Spring 2024 Banquet

The Keepers Journal

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Retirement From The Industry

  • Gavin Smith
  • December 14 2023

Is it the end of the road when you retire from the whisky industry? Not at all, discovers Gavin Smith, who speaks to five legends ...

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Music and Scotch Whisky

  • Annabel Meikle
  • December 14 2023

IT WAS the gig that stopped the whisky stills.

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Net Zero - can we get there

  • Matt Chambers
  • December 14 2023

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Guest of Honour - Kenton Cool OBE

  • Roddy Martine
  • December 14 2023

The Autumn 2023 Banquet welcomed climber and motivational speaker Kenton Cool OBE. Roddy Martine looks at his life.

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The rise of the Scotch and soda

  • Tracy Wason
  • December 4 2023

The rapid growth of blended Scotch in the last quarter of the 19th century turned the world of whisky upside down. “Blended ...

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Sir Walter Scott, Saviour of Scotland

  • Annabel Meikle
  • August 6 2021

Ian Smith celebrates Sir Walter Scott on the 250th anniversary of his birth. As the fine dinner draws to its climax the ...

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