A Complete Guide to Traveling the Malt Whisky Trail in Scotland

It was around the fourth whisky distillery that I was forced to acknowledge an incontrovertible truth about myself: I do not and likely will never enjoy drinking Scotch whisky.

I don’t like peaty whiskies or floral whiskies; I don’t like whisky neat or on the rocks or even (gasp) in cocktails; I don’t even really enjoy the smell of whisky, if I’m being completely honest.

But you know what I DO love about whisky? The stories and the history.

Whisky-making has a long history in Scotland; people were distilling “the water of life” long before it was legal to do so, and it’s a tradition that runs as deeply in the veins of Scotland as kilts and bagpipes.

I’m a lover of history and a lover of stories, and so…