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Said to Angus, tried the Wormtub 10.

They had a 30-year-old Springbank Wormtub there.

Sam was like, you have to try this.

Tried it.

I was like, that's really nice.

I'm not sitting there going, oh my god, I remember the time I had a 30-year-old Springbank Wormtub.

What's the story behind that? Did Springbank have warm tubs 30 years ago or? Springbank

do have warm tubs.

We always have a guinea for some sort of a stout and then whatever whiskey we kind of call like our opener whiskey.

So I'm having a little Springbank 15 because I just love Springbank 15.

And Sean is drinking a 1962 North British with his name on the bottle.

As you do.

It really is a magical place to live.

Are you in Campbelltown? Yeah, so we stay behind Springbank Distillery in Campbelltown.

Right, okay.

Um, and it's, it's amazing, like the history of the area as well, like read quite a bit about it when, when we were up there in a sense, used to have a train line and feels like it's previously been a sort of thriving tourist destination with loads of distilleries and all the rest of it.

I've been looking forward to this now for weeks because having been to Camptown, yeah, been to Islay, on the bucket list, perfect opportunity to drive up and get the boat across and then, you know, back in the same day.

We're doing what? Springbank and Glen Gile just did it in Kilkerran today, you know, in a couple of hours and we're back in the hotel for, you know, I'm not.

Teen chips, like, do you know

what I mean? Well, I have my son and his girlfriend and my wife and daughter and dogs coming to the hotel, plus friends of mine from Portugal and friends of mine from...

Well, we're

working today here.

And we're on a boat going over to Springbank and Clingwell Distillery, do you know what I mean? And this is work.

It's there that I've been up in weeks.

But it just it's about I always say, you know, you know, you need to you need to have a story to sell that to sell the whiskey, you know, and, you know, that comes down to Providence.

And obviously, that's the distillery is is important because that that that sales of it's a Lafroig or Springbank or whatever.

they're, you know, they're popular because people, people, you know, they have a, you know, a huge fan base or...

Yeah,

Because we had the opportunity to tap directly into a feed from a wind farm using battery storage.

You know, there was there was we were looking at partnering with a salmon fishery.

And, you know, you know, I was taking Springbank who do most of, you know, you know, milling mashing you know malting milling mashing you know everything on site maturation bottling on site um but taking that and saying well why can't we generate you know all the energy on site um why can't we get rid of all our waste products on site you know like you know you know uh anaerobic digestion plants you know reed bed systems um you know the pot ale and the draft could just go in uh you know into into an ad plant you know to which could create biofuel which could be used either to um you know yeah i actually had my head that we'd use it to create hydrogen which would then be the the fuel to transport the the bottles off site.

So that was the vision.

how growing up in Dura, growing up in Islay, having those opportunities where you can literally walk out of school and work for a distillery.

We mentioned about the, I think it was the Eat, Sleep, Drama, Repeat, we talked about with Springbank, how people pay 2,000 bucks to work at a distillery.

People pay.

It's Scott Moore.

They're like, oh, you know, I kind of just drinking my distillery stuff.

Like even like Billy Walker is like, yeah, I'm just kind of sampling out, you know, Meikle Tours or I'm, he's like, yeah, I kept some Glendronic around, but most of the time they're not saying like, I love Springbank.

I drink so much Springbank, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So I thought it'd be interesting that someone who is part of some of the most sought after rye whiskey in Canada, would see what they think about one of the most sought-after American ryes ever produced, the Booker's rye.

This is the big-time batch, 2016 limited edition.