Cask & Still Issue 2

It’s good to be back! Issue #1 of Cask & Still was a runaway success and we loved putting it together so much that as soon as the dust settled on our mighty inaugural effort we started working feverishly on this issue.
Once again, the process of bringing you Scotland’s newest and best whisky magazine has been riotously good fun from beginning to end. We’ve met and interviewed some amazing people (and neatly sidestepped a few dullards too). We’ve necked – sorry, savoured – endless samples of whisky, beer, rum and sundry other booze in our quest to bring the best to your door. We’ve argued far too passionately (in a geeky, non-confrontational manner of course) about whether No Age Statement whiskies are a rip-off or the future.
We’ve even gone all mad-scientist to see whether we can cook up a whisky haar in our own kitchen (answer, of course we can!).In short, we have gone out of our way to make sure casual lovers of the national drink and whisky hipsters and geeks alike can read to the end of these pages without pause for thought, and without ever needing to stifle a yawn. We also like to think that we’ve added to the sum of human happiness by enlisting the help of the country’s leading whisky retailers and connoisseurs to help us choose their favourite drams.
These are people who sell countless thousands of bottles of whisky each year and yet they have distilled (pun intended) decades of experience down to a handful of unbeatable recommendations. Hopefully there’s something for everyone in these pages, but if there’s anything you’d like to see or think we should discard then by all means let us know – we welcome all feedback.

EDITOR Richard Bath