You are absolutely a growing minority Jake. You are young whisky entrepreneurs that are paving the way to the future of the whisky industry. Keep pushing, keep challenging and keep educating those that take the time to listen. Well done gents.

What an interesting fella Seb is. Loved his attitude towards the mainstream and his desire to do his things his own way. I don't know how you guys are doing it but you're knocking it out the park every episode. Stevie, you're forgiven brother, we all make mistakes. I mean I've bought Bowmore 12 twice.

Stevie your ROCK, no worries, thank you for your work!!! Cheers!!!

Seb is a complete and utter legend. Can't thank him enough for doing MC duties on a charity shindig last year. Really knows his stuff. Loads of guys I know hold him in high regard. Really positive feedback on his CYWL whisky bottlings. Need more people like him in the industry. Brilliant stuff lads. Hugs

That Tomatin is one of my recent purchases and uts BANGING!! I did the same as you and prejudged it, but its so much better than colour suggests

Another Great Episode!!! So interesting to hear you all talking about the business from your side of things. Fascinating stuff.

The sound issue was minor and thank you for addressing at the start. Great episode!

Didn't know much about CYWL so this was a great episode. Really enjoyed hearing from Seb. Keep up the great work :)

What an interesting bottling company. A brand I wasn’t aware of. Am now! Nice work lads and no need to apologise for the mike error Stevie. Cheers.

Make you appreciate the work put together for making those video 🤘amazing episode, super cool and serious bottling there. Great story again, thanks for sharing!

Damn! That nosing note of a wet, phenol-drenched school blazer for the Ardbeg is something profound and nostalgic! Jake dude, you’ve tapped into something there I hope the distillery team at Ardbeg can ponder on when it comes to their beautiful whisky ☺️

Great episode gents, so jealous! Cheers

Eye catching art, semi affordable pricing and apparently good liquid? Can't get better than that 😮

Sounds like a cool bar to check out if in Brighton. Completely agree about Bowmore, I got gifted a bottle of Bowmore No.1 early on, still barely a dent in it, goes into a few cocktails that call for peated whisky occasionally and otherwise sits on the shelf. Haven't bought another bottle of Bowmore. Contrast with GlenAllachie, great entry level stuff. Tried it, loved it, and have bought many, many bottles including single casks and limited releases, which all started because the core range was so good.

Of course I am going to love this episode, the artwork on the Aberfeldy got me into whisky. Our favourite place in Brighton by a long way, although worried after this we will struggle to get our usual seats after this. But seriously if you guys can try the Vino De Color Williamson it is mind boggling good. Might be able to sneak a small dram to the Whisky Event to share

Very cool IB i wasn‘t aware of.. i love the idea with the artwork on the bottle!! The whisky went a bit in the background in this Episode sadly, but still a very cool episode.

I tasted some Cu Bocan the other day and was very intrigued, but didn't end up getting an official bottle. Then this cask strength Tomatin 7 year old popped up and I am pleased to say I am one of 262 owners, and it is right up my street. I have seen CYWL around before listed as a stockist, so it was great to see them pop up on your channel. Incidentally, I believe Jake likes a wine cask maturation, so is he going to have a beard-off with Seb?

Good job on recovering the audio stevie, works fine 👍

Jake did you tell Seb that you're BFFs with Billy Walker?

I get the stance that age isn’t everything in whisky, but I mean the industry bases a lot of its marketing - not to mention justification of its prices - on those numbers. It seems a bit disjointed to me that consumers are expected to pay more for younger bottlings as well as keep shelling out small fortunes for older expressions. If we are only paying for quality then we should be seeing some older expressions selling for lower prices, but pretty much every single older expression (18yr+) has gotten significantly more expensive, be they IB, OB, blends, etc. I actually think, with the way things are being priced and sold, that the industry as a whole may already be alienating significant portions of its future consumers. The older age statements, at least for me, were something to kind of aim for once I started enjoying and trying different whisky’s - if they were priced as prohibitively as they are now I probably wouldn’t of put as much time (and money!) into whisky because I’d of felt like the self-styled best of the best stuff was never really obtainable. I can handle cheaper lower age statements and expensive high age statements; I can handle more expensive starting points regarding age, as long as across the board older age statements are more ‘reasonably’ priced; but high starting points, and then even higher prices as the age climbs? I don’t know man, when you try a good young expression and a poor old age statement it is logical - but that logic just isn’t applied to the pricing or the marketing, which is why I think young age statements are such a hard sell once you start putting higher prices on them. I mean I bought a Glenallachie 10CS for like 55quid, there’s no world in which I’m paying more for a 7yr Tomatin. Really good episode, and lots of talking points. Slainte

Wow - how did you guys manage to get John Petrucci for an interview?! Too bad you didn't ask him about the new Dream Theater album 😜😁