A Toast To Whiskey Bonders, Old And New

If you were a visitor to Ireland 60 years ago (which in itself
would have been a rare thing) and you wanted a bottle of
whiskey...if you had gone to the distillery to find it in a gift
shop or for sale there, you’d have been laughed at. Not only was
there no real tourism to Ireland at the time, there were
certainly no gift shops in distilleries and though they might
have produced the whiskey, they didn’t sell it to customers. In
this episode I’m going to explain why.