What better way to end the year than to sit down in the Diggers cellar with the owner, tuck into some drams and go through some of the best whiskies we've had this year.

We look back at what's been an amazing year for the podcast. We've had some great guests, had access to distilleries and hosted some really fun events.

We also look ahead to an exciting 2026 for Kev with the soon to be launched 'Diggers 2' down in Leith (name pending).

Thanks to everyone who's been part of the podcast for the last 12 months.

Happy New Year and here's to 2026 and plenty more drams and shenanigans.

Merry Christmas!

We had a quick Christmas catch-up in Diggers for a couple of drams (Ross had already had a few before he got there...) to lead into our North British Distillery Podcast recording.

We were given a very special gift from the guys at Royal Mile Whiskies which is something to look forward to in the new year and Ross gave us his top whiskies of 2025.

Hope you're having or had a great Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thanks for listening.

Cheers!

This week we have Pal of the Pod Cameron Ewen in for a chat about his now job, Christmas drams and whiskies of 2025.

We were back in the Dug Oot at Diggers for this one enjoying some drams, and festive whisky chat with Cam.

Cam talked us through his new role at Diageo and some of the amazing whiskies he gets to work with. Including old Brora and Port Ellon bottlings.

We also discuss what whiskies we'll be drinking over the Christmas festivities.

Enjoy

Raymond is the man behind the iconic Glencairn whisky glass and changed the way we drink whisky.

He isn't just Whisky Royalty, he's an absolute gentleman as well.

Spending time with Raymond and hearing his whisky stories was amazing.

In this episode we hear about how he started out, what made him decide to design a glass for drinking whisky, and the journey it's taken him on.

We also enjoyed a good few drams while we were at it!

Enjoy

This one was a lot of fun to record.

Sam Simmons was one of the first online whisky bloggers with his blog Dr Whisky starting back in the early 2000s.

That took him from writing about whisky to selling it, becoming the Global Brand Ambassador for Balvennie to becoming Head of Whisky for Atom Brands.

He's responsible for putting out releases to over 1 million people around the world. Looking for cool whisky concepts, bottling it and selling it.

Sam brought in some of his own projects with him for us to try including Wormtub 10 and the famous Dalry Milk North British bottling.

There's some great whisky chat in this podcast as well as plenty of laughs and good drams.

Enjoy

We were all back in the Diggers Vaults for a recording and a catch up with Chuck, Angus, myself Ross and Scott Moore.

Ross had literally just jumped off the plane returning from his trip across the pond to see his current mother and father-in-law and our USA Brand Ambassador was about to leave from his epic whisky trip to Scotland.

There were loads of drams on the barrel for this one. With plenty of whisky chat from Scott's trip, we had whisky samples sent over and lots of catching up to do.

We chatted about our trip to Glencadam Distillery as well as our epic Edinburgh Whisky Pub Crawl.

Loads of fun and nonsense on this one. Enjoy!

How do you start a distillery on tiny island off the coast of Scotland?

We sat down with Isle of Raasay Co-founder and Master Distiller Alasdair Day and UK Sales Manager Gregor Hunter to hear the story.

Alasdair talks us through how he got into whisky through his family history connections and how things sparked from blending to distilling.

We also talked about life on the island and what the distillery is doing for the local economy and growing the island population.

The lads also brought in some fantastic drams for us to try including Isle of Raasay newmake and the first ever peated single grain whisky to be bottled.

Enjoy!

It's our birthday and to celebrate we put on a BIG Birthday Bash last Friday night at Uno Mas.

And what a night it was!

We had 55 guests, 6 brands and 7 whiskies on the lineup. There were party games and Ali Baxter Whisky Stories Bingo.

And we even had our own cask of whisky which was rolled in and hand filled on the night in the bar.

A huge thanks to everyone for coming along and being part of the special occasion and to our brands.

Woven

InchDairnie

Holyrood

Tri-Carragh

Glengoyne

Woodrow's of Edinburgh

This is a wild one. Enjoy

We were invited along to have a look around at the Woodrow's of Edinburgh warehouse with Pals of the Pod Woody and Megan.

It's always nice to get an invited into a bonded warehouse and last night we were treated to some great drams straight from the cask.

We were also sampling some whisky which will be our next Exclusive Whisky Stories Bottling!!

Woody and Megan were great hosts and as always gave us great chat and quality drams.

Arthur has been in the whisky industry for over 20 years. He's been the buyer of Scotch Malt Whisky Society and then worked his way up to Managing Director of Royal Mile Whiskies.

There's not a cask that Arthur has bought that he doesn't remember.

He's been involved in buying and selling some incredible whiskies throughout his career.

Being part of the growth of the SMWS and Royal Mile Whiskies has made him one of the most influential people within the Scotch Whisky Industry. He was responsible for what RMW would buy and how they would sell it.

He also loves talking about the history of whisky and some of the myths that surround it. He has a YouTube Channel with Dave Broom called The Liquid Antiquarian.

There's a lot of good whisky industry chat in this one.

Enjoy!