Distilled. Issue 8
In Issue 8 we explore the bucolic chintz of England’s Cotswolds, ‘craft’ distilling in Midleton, Ireland, and take ease in the sylvan glade that is Daftmill, Scotland’s only single farm estate distillery. We visit Switzerland in search of green fairies (and blue absinthe), and unveil the mystery behind whiskey ‘distilled in Indiana’. Dessert is a dish best served cold; what better ending than the wit and wisecracks of Dorothy Parker?
“I work the late shift. It’s rare for a distillery owner to actually distil, but I got into this because I want to make things.”
From Scotland to Smögen, With Love
West Sweden is a land of greenery, rock and woodland; brightness and rain – Scottishly so. Driving north from Gothenburg it is easy to imagine being in Scotland with the edgy breeze threatening to tip over into rain at any moment, against a busy grey tundra of sky…
The Wizard of Walkerville
The Detroit River flows for a short twenty-four miles, emptying Lake St. Clair into Lake Erie while forming the border between southwestern Ontario and the state of Michigan. It was here, on the Canadian side, that legendary distiller Hiram Walker produced his first barrel of whisky in 1858…
“If you make a statement on a label it has to be true and it has to be the whole truth. Like a witness statement, either you shut up or you tell the whole truth and nothing else.”