At this present moment in time, Ardnamurchan AD is my favourite whisky.
Just enough smoke and peat, just enough saline, just enough caramel. All perfectly balanced.
It's really really good.

Suntory Holdings could shift its whiskeys to its home market and other Asian nations if U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs make them prohibitively expensive in the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/03/companies/suntory-tariffs-shift/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #whisky #suntory #alcohol #donaldtrump #us #tariffs

... dass Schottlands Brennereien eine Unmenge an Fässern benötigen, ist klar. Steht man jedoch vor einem solchen Lager, ist der Anblick doch recht verblüffend, um nicht zu sagen: fass-zinierend.

(Danke an @weipah für den Kalauer oben!)

(Das Foto wurde in der Speyside auf dem Gelände einer Küferei aufgenommen, die sich auf das Aufarbeiten alter Fässer spezialisiert hat.)

The former bonded warehouse for Red Hackle Whisky on Otago Street in Glasgow. Self-styled as 'Scotland's Best Whisky' Red Hackle was established in 1920 by Charles Hepburn and Herbert Ross, two former soldiers and it was named after the distinctive red feather worn by members of the Black Watch. You can just about still make out the words Red Hackle on the faded advertisement for the whisky on the buildings gable end.

Nightfall at the Clydeside Distillery which occupies the old Queen's Dock Pump House on the northern bank of the Clyde just west of the Scottish Events Campus, which was built on land reclaimed by filling in the Queen's Dock itself.

#Laphroaig nach lauter #Explosion und #Brand vorübergehend geschlossen

"Am Mittwoch Abend kam es zu der Explosion und einem Brand im #Boilerhaus - der Betrieb ist für notwendige Untersuchungen eingestellt"

#Whisky, #Islay
https://whiskyexperts.net/breaking-news-laphroaig-nach-lauter-explosion-und-brand-voruebergehend-geschlossen/

The Famous Grouse Whisky mascot writ large. It's on the Edrington site in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow. It's just a pity it's not really publicly accessable.