Glengoyne Teapot Dram Batch 7

When William McGeachie became distillery manager in 1899, he had a difficult problem to solve. He noticed that it wasn’t just the angels taking their share from the maturing casks – the workmen were at it too. So McGeachie gave them exactly what they wanted: a daily dram. He thought that giving them three very large drams of full strength single malt would stop them having the inclination, or indeed the wherewithal to steal quite so much.

Until the 1970s, Glengoyne workers enjoyed a thrice-daily dram that flowed from a bashed copper teapot in the distillery canteen.