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Whisky Stories Podcast
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Episodes
Whisky Stories PodcastWhat Makes a Great Whisky Experience, and Why Scotland Does It Best | Ali Baxter
Ali makes it a hat trick of appearances on the podcast with his third time back on. He is the Head of Visitor Experience for the famous Scotch Whisky…
Whisky Stories PodcastPeter Allison: Inside Woven’s Blending Room. Creating Flavour, Grain vs Malt and the Whisky Market Right Now
It was great to get Pete back on for a chat. And what a chat it was. We were down in the Woven Blending Room in Leith for this one hearing all about how things…
Whisky Stories PodcastBrendan McCarron: The Most Fascinating Career in Whisky - Roseisle, Oban, Ardbeg, Glenmorangie, Deanston, Bunnahabhain and Tobermoray
Is there anything in whisky that Brendan McCarron hasn't done? Brendan talks us through his career from a Diageo graduate to running the whole of Diageo's…
Whisky Stories PodcastControversial Whisky Opinions - No sitting on the fence for this one
We wanted to talk through some controversial whisky opinions of our own and from our listeners. It was a chance for the 4 of us to catch-up, have some drams…
Whisky Stories PodcastNot Another Whisky Distillery — Ian Palmer on Invergordon, Building Starlaw, Buying Glen Moray and Starting InchDairnie
This episode blew my mind when we recorded it. To say Ian Palmer has had quite a career is an understatement. Starting out as an apprentice Fitters Mate at…
Whisky Stories Podcast150 Episodes - Drams at Diggers, Lessons We've Learned AND Whisky Festival News
150 episodes in 150 weeks! We were back in Diggers for a catch up, drams and some whisky chat. Ross handed in a last minute sick note, so we were joined by…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe people behind the whisky - Managing Tomatin Distillery, Global Markets & Tropical Drams | Part 2
A week later, we have part 2 of this epic chat with Tomatin Distillery Manager Jamie Muir and Global Marketing Manager Danny Whelan. In the last episode we…
Whisky Stories PodcastHow Do You Manage a Distillery? — From Jura to Tomatin with Jamie Muir & Danny Whelan | Part 1
This is the first ever Whisky Stories Double Header Part 1. When the Distillery Manager drives down from Tomatin to chat, we had to make sure we got all we…
Whisky Stories PodcastWhisky Stories Live: Arbikie's Inaugural Release and a Surprise Cask Sample
This one got loose! We packed out Uno Mas in Edinburgh for this Whisky Stories LIVE event and what a night it was. John Stirling was back on the pod and we…
Whisky Stories PodcastCutty Sark, Yellow Jackets and a Masterclass in Blending: Stephen Woodcock Is Back
It was great having Stephen Woodcock back on the pod. And this time he came bearing gifts! Not to be outdone by the team at Bunnahabhain, he made sure we stand…
Whisky Stories PodcastDrams at Diggers - Closed Distilleries, Lots of Drams, and Our Whisky Festival
It was time for a monthly catch-up in Diggers with the lads. We were down in the cellar with plenty of drams and loads to talk about. We caught up on our…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe Arbikie Inaugural Release With Founder John Stirling - Making Whisky The Arbikie Way
Arbikie Distillery are about to launch their first ever Single Malt release. And it's taken them 10 long years to wait for this moment. And what better way to…
Whisky Stories PodcastMark Thomson: Brand Advocacy, Industry Challenges and Honest Opinions
It's always good to catch up with Mark Thomson. In this episode, we dived into brand advocacy and asked if the Scotch Whisky Industry are moving away from it…
Whisky Stories PodcastJulieann Fernandez: Becoming a Master Blender at 28 — Bunnahabhain, Deanston, Tobermory and Ledaig
This is a belter of an episode. Another Master Blender on the podcast and Julieann Fernandez gave us an amazing insight working for CVH. As well as being…
Whisky Stories PodcastIslay Debrief — Distillery Ratings, Listener Questions and What Whisky Would You Save If the Ferry Was Sinking?
We were back in Diggers for a catchup and debrief from our Islay trip. This one got a bit messier than intended, but it was good to be back in the cellar…
Whisky Stories PodcastBunnahabhain with David Brodie - Stories and Drams at the Distillery
Part 2 of our Islay extravaganza took us to Bunnahabhain Distillery and we got a chance to sit down and have some drams with the legendary David Brodie. David…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe Kilchoman Story - How to start a new distillery on Islay
This is part of our FULL Islay Experience! We headed over to Islay and our first stop was Kilchoman Distillery. After a lovely tour and plenty of drams, we sat…
Whisky Stories PodcastGlenfiddich Malt Master: How Do You Make The Biggest Selling Single Malt In The World?
Brian Kinsman is the Master Blender for William Grant & Sons. That means he is responsible for overseeing some of the biggest whisky brands in the world…
Whisky Stories PodcastMike McGinty: The Stories Behind Dewars and the Distilleries
Mike McGinty is the Brand Home Manager for John Dewars & Sons. That means a big part of his job is to take people to the distilleries owned by Dewars and tell…
Whisky Stories PodcastWhat are the Scottish Whisky Awards?
We've all seen the labels on bottles and seen brands promoting that they are finalists or winners of whisky awards. But what does that actually mean? And what…
Whisky Stories Podcast60 Years of Tamnavulin with Whisky Maker Kirsty Hodge & Distillery Manager Trevor Milne
What is it that makes Tamnavulin so popular? To celebrate 60 years of the distillery, we held a birthday party for Tamnavulin and got to try some incredible…
Whisky Stories Podcast14 Years Selling Whisky - Lessons from working and managing The Whisky Shop
What does working in an Edinburgh City Centre whisky shop teach you about whisky? David Agnew is the Manager of The Whisky Shop on Multrees Walk in Edinburgh…
Whisky Stories PodcastScottish Story Telling - The Full Scottish Experience with Alex Thomson
I love listening to Alex Thomson talking about history, whisky, and Scottish Hospitality. And there's plenty of that on this episode. Since the last time Alex…
Whisky Stories PodcastHow to Build an Independent Bottler Business - Lady of the Glen
This is the second time we've interviewed Gregor Hannah from Lady of the Glen Independent Bottlers. And if there's one thing I know about him, he just says it…
Whisky Stories PodcastDrams with Pals — Listener Questions, Favourite Guests & Dream Distillery Visits
It was just the boys in for some drams and a catch up for this week. We haven't had an episode with just the 4 of us this year! So it was good to get us all in…
Whisky Stories PodcastFinn Thomson: 250 Years of Family Whisky History and the Art of Independent Bottling
This is the second time we've had Finn Thomson on the podcast. The first time was for our second Indy Bottler Spotlight. But we wanted to sit down with Finn…
Whisky Stories PodcastWhisky Stories Live — Adelphi & Ardnamurchan Take Over Mother Superior
It was a big night at Mother Superior for our Whisky Stories LIVE event with Adelphi and Ardnamurchan. After our trip to the distillery, it was great to sit…
Whisky Stories PodcastHow Do You Blend the World's Best Selling Whisky? — Johnnie Walker Master Blender Dr Emma Walker
This is the big one. Dr. Emma Walker is the Master Blender for Johnnie Walker. That's got to be the biggest job in whisky. She is responsible for blending and…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe Two Best Selling Single Malts in the UK: Andrew Lennie, Whyte & Mackay
This week's episode is with Andrew Lennie who is the Global Whisky Specialist for Whyte & Mackay. This episode is actually part of our collaboration with Whyte…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe Most Important Ingredient in Whisky Nobody Talks About — David Hannah, Muntons Malt
Anyone who knows the pod will know that we never ignore barley chat. However, we've had Master Blenders, Distillers, Distillery Owners and Founders on the pod…
Whisky Stories PodcastFlora Outram: Old Pulteney, Scottish Prohibition and a Single Malt from Thailand
We're BIG fans of Old Pulteney on the pod. But we don't know enough about it. So we had Flora Outram who is a Brand Ambassador for International Beverage. She…
Whisky Stories PodcastHow did Ardnamurchan Distillery start?- Managing Director Alex Bruce
We're HUGE fans of Ardnamurchan on the podcast. So it made sense for us to find out the story of how it started. Alex Bruce is the Managing Director of…
Whisky Stories PodcastHow to get whisky into America with Importer Howard Sacks
We met Howard a year ago up in Dornoch and when he contacted us to let us know he was coming back, we had to meet up for a couple of drams. We managed to sneak…
Whisky Stories PodcastBlender - Bottler - Distiller Spotlight: Aberargie Inaugural Release
The first Whisky Stories Spotlight event of 2026 was a special one! Not only were we christening the new Diggers Leith with the first tasting in the pub, we…
Whisky Stories PodcastGlenfiddich, Balvenie and the Luxury Whisky Market — Tim Walker, William Grant & Sons
This week it's a luxury podcast. Tim Walker has been a keen listener of the pod since the early days, and we've been trying to get him on for a long time…
Whisky Stories PodcastGreg Urquhart's Liquid CV, Blending and Dram Jam
This week we have good Pal of the Pod back on for some good old whisky chat. Where is the whisky industry right now? We reacted to the big news coming out of…
Whisky Stories PodcastLoch Lomond, Glen Scotia & Littlemill – With Shona Sips
This week we were back in the Diggers Cellar joined by Shona Gillespie aka Shona Sips from Loch Lomond Group. We chatted about Glenscotia, re-branding, Loch…
Whisky Stories PodcastPower Cut, The NEW Diggers, and Cartons of Whisky
This week we were recording our first ever episoed in the NEW Digger Leith which only opened a few days ago. The first half of this episode was recorded during…
Whisky Stories PodcastTen Days’ Notice, A Few Drams Later: Scotland’s World Cup Story in India
When Scotland got a last minute call up to the T20 Cricket World Cup in India, and I realised they'd be in Bangalore while I was here, it was too good an…
Whisky Stories PodcastFraser Morrison: From The Glenlivet Tour Guide to Whisky Life in India
Fraser is based in India and represents The Glenlivet, Aberlour, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute and Ballantine’s. However, he is not on the podcast in an “official…
Whisky Stories PodcastPaul John Distillery: The Story of India’s Single Malt
While I’m out in India, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to dive deep into Indian whisky and, the good folks at Paul John Distillery were more…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe Whisky Drinkers Cycle & One Star Reviews with Cody Reynolds
We’ve talked about getting Cody Reynolds back on the podcast for a long time. But the Angus Dundee Global Brand Ambassador is a busy man travelling the world…
Whisky Stories Podcast2025 Wrapped: Top Drams of the Year (Official)
What better way to end the year than to sit down in the Diggers cellar with the owner, tuck into some drams and go through some of the best whiskies we've had…
Whisky Stories PodcastA Christmas Cracker - North British Distillery AND some BIG news for 2026!
Merry Christmas! We had a quick Christmas catch-up in Diggers for a couple of drams (Ross had already had a few before he got there...) to lead into our North…
Whisky Stories PodcastBig Cam's Festive Drams
This week we have Pal of the Pod Cameron Ewen in for a chat about his now job, Christmas drams and whiskies of 2025. We were back in the Dug Oot at Diggers for…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe creator of the Glencairn Glass - Raymond Davidson reinventing how we drink whisky
Raymond is the man behind the iconic Glencairn whisky glass and changed the way we drink whisky. He isn't just Whisky Royalty, he's an absolute gentleman as…
Whisky Stories PodcastDr Whisky Sam Simmons - Atom Brands, Master of Malt and Boutique-y Whisky
This one was a lot of fun to record. Sam Simmons was one of the first online whisky bloggers with his blog Dr Whisky starting back in the early 2000s. That…
Whisky Stories PodcastWhiskygasms, Edinburgh Pub Crawls and our USA Brand Ambassador Scott Moore
We were all back in the Diggers Vaults for a recording and a catch up with Chuck, Angus, myself Ross and Scott Moore. Ross had literally just jumped off the…
Whisky Stories PodcastHow to start a distillery - the Isle of Raasay Story
How do you start a distillery on tiny island off the coast of Scotland? We sat down with Isle of Raasay Co-founder and Master Distiller Alasdair Day and UK…
Whisky Stories PodcastWhisky Stories Turns 2! -The BIG Birthday Bash
It's our birthday and to celebrate we put on a BIG Birthday Bash last Friday night at Uno Mas. And what a night it was! We had 55 guests, 6 brands and 7…
Whisky Stories PodcastWhisky from the cask - In the Warehouse with Woodrow's of Edinburgh
We were invited along to have a look around at the Woodrow's of Edinburgh warehouse with Pals of the Pod Woody and Megan. It's always nice to get an invited…
Whisky Stories PodcastArthur Motley: Buying, selling and talking about whisky
Arthur has been in the whisky industry for over 20 years. He's been the buyer of Scotch Malt Whisky Society and then worked his way up to Managing Director of…
Whisky Stories PodcastDougal Gordon: The William Grant & Great, Great, Great, Grandson's Story
Dougal Gordon is the Brand Ambassador to Scotland for one of the best selling brands in the world, Glenfiddich. But he's also the 6th generation of the Grant…
Whisky Stories PodcastThe Sam Barbour Experience: The Whisky Stories Wrestling Federation - The Real McCoy
We’ve never had a wrestler on the podcast before. I didn’t think there were many connections between whisky and wrestling. Until I met Sam Barbour a few weeks…
Whisky Stories PodcastONE HUNDRED EPISODES: Fighting bears with whisky, top drams and plans for the future
This was the big one for us. Episode 100! It's crazy to think that we've been doing this for so long already, but we made it to a century of podcast episodes…
Whisky Stories PodcastIndy Bottler Spotlight: Gordon & MacPhail - A wild night in Diggers
This was a cracking night. We were joined by Pal of the Pod Fraser Souness who was taking us through a 6 dram G&M lineup. Recorded in front of a 'live studio…
Whisky Stories PodcastDalmore, Darts & Dram Challenges: A Trip to the Lomond and Clyde Festival
This week, we were back out and about and heading west! We haven't ventured too far west in the two years of the podcast, so we decided to jump on a train to…
Whisky Stories PodcastMalt Masters at Glengoyne: Blending whisky with Jake Adcook
We were back out and about for this episode on our Ian Macleod big day out. Not only were we given full access to the distillery and taken on our own tour with…
Whisky Stories PodcastHoose Drams with Mark Thomson: Glenfiddich Stories, Industry Trends & The Lost Key
Hoose Drams with Mark Thomson! This is the first time we've ever recorded in someone's house before! When Angus and I saw Mark Thomson had put his house on the…
Whisky Stories PodcastGordon Dundas: Glengoyne, Tamdhu, Rosebank, Laggan Bay and Una - Ft Jake Adcook
Get 15% off the following tours and experiences: Rosebank Reawakening £25 before discount Rosebank Discovered £50 before discount Rosebank Rekindled £95 before…