These are the memoirs of one of Scotland's best known whisky distillers and covers his time in the industry from 1963 until the present day. In that time John McDougall has worked in some of Scotland's most famous distilleries in Speyside, Ayrshire, Islay and Campbeltown as well as holding head office posts in Glasgow before setting up his own whisky brokering business based in Kelso. These memoirs are all about the characters that John has dealt with in the many differing places he has worked and portray as complete a picture of the distillery shop floor, the stillroom and the mashroom and the changes that have been made in them over the past 35 years as possible. Co-authored by whisky authority Gavin D Smith this evocation of the true goings on in the whisky trade will delight anyone with an interest in the subject.
- ISBN13 9781906476304
- Publish Date 31 May 2011 (first published 30 June 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Neil Wilson Publishing
- Format eBook
- Pages 126
- Language English