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Not Another Whisky Podcast is your gateway to the whisky world, hosted by industry veterans Mitch Bechard and Daryl Haldane. With four decades of combined experience within the whisky industry for giants like Highland Park, Glenfiddich, Macallan, Johnnie Walker, Talisker, and Lagavulin, these guys know their stuff - and they're ready to share the insider secrets and stories that don't make it onto the distillery tours.This is an informal show where you can learn about whisky without the stuffy attitude. Expect whisky facts, the latest news, terrible whisky jokes, and candid conversations with industry guests. No pretence, just a good chat about great whisky!Do you have a story to share, or are you curious about sponsoring the show? Drop us a line at whiskypodcast@gmail.com. And don't forget to peek into our mischievous antics on Instagram @notanotherwhiskypodcast or swing
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- 4 days ago1h 18m
THE RISE, FALL AND FUTURE OF IRISH WHISKEY WITH BARRY CHANDLER
After more than 200 episodes, we have finally given Irish whiskey the proper attention it deserves. Mitch and Daz are joined by Barry Chandler, better known as Irish Whiskey Barry, an independent educator, community builder and three-time Whisky Magazine Ireland Communicator of the Year.Barry guides us through Irish whiskey’s past, present and future using three pot still whiskeys. We begin with Redbreast 12 and uncover the story of Gilbey’s, Dublin’s historic whiskey bonders, the “priest’s tipple” and the surprising connection between Redbreast and the original Baileys bottle.For the present, Barry chooses Boann Legacy, an accessible modern pot still whiskey that represents Ireland’s extraordinary growth from just four working distilleries to more than 50.Finally, we head to the Mourne Mountains and Killowen, a tiny direct-fired distillery Barry describes as “Ireland’s Springbank,” where historic mash bills, radical transparency and hands-on production point towards the future.Along the way, we discuss the Dingle effect, the myths surrounding the malt tax, oats in Irish whiskey, triple distillation, Jameson’s dominance, the current review of the Irish whiskey technical file and the commercial pressures facing the country’s newer distilleries.Plus, Barry explains why “smooth” might be one of whiskey’s most useless compliments.Follow Barry on Instagram and TikTok at @irishwhiskeybarry, and discover Stories & Sips, Three Drams and Irish Whiskey Experiences through his channels.Hosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago31 min
LINDORES ABBEY: BURNING BEARS & BUILDING WHISKY
Mitch heads to Fife for Lindores Abbey Distillery’s annual Bear Burning ceremony, where an enormous bear and ragged staff carved into the hillside is set alight.First, Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Donaldson discusses her journey through the whisky industry, joining Lindores at a pivotal moment, the challenges the business has faced and her plans for building a sustainable future.Then Distillery Manager Gary Haggart takes us into the stillhouse. Gary discusses developing the Lindores spirit character, why good whisky doesn’t necessarily need to be old, the different personalities of two supposedly identical spirit stills and his ambition for drinkers to recognise Lindores simply by its aroma.There’s whisky, history, business, Angel Delight, Star Trek and the crucial importance of not fucking up the wash still.A huge thank you to everyone at Lindores Abbey Distillery for the invitation, accommodation and excellent hospitality.Find out more about Lindores Abbey Distillery: https://lindoresabbeydistillery.comListen to more episodes and find out what we’re up to: https://www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.comIf you enjoyed the episode, please follow the podcast and leave us a rating or review. It genuinely helps more whisky lovers find the show.Hosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago28 min
MITCH & DAZ JUNE CATCH UP - NEW LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCED
🎙️ NOT ANOTHER WHISKY PODCAST IS GOING LIVEOn Thursday 6 August, we are taking on the guys from Whisky Stories in a live podcast battle at Uno Mas in Edinburgh.There will be six whiskies, with three chosen by each podcast, plenty of questionable competitive behaviour.Tickets are £20, with every penny going to The BEN, the charity supporting people working within Scotland’s hospitality industry.The show starts at 7pm and capacity is limited, so grab your tickets before they disappear:👉 BUY TICKETS FOR THE LIVE SHOWBack to the episode…Mitch and Daz are finally back together for another catch-up, covering everything from sherry-soaked holidays and Islay building sites to whisky in a can and one of the worst distillery tours Mitch has ever experienced.Mitch reports back from Portugal and Jerez, where a private visit to the new Sherry Museum provided a much deeper dive into the history, culture and casks behind one of Scotch whisky’s most important influences.Then it is over to Islay, including warehouse tastings, dinner at Bowmore, a visit to Ardbeg House and a hard-hat preview of the new Portintruan Distillery with Georgie Crawford. They discuss its automated floor maltings, multiple spirit styles and what another major distillery could mean for the future of the island.There is also news of two upcoming Turas Mòr bottlings and the usual run through some of the latest whisky news.Along the way, they get into:• The whisky opportunity in Portugal• Why whisky lovers should visit Jerez• Whether Islay can retain its character as the island grows• Port of Leith’s whisky in a can• The new permanent release from Isle of Harris• Four Roses being sold to Gallo• A truly questionable distillery tasting involving plastic cups and someone else’s water bottle• The best whiskies Mitch and Daz have tasted recentlyThe episode finishes with Mitch naming the GlenAllachie 19 Year Old Solera Cask as his whisky of the year so far.Apart from his own whisky, obviously.Follow Not Another Whisky Podcast on Instagram and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.Hosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago42 min
50 YEARS OF WHISKY WITH KENNY MACKAY
This week, Mitch sits down with whisky industry veteran Kenny Mackay at Ballindalloch Distillery in Speyside.Kenny has spent nearly 50 years in Scotch whisky, working with names including Peter Thompson’s, Bowmore, Macallan, Carn Mor, Lindores Abbey and Ballindalloch. In this episode, he shares stories from across his career, from missing out on becoming a helicopter pilot to helping launch Black Bowmore and shaping some of Scotland’s best known whisky brands.We talk about the early days of malt whisky marketing, growing Macallan in Scotland, the birth of whisky collecting, the changing world of independent bottling, and why Ballindalloch’s slow, estate led approach makes it such a special distillery.Kenny also gives his take on where the Scotch whisky industry is right now, why downturns are nothing new, and why he still sees plenty of reasons to be optimistic.Expect brilliant stories, sharp industry insight, a few legendary bottles, and one very committed fire alarm.Timestamps00:00 Welcome to Ballindalloch Distillery01:10 Introducing Kenny Mackay02:20 The Navy’s loss and whisky’s gain03:00 Starting out at Peter Thompson’s of Perth04:20 Glen Grant, Macallan and early whisky distribution06:20 How the industry has changed over 50 years09:40 The story behind Black Bowmore12:00 Bowmore 40 Year Old and early luxury whisky13:50 Independent bottling then and now14:30 Building Carn Mor19:40 One of One and raising millions for charity23:00 Ballindalloch Distillery and the single estate approach29:00 Vintage releases and the long term family vision31:30 Kenny’s take on the current Scotch whisky market38:00 The cashflow reality of growing a single malt brand39:10 Quick fire questions44:20 Desert island dramsHosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jun 28, 202656 min
THREE BLENDERS WALK INTO A BAR A CHAT WITH BRIAN KINSMAN, SARAH BURGESS AND OLIVER CHILTON
Live from Spirit of Speyside, host Daz welcomes three blenders—Brian Kinsman (William Grant & Sons), Ollie Chilton (Elixir/ Tormore), and Sarah Burgess (Head of Whisky Creation at International Beverage, jokingly “banned” from other sessions)—to taste four whiskies and talk careers, process, and mischief. Brian explains his science-to-apprentice path under David Stewart and taking over in 2009; Ollie traces retail-to-cask-buying and acquiring Tormore in 2022; Sarah recounts starting as a Cardhu tour guide, moving through Diageo, becoming a Macallan blender via a sensory/blending interview, then returning to Scotland. They taste a 2023 Tormore “plain spirit”, a 2006–2018 Speyburn single cask, and a Glenfiddich 30 22-year with oloroso and a palo cortado finish, discuss water’s role in blending, sensory blind spots, grain’s value, stock legacy, cask strategy, innovation limits, and shifting whisky audiences toward flavor over age.Hosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jun 21, 202656 min
THE SCOTCH MALT WHISKY SOCIETY'S LEITH WHISKY LEGACY
Recorded in the historic Vaults in Leith, Mitch Bechard is joined by SMWS “chief storyteller” Richard Goslan and Kask Whisky founder Justine Hazlehurst for a deep dive into one of Scotch whisky’s most overlooked powerhouses.Leith was never just a port. It was a whisky engine room: bonding, brokering, blending, bottling and shipping enormous volumes of Scotch around the world. At one point, the area was home to around 90–100 bonded warehouses, yet its role in shaping the modern industry is often pushed into the background.Richard brings The Vaults to life, from its ancient origins and long links with the drinks trade to the birth of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society in 1983. He shares how the Society’s single-cask ethos developed, why bottle 1.1 became legendary, how the tasting panel works, and how SMWS bottle names manage to be both brilliant and completely unhinged.Justine guides us through Leith’s boom-and-bust whisky past, from Pattison’s infamous 1898 crash, to wars, consolidation, the whisky loch, and the stories still hiding in plain sight on the Leith Whisky Trail. There are disputed parrots, a very real pub puma attack, independent bottling chat, festival stories, and a reminder that whisky history is always better when it hasn’t been polished to death.A proper sense-of-place episode from one of Scotland’s most important whisky rooms.00:00 Welcome to The Vaults in Leith00:48 Meet Richard Goslan and Justine Hazlehurst02:46 Inside the history of The Vaults05:57 Why Leith matters to Scotch whisky08:46 The origins of the Leith Whisky Trail11:06 Wild stories from Leith’s past12:46 SMWS founding story and bottle labels16:30 Whisky as a shared community19:54 Leith’s boom-and-bust whisky timeline26:02 The whisky loch and SMWS’s first cask28:11 SMWS codes, flavour profiles and tasting culture29:42 How the SMWS tasting panel works30:47 The joy of flamboyant bottle names31:25 Creators Collection and whisky artwork32:28 Desert island dram: SMWS 1.134:54 Glenfarclas and Leith connections35:50 The independent bottling boom38:26 Fife Whisky Festival and modern whisky culture40:39 Justine’s Pattison crash book45:19 The Pattison parrots myth48:01 Finding Pip Hills again52:07 Vaults legends and wild old days54:35 Where to find Richard and JustineHosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jun 14, 202643 min
THE BATTLE OF THE STILLS - LIVE FROM SPIRIT OF SPEYSIDE
This week, Not Another Whisky Podcast goes live from the Craigellachie Hotel for Battle of the Stills, recorded during the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival.Daz is joined by three brilliant distillers: Euan Christie from The Cabrach Distillery, Polly Logan from Tormore, and Kristy Lark from Killara Distillery in Tasmania.Euan shares the story of The Cabrach: an area with deep illicit distilling roots, a shrinking population, and a new community-led distillery using whisky to support local regeneration. He also introduces The Feering, The Cabrach’s first blended malt, created with donated casks from across the industry.Polly takes us inside Tormore, one of Speyside’s most beautiful distilleries, as it prepares to launch its new core range. She talks about shaping the distillery’s fruity, floral style, the importance of American oak, and working with blender Oliver Chilton.Kristy brings the Tasmanian perspective, from growing up with a still outside her bedroom door to founding Killara Distillery. She shares how Tasmania’s climate shapes maturation and introduces a wonderfully unusual whisky inspired by a Black Velvet cocktail, finished through sparkling wine and stout casks.There are audience questions, festival chaos, whisky gossip, and at least one answer involving rum-infused Scottish tea that probably needs a legal disclaimer. Featured Whiskies and links to where you can find themThe Cabrach – The Feering Early HarvestA bright, bourbon-led blended malt with gentle peat and a strong community story.Tormore – TimelessFruity, floral and elegant, showing orchard fruit, malt and honeysuckle notes.Killara – Black Velvet Inspired Single CaskA rich Tasmanian single cask involving tawny, sparkling wine, stout and glorious madness.Please subscribe, rate and review Not Another Whisky Podcast wherever you listen. Slàinte!Hosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jun 7, 202649 min
MITCH AND DAZ'S MAY BANTER
Mitch and Daz catch up after a packed festival season, They recap Spirit of Speyside’s, Mitch’s chaotic-but-fun Tormore launch and plans to expand their sold-out “Battle of the Ambassadors” into a winter tournament, “The Road to Speyside,” with heats and a final at the festival. Daz recounts Fèis Ìle highlights at Laphroaig’s 40th anniversary tastings and Bowmore events, including a boat trip on Loch Indal and a 1969 Bowmore dram. They taste three whiskies: Chivas Charles Leclerc 16 (40%), Raasay Hungarian Oak (50%), and SMWS “A Belter for America” Tullibardine 10 (61%). They announce being shortlisted for the Scottish Podcast Awards, discuss Tormore’s new releases, the Bon Accord closing, Woven’s new Leith blending experience, and Glen Cairn’s leadership change, then tease upcoming episodes and a giveaway of a Ferrari cap plus whisky samples for reviews.00:00 Whisky Stories Banter00:48 New Theme Tune Debate02:23 Show Intro and Catch Up03:55 Festival Season Rundown05:31 Tormore Launch Chaos08:10 Road to Speyside Plan12:24 Three Drams Lineup13:51 Chivas x Leclerc Collab17:52 Fèis Ìle Highlights23:57 Feis vs Speyside Vibes27:33 Raasay Island Escape29:11 Hungarian Oak Tasting Notes31:41 Warehouse Night Stories32:53 Podcast Award Shortlist34:35 Whisky World News Roundup36:43 Edinburgh Whisky Experiences Boom38:32 Glen Cairn Leadership Change39:40 World Cup Whisky Bottling44:28 Deep Dives and Cooper Traditions46:57 Wrap Up and Listener GiveawayHosted by Mitch Bechard and Daz Haldane, this is where the whisky world gets pulled apart properly, with stories, insights, and the occasional bit of chaos along the way.🥃 New episodes every week(ish)🎤 Live shows & tastings across Scotland🎟️ Web: www.notanotherwhiskypodcast.com📩 Enquiries & partnerships: whiskypodcast@gmail.com📲 Follow us on InstagramSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/not-another-whisky-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
About Not Another Whisky Podcast
Not Another Whisky Podcast is your gateway to the whisky world, hosted by industry veterans Mitch Bechard and Daryl Haldane. With four decades of combined experience within the whisky industry for giants like Highland Park, Glenfiddich, Macallan, Johnnie Walker, Talisker, and Lagavulin, these guys know their stuff - and they're ready to share the insider secrets and stories that don't make it onto the distillery tours.This is an informal show where you can learn about whisky without the stuffy attitude. Expect whisky facts, the latest news, terrible whisky jokes, and candid conversations with industry guests. No pretence, just a good chat about great whisky!Do you have a story to share, or are you curious about sponsoring the show? Drop us a line at whiskypodcast@gmail.com. And don't forget to peek into our mischievous antics on Instagram @notanotherwhiskypodcast or swing
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