Imagine a small town that once boasted a distillery for every few hundred of the local population. A quaint burgh at the end of a long and remote peninsula generating more duty per capita than anywhere else in the British empire. Then consider that all but a few of the town's distilleries disappeared in less than a decade. How did Campbeltown become known as "Whiskyopolis"? What happened to its once mighty industry?
This book explores the phenomenon that was, and is, Campbeltown whisky from its Victorian heyday to its collapse and resurgence. |
