Scran season 8: Dram decisions based on your mood

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Scran whisky by mood

On today's episode we're learning a lot more about cask trading as well as about a whole new way of profiling whisky flavours - by mood.

On this episode I take a trip to my homeland of Fife to visit The Single Cask. Established in 2010 Single Cask bottles award-winning whiskies at natural cask-strength and trades whisky all over the world. 

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Scran whisky by mood

In an attempt to set themselves apart from other independent whisky bottlers they have invented a whole new marketing method which allows customers to select a dram based on how they are feeling. 

I got a tour of their facility in Glenrothes by general manager Jan Damen followed by a whisky tasting and an opportunity to understand how you classify whisky by mood.

I learn more about how cask trading differs from cask investment and how some of the headlines around cask investment aren't all they're cracked up to be.

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