Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Once upon a time there was a farmer who liked whisky...
You know how the story goes... or do you? For many, the difficulty in finding or even seeing a bottle of Daftmill makes it a story of diminished interest; what's the point if you can't ever try the whisky, right? Well, these things were never designed. They are a product of whisky in 2023.
This barley-growing farmer started his project over two decades ago when the current whisky boom was barely a green shoot. With only two, and occasionally three, distilleries in the Lowlands he decided to build something pretty brave. A farm distillery in Fife.
This potentially crazy idea took hold and Daftmill started to lay down spirit in 2005, what has followed since has produced, in whisky circles, and enigmatic legend.
Do I mean the malt, or the farmer. I think both. Let's see. I hope you'll join myself and Francis, to discuss all things Daftmill and whisky this week, usual time, 21:45.
0:00 - Opening
2:08 - Why the Oldest New Distillery?
4:10 - Welcoming in the lounge
11:43 - Legfest details - 30th September, Glasgow
13:27 - OSWAs encouragement
17:04 - Welcoming in Francis
20:03 - Francis the Barfly
21:42 - Daftmill's founding & scarcity
25:28 - Francis the hard-working whisky fan
28:20 - The farming year vs barley
35:44 - Golden promise and in-house malting?
40:14 - New 2023/24 Summer 2011 Batch Release
42:00 - Cask play at Daftmill
46:44 - The estery side and fermentation
48:32 - Increasing capacity
51:44 - Continued demand & Anti-marketing
1:00:00 - Which bourbon casks?
1:03:06 - Peated Daftmill?
1:07:10 - Unofficial Facebook Group Single Cask
1:13:40 - Daftmill 18yo?
1:17:27 - Daftmill 2006 Winter/2018 uncorking
1:20:44 - Francis' favourites & the 15yo release
1:32:28 - Finishes for Daftmill?
1:37:04 - No visitor centre
1:39:38 - Should he have built Daftmill?
1:44:32 - Daftmill Quiz at the End
Once upon a time there was a farmer who liked whisky...
You know how the story goes... or do you? For many, the difficulty in finding or even seeing a bottle of Daftmill makes it a story of diminished interest; what's the point if you can't ever try the whisky, right? Well, these things were never designed. They are a product of whisky in 2023.
This barley-growing farmer started his project over two decades ago when the current whisky boom was barely a green shoot. With only two, and occasionally three, distilleries in the Lowlands he decided to build something pretty brave. A farm distillery in Fife.
This potentially crazy idea took hold and Daftmill started to lay down spirit in 2005, what has followed since has produced, in whisky circles, and enigmatic legend.
Do I mean the malt, or the farmer. I think both. Let's see. I hope you'll join myself and Francis, to discuss all things Daftmill and whisky this week, usual time, 21:45.
0:00 - Opening
2:08 - Why the Oldest New Distillery?
4:10 - Welcoming in the lounge
11:43 - Legfest details - 30th September, Glasgow
13:27 - OSWAs encouragement
17:04 - Welcoming in Francis
20:03 - Francis the Barfly
21:42 - Daftmill's founding & scarcity
25:28 - Francis the hard-working whisky fan
28:20 - The farming year vs barley
35:44 - Golden promise and in-house malting?
40:14 - New 2023/24 Summer 2011 Batch Release
42:00 - Cask play at Daftmill
46:44 - The estery side and fermentation
48:32 - Increasing capacity
51:44 - Continued demand & Anti-marketing
1:00:00 - Which bourbon casks?
1:03:06 - Peated Daftmill?
1:07:10 - Unofficial Facebook Group Single Cask
1:13:40 - Daftmill 18yo?
1:17:27 - Daftmill 2006 Winter/2018 uncorking
1:20:44 - Francis' favourites & the 15yo release
1:32:28 - Finishes for Daftmill?
1:37:04 - No visitor centre
1:39:38 - Should he have built Daftmill?
1:44:32 - Daftmill Quiz at the End
