Scran season 6: Sam Heughan talks Sassenach Gin, favourite restaurants and life after Outlander

By Rosalind Erskine

The Scotsman Food and Drink Editor

Published 3rd Mar 2023, 06:00 BST
Updated 10th Oct 2023, 14:18 BST
Picture: John Devlin Heughan has also starred in films such as the spy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), The Empty Train, and the superhero action film Bloodshot (2020). Among his numerous plays he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer for his performance in Outlying Islands performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.[1][2] Heughan and his Outlander co-star Graham McTavish co-wrote Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other[3] which reached number one on the New York Times' Best Seller List for hardcover nonfiction, and combined print and e-book nonfiction in November 2020.[4] The same year Heughan launched his own whisky brand, The Sassenach (named after his Outlander character's nickname for his wife, Claire[5]), winning consecutive double golds in the 2020 and 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.placeholder image
Picture: John Devlin Heughan has also starred in films such as the spy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), The Empty Train, and the superhero action film Bloodshot (2020). Among his numerous plays he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer for his performance in Outlying Islands performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.[1][2] Heughan and his Outlander co-star Graham McTavish co-wrote Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other[3] which reached number one on the New York Times' Best Seller List for hardcover nonfiction, and combined print and e-book nonfiction in November 2020.[4] The same year Heughan launched his own whisky brand, The Sassenach (named after his Outlander character's nickname for his wife, Claire[5]), winning consecutive double golds in the 2020 and 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

On this episode of Scran, we headed out for lunch in Glasgow with actor and author Sam Heughan.

In a world exclusive, Sam shares with me his not-yet-released gin, a follow-up to Sassenach whisky and tequila.

As well as a world first gin tasting, Sam told me all about creating the gin, what botanicals have been used and what inspired it.

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Sam talks about his favourite Scottish restaurants, when and where you'll be able to buy The Sassenach range of spirits, writing The Clanlands Almanac, his food obsessions, what life looks like after Outlander and much more.

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