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MAY 2015 ISSUE ONE cask and still


The team


DESIGN & EDITORIAL Editor:


Richard Bath


Creative Director: Mark Duncan


Photographer: Angus Blackburn Staff Writers:


Morag Bootland, Susan Windram, Kirsty Smyth


Contributing Editor: Blair Bowman


36 Inside


06 NEWS Remember, you heard it here first...


08 BAR SNAPS Zurich’s wonderful Widder Bar and its spirit library


11 WHISKY BY NUMBERS The latest facts and figures


28 UP WITH THE LARK Bill Lark and the burgeoning Tasmanian whisky industry


34 SIX OF THE BEST Long summer cocktails from the Devil’s Advocate


36 CHINA IN OUR HANDS The fall in whisky exports to China


42 BARRELS OF


CRAFT Robbie Reid turns casks into rocking chairs


55


80 WHISKY EVENTS GUIDE


82 A MALT MISSION TO COLOMBIA


The hombre turning Latin America onto single malts


44 MASTERS OF MALT? Are bloggers the experts they claim to be?


50 THE BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO NOSING


WHISKY


53 WHISKY HERO The boffin who aims to run cars on distillery waste


55 CONNOISSEUR’S CHOICE Our experts choose their top drams


76 THE SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION Dr Brooke Magnanti – blogger Belle de Jour – on her love of gin


79 OVER A BARREL Chris Miller on taking Scottish craft beers to Asia


Contributors: Andy Byers, Dr Brooke Magnanti, Johanne McInnis, Louise Gray, Peter Ranscombe, Chris Miller


Email: editor@caskandstill magazine.co.uk


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