Stories From Mike Collings: The Firkin Whisky Co Blog

Angelo Lucchesi, A Tennessee Legend: the Jack Daniels Godfather

Angelo Lucchesi, A Tennessee Legend: the Jack Daniels Godfather

Angelo Lucchesi, A Tennessee Legend and the Jack Daniels Godfather. Read his incredible story here.

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.

Drinking Whisky With the Angels. It's the Firkin Angels Share.

Angel's share is the whisky that evaporates each year. Read more here.

A Firkin Odd View of Whisky

A brief history of distilling around the world, in about five sentences.

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 Firki...

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.

Gone to the Dogs

Here's the story I earned my copper, or dipping dogs, for smuggling whisky out of a distillery.

The Classic Malts of Scotland

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. Mar...

The Tennessee Smurf

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...

Firkin Whisky Co Blog curling stones and glenfarclas 105 single malt scotch on ice

The Ice Virgin

Mike Collings, Firkin Whisky Co Founder, tells the story of the time he went curling on ice with Glenfarclas 105 single malt scotch.

Whisky or whiskey: who put the 'e' in?

Mike Collings, Founder of Firkin Whisky Co, looks at when whiskey has an E and when whisky doesn't have an e.

Who made the first whisky? Friar John Cor, whisky creator and Firkin legend.

The Firkin Founder’s Tale of the first recorded mention of whisky, and the bottle created 500 years later to celebrate that historic event. Who mad...

Johnnie Walker Swing, The Blue Ribband Whisky

Mike Collings, founder of Firkin Whisky Co, recounts the story of how Johnnie Walker Swing was invented.