Mike and Duncan chat to Graham Coull , Master Distiller, at Dingle Distillery in Ireland. Join us as we chat internet polls, a love of condiments and of course whisky, and whiskey from both sides of the Irish sea. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website & blog. Email us on: Hon...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Mike & Duncan chat about the top 10 most expensive whisky bottles ever sold at auction, shipwrecked bottles and ones found in folks' house walls in America. Plus, Mike catches up on the Cu Bocan 15 and (stupidly) calls out Michael Bisping - very daft according to Duncan (who has actually watched UFC). Duncan discusses Talisker X Parley Wilder Seas. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being...
Nov 23, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Mike & Duncan are fresh off a Torabhaig and Mossburn whisky tasting courtesy of Tweettastings . The guys recap their thoughts before getting stuck into a big topic - "Is possible to have categories in whisky that help people pick 'one they like' without having to know regions or distillery profiles?" We shall see. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy u...
Nov 18, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Mike & Duncan host Paul Main and Libby Barmby to see what's been in their glasses and up their ars*s. We have a chat and our lovely guests run us through their ideal pudding island trip. Plus in a new and spectacularly bizarre segment we attempt 'Blind Date Drams', where Mike fills in for Cilla!About our guests. Paul Main is a whisky tasting host and ambassador for Hunter Laing and runs Whisky Toasts. Libby Barmby works in marketing for The Glasgow Distillery Company. Check out our Whisky...
Nov 11, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Mike & Duncan get stuck into discussing brand merchandise and look at what items they love, things they don't need or want, and see what daft or possibly brilliant ideas they can muster up. Plus a listener poses a bold statement to mull over, Cliff has a (another) moan, and the guys discuss what's been in their glass and up their ars*s this week. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being a...
Nov 01, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Do ghosts exist? Mike thinks so and he even has a story to back it up. Duncan, well, he needs some convincing. The guys sip a 30 year old Islay single malt from The Wine Society and have a guess at it's origins. Plus, movies that are actually scary for Halloween, explosive dad moments and how autumn is changing what we drink. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can a...
Oct 27, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 30
*Warning* This bonus episode may contain fairly intense whisky discussion. Mike & Duncan do a rundown on the Online Scotch Whisky Awards reviewing the nine categories and picking out two favourites in each. This is ahead of the award ceremony on the 4 November 2023 which you can watch here . We will be watching! Note that voting is closed now. You can vote next year if you missed this one when hopefully Roy and Ralfy keep this going for the community. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop ...
Oct 24, 2023•31 min
Mike is on podcast paternity leave being a new dad and Ben (aka @whiskywithmolly ) has been drafted in to fill some big boots. Duncan & Ben rifle through whisky festival tips (and fails). Plus, the guys discuss 'top value' independent bottler picks, overly friendly barbers, rip off budget airlines and what's been in their glasses. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. ...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Mike & Duncan talk about the imminent arrival of someone more important than whisky & perform a 'science' experiment to see if spicy food affects their nosing or tasting experience. Two puds rants about Wales again and apparently his enjoyment of a korma, although maybe he said karma... it's hard to tell. It's possible he dips garlic naan in karma. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs b...
Oct 10, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Yaas! Duncan & Mike have an actual bona fide leg end on the podski. Well known in the football and entertainment worlds, Paul Hawksbee is a daily host on Talksport and a comedy writer. The guys explore four simple elements to choosing whisky with Paul: cask type, age, abv and peat or no peat - all whilst sampling on topic drams and nattering away. Paul's pudding island dram album is Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout . Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featu...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Mike & Duncan have been out out! Cutty Sark whisky celebrates turning 100 in style at the historic and iconic Cutty Sark tea clipper in Greenwich. The guys recant their nights japes and chat about Cutty Sark and Turntable blends. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website & bl...
Oct 01, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Mike & Duncan catch up after a horrendous 'laptop plugging in incident' rendered Mike as useful as a potato. He will never get those 10 days of his life back. Duncan talks whisky bargains and tries blind samples Mike sent him. The guys share two new listener stories and discuss how letting dice make decisions for you, doesn't mean you have to be a psycho. We reference the book The Dice Man in this pod. Brian (Malt Musings) blog with 18 year old whisky price changes in last year . Check out o...
Sep 19, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Mike & Duncan host special guest Michael Henry, Master Blender, of Glen Scotia , Loch Lomond and Littlemill to explore why grain is misunderstood, the perfect Irish whiskey flight and the get the inside goss on The Sassenach . Plus the usual daft antics and some garage rap. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Ho...
Sep 08, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Mike and Duncan discuss the end of the World, which will obviously start on a Tuesday! From Molatov's to Macallan, sit back and listen whilst co-ordinating your own survival plan and deciding what on earth you will do about the booze you have hoarded. #TheCaskStrengthBoyz #DoomsdayPreppers #RacingSnake #TheProspectOfShitby Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also...
Sep 01, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Duncan wants to talk about the calories in whisky (and booze in general). Mike isn't too sure he wants to. The concern is real - Christmas is looming and trouser sizes will need to go up unless something changes. Plus bona fide antenatal tips (erm), Mike's advice on baths (double erm) and a listeners smuggling story recanted. Oh and the usual what's been in our glasses. Mike raves above a beer and in particular one stout after his trip to the New Forest. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop w...
Aug 22, 2023•35 min•Ep. 22
Mike and Duncan host a Springbank therapy session (sort of) whilst sipping local barley (preach!). Discover why it's so dang hard to find bottles of the holy Springeth of Banketh. Plus the guys table alternatives for 'when you see the light'. And, something about coping with Keith. You can also read about Why Springbank is so hard to find on our blog. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being ...
Aug 14, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Mike & Duncan kick off celebrity top trumps with Sam vs Jenson and thus, Sassenach vs Coachbuilt. Two blends and two gents. Actor vs driver. Celeb vs Celeb. Who will win this round and which whisky will come out top in our blind tasting? Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website ...
Aug 07, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Mike and Duncan take a trip to Pudding Island where we are stranded for one month. We can only choose one pudding, one whisky (or whiskey), one album and one person to pick us up! Duncan shares some tasting notes on a few Canmore whiskies, and is very fond of the Bunnahabhain 12yo sherry cask and Ardmore 10yo ex-bourbon 10 . Plus, a run down of the most ' popular whisky distilleries ' in the UK and Ireland. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our fav...
Aug 01, 2023•49 min
Mike & Duncan try to persuade each other of things in the whisky world that should be banished to room 101 forever! Will they succeed? Plus, Canmore single malt explored, a heart warming moment provided by Glen Scotia in blinddrams and folk that surprise charge people for drams round their house... What on earth is going on people? Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly....
Jul 26, 2023•49 min
Mike & Duncan experiment making The Godfather Cocktail . The guys re-purpose movie quotes for dramming and ponder whether value should be baked into whisky review scores. Three of the Murray McDavid Benchmark single malt range are tried and discussed. Plus, Mike lays into Elon Musk's Twitter 'revolution'. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dr...
Jul 11, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Mike & Duncan have a proper pub chat with Dan Humphrey, founder of Summerton Club, over a few drams. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website & blog. Email us on: HonestToAMalt@protonmail.com...
Jul 07, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Mike and Duncan have a dram and a chinwag with Dan from the Summerton Whisky Club ! The guys are challenged by Youtuber Jeff Whisky to pick their top 5 summer whiskies, before being joined by Black Fox Farm & Distillery . Hailing from a super remote part of Canada, John and Barb chat with us about the new Summerton release, their intriguing end-to-end process of creating the whiskey and 40 years of farming. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuri...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Mike and Duncan chat about getting stuck into National Bourbon Day by sampling lots of bourbon, chefing up a proper 'low and slow' BBQ and smoking some cuban cigars! The guys ponder which place in their heart (and drinks cabinet) bourbon holds and whether longer maturation bourbon whiskey in dunnage or coastal cooler warehouses would close the gap to Scotch, with more complexity in the glass. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode ...
Jun 21, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Mike and Duncan continue their chat with Matt McKay of Bimber and Dunphail Distilleries aka The Dramble ! We push the conversation on to food pairings, Duncan's dodgy whisky tips, pool and of course Matt's new venture at Dunphail. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website & blog....
Jun 13, 2023•41 min
Featuring Matt McKay of Bimber and Dunphail Distilleries aka The Dramble ! Mike & Duncan play annoying whisky buzzword bingo, pitch The (imaginary) FunkaFunk bottling company 'Dragon's Den style' and chat with Matt about drams, horror flicks, mezcal, craft beer and folk who take pictures of whisky in trees. We were having a lovely time having a chinwag with Matt, who is super passionate, and so we we talked for longer than expected! The interview and content split naturally into two episodes...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Mike & Duncan explore why tasting whisky blind is essential to finding out what you really think. Plus, thoughts on the latest Glen Scotia Festival Release 2023 are shared and we chat about #BlindDrams and the Blind Tasting Consortium. Blind Tasting Articles: Wine Tasting https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/649033/classic-blind-taste-test-commercials https://juiceboxinteractive.com/blog/how-pepsi-won-the-battle-but-lost-the-challenge/ Brian's Website: https://malt-musings.blogspot.com/ Check...
May 31, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Mike & Duncan reflect on the crushing disappointment of your local pub having a poor whisky selection, talk about auction bargains and wonder whether hard to say distillery names are selling more or less whisky. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website & blog. Email us...
May 23, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Mike & Duncan chat about the man caves, lady dens, whether sheds are still cool, and ponder if a home-bar is a good thing or not. Plus, what makes a whisky room sing, and can peat transform a bottle Duncan is not reaching for? Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dram if you love the content. Honest to a Malt podcast website &...
May 16, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Mike celebrates Duncan's loss after he caved and bought whisky again. The guys discuss Richard Paterson's showmanship and what type of whisky noser you are. Distillery nicknames are explored and main topic is the golden rules for buying whisky at the supermarket or other large retailers and the best picks! Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us a dr...
May 09, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The bottle buying embargo continues... who will crack first?! Mike and Duncan chat about bizarrely bad whisky tasting charts , the pain of gifting whisky, and how, if two things taste great on their own, they must taste amazing together... surely! Ps - this might be one the reasons we love the golden stuff. Check out our Whisky T-Shirt Shop with #TumblerClub tees and ones featuring our favourite episode artwork. New whisky t-shirt designs being added regularly. You can also buy us ...
Apr 25, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 7
