Cask & Still Issue 7

The team at Cask & Still love our whisky, but we also love those magical moments when the amber nectar forms a neat backdrop to the daily fabric of drammers’ lives.
So the story of Vic Cameron, the former stillman-turnedpreacher, tickled our funnybone. What we found was a fascinating man of heft and conviction who also makes some of the finest whiskies in the world.
In this issue we have also been honoured by the presence of Scottish actor Sean Biggerstaff, who is a renowned whisky buff. The sparky Glaswegian’s tales of his joy as he passed two distilleries on his way to work while filming Whisky Galore! and of leading daily post-filming whisky-appreciation classes for his fellow thespians on his way back from the set, brought a broad smile to my face. I can just imagine a troupe of luvvies in the bar at the Craigellachie Hotel being tutored by Sam.
Another of my favourite reads this month was our contributing editor Blair Bowman’s investigation into the murky world of sherry casks in the whisky industry. We certainly like a bit of froth, but here was some real meat for real whisky-lovers to get their teeth into.

EDITOR Richard Bath