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How do you take your whisky?


Neat? Splash of water? Block of ice? Or even a mixer?


However you take it, join John Beattie, former Scotland rugby international and semi-retired BBC radio and TV news presenter, as he celebrates the heritage and flavour of Scotland's national drink and the world's favourite spirit.


Whether you call it whisky, whiskey, uisge beatha, aqua vitae, or the water of life... there's a story behind every dram; a craftsman behind every drop; an aroma with every nose; and a flavour in every sip.


This is the spirit of Scotland: distilled in a place; shared around the world.


What makes it so special? Why is it so loved? And who are the people that make it, and the aficionados who drink it?


Join John every Thursday as he explores the alchemy that takes place from cask to glass.


Slàinte!


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Host: John Beattie

Producer: David Holmes


Socials:

@C2GWhisky

@JohnRossBeattie

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    • Trouble Brewing? Ian Fraser on the State of the Whisky Industry

      Trouble Brewing? Ian Fraser on the State of the Whisky Industry
      Jan 15 2026
      Welcome to Series 2 of Cask to Glass the Whisky Podcast with John Beattie.We're back after a break because of illness and then Christmas and New Year. And we're raring to go for 2026!But where is the Scotch and global whisky industry headed in the next year?Throughout 2025, John heard from various whisky insiders about their concerns for the immediate future of the industry. But there are more and more warnings about the state of the sector. Last month Jim Beam announced it would suspend production of bourbon at its main site in Kentucky for the whole of 2026. Days later the Financial Times reported that "tariffs and cost of living pressures leave undrunk whisky galore" in Scotland."Customers," the FT suggested, "are buying less and choosing cheaper brands, risking jobs in [the] Scotch industry."So in this episode, John speaks to Scottish investigative journalist Ian Fraser, who's been digging around and speaking to industry insiders."I think the industry is in trouble," he tells John. " There was a massive boom in whisky which ended in 2022; which was exaggerated by the Covid pandemic when people were staying home and drinking more expensive bottles of Scotch and other whiskies. And I think there was a bit of a lack of realism within the industry. There was a srot of assumption that this golden period that the whisky industry went through was going to last forever. And it clearly hasn't."Total exports of Scotch whisky, Ian says, are down from £6.2 billion in 2022 to around £5.4 billion in 2024."What has caused this downturn," he asks? "It's difficult to really know. But there's certainly been a lack of consumer confidence, which I think evaporated after Covid. There's inflation. There's war in Ukraine, which has closed the Russian market. There are doubts over the Chinese market, which hasn't performed quite as well as people were hoping.""All the major Scotch whisky companies," Ian continues, "are suffering falls in sales, falls in profits. And the newer ones I think, which established themselves in the last decade or so are perhaps the most vulnerable to these factors and this downturn in the industry."And while Ian maintains "the margins are very strong in Scotch" and he doesn't think anyone "is actually loss making yet - certainly among the established player", he cautions that the share prices of the large groups have "been in freefall".They're down 60 and 70 percent in some cases, he says."We haven't seen any massive bad news in the industry in terms of companies going bust or distilleries completely closing, or administrations or whatever," Ian says; people in the industry he's spoken to say, "They're on the way."Join John and Ian as they discuss what 2026 might hold for the Scotch whisky industry:Was there an over-exuberance in period to to 2022?Have too many distilleries and producers chased premium prices?Is there an oversupply of whisky maturing in warehouses?Could there be "a race to the bottom" in terms of pricing?Are there still some markets holding up?What's the optimum price for a bottle of whisky?Can the industry pick itself up and move forward?And who's best placed to suceed?Pour yourself a dram, and tune in.Slàinte!-------Socials:@C2GWhisky@JohnRossBeattie Creator & producer: David HolmesArt work & design: Jess Robertson Music: Water of Life (Never Going Home)Vocals: Andrea CunninghamGuitars: John BeattieBass: Alasdair VannDrums: Alan HamiltonBagpipes: Calum McCollAccordion: Gary InnesMusic & Lyrics: Andrea Cunningham & John BeattieRecorded & mixed by Murray Collier at La Chunky Studios, Glasgow, ScotlandSpecial thanks: The Piper Whisky Bar, 57 Cochrane Street, Glasgow, Scotland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      22 min
    • Apologies: No Episode This Week

      Apologies: No Episode This Week
      Nov 13 2025

      Unfortunately, John's had a seasonal bug. Nothing serious. But it's taken it's toll on his voice.


      We're very sorry we're unable to bring you this week's episode.


      John's on the mend, and he hopes to be back next week.


      Thanks for listening to Cask to Glass.


      Apologies once again.


      Catch you next time.


      Slàinte!

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      Socials:

      @C2GWhisky

      @JohnRossBeattie

      Creator & producer: David Holmes

      Art work & design: Jess Robertson

      Music: Water of Life (Never Going Home)

      Vocals: Andrea Cunningham

      Guitars: John Beattie

      Bass: Alasdair Vann

      Drums: Alan Hamilton

      Bagpipes: Calum McColl

      Accordion: Gary Innes

      Music & Lyrics: Andrea Cunningham & John Beattie

      Recorded & mixed by Murray Collier at La Chunky Studios, Glasgow, Scotland

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      1 min
    • Jam to Dram: Kim Cameron of Bothy Distillery

      Jam to Dram: Kim Cameron of Bothy Distillery
      Nov 6 2025



      "I'm often called an accidental distiller," says Kim Cameron, founder of the Bothy Distillery in Glen Prosen in the Scottish Highlands.


      Kim started off running a coffee shop and producing jam. World class jam, which 11 years ago won its category in the World Jam Championships. So she launched her Jam Bothy label.


      "In Angus," she says, "we grow the most amazing fruit, arguably in the best in the world: raspberry, rhubarb, blueberry, strawberry... And I was making the full seasonal calendar of jam. Now one of the byproducts of making jam was I had some juice and fruit left over. And rather than waste that, we decided to add it to gin."


      Next thing Kim knew, people were beating a path up her glen in the north east of Scotland for her gin. "The jam took a bit of a back seat," she continues, " and we focused on the Gin Bothy as a brand."


      "That," she explains, "is how my entry into the world of spirit happened. I didn't ever imagine that we would be in a position where we'd be distilling whisky in the glens."


      Well Kim's not quite distilling whisky yet.


      Her best selling gin is Gunshot Gin.


      "I was selling that into the US market, and one of the things that we were always told on feedback was: 'We love the flavour profiles.' So it was cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, spice. Those really rich warming flavours. But we had distilled it with gin. And the biggest thing that the export market wanted was in a whisky. So we flipped the base and called it Gunshot Whisky."


      Gunshot was an eight year old blended whisky created for the Kim's export market. "But," she continues, "our customers here, once it followed our gin journey, have always asked me: 'When are you moving into whisky?'"


      Well that move has begun!


      Bothy Distillery is well under way. It's being built in old bothy in Glen Prosen in Cairngorm National Park in the eastern Highlands that in the early 1700s had been an old whisky smuggling room.


      The stills are on order from Forsyths, Scotland's go-to still manufacturers. They're about to be installed. And Kim hopes the first new spirit, to be distilled under the supervision of Ron Welsh (the master distiller behind Beam Suntory's Laphroaig and Bowmore, and 140 other expressions of Scotch whisky), will begin to flow in December or January.


      So join John as he chats to Kim about her journey from jam to dram.


      Slàinte!

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      Socials:

      @C2GWhisky

      @JohnRossBeattie

      Creator & producer: David Holmes

      Art work & design: Jess Robertson

      Music: Water of Life (Never Going Home)

      Vocals: Andrea Cunningham

      Guitars: John Beattie

      Bass: Alasdair Vann

      Drums: Alan Hamilton

      Bagpipes: Calum McColl

      Accordion: Gary Innes

      Music & Lyrics: Andrea Cunningham & John Beattie

      Recorded & mixed by Murray Collier at La Chunky Studios, Glasgow, Scotland


      Special thanks: The Piper Whisky Bar, 57 Cochrane Street, Glasgow, Scotland

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      31 min
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