The Dublin and Gorbels Whiskey/Whisky floods - Another reason to consider a dry January

For our first 2025 episode we are discussing two separate occasions when whisky* related disasters caused death and destruction within the British Isles.With a brief history of whisky production over the years, explaining how a monopoly of larger distillers was encouraged by the government and how this may have contributed to setting the conditions for the disasters that followed, it is a story of profit over safety...Luckily that sort of thing never happens nowadays right?Guest Host: Ollie Green*We are using the Scottish spelling in deference to the fact that Ollie does live in Scotland, not because we have an official preference between the two. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.