Craft liquor trends: Scotland's first distillery in a century

While on the one hand alcoholic beverages continue to get wackier, incorporating new gimmicks from energy supplements to neon coloring, the trend towards traditional, high-end, small batch booze continues unabated. In a clear sign that Scotch Whiskey is in demand, the first single malt distillery is opening in Scotland in over 100 years. The Glasgow Distillery Company is now aging their first casks, offering some of them for advance purchase as part of membership in their “1770 Club,” named as a homage to another Glasgow Distillery Company which was founded in that year. Craft liquor is trending worldwide. It should come as no surprize that Scotland, one of the original homes of small-batch distillation should benefit from this trend as well.