Jefferson Chase explains how you can't take the whisley out of country-and-western
To say that whiskey has influenced country-and-western is like saying that Catholicism influences the Pope. The list of country-and-western
drinking songs runs from Cigareets, Whusky and Wild, Wild Women to Sick, Sober and Sorry. There’s an old joke: “What do you get when you play a country record b...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 27 published on 16/11/2002
The distinctly 'non-horsey' Marcin Miller dons his wellies in Pitlochry for a spot of whisky fuelled equestrianism.
The showcase for the best of Scottish equestrianism is the Bowmore Blair Castle International Horse Trials. Nothing prepares you for it. To the non-horsey of us, the idea of equestrianism, and particularly three day eventing, suggests the painfully one-dimensional fictional world of Jilly Cooper. Th...
By Marcin Miller
from Issue 13 published on 16/12/2000
Hundreds of people renning around the Scottish highlands searching for 1000 hidden bottles of single malt? Surely not? Maxwell Macleod decides whteher this is actually whisky myth or legend
First take one thousand bottles of prime Scotch malt whisky, provided free by someone in the industry as an advertising gimmick, and then put them in some remote Highland glen. Then, whisky hidden, you privately publish your first novel which contains clues on how to find the cache with the assuranc...
By Maxwell MacLeod
from Issue 12 published on 16/11/2000
