This episode of “The Barrel Talk” is slightly different than what you are used to. Michael and Andrea Gradl of Gradl’s Wiskyfässla in Nuremberg, who are the co-founders and co-organisers of The Village Whisky Fair invited us to come to the fair and “present The Village to an international audience”. Of course, we couldn’t say no and subsequently spent three fabulous days in Nuremberg, working quite a lot, meeting lots of wonderful people, recording this special episode and enjoying a very special moment with Jim McEwan, who we invited to join us virtually for the big Masterclass to sing his favourite song “Sweet Caroline” for him. The recording of the song is the background music for the initial quotes and can be found, once more, at the very end of the episode. If you would also like to see the video along with the song, go check out @inside_whisky on Instagram.

Of course, all the background noise didn’t make it easy recording but we tried our very best to provide you with the high sound-quality you are usually used to – for those (rare) cases when it did not always work perfectly, we sincerely apologise. 

For you not to get lost during this long episode of almost 2 hours and 12 minutes, here’s a list of our guests with the indicated times of where to find the specific interviews: 

1. 00:03:29 Ben Curtis (The Single Cask) 
2. 00:09:04 Matthew Hastings (Nc’Nean Distillery) 
3. 00:20:08 David Ferguson (Lochlea Distillery) 
4. 00:26:13 Udo Sonntag (author) 
5. 00:34:24 David Thompson (Spirits of Yorkshire / Filey Bay) 
6. 00:40:29 Alexander Tichy (Whisky Club of Austria) 
7. 00:46:43 Torsten Zimmerman (The Single Cask / Scotch & Tattoos) 
8. 00:52:12 Scott A. Fraser (Isle of Raasay Distillery) 
9. 00:58:48 Thomas Ewers (Malts of Scotland) 
10. 01:05:51 Kenny Macdonald (Dràm Mòr) 
11. 01:12:19 Max Engel (Ayrer’s Destille) 
12. 01:18:54 Dr. Janne Savolainen (SAVU Glass) 
13. 01:23:41 Eva Maria Sigurbjörnsdóttir (Flóki Whisky) 
14. 01:29:19 Laurentius Michielse (exhibitor) 
15. 01:33:06 Scott Martin (Distell Group / Bunnahabhain, Tobermory, Deanston) 
16. 01:40:05 Andreas Kreser (St. Kilian Distillers) 
17. 01:46:02 Michael Hupe & Christian Albrecht (Airport Nürnberg) 
18. 01:50:52 Greg Urquhart (Gleann Mór / Rare Find) 
19. 01:57:38 Roxy @roxylinn (bartender Provocateur Berlin / The Glenlivet) 
20. 02:03:15 Kwek Yi Xian & Teo Spy (The Single Cask) 
21. 02:11:57 Sweet Caroline (Masterclass surprise for Jim McEwan) 

Tune in and enjoy The Village Whisky Fair with us.