on the Adobe Premiere Pro.
56:26
Right. We've gone up to Adobe Premiere
56:27
Pro. We're making you know that's.
56:29
A big year. That's expensive, but what it
56:32
does do is you can automatically sync.
56:35
Like I can get the mic, so I record the mic separately and
56:39
then what should happen is I could put the audio in with the
56:41
video and then you sync it together so it picks up where
56:45
the audio matches. But you can't do that when
56:47
there's a lot of machinery working in the background.
56:50
So I had to then I've had to listen and try and watch our
56:54
lips and then get the audio and try and there's certain bits,
56:59
there's certain clips of that where the camera is.
57:02
You can see us all speaking and just pick up on bits.
57:06
But there's like going on in the background because it was quite
57:10
loud. It was loud and then I could
57:11
hear the the audio. So, so that will be coming if
57:15
you're listening to this. And I've been working really
57:16
hard in between trying to get Christmas out of the way and get
57:19
ready for a flight in two or three days time to India.
57:23
I should have that ready, hopefully.
57:24
If I'm in business class now trying to.
57:27
No, no I can't. Can't get a business class
57:29
upgrade. Baby's in business class next
57:31
year, next. Year.
57:32
Next year, but let. Me come back down there I'll.
57:36
See you exactly. I'll be happy with that.
57:40
But we've had trips, yeah. We've seen a mash filter for the
57:44
first thing. Have you ever had some fantastic
57:46
SO? Fucking Logan still this?
57:48
Yeah, there you go. What kind of things we've taken
57:50
away lessons from trips or just in general, what we what we've
57:53
learned? Hard hats and distilleries are.
57:59
Yes, Yeah, Safety first. Yeah, for you, Chuck.
58:02
Yeah, I think I've got a couple more dents than I did last.
58:05
Year, yeah, we learned a lot on our trip to space side.
58:08
I think we learned when we're going around Glenfarclas,
58:11
learning that everything there was matured and all of that was
58:14
something I was known before. I mean, you know, just just
58:19
learning a lot more actually just because going around with
58:22
you Graham, you're always keen to get in the warehouse.
58:24
We've actually, you know, learning about palletized
58:26
racking and in Kearney and seeing they're set up there with
58:30
the palletized racking and, and the kind of logic behind why you
58:34
go for that. Yes, you get more spillage, but
58:37
equally the economics of it makes sense from their point of
58:40
view, you know, all all these sorts of things.
58:43
That's been a big learning curve for me as well.
58:44
I, I didn't really have any idea about that sort of thing.
58:47
I didn't, you know, before going and visiting these places this
58:52
year, I've learned a lot about that.
58:54
On that side of things. I'd say I'm the opposite, yeah,
58:58
because you probably go on the other way.
59:00
The production side's really it was an element of I wasn't.
59:04
I would say it's a least bit of interest that I've had remember
59:09
being at the Porter Leaf Distillery and even Sterling
59:13
talking us through like the and this is The thing is we've been
59:17
have quite a few new distilleries.
59:19
Sure. So they don't have the heads
59:21
today to talk about. No.
59:22
So what they do have and most distilleries when it's the
59:25
production, it's like what makes our stand out with our ease?
59:28
It's our fermentation times. It's our it's our this size or
59:31
lesser. So wash backs, you know, even
59:33
the fact that in in port leaf, like the wash backs in the
59:36
different positions, they've got no windows, but they've got
59:39
these constant grills that are on.
59:41
So he says like winter are different times of the year.
59:45
The different temperatures of the wash backs are different in
59:49
the same room, so in that corner over there, they're going to be
59:52
getting a northerly wind coming in in the winter off the 1st to
59:56
4th, which will make them a lot colder than than the other ones
1:00:01
that are further into this side. So things like that, I think I
1:00:04
didn't appreciate it. I must admit, even at the point
1:00:07
of being at the engineering distillery watching you guys
1:00:09
kind of going, I at the time didn't appreciate a mash filter
1:00:14
as much as I do in hindsight. And actually I'm a bit like.
1:00:18
That's pretty cool. That's that is completely
1:00:21
different because the more distilleries you go to unless
1:00:24
you see them. Yeah.
1:00:26
Why aren't we? That's why aren't you.
1:00:27
Yes. I mean, I haven't been on all
1:00:29
the tours this year and really I couldn't have imagined a better
1:00:34
way of doing it than we did it this year.
1:00:36
So first one I really went. We obviously went to Tomasson,
1:00:39
but I'll focus more on Dornoch. We went from one room like using
1:00:44
spent yeast and from a brewery to do fermentation for and
1:00:49
that's like 2 weeks that they're doing their fermentation for.
1:00:51
It was like a week long fermentation up there producing
1:00:54
what like 12 1/2 thousand litres?
1:00:57
We then went 2 inch downy and doing on a much larger scale, 4
1:01:02
million litres, 4 million litres.
1:01:04
But being very experimental using different yeasts and
1:01:07
different seasons. Hammer Mill for me was insane,
1:01:11
like I never even really thought about what that would do and how
1:01:16
the finite like making it into as much of A powder as possible
1:01:21
and then use it in a mash filter and even.
1:01:24
Yeah, the one thing we didn't do that sugar box must be they're
1:01:29
different. I don't.
1:01:30
Think they got a sugar? I love this because it's so
1:01:37
funny. They don't have the grill that
1:01:39
goes great, that goes right because it's like the bottle cap
1:01:42
of the bottle. It's the sort of grill of that.
1:01:44
Right, of course. Nobody showed us that paid
1:01:46
attention. I know I'll have to go back and
1:01:48
look. I'll have to go back.
1:01:50
Yeah. I had the Hivism but no helmet
1:01:54
there. But then we went and then from
1:01:56
inched down I went N British at the end of the year.
1:01:59
Yeah, which was just yeah, muck up and even and I and I'm
1:02:03
kicking myself because I didn't ask.
1:02:05
I think I asked 2 questions once we finished recording.
1:02:08
Which was that's truck all over. Yeah, Yeah.
1:02:11
That's kind. Of like on the other side.
1:02:12
Yeah, but but I asked them, the distillery manager there, he
1:02:19
said that they use a mix of it's vast majority of maize and they
1:02:23
use barley as well. Yes, it's 85% maize and 15%
1:02:28
barley. And apparently the only reason
1:02:30
they use the barley is for the enzymes for alcohol production.
1:02:33
Didn't really add any flavour. Concept.
1:02:35
No, just there. And they also said that it goes
1:02:38
and I'm this might not. This probably isn't as accurate
1:02:41
because my memory is kind of gone a bit, but EU it takes the
1:02:46
maze has to be like boiled. Yes, they have to make a soup.
1:02:49
Yeah, in fact, they have to make.
1:02:50
Well, that's why it's smelled like.
1:02:51
Yeah, yeah. Like chicken noodle soup because
1:02:53
it's a bit where you said that it smells like, it smells like
1:02:55
sweet corn soup and angles like that's because they're making
1:02:58
sweet corn soup because, because wait a minute.
1:03:00
So if we go through the malting, milling, mashing, so they don't
1:03:05
have well, they did have a mash done, didn't they?
1:03:08
Yeah, but it's the Miller. It's all the gold tops.
1:03:10
No, no, that was the fermentation.
1:03:12
All right, So that's your marsh ton.
1:03:13
Sorry. Yeah, the marsh ton, But no, the
1:03:16
marsh tons, the big thing. I'm gonna say you ask, No, they
1:03:18
did have a marsh. Yeah.
1:03:19
They do big marsh tons because I would try to work the swimming
1:03:22
pool room. Yeah, there's swimming pool room
1:03:23
there, but I would try to work out because they do make that as
1:03:26
a process. They remember it was the
1:03:27
pressure boilers, the pressure cookers where they do base and
1:03:30
make because it sounds silly, right?
1:03:33
And it really, and I had to pick it up and show the camera and
1:03:38
you guys are like, Yup, that's sweet corn, Graham.
1:03:40
But this is this is this is instead of the molting, there's
1:03:45
no germination. No, no of this.
1:03:46
But it's all just pick it up. But you just hear like sweet,
1:03:51
you hear maze and you're like, what's maze?
1:03:52
Oh, it's corn, right. It's corn.
1:03:55
But is it like, is it already coming as a powder form or is it
1:03:58
this is that? And then you see remnants of on
1:04:00
the floor and you're just like, it's just dried sweet corn, but
1:04:04
just yellow. Yeah, dried sweet corn.
1:04:07
Like Muckle big pieces. Yeah, big.
1:04:10
And it used to go like that. And you're, you're because it
1:04:14
isn't until you're standing there with it in your hands and
1:04:16
they're hardweed pieces like they've been dried, isn't it?
1:04:18
But you're like, you're then turning this into what we drank
1:04:21
as whiskey. Yeah.
1:04:22
And so like you're N like when you actually break it down, the
1:04:25
North British that you're drinking Power eye milk, the
1:04:28
bigger it's North British, the 26 year old N British from Vin
1:04:32
Thompson, the 46 year old N British that we got from, it's
1:04:36
all made with just sweet corn. Yeah.
1:04:39
You know, you look at that, it is a bit mental that isn't it?
1:04:43
That's was when you put it that way, yeah.
1:04:44
It is like crazy, Yeah. But I mean, I was a dryer man
1:04:49
for four years from barley, Yeah.
1:04:51
And then the fact that, like doing what I've done, and then
1:04:53
that gets sold off and that makes whiskey that tastes
1:04:56
really, really good. Yeah, kind of makes sense for
1:04:58
that. No, right.
1:05:01
Let's add some more that sounds some drums.
1:05:02
So I I'm going to nominate a 21 year old Tandy.
1:05:07
So we had Mike Brown on the podcast three times this year.
1:05:11
We've had it three times this year. 2120. 1.
1:05:16
Yeah, gratis the whole time I. Look to that to that was a
1:05:19
Christmas gift and absolutely. Yeah, Well, it's a cracking
1:05:23
drama. No, no, it's a cracking drama.
1:05:25
I mean, sorry. Yeah, Mike Brown came on and.
1:05:29
And the thing that's great about the 21 is we've, if you go
1:05:32
through the age statements of the 18 of the time, do you get
1:05:36
to the 18? The 18 is a big Sherry bomb.
1:05:39
But then you get to the 21. It's got that European.
1:05:41
Yeah. And it's just toned down a wee
1:05:44
bit. It's American, but American.
1:05:46
Sorry. It's the 15 on steroids.
1:05:48
Yeah, 15 is great. 15 is probably my favorite time to do,
1:05:52
but the 21, it was great to get that as a retreat.
1:05:56
Absolutely phenomenal, phenomenal draft.
1:05:59
Has to be one of my drams. So Mike Brown brought a sample
1:06:02
of it before it had come out. Yes.
1:06:04
Then Christopher Coats brought a bottle of it in very kind.
1:06:07
I'll bring it in. I wasn't on that.
1:06:08
I. Wasn't.
1:06:09
On the podcast samples. They were in your cask.
1:06:14
They put them in your cask that someone else had them.
1:06:17
But and then I mean, we had it at the taste thing that we took
1:06:22
Scott Moore to it when Scott Moore came up, which I was a
1:06:24
highlight of 2025. That was great.
1:06:26
I mean, we, I would say one of the biggest highlights for 2025
1:06:31
has been our listeners and what we get sent in.
1:06:35
Oh, because in front of us. The German list there who?
1:06:39
Brought in Oh, Jurgen. Jurgen.
1:06:40
That 24 year old Ila from Thompsonville.
1:06:43
Yeah, that was cracking. That was.
1:06:44
Absolutely. Just great.
1:06:45
We've we've had some, we've had people, Neil Trippers has given
1:06:48
us samples we've had but but Lance, Morgan, Lance and Sandra
1:06:52
seen these guys. We've seen them.
1:06:54
So they they drove up, but they drove up for the Pintail.
1:06:59
Yeah, March, they drove up for the Pintail.
1:07:01
Where from? From somewhere near right down
1:07:04
South. We ask them every time and we
1:07:06
forget it's somewhere like King's Lynn or somewhere near.
1:07:10
Norwich, yeah. It's it's a fair trek.
1:07:13
I mean, you know, fair platelet. So they came up for the Pintail
1:07:16
one, which was great. Yeah.
1:07:17
Gave Angus and IA moment of madness where they asked if we
1:07:23
could sign. Lawrence asked us to sign his
1:07:25
bottle. Whiskey stories podcast 25 and
1:07:27
asking for our autograph. Wow and.
1:07:29
Ross was sick. Ross was off.
1:07:32
That's it. So happy he was off.
1:07:37
They wanted the three signals and then he.
1:07:38
Came up, they both of them came up for the Gordon Macphail.
1:07:41
They did taste it. You know, it's the furthest
1:07:44
anyone's ever travelled to listen to Fraser.
1:07:45
Soonest I was going to say unfortunately Fraser was they
1:07:49
came up for that and then they came up for the for the for the
1:07:53
birthday bash yeah and gave us a great gift with the he printed
1:07:58
off whiskey stories two years old 100 not out of that signing
1:08:04
got all signed by everybody in the room and everything like
1:08:06
that and and just fantastic. But I asked him.
1:08:09
I was like, oh, you must be here for because I was like, we'll go
1:08:11
and have a DRAM tomorrow or something like that.
1:08:13
No, we're driving back down tomorrow morning came up.
1:08:16
So fair play, but well. Done.
1:08:18
He sent us some glassware that's amazing.
1:08:20
These are tremendous and these glasses.
1:08:22
It's a lovely glassware and the details fantastic.
1:08:25
So it's it's the four of us sitting it's at the it's I think
1:08:28
it's a door Knick. I think it's the door Knick
1:08:29
tasting. We must.
1:08:30
I think it's the door Knick. Is that the door Knick tasting?
1:08:31
There, I've got all those bottles in front.
1:08:33
Of me, yeah. So we've got this great glass,
1:08:34
but also when you're finished Whiskey Stories podcast at the
1:08:37
bottom. Fantastic.
1:08:38
And also he's given us some pin badges of a bangus bursting at a
1:08:42
cream egg, which is probably one of my greatest achievements on
1:08:46
ChatGPT, a lot better than one of us sitting at scuba diving
1:08:49
gear which didn't do us any good whatsoever.
1:08:52
We. Have to recreate that in real
1:08:54
life next year, yeah. We're off to Orkney. 26 of the
1:08:57
year, everyone can get room to equalize. 26 of the year you can
1:09:01
scuba. I'll snorkel that's.
1:09:02
Fine, you'll just sit in your suit.
1:09:03
Yeah, we'll do that right. So we've got Tam do 21.
1:09:06
But a big thank you, LON. Sandra, thank you so much for
1:09:08
for, for these gifts. It's absolutely fantastic.
1:09:11
I still can't believe that people listen to us so
1:09:14
religiously but also are enthusiastic enough to send us
1:09:18
things, which is great. We've had plenty of bottle salt
1:09:20
sent to us, like say. These are amazing.
1:09:22
I've got we bottled in here. Spay, Andrew.
1:09:24
Andrew sentences from spay and distiller.
1:09:27
It's a 12 year old golden mist finished in broom Dory.
1:09:32
French virgin oak cast cast strength.
1:09:35
As well so got fresh glass. Yeah, well, we'll try that and
1:09:37
launch fresh. Glass.
1:09:38
Yeah, it's definitely, it's all Thompson.
1:09:43
That's great. I mean, it's fantastic.
1:09:44
So there, we'll tap into this one as well.
1:09:47
But thank you so much to everybody for all that kind
1:09:50
gifts. And all around.
1:09:52
No, it's a tall glass of bottle. But yeah, I mean, PO Box you can
1:09:57
send them now. You've got 2 pubs you can send
1:09:58
and. This is the problem you have
1:10:01
though. I speak to joiners and builders
1:10:03
and whatnot, like what size shelves do you want?
1:10:06
I was like, well, standing around, you know, and then
1:10:09
suddenly, you know, you get. The well, rare find and I'll be.
1:10:12
Honest. Yeah, I I have big clams.
1:10:14
As a guy who's worked bars for 10 years, I've big clams of rare
1:10:17
fine bottles. But I would say what I quite
1:10:20
like I I'm the opposite and I've I've kind of I've kind of
1:10:23
cupboard where I keep whiskey and one of the shelves takes a
1:10:26
tall round, but the other and I would take that probably, but
1:10:30
the other shelf only takes kind of dumpy bottles.
1:10:32
So like I can get stuff like a Kilhomen bottle.
1:10:36
Or an Edward hour. Or an Edward hour, I can get
1:10:38
that and no problem. But then the bigger bottles, but
1:10:42
that's all around just doesn't quite well.
1:10:44
That's the thing about it is you have to think about it.
1:10:49
Rare, fine, rare. Fine.
1:10:50
Bottles are in a bigger cupboard.
1:10:53
They don't think, they don't think of it.
1:10:55
From Bob's point of view, no. But what is it?
1:10:56
Well, this is it. It stands out because I suppose,
1:11:00
well, it depends what when you're looking.
1:11:02
At is it too tall that it's too big to fit yourself so.
1:11:05
Well, this is where it's an interesting one, because the
1:11:08
point being here is that if it can't fit on a shelf, it has to
1:11:10
fit on the shelf, or that hasn't doesn't have a top, which means
1:11:13
it has to go on the top shelf. And what do?
1:11:15
What would you associate with top shelf other than
1:11:18
pornography? But I mean, but your top shelf,
1:11:26
your premium. Or I was in currently cute in
1:11:29
Sterling and they've got whiskey carpet so there's.
1:11:35
Parson. Whiskey on the floor.
1:11:38
Really. Yeah, just.
1:11:39
Whiskey on the ground on. The ground, you can't.
1:11:40
You can't see it. That's it.
1:11:41
Because. It doesn't.
1:11:42
Fit anywhere in the because there is a lot of photos that
1:11:44
you've maybe missed out on. But just a quick one.
1:11:46
Graham, Ross, Angus and Chuck, Many thanks for a brilliant year
1:11:48
of whiskey stories podcast whiskey and you and your
1:11:52
families are very happy Christmas so big thank you.
1:11:54
Thank you very. Much.
1:11:56
And thanks to thank you to everybody who's listened and
1:11:58
thanks to everybody who's been part of the podcast.
1:12:00
Yeah, right. Not a couple of drams each
1:12:03
night. So one, I'm nominating.
1:12:04
I mentioned it on the last part when we kind of had a similar
1:12:09
discussion. And I've I still haven't looked
1:12:11
it up to see what exactly it was, but it was when we had the
1:12:15
Thompson brothers on the Indie Bottler Spotlight, they brought
1:12:19
a bottle of Dornick. Can you remember what it was,
1:12:21
Chuck? It was a it was a Sherry cask,
1:12:24
Sherry cask. It was absolutely Sue it was a
1:12:28
Dornick. It was on their lineup and it
1:12:30
was, and then they bought a spot that in the bottle of Spotlight.
1:12:33
I. Can't.
1:12:34
I will have to look it up there. Was a cask sample that.
1:12:37
Was it was a cask sample? That doesn't mean I just bet the
1:12:39
bill. Sorry, I guess that is not
1:12:40
accessible. OK, well I will give you
1:12:42
something very accessible. Good then it was a drama I was
1:12:45
mildly obsessed with for a few weeks.
1:12:47
You had it behind the bar here and I just kept going for it and
1:12:50
it was a non petered the Muscat, Bonington, Bonington Muscat.
1:12:55
I was just absolutely obsessed with it.
1:12:57
Don't I'm, you know, I'm not a big wine person.
1:13:00
I don't really know what Muscat is.
1:13:03
I don't really know what it does, but it did something great
1:13:05
to Bonington Muscat. And when I've had Muscat
1:13:08
finishes from other or or Muscat releases, sometimes, sometimes
1:13:13
it's not quite done it, but the Bonington one was absolutely
1:13:15
superb and I kept going back to it.
1:13:17
I kept having it. The field one the Pete, didn't
1:13:20
they? They're pizzas on pizzas.
1:13:22
I I actually preferred the unpeted one.
1:13:24
Yeah, it was tremendous. A lot better.
1:13:26
Yeah. Yeah, I prefer the unpeted one
1:13:28
myself. Anything else you've got, I have
1:13:30
to put that down you. Got one more?
1:13:34
For now. Yeah, for now.
1:13:35
I do. I'll need to wrap my brain in
1:13:37
just two minutes. I had them in my head and then
1:13:39
I've started talking about OneDrive and I forget which one.
1:13:43
I'm going to go back to when he was talking about Dornack and I
1:13:46
feel like I should mention it because the mystery malt Dornack
1:13:50
that I got on the podcast, I feel like that should be
1:13:53
mentioned. I've gone back to that a bunch
1:13:54
of times. Still really really love it.
1:13:56
Still can't believe I have. I now own 2 Dornacks.
1:14:02
Insane. I can almost tell you what what
1:14:05
classic Dornick tastes like. At this point I'm close to that.
1:14:09
I can see you're working for Dornick at some.
1:14:11
Point here, Yeah, fucking trying.
1:14:16
But, and I actually want to know the Thompson blouse ray, which
1:14:20
would be the seven-year old Torrevig that they did this year
1:14:24
with the old GNM Telescope label.
1:14:27
That is one of the Tour of Eggs I had this year. 2.
1:14:32
I had two other Tour of Eggs from Tour of Egg, but I didn't
1:14:35
take pictures of them. But completely, completely
1:14:40
renewed respect for that decision.
1:14:42
I think it's crap. I'm jealous of that you're N
1:14:45
British adventures and the Dornick.
1:14:47
Yeah, the Dornick 1 was. Quizzed.
1:14:50
Dornick, I was like, so, so glad that they had us.
1:14:53
Thank you very much. No, it was absolutely fantastic.
1:14:55
Yeah, that's just actually a great time.
1:14:57
I'm going to Chuck in Rylaw. Yes.
1:15:01
Version 1. Rylaw version 1.
1:15:03
Not the. Very namely owned a bottle of
1:15:04
that. I'm going to go Rylaw version 1.
1:15:09
I think it again. It was a very lucky drain on
1:15:12
Broughton St. King lassies.
1:15:15
The King lassies are fantastic from Inch Derny and I love them.
1:15:18
I really do. Yeah, and that and if I was, if
1:15:20
I was to give an honourable mention to the to to one of the
1:15:25
king glasses, I I preferred the there was a bit of a debate,
1:15:28
obviously, between which one did you prefer?
1:15:30
I preferred the one with the Amon Amonte Amonteado Amonteado
1:15:34
sexy Sherry is Ross like I Yeah and that sold.
1:15:37
It for me, I think, yeah, it was all about that bourbon.
1:15:39
Man, I know you like the bourbon one I like, but I like the
1:15:42
Amonteado I like the better. Show I thought it was sick
1:15:45
though. I I thought the Sherry one was
1:15:47
very, very nice. I really enjoyed that.
1:15:48
Well. That that definitely gets an
1:15:50
older woman I. Was saying like because for me
1:15:52
the Rylo just caught me off guard.
1:15:55
Rylo's class. Yeah, yeah.
1:15:57
I, I it's. One of those ones when I came
1:16:00
back from travelling and I my rarely enough.
1:16:03
I think he actually sells some of his barley to to the
1:16:10
distillery. But my dad, one of my daddy's
1:16:12
best mates, Brun, Brun, he's a spud farmer and fight.
1:16:17
Great. Great guy, really.
1:16:18
Really good. Guy great.
1:16:20
Guy walks out in a check on a quite a regular basis, but a
1:16:23
good guy. And and I got, I came, I came to
1:16:28
visit my dad and he was like, have you seen this before?
1:16:31
And he pulled a bottle of Rylaw out and I was like, no, I'm not.
1:16:34
And he was like, have you know well.
1:16:37
Really. Yeah, and he's all braggy,
1:16:39
braggy, braggy. And had some Yeah, it and if.
1:16:44
And one of the great things. I love it.
1:16:46
He loves it. Yeah, yeah.
1:16:47
And it's a nice thing to be able to.
1:16:49
Yeah, It's great finding those like kind of drams that you can
1:16:52
sit down when you're down, like decent, right?
1:16:55
Yeah, I'm going to truck in Glencadam 13 as well.
1:16:58
I'll tell him I prefer the 15. I do prefer the fifteen.
1:17:02
Yeah, but the 13 gets just when we were up at the decelerate and
1:17:06
trying the 13. And it's a turn 1.
1:17:08
Was it or? No, just regular regular 13.
1:17:12
I I would sense on the day at the distillery the 13 I actually
1:17:15
enjoyed more than the 15. I've since had the 15 a couple
1:17:18
more times and I'd say the 15 probably weighs the 13.
1:17:21
But yeah, I just really like it. I like the fact, yeah, I think
1:17:24
it's, I like that there's a wee element like, you know, me, I
1:17:27
guess I like a wee story associated with it, a bit of
1:17:30
meaning. And I just like the fact that it
1:17:32
coincides with the mothballing of the distillery.
1:17:34
So it's the stock that they've got.
1:17:35
And so I'll put that in right, but.
1:17:37
I'd also, I'd also argue the 1013 and 15 are like a great
1:17:41
showcase of how that distillery goes from from 10 year old
1:17:44
super, super custody, 13, you've got that custody, but fruit is
1:17:48
coming through and then fifteen way more fruit.
1:17:50
Yeah, yeah. I think those 3 for me are a
1:17:54
great showcase of maturation. Yeah, it's nice to have that age
1:17:57
range where you can see the progression because sometimes
1:18:01
it's like, well, the 12 is the same as the. 15 is, you know,
1:18:04
yeah, I mean, sometimes when you go from 12 to 18, you're like,
1:18:09
this is really, really great. They're both great, but it's
1:18:11
quite nice to see the spirit character and see how that.
1:18:15
That that's really will play a key part in this too.
1:18:17
Yeah, definitely, yeah. Because yeah, what's the range
1:18:22
of favour that deal the whole? Well the gram reserve a whole
1:18:25
range is like. It's all great value that's.
1:18:28
Insane. Yeah, Yeah.
1:18:29
I. Know.
1:18:30
Right. I'm going to nominate, well, 2
1:18:32
drams, 2 seconds. I'll let you.
1:18:34
What I will say is hold back if you have a Ross Bar DRAM of the
1:18:38
year nomination, unless you've already put it out there.
1:18:43
If you were to say what your number one, number one, number
1:18:46
one DRAM of 2020 and that that can be asked.
1:18:49
Very difficult. Yeah, it's very difficult.
1:18:50
I had nine with you. Right, OK, neither of these
1:18:53
would be #1 Well, so right, I can mention we're sitting on 13
1:18:56
at the moment. We need to get it out at 10.
1:18:58
So what's how about, well, two then?
1:18:59
Well, I'll mention them as honorable mentions then because
1:19:02
they probably don't qualify. OK, OK.
1:19:04
So I went to Japan in February. I went to do the, I went, you
1:19:08
did too as well, nearly per cross paths.
1:19:11
I went to do the celery. So I went to Fujikatemba and I
1:19:15
went to Miyagiko. Fujikatemba.
1:19:17
I brought home a bottle of it was a 10 year old single grain
1:19:22
cast sample whiskey. I brought it on the pod Ross Bar
1:19:25
was very, very impressed with it.
1:19:27
I've had it in the house. It's tremendous.
1:19:29
It's a great we, you know, Graham Escape.
1:19:31
Great. We want to start on tremendous.
1:19:34
I guess an honorable mention for me for having been at that
1:19:36
distillery. Chris Coats when he came on.
1:19:38
Yeah. Talked highly about brothers.
1:19:41
Yeah. Great band name.
1:19:44
He I think he brought a whiskey that you can get very readily
1:19:47
available in Japan for about 20 or £30, which I had in Japan as
1:19:52
well. I had it.
1:19:54
In Japan, that same at Fuji Kitenba, they gave you we sat
1:19:59
up, they had a wee line up and at the end of the tour and they
1:20:01
gave finish this podcast. You've talked enough.
1:20:05
You know the second round, second round I mentioned is
1:20:10
Migiku. I went to there and I bought a
1:20:12
bottle of. We 20 CL sample bottles are kind
1:20:16
of this very exclusive things, just that we kind of flavor
1:20:18
different flavor. 1 was like multi and you know, but one was
1:20:23
Sherry and sweet. Yeah, yeah.
1:20:24
And I had that and it was the first one I opened of that those
1:20:28
three drums and I just was like this.
1:20:30
What was the one you brought in the bus?
1:20:31
So that was the multi. That was the multi one, this was
1:20:34
the Sherry 1 and I was like, this is cracking this.
1:20:37
That would get an honourable mention if I hadn't already
1:20:39
given this an honourable mention.
1:20:40
I mean, I can't mention them all.
1:20:41
So many honourable men. I know he's an honourable man,
1:20:44
honourable man. But I had this and this was the
1:20:47
bottle, I said. This was so.
1:20:48
Good. I wish I'd just bought the full
1:20:51
bottle of this and then I realized I had bought the 50 CL
1:20:54
bottle of this and I'm absolutely I'm absolutely
1:20:57
delighted because I've got that all to look forward to again.
1:21:00
And that was just, it's just a really elegant Sherry whiskey.
1:21:04
That's it's because the spirit is so light and delicate, just
1:21:09
with the Sherry doesn't overpower it just compliments
1:21:11
that you could just, it's just a nice sipper, good sipper.
1:21:16
Got anything else you want to add?
1:21:17
Any honourable mentions? Yeah, I.
1:21:19
Was going to have to do the whiskey stories.
1:21:20
Honourable mention, I was I. Was looking at pictures and one
1:21:26
from when we very fortunately made it to the whiskey festival
1:21:30
but we had issues on the train. Yes, yes, I distillery that.
1:21:35
I don't generally go for it and this is a bottling that is out
1:21:40
of my price tag. But I loved it, and that was the
1:21:44
download luminary #3. Oh.
1:21:47
I love that. I've never tried it.
1:21:49
And I'm very nice that I loved it like.
1:21:52
How much is that a bottle I. Think it was like 2. 50.
1:21:55
But not a non aged David whiskey. 77 Cask.
1:21:59
Yeah, yeah. And it was, it was fantastic.
1:22:01
Yeah, yeah, it's a lovely draft. It was.
1:22:03
And and I'm and a whiskey that is out because I because I
1:22:07
pulled out of the cask and I lay, I stuck the stickers on the
1:22:10
cell. And but we taste that in tasting
1:22:13
earlier this year and it's a 1983 to man, which is
1:22:19
technically a Scotch exclusive. Who?
1:22:23
A Scotch exclusive. I.
1:22:26
Know it's a wee Ross bar all right filthy words but that that
1:22:33
was phenomenal yeah and also I would have said this the I don't
1:22:37
know but there's like there's like 2 whiskeys that are coming
1:22:39
out next year that tasted. Yeah, that's 2026 is I know
1:22:43
conversation. We've got 364 days.
1:22:46
OK, Kev, you were going. Is this going to be a drama of
1:22:49
the year or is it going? To be.
1:22:51
True, that potentially could be that was with you guys at the
1:22:53
that we pub in the West End, the East End of Princess St., the
1:22:58
hotel, but the North British 26. Copper House.
1:23:03
Or no N British 26, yeah. The Finn Thompson.
1:23:06
That was. That that was very, very.
1:23:09
Nice, yeah. Very I mean, and the great thing
1:23:14
about that is people look there yeah, a lot of people in the
1:23:17
industry and people, but the lineup was incredible.
1:23:23
It was and and that was almost unanimously the drama the
1:23:27
evening. Yeah, I mean, just I was from a
1:23:29
50 year old in my Gordon at the start, a 50 year old Glen Limit
1:23:32
at the end and the 26 year old North bridge.
1:23:35
Yeah, Cracker. Sorry, but it was before the
1:23:38
tasting. No, I got there just before you
1:23:40
guys arrived and then I was all by a drama shit.
1:23:43
Well, and who was there? Luke.
1:23:47
Luke was there, yeah. From CBH.
1:23:48
Yeah, and they had the 40 year old on the table.
1:23:50
I'm not buying them. One of them.
1:23:52
I bought you an 18 year. Old.
1:23:54
Yeah. It was very, very nice.
1:23:55
Yeah, yeah. Then what?
1:23:56
Luke obviously realized who you are and you say you just keep
1:23:59
bottle out. So you've got a 40 year old
1:24:00
boon. I haven't, yeah.
1:24:02
So you're like £75 by the way, because I was all set to try the
1:24:06
boon. I haven't for that you had
1:24:07
behind the bar and then. You got free one, I said.
1:24:13
So you've got bin habit it right, OK.
1:24:14
Bin Habit 40 is a purely business.
1:24:16
Didn't cost me anything, yeah. Cracking drum, Yeah.
1:24:18
Unbelievable. Right lads, I've got a list of
1:24:20
things we've got to narrow this down to 10 and we've not got
1:24:22
initially, it's at 10 eats so well, right.
1:24:26
So at the moment we've got to work out.
1:24:28
So North British 26 rare find and these are in no particular
1:24:33
order. They're fine to Matt in 1983.
1:24:36
Dalmore Luminaries 3 Glen Murray Smokey Glen Murray 15 travel
1:24:41
explosive Glen Murray Maple cast peated Glen Adam 13 rilot rare
1:24:46
fine Braval 16 Rasay Drammers cast #3 Black Adder 5 year old
1:24:50
Suzuku Suzuka tamdi 21 mystery malt Dorna Pulkney 17 rare find
1:24:57
rare finding well, sponsorship's still available.
1:24:59
Bonington Muscat Tamneville and bonington Muscat.
1:25:02
Thompson Brothers tour of egg. Then we also have the Diggers
1:25:06
ones, which would be the top trams of being tasted.
1:25:08
Just Tammyville. No, no, because it's good to
1:25:11
keep them in it just to get add a bit.
1:25:12
Tamneville and share of cash. Pulkney 12 Glencar and PX.
1:25:15
Can I put one tomato? No.
1:25:18
What would it be, Chuck? Living Souls 99.
1:25:21
One OK. Oh no.
1:25:23
Oh no. Oh, you're playing the old
1:25:26
hearts. I feel like I generally.
1:25:29
Think that's like cracking? A lot, a lot of these ones.
1:25:32
I just want to mention the producers because they've.
1:25:34
Done amazing. Well that's it.
1:25:36
We have, we have to. I will filter this for
1:25:38
producers, distillers, bottlers, blenders, etcetera.
1:25:41
I've got a shopping link as well, so if you click on it,
1:25:44
yeah, watching this, click on it, buy it, it.
1:25:48
Was in the insane yesterday they're supposed to be having if
1:25:52
anyone who's listening to this can just go and drink the
1:25:55
current break even inside that's great because the next one's
1:25:58
supposed to be a 52 year old Ben Nevis.
1:26:00
I really want some of that and but they've got the it's a 35
1:26:05
year old port of Das for lemon Lemon souls in there for like 12
1:26:09
lbs. No, there's. 35 mile pool.
1:26:11
There's something. What, what, what?
1:26:12
What was the drama? We went to Helensburgh Tree car.
1:26:15
We're charging a fiver for it, but it was was it now brave?
1:26:19
It was it was a brave it was a brave about 3330.
1:26:24
It was an absolute cracker. Cracker.
1:26:27
Yeah, right. We need to work this out.
1:26:29
What? We have a price range.
1:26:30
What are we getting rid of this list?
1:26:32
All the cheapest, right we've got.
1:26:33
No, no, we've got to get the right.
1:26:36
I'm sorry, Angus. You've got 3.
1:26:38
Glenn Murray's in here. I have to just pick the one.
1:26:40
Yeah. It's the smoky 12 Smoky 12.
1:26:42
The Smoky. 12 I'm so happy. I've beat the Glenn Murray quite
1:26:45
a few times and I've got a massive selection upstairs and
1:26:48
it's just so overlooked all the time, so I'm so happy that
1:26:50
you've. I love Glenn Murray.
1:26:51
I love Glenn Murray. I've got a bottle of Glenn
1:26:54
Murray Smoky 12 in the house because that is the first core
1:26:58
release. Peter.
1:26:59
They've done speeding releases, but that's a core and I think I
1:27:02
love the Maple cast peated to go in there and it should go in
1:27:05
there, but it can't. But Chuck said though.
1:27:08
But what exactly? Chuck barred it and what it does
1:27:11
do though. Anything.
1:27:12
It's respect. But what it does do though is it
1:27:15
still highlights how good the peated spirit of Glenn Murray
1:27:19
is. Superb.
1:27:19
And when we were up there again, shout out to Glenn Murray, their
1:27:24
handfuls very keenly priced. I think I picked one up for £65.
1:27:28
It was a. Really.
1:27:30
Yeah, unbelievable. It was a Feno.
1:27:32
It was a petered, petered spirit.
1:27:34
Feno Sherry. I've got that in the house.
1:27:37
I'm going to crack open that at some point in my life and I'm
1:27:40
going to. I'm really looking forward to.
1:27:41
What I do, genuine question, is it is the Peter production for
1:27:44
them kind of increase the last couple of years or?
1:27:46
I think it's I think it's increased with the production of
1:27:50
Glenn Murray. Where do you put the Asian rasi?
1:27:52
Because I mean when we. Were out.
1:27:53
There the SAY the last. 10 years of Glenn Murray.
1:27:57
The expansion has been quite drastic.
1:27:59
Right through that. Yeah.
1:28:00
So it's gone. Oh, I think I see them now.
1:28:02
Right. Cool.
1:28:03
I'm sticking the Rasi Drammers. The Champagne E 1 That one.
1:28:06
That's that one that. One that's dramas, but.
1:28:10
It's. Actually listed podcasts and you
1:28:12
were like I want a bottle of Chucks.
1:28:15
Fantasy. I emailed them like.
1:28:17
That at the taste thing or when we're trying those three
1:28:21
samples. Where'd you get this?
1:28:22
It's only for. I was like fuck off.
1:28:25
It's only for members. Yeah, send me the.
1:28:28
I sent an. E-mail before I just bought 3
1:28:29
casks off you. I'm taken.
1:28:31
Right, so so I've got Glenn Money, Smokey 12 club.
1:28:34
Before we even left the pub that night.
1:28:37
I've got Glenn Money, Smokey 12, Ryle Lot, Rassie, Drammers cast,
1:28:41
3 rare fine, Pulty 17, Angus. What other ones have you put in
1:28:44
there? Well, Chuck put in the Brave Al
1:28:46
16 and if Chuck hadn't put it in right I would have put it so
1:28:50
rare. Find Brave AL16I.
1:28:53
You know, I think that was an absolute superb drama.
1:28:56
It was one week by working the rare find.
1:28:59
Oh, absolutely. Working the rare find desk, we
1:29:03
were able to get a wee taste of that.
1:29:05
Yeah. Yeah, a few times.
1:29:06
I like your Bonington Muscat. Bonington Muscat has to go in
1:29:09
for me as well. I wouldn't put if I if I was to
1:29:13
narrow it down, that would still be there.
1:29:14
Yep. So that's us on 6.
1:29:18
What else? Chuck, what are you looking at?
1:29:20
I'm. I'm not going to allow you to
1:29:21
put the rare find 1983 to Martin.
1:29:23
I don't think that's. Successful.
1:29:24
I'll put that in fueling as I can.
1:29:26
Yeah, that fair. Fair.
1:29:29
Don't you? Have we got Rilo in there?
1:29:30
We've got the Rilo in there. Rilo has to be on.
1:29:32
Yeah, yeah. I don't think will it the.
1:29:34
North British 26, yes I think. I haven't tasted it. 3 three out
1:29:39
of four. Phenomenal.
1:29:40
People. And I wish I bought 1 Jake.
1:29:43
Was he was raving about it upstairs as well so.
1:29:46
And to come out on top in that taste, yeah.
1:29:49
I would have bought 1 had the rush back here.
1:29:53
Right, that's us on 7. Can you just put mystery mall
1:29:57
in? No, because I want it to be
1:30:00
mystery malt. Now, do you want your Thompson
1:30:02
brothers Torrevige to be in? Although if you had a bad
1:30:05
mystery malt. I didn't love their racing.
1:30:08
OK, you. Can't put it in then.
1:30:11
Yeah. But that's still very drinkable.
1:30:15
I'm sticking your Mr. Remote Dorn again because that was a
1:30:17
big moment for the pod, but we and you could you want your
1:30:21
Thompson brothers Torrevige in there.
1:30:23
No, I mean, I love that. I mean, I just want to put the
1:30:28
distenders in like the bottlers. In so we're on 8.
1:30:30
We've got two more to go out of this.
1:30:32
What's on the list? Right, so Living Souls 99 and 1,
1:30:37
Dalmore Luminaries 3 Can you splenk Adam 13?
1:30:41
Can you split? The difference between the
1:30:43
Living Souls and Thompson brothers collab the three-year
1:30:45
old. Yeah, we can do that.
1:30:47
Living Souls 3. Can you put that in for me
1:30:49
please? I'd like both of them to be
1:30:51
represented. So that's that's nine.
1:30:53
We've got one more to pick out of this.
1:30:54
Tam do 21, Tam do 21. Yeah, great shout.
1:30:58
Tam do 21, right. And then I'm going to add it was
1:31:00
my shout. So it was a great.
1:31:01
Show. Tam, Neville and Sherry cast I.
1:31:06
Don't like this? Music shout out to Tam, Neville
1:31:08
and Dave. Is it Tam, Neville and Dave?
1:31:10
Awesome. But the way I've got.
1:31:12
Yeah, hopefully not. Necessarily.
1:31:15
Really. Really I love but that this
1:31:16
space. Great old public life.
1:31:18
Secret I know. Is this the old stills?
1:31:21
New stills? This almost the old stills.
1:31:23
I don't know. Anything about this, the story
1:31:24
apart from that advert, it's the most I've ever known about
1:31:28
Michael Owen. As soon as soon as he was into
1:31:33
horses, I was like, was the guy I can get behind I think.
1:31:37
Tom and towel PX. He said.
1:31:38
Kev as well. Tom and Towel, yeah.
1:31:41
Yeah, it's quite funny because it's it's the most, you know,
1:31:43
like Michael Owen. But most people that know about
1:31:45
Michael Owen have no idea about. This So anyway, listeners to the
1:31:49
podcast, do yourself a favour. Michael Owen Spay Advert YouTube
1:31:54
Yeah, YouTube. Please watch it.
1:31:55
Right. Jesus this.
1:31:57
That advert came out the same time as David Beckham was doing
1:32:00
all the promo for Hey. Also grim but hate Club Mandals
1:32:06
are great, really rate that. But really, really interesting
1:32:11
advertising. Move right.
1:32:13
Here we go. Here we go.
1:32:16
Great. Let me get this.
1:32:18
OK? The suspense.
1:32:21
Yeah. The suspense is building, Phil.
1:32:24
Logging into the Wi-Fi password. Give it Phil.
1:32:28
Right there, she should be fine. Broom door rental casks.
1:32:32
I mean, what is a broom door, eh?
1:32:35
I mean, maybe it's a really French way of saying creme
1:32:37
brulee. It must.
1:32:38
Yeah. Well, that's initially when I
1:32:40
saw it. I thought it's AI, thought it's
1:32:42
a Creme brulee broom door, eh? But no really nice golden mist.
1:32:47
They caught it. Calf strength.
1:32:50
I don't natural color. I genuinely don't think it's.
1:32:52
I don't think it's natural color.
1:32:54
It doesn't say it's natural. Color, yeah.
1:32:58
Absolutely like that then. Doesn't say it's natural colour.
1:33:01
There's a whiskey's been mentioned here.
1:33:03
I'm going to do the Google Translate.
1:33:08
I used to decorate in here. So we've had 130, we've had 130
1:33:12
plus. I'm never looking from this
1:33:13
direction. No, it's.
1:33:16
Well, I mean, The thing is, you're looking at it from the
1:33:18
other direction of the camera, so yeah.
1:33:21
Yeah, we. Look at daughter board or
1:33:22
something. We look at the toilet and it
1:33:23
inspires. Well, there's the dartboard's.
1:33:26
Gone from upstairs so. Well, it can't come back, but
1:33:29
that toilet's going. Right here we go.
1:33:31
Well, that that toilet's come in handy a couple of.
1:33:33
Times we promised we'd never talk about it.
1:33:42
Yeah. Yeah.
1:33:42
Do you know what I think's remarkable about our 10 year
1:33:46
old? Yeah, again, I feel like we
1:33:50
almost have to. And probably the reason I didn't
1:33:52
mention it is because the ones that we have had have been or
1:33:55
the ones that I've had but have been the kind of ones that
1:33:59
probably Graham wouldn't allow us and Arden Americans not a
1:34:01
dimensional there. But when we've had, we've had.
1:34:04
2. We've had so the Arden, the
1:34:06
Arden Americas for me. Oh, we're mates, we've.
1:34:10
Had two of the Arden. Americans they've.
1:34:13
Got those samples either? Yeah, they've been.
1:34:14
Absolutely, I only got a sample from that.
1:34:16
Guy, they've been absolutely ridiculous.
1:34:19
Well, I have the list. OK, we'll start at #10.
1:34:22
Batch 2, the Saturn peated. The Saturn peated for me.
1:34:27
Yeah. Also the mystery malt
1:34:29
automatically was also class cynicism in whiskey.
1:34:35
His bottling was flocking filled.
1:34:38
Yeah, right. So here in the results are in
1:34:41
the results are in tabulated. Here's all the people who here's
1:34:44
some of the ones that didn't make the cut.
1:34:46
So and what we've what is going to be here is we're going to
1:34:50
talk about the whiskey and but not that some of it's just the
1:34:54
distilleries, not with the bottlers and stuff like that.
1:34:57
But basically Kalila Tamdu, Old Pony, Glenn Scotia, Aaron
1:35:00
Kleinleich, Glendronic and Living Souls did not make the
1:35:03
top ten. OK, based on the votes.
1:35:06
Propaganda. Based on the votes, but here's
1:35:09
here's your number 10 #10 is Glenn going.
1:35:11
Now that is Glenn going. So Glenn going is featured in
1:35:15
there in the voting as Glenn going, White Oak, Mizanara 16
1:35:19
year old PX Handful and Glenn Going 53.
1:35:23
Yeah, somebody mentioned, right. Accessible.
1:35:27
And then number. 9 Also it wasn't at 53, it was a blend
1:35:30
that I had some. OK.
1:35:32
And then #9 Tematin, Tematin Virgin American Oak 2019.
1:35:36
So that's that's. Graham's orgasm.
1:35:38
Tematin 45 and yeah so and that's your and Tematin 6 year
1:35:42
old virgin oak. So other people have tried that
1:35:44
45. No idea.
1:35:46
Someone stuck it in fragrant drops.
1:35:49
In 12 different kids. Fragrant drops in at #8 yeah,
1:35:53
Fragrant drops Ben Reef 17, fragrant drops Inver Gordon 50
1:35:56
and fragrant drops inch Gower saw turns, which was all the
1:36:00
inch Gower saw turns fantastic. And then #7 rare find.
1:36:04
Sponsorship available guys. Rare find Poultney 17 year old
1:36:08
yeah. Rare find Bravelle 16 rare find
1:36:10
25 year old Scotland release Scotland went real fine.
1:36:14
Yeah, they brought a 25 year old blend which is the sister cask
1:36:19
of our one SFA Scott Football Association, the ugly sister
1:36:23
Boonahabin, Buddahabin in at #6 Boonahabin tourist math #2.
1:36:30
Jurist math #2 No. Idea, but I have a 19 year old,
1:36:33
a Montiado handful blind summit Boonahabin 11.
1:36:36
That was good and again, so that's the Boonahabin.
1:36:40
So there you go, Number. We're in the top five.
1:36:44
N British is now an oh, there you go.
1:36:47
Thompson Brothers NN British 33 year old.
1:36:50
Yeah. Duncan Taylor N British diggers
1:36:52
bought line. Yeah.
1:36:53
Leaf export code N British five year old PX Finn Thompson N
1:36:57
British 26. Oh yeah.
1:37:00
Still never had it number. 4. Mexico Bowl.
1:37:03
This is big, this is a big one. Number four Dal yuan.
1:37:07
Oh holy. Shit yes, Adelphi Dal yuan 10
1:37:10
year old PX Pintail Dalian Paolo Cortado.
1:37:13
That was crack. Little brown dog Dalian XI like
1:37:17
ask Woodrow's Dalian 17X Mort la colerosso.
1:37:20
Oh that was good. And Dalian 16 Florida and fauna.
1:37:23
Great, great drop. One of the first one of the top
1:37:27
10 whiskeys I ever bought. And then #3 right, the Dal Rye
1:37:31
Milk. Yeah, isn't that right?
1:37:37
Milk has made the Whiskey Stories podcast top 3W's of
1:37:42
2025. Fair play.
1:37:45
Great price, great drop. Fair.
1:37:47
Play, you know. Everybody loves our seasons
1:37:49
assistant. You can argue, you can argue on
1:37:54
the accessibility, but as we heard, Sam Simmons did say that
1:37:59
they were bringing something like that.
1:38:01
We've kept the bottom upstairs. Yeah.
1:38:03
So, yeah, yeah. So it's.
1:38:04
It's top, top so. Technically exactly so so, but
1:38:07
technically north. They're bringing more out.
1:38:10
But N British in at #5 Dalai milk in at #3, you could almost
1:38:15
argue that N British probably should be there should be in the
1:38:18
could take the top three. It could take the top because in
1:38:22
at #2 is spring back. We've got spring back 10/20/23,
1:38:30
spring back 10, Feno spring back 12 cast strength, spring back
1:38:34
local barley, 8 year old cracking DRAM and spring back
1:38:37
21. Well, an honorable mention I
1:38:39
would mention to the five year old, an honorable guy, A5 year
1:38:47
old, 100 proof. I love that.
1:38:48
Yeah. Yeah, that was really, really
1:38:50
good. Yeah, that was really but.
1:38:52
I personally didn't like. The the big news is number one.
1:38:55
Number one of the Whiskey Stories Podcast as picked top of
1:38:59
the Drum Parade as picked by as picked by the listeners of the
1:39:05
Whiskey Stories Podcast is Agna Markin for the second year
1:39:13
running Arden Merkin 10, Arden Merkin Castran 2024 Arden Merkin
1:39:18
Paul Lenoir Great release Arden Merkin saw terms peated 2025.
1:39:25
Arden Merkin heavily peated and Arden Merkin Midget.
1:39:28
Arden Merkin has been the drum of 2025 as picked by the Whiskey
1:39:33
Stories podcast. Absolutely fantastic, well done.
1:39:38
Great, great, great distillery. Well done to everybody a
1:39:41
distillery. We need to get ourselves to the
1:39:43
most westernly distillery. I'm desperate to go, yeah.
1:39:46
I mean, we've got over 130 votes.
1:39:49
I need to get this return peak because I've got about this
1:39:51
return at home but not the but not the southern peak.
1:39:55
So Johnny Walker, Dark Ruby was in there as one.
1:39:57
I'm just going through some of the different.
1:40:00
Yeah, this made, it's not made the top ten, obviously, but it's
1:40:02
been a vote. I bought a couple bucks of that
1:40:08
and it's fine, yeah. Smells better than it is.
1:40:13
For £26 it's. Fine, I got on.
1:40:15
I got on Amazon like Prime. Deals for £26 here.
1:40:18
No, I got it for like 19 lbs and I was like this is going to
1:40:22
change. I.
1:40:22
Missed that link. Right.
1:40:24
And then I had. It we're going very quickly.
1:40:26
Large DRAM DRAM of 2025. I'm going to hit straight out of
1:40:31
the bat probably 17 white port, white port.
1:40:34
Got to pick it. Careful yourself.
1:40:40
My Orkney. Yeah, yeah.
1:40:44
Great, Great job. Yeah.
1:40:46
Chuck, Chuck, we didn't get you so Angus could give all those
1:40:49
Honourable Mitch. Now I can't pick up number one.
1:40:55
I've mentioned everything. Anything is just I'm just going
1:40:57
to be repeating myself. That's right, probably.
1:41:00
Star Wars the credits of the edges.
1:41:02
Are. Like an impossible question.
1:41:05
It's like picking your favorite kid.
1:41:07
Isn't it at the end of the day? Tell you what, I'm gonna go with
1:41:13
the mystery Moldornack just because, yeah, it's great.
1:41:17
It's really nice to be a fucking winner.
1:41:19
Yeah, great moment. Yeah, great.
1:41:21
Moment and great, great drop. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
1:41:26
Do you know what? I'm gonna go by Glenn Murray
1:41:28
Sloki 12, because Glenroy for me #1.
1:41:32
I'll change my mind. Then verifying Braille, then all
1:41:36
the way. Oh yeah.
1:41:37
That's fine. There you go.
1:41:38
Well, look, there you go lads. That's been it.
1:41:40
Thank you so much for everybody who's tuned in over 2025.
1:41:43
It's a big year for the Whiskey Stories Podcast 2026, big year
1:41:47
for Diggers and Diggers 2 or Diggers Leaf.
1:41:50
Can't wait to see. How things happen, yeah.
1:41:52
I'll be back in time for that place to be open.
1:41:55
I I am disappearing off to India for five weeks, 5 weeks, five
1:42:00
weeks in India. Wow.
1:42:02
I am, that's me. I'm retired.
1:42:04
I'm just going to be a podcaster that.
1:42:07
I'll be I'll be a chunker by the time you come.
1:42:09
Back yeah, I'm head off. I've got a couple of things
1:42:13
planned. Stay tuned.
1:42:14
There will be a little bit of content going out in between now
1:42:17
and then whilst I'm out there so you can keep up to speed what
1:42:18
I'm getting up to. But set 2025 wrapped, as they
1:42:23
say, for the Whiskey Stories podcast.
1:42:25
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much to everybody
1:42:27
who's been part of the year, been part of the podcast, been
1:42:31
all our guests, all our listeners, everyone who's
1:42:33
interacted, especially those who've sent this stuff.
1:42:36
Absolutely fantastic. And to this man here beside us,
1:42:38
Kev, big thank you to yourself. We couldn't be making the
1:42:41
podcast with the support that you've got.
1:42:43
You give us access to this room and give us, you know, access to
1:42:46
drums. We apologise for Ross's sticky
1:42:50
fingers. Yeah, no, thank you.
1:42:52
Thank you for for honestly being being the best landlord and the
1:42:55
best pub in the world. It's absolutely fantastic.
1:42:58
It's it's absolutely. Great, you say that, but
1:43:00
obviously thank you for you guys.
1:43:01
You know, you guys bring these people into this pub and random
1:43:06
Germans coming in. It's Graham here.
1:43:09
This is my ex-girlfriend. Which one?
1:43:13
Oh. Yeah.
1:43:17
Now you guys are. Yeah, you guys are great for
1:43:19
business. No.
1:43:19
That's. It I'm so happy that you know
1:43:21
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year. Sponsor you.
1:43:27
By the way, guys, thank you very much.
1:43:28
All the very best. Here's to your new year.
1:43:30
All the very best. I hope 2026 is great for
1:43:32
everyone.