Whisky Weekly Digest — Week 36, 2026
Eight whisky books worth keeping. Plus Murdo Mackenzie of Benromach, and another Metanoia release.
Fellowship Conversations: Murdo Mackenzie
Murdo Mackenzie has been distilling at Benromach since 2016, and in 2025 he took over as Distillery Manager from Keith Cruikshank, who ran the place from 1998. It’s a role that comes with an unusual kind of weight: almost everything he decides today — how the mash is handled, the exact point the stills are … Read more
Whisky Weekly Digest — Week 35, 2026
Four South African releases worth knowing about: Metanoia, two Bain’s 23 year olds and the oldest Boplaas yet.
Whisky Weekly Digest — Week 34, 2026
The Only Whisky Show, from the Thursday floor. Plus The Famous Grouse changes hands.
Whisky Weekly Digest — Week 33, 2026
Nae coopers, nae whisky. Plus Olaf Meier of the SMWS tasting panel, and a Killowen rum and raisin single cask.
Fellowship Conversations: Olaf Meier
Olaf Meier has one of the coolest jobs in the whisky world: deciding, glass by glass, what an entire global membership gets to drink next. As Chairman of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s Tasting Panel, the German-born storyteller has tasted many thousands of casks and written thousands of tasting notes over more than two decades … Read more