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Whisky in the city.

Glasgow has been trading whisky for centuries, and now it makes its own. Visit the city's first single malt distillery in over a century, in a Victorian pumphouse on the Clyde. Or take the short trip north to a Highland distillery at the foot of the Campsie Fells, making an unpeated malt since 1833. Both run tours and tastings. The city's bars stock good malts too.

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At the Pot Still, a whisky bar on Hope Street in Glasgow, you could come in for 800 nights in a row and order a different whisky each time.

It was not always the Pot Still. The earliest records of the bar go back to 1867, when a wine and spirits merchant named John Hill ran it, and by 1886 a new owner had renamed it McCall's Bar. It stayed with the McCall family until Tennent's took it over in the 1960s, and in 1981, renamed the Pot Still, it became a family business again. The bar is still tucked behind a bottle-green, gold-lettered front, and if you are new to whisky, that is no problem: you will learn plenty from the folk behind the bar.

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The Lismore in Partick has been named Pub of the Year at the Scottish Bar & Pub Awards.

The Highland bar on Dumbarton Road is known for its whisky, its stained glass windows telling the story of the Clearances, and live traditional music on Monday nights.

Photograph: Mark Catterall on Google MapsSee The Lismore · Glasgow
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The Clydeside Distillery's first single malt came out in October 2021.

The distillery on Stobcross Road released its first single malt on 15 October 2021. Called Stobcross, it is a marriage of bourbon and sherry casks, and is poured at the end of the tour.

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The Clydeside Distillery.

Glasgow's first single malt distillery in over a century, in the 1877 pumphouse of the Queen's Dock, with an hour's tour and three drams.

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A great-grandson turned his ancestor's Glasgow pumphouse into a distillery.

John Morrison built the Queen's Dock pumphouse in 1877; his great-grandson Tim Morrison restored it and opened the Clydeside Distillery there in 2017, Glasgow's first single malt distillery in over a century.

See The Clydeside Distillery · Glasgow
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A castle and a dram.

The distilleries with a castle within ten miles: the tour in the morning, the ramparts after lunch.

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The old-school order at The Lismore, in Glasgow, is a hauf an' a hauf.

Hauf is Scots for half. A hauf an' a hauf is a half-pint of beer and a half-gill measure of whisky, drunk together, and students and older regulars alike order one at the Lismore, on Dumbarton Road.

See The Lismore · Glasgow
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The Glasgow Distillery has released its first 10 Year Old peated single malt, ten years after it began distilling peated spirit.

Only 550 bottles of the Glasgow 1770 were filled, from three ex-bourbon barrels, at 54% and £69. The Hillington distillery runs tours and tastings.

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A Partick pub has stained glass windows of the Highland Clearances.

The Lismore on Dumbarton Road commissioned stained glass windows showing scenes from the Clearances, in tribute to the ancestors of some of its regulars.

See The Lismore · Glasgow
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Glengoyne Distillery Guided Tour & Whisky Tasting.

Guided tours and tastings at Glengoyne, from a 45-minute tour of the distillery to a five-hour masterclass.

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Glasgow's riverside distillery makes its whisky with Loch Katrine water?

The Clydeside Distillery uses the soft water of Loch Katrine, Glasgow's supply, which John Morrison, the man who built the distillery's pumphouse, helped raise.

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Naked Soup took its idea from the café-bars of Europe?

After travels in Barcelona, Berlin and southern Spain, two Glasgow brothers relaunched Naked Soup in 2021 as a place for an espresso in the morning and a whisky at night.

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