By Kurt Maitland KM: Can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and how Barr an Uisce got started? JS: My background is in Information Technology. I was a full-time musician for 8 years before starting the whiskey business. The idea for Barr an Uisce came from my business partner, Ian Jones. Ian is a scientist and runs a ...

A Chat With The Author Of A Long Stride: The Story Of The World’s No. 1 Scotch Whisky By Kurt Maitland KM: First off, tell our readers a bit about yourself NM: I’m a historian by training. I joined United Distillers in 1990 to help them set up an archive of material relating to their brand-owning companies. Somehow, I became ...

By Richard Thomas I wouldn’t say country music and whiskey are synonymous, not even in the popular imagination. In my reckoning, beer gets mentioned as much, if not more, but it’s not hard to see where the notion that the song and the drink are bound together. So, when I got a chance to have a chat with Texas-born Hudson ...

By Richard Thomas My personal preferences lead me to trot out the Scotch whisky only once I can exert myself outdoors and not become drenched with sweat. It’s a style of whisky I prefer to avoid putting on ice, and thus better suited to mild and cold weathers in my book. So it was that in late autumn of 2020, ...

By Richard Thomas One of the more interesting features of the American craft whiskey boom is the regional spins it has put on what had been, during the second half of the 20th Century at any rate, an industry of the Upper South. When this 21st Century phenomenon brought commercial whiskey-making to the Southwest for the first time, it incorporated ...