Stories From Mike Collings: The Firkin Whisky Co Blog

Angelo Lucchesi, A Tennessee Legend: the Jack Daniels Godfather
Angelo Lucchesi, A Tennessee Legend and the Jack Daniels Godfather. Read his incredible story here.
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My friend Michael Jackson… the other one!
Michael Jackson: a whisky icon and one of the world's best known whisky writers. Find out more about Michael here.
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Drinking Whisky With the Angels. It's the Firkin Angels Share.
Angel's share is the whisky that evaporates each year. Read more here.
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A brief history of distilling around the world, in about five sentences.
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Around the world in 80 days: A Christmas Tale
Jet setting off just before Christmas Two major meetings on two continents, and all the week before Christmas. Today I would say… you must be Firkin joking! At the time, I was not so worldly wise b...
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I never thought I would go to heaven… and how you can too
How the angel's share may be my only ticket into heaven.
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Here's the story I earned my copper, or dipping dogs, for smuggling whisky out of a distillery.
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How do you make single malt bottlings more popular? Some 27 single malt distilleries producing around 40% of all malt whisky was a great asset. Market share of these malt whiskies as single malt bo...
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From Tennessee to Kentucky It had been a long day and as the old school DC9 airplane climbed out of Tennessee’s Nashville airport I settled back in my seat and let my eyelids droop. Eastern Airline...
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Mike Collings, Firkin Whisky Co Founder, tells the story of the time he went curling on ice with Glenfarclas 105 single malt scotch.
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