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Inside Rosebank Distillery with Malcolm Rennie

Inside Whisky - June 07, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes
Today, the 7th of June 2024, marks the day that Rosebank finally opens its doors to visitors again and we got the chance to have a look behind the curtain shortly before the grand reopening of the distillery to talk to distillery manager Malcolm Rennie. Originally being founded in 1840...

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Inside Dràm Mòr with Kenny Macdonald

Inside Whisky - May 20, 2024 11:00 - 42 minutes
Have you ever met Kenny Macdonald? No? Really?? Then here’s your chance!  Kenny is the co-founder of independent bottler Dràm Mòr, which he founded together with his wife Viktorija. Since he claims himself that he is not the “brains” of the company – what does he bring to the table? We...

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Inside Indri Whisky with Madhu Kanna

Inside Whisky - April 30, 2024 17:00 - 36 minutes
Indian Single Malt Whisky – sounds quite exotic at first sight – and probably it is to some extent. But it’s also so much more than that: It’s made with pride, it’s unique, it’s very flavourful, it’s delicious and there are so many things to be discovered about Indian whisky and also th...

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Inside Lindores Abbey Distillery with Drew McKenzie Smith

Inside Whisky - March 22, 2024 13:00 - 38 minutes
MCDXCIV – does that ring a bell? And no, it’s not a typo… It’s a Roman numeral and it stands for 1494, quite a pivotal year in the world of whisky and especially for the newly founded Lindores Abbey Distillery. 1494 is the year in which, according to the Scottish Whisky Association, th...

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Inside Aurora Spirit Distillery with Tor Petter Christensen

Inside Whisky - November 18, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes
10 centimetres of snow, a single track road and its end, a Viking-style longhouse, mystically lit by torches and overlooking a picturesque Norwegian fjord – wow! That’s what our arrival looked like when approaching Aurora Spirit Distillery - quite the way to arrive at a distillery… Oka...

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Inside Glen Scotia with Iain McAlister

Inside Whisky - September 30, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes
Campeltown – once the whisky capital of the world – has become a place of whisky pilgrimage more and more in the last years. Nonetheless, many people still disregard the Glen Scotia Distillery in favour of their bigger neighbour. However, we think that is a mistake!  At Glen Scotia, I...

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Inside Ardbeg with T.J. Littlejohn

Inside Whisky - August 26, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes
If you think of a whisky distillery in Scotland which stands for powerful and peaty whisky with a hint of sweet vanilla and citrus, which is extremely good at storytelling, very creative in bringing old myths to life to describe and sell their whiskies with worldclass marketing but whic...

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Inside Scapa Distillery with Mick Swanney

Inside Whisky - July 08, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes
Far up north, just off the northernmost point of the UK’s mainland, there are the Orkneys – islands shaped by the sea and extreme weather. And right up there, on these rough islands, there’s a distillery which is extremely beautifully situated and producing surprisingly smooth whisky. O...

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Inside Thompson Bros Distillers with Phil and Simon Thompson

Inside Whisky - May 26, 2023 18:00 - 53 minutes
How do you produce whisky inefficiently on purpose and why would you want to do that? Well, we also wanted to know and asked Phil and Simon Thompson of Thompson Bros Distillers, Dornoch Castle Hotel and the relatively newly founded Dornoch Distillery. Despite their young age, Phil and ...

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Inside Irish Whiskey with Teeling, Powerscourt & Jameson

Inside Whisky - May 03, 2023 15:00 - 48 minutes
Green rolling mountains, sleepy and bleating sheep, idyllic villages and vivid cities with wonderful people, vibrant traditional pubs with passionate folk music, delicious local food and, of course, a long and quite eventful history of producing whiskey… … Does that sound appealing to ...

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Inside Dewar's Aberfeldy with Gary Ross

Inside Whisky - April 16, 2023 14:00 - 49 minutes
If we told you that there is a distillery in the Scottish Highlands, which is beautifully situated, easily accessible, has a very rich history, but which is still quite often overlooked, would you want to know more about it – especially if you knew that they promise you the “golden dram...

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Inside The Dalmore with Mark Lancaster

Inside Whisky - March 23, 2023 13:00 - 50 minutes
“If you can work in the stillhouse at Dalmore, you can work in any stillhouse in the world because it’s completely complicated” – doesn’t sound like the easiest of jobs, don’t you think? So let’s get to know the man who is responsible to make sure that every single drop of The Dalmore i...

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Inside Munich's Whisky Scene, Independent Bottling and Instagram with Davide Ansalone (@whisky_munich, @whiskyfacile) and Randolph Kunis (TARA Spirits)

Inside Whisky - February 12, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes
No Scots on this episode?! Not for me, you say? BUT WAIT!! This German-Italian whisky-bromance straight from our hometown Munich might indeed be a bit different but we can assure you that it still makes for a great listen. In this episode we talk to Davide Ansalone and Randolph Kunis. ...

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Inside Kilkerran Single Malt (Glengyle Distillery) with Nicole Lindsay

Inside Whisky - November 26, 2022 11:00 - 59 minutes
Nicole Lindsay you say? Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? And indeed, if you follow our podcast regularly you probably know her already from our episode about Springbank Distillery. This time, however, Springbank will take a backseat since the episode is (mainly) about Kilkerran Single Malt ...

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Inside Ardnamurchan Distillery with Jenny Karlsson

Inside Whisky - October 14, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes
Have you always wanted to meet the legendary Swedish mermaid of the Ardnamurchan peninsula? Then here's your chance: Meet Jenny Karlsson, Ardnamurchan Distillery's marketing and communications manager, part of the blending team, part-time mermaid and much more. We travelled all the way...

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Inside Lagg Distillery with Graham Omand

Inside Whisky - September 09, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes
We’re back on the Isle of Arran – we really love this little island!  And no! Even though we greatly enjoy our chats with Andy Bell of Lochranza Distillery, we don’t have him on the podcast this time – and actually this episode is not even about Lochranza Distillery. Instead, we will ...

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Inside Independent Bottling: Gleann Mòr Spirits with Greg Urquhart and John Moffat

Inside Whisky - August 05, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes
This weekend it's derby time in Edinburgh: Hibs against Hearts. Hibernian Football Club and Heart of Midlothian will face off in the first derby of this (still very young) football season.  Wait, isn't this a podcast about whisky? So why are we talking about football here?  Well, we w...

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Inside Bowmore Distillery with Cat Gordon

Inside Whisky - July 17, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes
The Mecca of whisky. Whisky drinkers' heaven. The one place, probably every Scotch whisky lover wants to visit at least once in their lifetime. Of course, we're talking about the Isle of Islay in the Scottish Hebrides with its currently 9 working distilleries (and at least 2 more to com...

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The secret waterfall hike and dark tourism at Kárahnjúkar Dam (almost)

Honest Iceland Talk - June 22, 2022 15:04 - 29 minutes
Day 6: Waterfall hikes, Seyðisfjörður, and the start of the Horror Road Hi lovely people, it has been so long, I know. But here is the next episode from our 2021 summer ring road trip. This is the other half of the recording from the Google Horror road where we talk about day number 6. waking u...

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Inside Glenfarclas with Deborah Stewart

Inside Whisky - April 17, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes
It is probably going to be very hard (impossible?!) to find another place on earth with a higher distillery-density than the Scottish Speyside - and apart from some of the best Scotch whiskies being produced there, the possibility to visit so many different distilleries within such a sm...

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Inside "The Village" Whisky Fair

Inside Whisky - April 13, 2022 20:00 - 2 hours
This episode of “The Barrel Talk” is slightly different than what you are used to. Michael and Andrea Gradl of Gradl’s Wiskyfässla in Nuremberg, who are the co-founders and co-organisers of The Village Whisky Fair invited us to come to the fair and “present The Village to an internation...

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Inside Glen Moray with Iain Allan

Inside Whisky - March 27, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes
For this episode of The Barrel Talk we will once more stay in the Scottish Speyside, in Elgin, to be precise, and are joined by Iain Allan, global brand ambassador and visitor centre manager of Glen Moray Distillery. If you are a fan of exploring whisky matured in all kinds of different...

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Inside Benromach with Keith Cruickshank

Inside Whisky - March 11, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes
Peated. Speyside. Privately-owned. These three words sound as if they don't match but indeed, they describe the distillery starring in our latest episode: Benromach. Nestled between Inverness and Elgin, in the small town of Forres, we had the opportunity to talk to Benromach's distiller...

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Inside Bunnahabhain with David Brodie

Inside Whisky - February 02, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes
Islay is the island of dreams for each and every Scotch lover and even though the island does have uncountable beautiful spots, we have to admit that we love being down at Bunnahabhain Distillery enjoying a dram at the pier with its views across the sound of Islay towards the Paps of Ju...

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Inside The GlenAllachie with Billy Walker

Inside Whisky - January 02, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes
After being a shareholder of The BenRiach Distillery, The GlenDronach and Glenglassaugh one might think all life goals have been reached. Not so Billy Walker. A few years back, he and his partners decided to sell the three distilleries but for Billy it had always been clear that this wo...

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Inside Lochranza Distillery - An Audio Tour with Andy Bell

Inside Whisky - December 11, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour
Seeing Andy's shining eyes at the very moment when setting foot into one of Lochranza Distillery's warehouses made one thing clear to us once more: You can never get tired of this special atmosphere and smell of the warehouses of a Scotch whisky distillery...  ... the warehouse, you're ...

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Google sends us on a horror road in East Iceland

Honest Iceland Talk - December 03, 2021 21:30 - 29 minutes
Day 5: Flat Tire and driving back and forth As usual, we record on the next day, talking about the day before. You will get an intimate insight into our car conversation and how completely creeped and freaked out Steffi was while Google maps send us on a horror road. #sheepseverywhere #creepy #o...

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Traveling back in time in East-Iceland & Indiana Jones vibes

Honest Iceland Talk - October 31, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes
Day 4: Culture and Museum Day Petra's Stone and Mineral Collection: https://www.steinapetra.is/ https://en.visitfjardabyggd.is/things-to-do/museums/details/the-french-museum (The French Museum )in Fáskrúðsfjörður: Finding wild blueberries and eating them Finding a bench without sun Talking to ve...

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Inside Springbank with Nicole Lindsay

Inside Whisky - October 24, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour
"If Scotland was a whisky, it would be a Springbank" - that was one of the first reactions we got when starting to promote our latest episode of "The Barrel Talk". We just found this statement so perfectly fitting that we had to include it here. Springbank is so much more than just a wh...

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Inside Lochlea Distillery with David Ferguson

Inside Whisky - September 26, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes
Have you ever heard of the new Lochlea Distillery? If not, it's just about time to find out more about this very interesting project, situated in the heart of the Scottish Lowlands near the beautiful seaside town of Ayr. With their inaugural release just around the corner the time is mo...

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