Collections and selections...

…and bottles on life support.

Rob hosts Mike, Cleon, Chuck and Justin this time around as they discuss the scale and management of their collections/selections.

Some bottles are forgotten while others are nursed, to the point of being on ‘life support’.

After sharing their individual attitudes and the numbers of bottles they’re dealing with, they talk about spreadsheets and happening upon bottles that have been largely forgotten - but undeservedly so.

They then derail somewhat into a discussion about Octomore before Justin makes the faux pas of mentioning rum.

Rob hosts and entirely achievable I Am a Distillery.

Thanks for your patience and hope you enjoy!

Wally & The Team

PS: this was recorded at the end of 2024 - we’re sort of catching up…

What the fudge? Our personal whisky rants.

This was an epic recording session by five of our Colonials: Rob, Stuart, Mike, Chuck and Gus.

In what started out as personal whisky rant catharsis, they meander through so many topics we’re certain this one will go down as a re-listenable classic.

With the canny insights of Gus on hand to keep things informed, the cover TAF (tired as fudge) casks, the current whisky loch, the challenges faced by today’s producers and asking the question: are whisky enthusiasts the problem?

They then wade into even crunchier topics such as authenticity, homogenisation, the origins of sulfur and what distilleries excite them.

Mike hosts the I Am A Distillery at the end, but clearly needs to read his Malt Whisky Yearbook to get up to speed on our northern distilleries. Forgive him, he’s a lovely man, really.

Thank you for your amazing support! Enjoy!

The Roads Less Travelled

(This is also released as a video podcast over on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@dramfacewhisky )This is later than late. This was recorded last year.To the shame of, ahem, our editor; everything is backed up on the podcasts. Same for the Colonials recordings. Same editor bottleneck. We’d fire him and replace him, but there’s a problem in the fact that it’s me.No promises about the follow on pods, we’ll just say they’re in hand. The next colonials session is being cut at the moment and this session here today will leave you ready for Thirty Four - the long promised blending session. From what we remember about it, it was a fun one. If you want to participate in Thirty Four fully; have a bottle of Glenmo 10 (or 12!) alongside a Glenallachie Cask Strength and a Ledaig 10 for our blending session.In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the boys discussing travel tips, drams that remind us of places, a new use for nappies (‘diapers’ to our American friends) and dressing up as poo.Rage against the editor in the comments if you think it’ll help the next one drop any quicker.Thank you for your patience.