Another New Distillery for Islay

Scotland's legendary whisky island is getting yet another new
distillery. Local officials have approved the plans for the new
Elixir Distillers project just east of Port Ellen, making it the
third new distillery to be built on Islay in the last five years
and the 11th overall. Elixir Distillers co-founder Sukhinder
Singh has been trying to get the project past the planning stage
for nearly three years, and gives us his first interview on the
distillery in this week's WhiskyCast In-Depth. We'll also have
reaction from one of the Islay groups that fought against the
distillery over its potential impact on the island. In the news,
an Australian distiller is in critical condition following a fire
at a Tasmanian distillery this past week. We'll also have the
latest Scotch Whisky export data that shows a really rough year
for the industry with a double whammy from the Covid-19 pandemic
and U.S. import tariffs, the week's new whiskies, and why the
cocktail of choice for some distillers might just be an "enzyme
cocktail."