With Halloween upon us and autumn finally cooling off the islands, it’s time for a ghost story… errr, whisky review. The art this week features the imagined ruins of Dallas Dhu, a distillery that shuttered during the 1980s whisky loch. Stretching from the early 80s to the 90s, that period of economic downturn led to the closure of some dozen distilleries, many never to reopen. Dallas Dhu still stands and lives on as a museum, though there have long been plans to reopen it and in the past several years Brora, Port Ellen, Rosebank, and most recently Coleburn, have reopened or will soon.

I will keep my musings short this week, my brain power is running low at this point in the semester, however you can check out my brief commentary on ghost whiskies from a previous stickied digest post.

Now it’s time for a dram, or a mug of coffee as the case may be, and a final thought: what’s a good autumn whisky? Does it need to be ghostly and spectral, or perhaps heavy hitting and peaty, or maybe bright apples and orchard fruits carry the day?

Artwork this week is my own: apologies to Dallas Dhu for imagining the still standing, though silent, distillery as ruins.