Product Description: Richard Paterson has Scotch whisky running through his veins. His grandfather and father were both prominent in the Scotch whisky industry in Glasgow for decades before Richard joined a competing whisky brokerage firm to start his apprenticeship...read more

Product Description: This work embraces the historical imperatives that made smuggling lucrative, particularly during its 18th century "golden age", looking at the role of the Act of Union (1707) and Jacobitism in the encouragement and perpetuation of the Scottish smuggling trade...read more

Product Description: This work covers Scottish illicit distilling. It examines the historical events and legislation that gave rise to, and sustained, its "boom" years. During those times, the Scottish countryside, and even city centres, teemed with "sma' stills" and were awash with whiskey which had been distilled without payment of excise duty...read more

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Product Description: Exploring the lighter side of whisky-making, whisky consumption, whisky over-consumption, whisky in literature, whisky and the law and even whisky and death, this book offers stories and anecdotes contributed by whisky industry personalities. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A pictorial record of the Scottish distilling industry and its development. The text approaches the subject from a predominantly visual viewpoint, making use of the extensive photographic archives held by many distilling companies and other related organizations...read more

Product Description: "First published in the United States of America in 1999 by arrangement with Lomond Books, Scotland."--T.p. verso.

Product Description: This work offers detailed alphabetic information on whisky, including definitions, sources and meanings of whisky-related words, from aftershots to wort. Gavin Smith is retail manager of the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and a journalist specialising in horseracing and whisky.