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Dramface Podcast

The team behind Dramface gather and discuss things happening in the whisky world as well as what's happening around Dramface itself.

New episodes: Monthly
Typical length: 1 hr 29 min
Latest: 11 Oct 2026
Language: English

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11 Oct 2026 · 2 hr 3 min

Dramface PodcastThirty Nine - A Write Off

A Write Off While we meander off the whisky path a little more than usual, we kept this one intact - as was your wish. Don’t judge us, you asked for less to be left on the cutting room floor. Now you can witness some of the nonsense that you’re often spared. Still, we think this is a goodie, even at two hours.A middle-aged chat over various challenges gives way to rants on brand positioning and general attitudes in whisky. I finally bring things around to our topic, specifically aimed at getting inside the writer’s head to work out their methodologies. Hence, the ‘write off’ theme.Then,…

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3 Oct 2026 · 2 hr 18 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast #13
The Distillery Bracket Battle The editing of the Colonials’ lost podcasts continues unabated! Their lost-and-found episode #13 puts some drama and direct competition in play to uncover what the Colonials believe to be the best Scotch malt distillery. Rob examined Dramface’s Top 40 list from the website, and created his own head-to-head bracket from what he gleaned to be the best thirty-two distilleries, from his Colonials perspective. He then diabolically put them into four brackets, and had Stu, Mike, Justin, and Adam duke it out - one pairing at a time. As with bracket battles, it is mano…
5 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 20 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast 12
A Wider Lens. After the editing gnomes returned to their tasks, they found some more rather…er, dated…materials. Let’s call them ‘lost and found’. And thus we have Colonials Podcast #12. This, as it turns out, is an unintended double-anniversary effort. The podcast was recorded in August 2025, which marked the one year anniversary of the first Colonials podcast recording. And, now, due to the editing gnomes’ strike, we have the anniversary marked by its release one year after recording. For goodness’ sake… Regardless, the genesis of this particular episode was to provide the Dramface…
E38 · 31 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 43 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty Eight
Community Matters. In this follow up to the last podcast, we’re continuing on the theme of community, especially digging into the sample picks. Whisky discussion powers on before we’re immediately arguing about the best Brit-flick: Four Weddings or Love Actually. Order is restored with tales of gifted bottles and incredible community generosity.Order is somewhat the theme as we take a steady meander through maturation versus climate, bottle bans and acceptance of our desire to enjoy the purchase of certain things, living remotely, the importance of local community and bonding through…
27 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 37 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast 11
Finishing & finishesThe addled and distracted editing gnomes have finally ended their strike for more and better benefits. Much celebration ensued when the leader of Editing Union #89 announced the gnomes would return to the editing floor once they were guaranteed access to Blackberry Crown Royal at their desks and have the previous dress code eased to enable polyester jump suits.First out of the vault, the editors dusted off the Colonials’ episode #11 from a number of months ago when they waxed eloquent about cask finishes and maturations.The formerly locked-away episode came back to life…
E37 · 24 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 37 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty Seven
The Community / food Wan. In this episode, we attempt to ‘catch up’ on so many long-lost recordings and community messages and questions, from embarrassingly long times ago. No matter, like always we get there in the end.Sort of.Because no matter how hard we try to faithfully respond to the community questions, we are continually distracted by discussions of food. From Twiglets to toasties, we can’t seem to take our minds off our stomachs. We almost manage some fun distractions involving the fear of samples, conflicts of interest, musical covers (again) and moving bottles at scale. We finish…
E36 · 28 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 29 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty Six
The State of the Collection With half the team still struggling with colds and flu after the Glasgow shenanigans, they’re able to focus on topics that don’t require much sensory function, but it does place a tax on cerebral processing: what are the flavours of all the Monster Munch variants and what to do with our inevitable over-accumulation of bottles. After an exercise to establish the tallest and shortest official scotch whisky bottles (they miss two of the shortest - see if you can catch them) we then go on to share how we organise our individual collections. As we do so, we realise…
E35 · 20 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 34 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty-Five
The Glasgow Wan We recorded this in summer. But our software lost half of one of the tracks. In a huff, we tried another software. It’s proven to be a better-the-devil-you-know scenario. This isn’t as ‘clean’ as usual and we think having all four of us on screen is a little distracting, but it’s recorded and we’re not trashing another - so we go. Hopefully, it’s still worthwhile, certainly should be acceptable as an audio podcast. Anyway, in this one we decompress after the Glasgow Whisky Festival Weekend. It’s always about the people. But this is a good one for those who are still to attend…
E10 · 20 Dec 2025 · 2 hr 9 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast 10
The Introspective Crossover In an effort to let everyone have a wee peek at just how messy things actually are at Dramface Towers, the Colonials request the presence of the messy clown at the helm. He’s eventually asked to explain why it takes six months from recording to release, which he fails to do. In the end, however, this introspective pod ends up being a very genial affair, with lots of chat about whisky and even more about Dramface itself; which nicely betrays the general positive vibes around the place. It’s whisky and it’s meant to be fun. Serious fun, but fun. TL;DR - everyone is…
E9 · 20 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 19 min
Dramface colonials Podcast Ep.9 - Coffee & Whisky
Or 'The Coffee Wan' It’s inevitable that whisky folk spend their time in more than one rabbit hole; it’s our inquisitive nature, perhaps. In the Dramface team we see a huge overlap, believe it or not, with coffee. I don’t. I don’t really drink much coffee. But I get it. What really struck me is the synergies and parallels we can draw between coffee and whisky. This episode does actually talk about whisky too, but the coffee chat renders it an excellent Coffee 101 guide for beginners. And, to the delight of Rob, Stuart, Chuck, Adam and Cleon, it has an unexpected effect on the whisky too.…
E8 · 6 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 24 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Ep.8 - The Heels
The Heels In this banger of a knowledge bomb, Rob gathers Mike, Stuart, Justin and Gus to discuss collections, managing them and our individual attitudes towards keeping tabs on bottles, levels and inventories. They’re also happy to take detours to cover flavour, sulphur and the oldest whiskies they’ve tried. This one’s a cracker, Wally’s favourite to date. Gus is a gem. Our editor-in-chief is just annoyed they never stayed on brand and called the episode “The Dregs’.
9 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 48 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Episode 7 Part 2
This is Part two... The Colonials Are Blind. All of them. As you’re all aware, we’re digging up recordings from the end of last year to catch up. With light at the end of the tunnel, we share what is the longest ever recording session from us. So long, in fact, we cut it into two episodes. Imagine this a little like a Zoom call that we recorded to share with you all, fly-on-the-wall style. At the end of 2024, seven Colonials sat down together with different exchanges of blind samples in an attempt to surprise each other. They most definitely succeeded; it build to such a crescendo of…
9 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 20 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Ep.7 Part 1
The Colonials Are Blind. All of them. As you’re all aware, we’re digging up recordings from the end of last year to catch up. With light at the end of the tunnel, we share what is the longest ever recording session from us. So long, in fact, we cut it into two episodes. Imagine this a little like a Zoom call that we recorded to share with you all, fly-on-the-wall style. At the end of 2024, seven Colonials sat down together with different exchanges of blind samples in an attempt to surprise each other. They most definitely succeeded; it build to such a crescendo of surprise that, over the…
2 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 35 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty Four
Blend it like Beckham We’re no longer late with these. We’re now retrieving long lost files…This, like the previous release, was recorded last year.You know where the fault lies. I’ll leave it at that. He’s been berated by us and has promised that things are now moving once more. It won’t hurt for you to berate a little too.This is a session where I tried to envisage a way where we could all blend the same ingredients together remotely - and anyone could potentially join in. We selected Glenmorangie’s 10yo (or the new 12yo) for the 'base' alongside a Ledaig 10 year old for peat and a bottle…
S1 · E6 · 26 Apr 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Ep.6
Collections and selections... …and bottles on life support. Rob hosts Mike, Cleon, Chuck and Justin this time around as they discuss the scale and management of their collections/selections. Some bottles are forgotten while others are nursed, to the point of being on ‘life support’. After sharing their individual attitudes and the numbers of bottles they’re dealing with, they talk about spreadsheets and happening upon bottles that have been largely forgotten - but undeservedly so. They then derail somewhat into a discussion about Octomore before Justin makes the faux pas of mentioning rum.…
22 Mar 2025 · 1 hr 44 min
Dramface colonials Podcast Ep.5
What the fudge? Our personal whisky rants. This was an epic recording session by five of our Colonials: Rob, Stuart, Mike, Chuck and Gus. In what started out as personal whisky rant catharsis, they meander through so many topics we’re certain this one will go down as a re-listenable classic. With the canny insights of Gus on hand to keep things informed, the cover TAF (tired as fudge) casks, the current whisky loch, the challenges faced by today’s producers and asking the question: are whisky enthusiasts the problem? They then wade into even crunchier topics such as authenticity,…
12 Mar 2025 · 1 hr 34 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty Three
The Roads Less Travelled (This is also released as a video podcast over on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@dramfacewhisky )This is later than late. This was recorded last year.To the shame of, ahem, our editor; everything is backed up on the podcasts. Same for the Colonials recordings. Same editor bottleneck. We’d fire him and replace him, but there’s a problem in the fact that it’s me.No promises about the follow on pods, we’ll just say they’re in hand. The next colonials session is being cut at the moment and this session here today will leave you ready for Thirty Four - the…
S3 · E4 · 1 Feb 2025 · 1 hr 22 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Ep.4
The Breakfast Episode The Colonials have the idea of gathering to discuss whiskies that pair with breakfast. Each of them prepare their own idea of a perfect breakfast and then try to pair it with whisky. Don't listen while hungry. This is the Colonials Podcast; the Splinter Cell. Do not make the mistake of calling it the 'American' podcast. This was made available to Dramface members early.
S3 · E1 · 7 Jan 2025 · 2 hr
Dramface Podcast Christmas Special
[Edit: this was made as a video podcast and went out via our YouTube channel on Christmas Day. After your great feedback, we realise we should've included it here. Apologies. However, as this was edited as a video podcast - using AI no less - forgive us if it's not as 'tight' or listenable , we hope you enjoy!] Recorded at the last minute, edited by AI and cobbled together for a Christmas Day release - our gift to you - Gregor pulls in the Grail Girls to explore pairing whisky with chocolate. Our other Christmas gifts to you include: - Some amateur ASMR - A discussion on our favourite…
S3 · E3 · 14 Dec 2024 · 1 hr 26 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Ep.3
The Colonials are patient. They submitted this recording a while ago, it’s made it through the system and now, finally, it’s yours. This could be the extended version. There is some content within that has very little to do with whisky. Actually, nothing to do with whisky. Perhaps it’ll let you understand the team a little more, but we’re not sure that’s a good thing. Anyway, our members didn't object to the off-colour discussion in this episode, so it goes public (we’re speaking specifically about the outro, where we left the mic on… those of you with a more sensitive constitution should…
S3 · E32 · 16 Nov 2024 · 1 hr 27 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty Two
Gregor asks the team to bring along their hottest drams, by ABV content before going on to ask for their ‘hot takes’ in whisky. Inevitably with these things some controversy ensues. We hope you’re enjoying these video pods, of which we have another couple in the editing room queue. We also have more Colonials podcasts coming hot on the heels of this. Your feedback - as always - very welcome! Share far and wide and remember to subscribe to the YouTube channel .
S3 · E31 · 16 Oct 2024 · 1 hr
Dramface Podcast Thirty One
500 Reviews & 500 More (The Video One) This is not a response to The Dramface Colonials Podcast.* To celebrate Dramface reaching its 1,000 reviews milestone we thought it'd be a good idea to attempt a video edit this time around. Our editor is work-shy, so he might decide this is a one off, we'll see. If you enjoy this new format then hop on with the words of encouragement for future episodes to feature our (Dram)faces. This episode is a little self-indulgent, given the milestone, but we wander off to discuss the challenges of scoring as well as celebrating where we're at in whisky right…
S3 · 12 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 17 min
Dramface Colonial Podcast Ep.2
The Colonials are serious. Not only have they submitted their second episode within a remarkably prompt time window, there’s another hot on the heels of this. Good news if you enjoy it, we suppose. Anyway, Gregor has suggested that, given the difficulties in scheduling, it’s acceptable to proffer the ‘B-team’ now and again. All the while he’s readied his response, and he’s promising power-ups. Of what style we’re not sure, but we wait excitedly to see the outcome. ( Members have access already). In the meantime enjoy Rob and the team sharing their thoughts on the length of a finish, an…
E1 · 5 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 16 min
Dramface Colonials Podcast Ep.1
It’s terrifying what happens while you sleep. With the regular podcast team struggling to get time around a mic, despite genuine efforts, a vacuum has appeared. No podcast episode has been recorded or released since early August. Into this vacuum, we suppose inevitably, a group of Dramface team members have stepped, under well-meaning , auspicious intentions. Claiming it’s all about timezones and variation of territory, they now have shared-control of our strategic recording studio. Luckily, they don’t know what they’re doing. Or do they? You decide. Leave your feedback in the comments…
S3 · E30 · 9 Aug 2024 · 57 min
Dramface Podcast Thirty
New Kids on the Block New is the topic for this session. New distilleries, sure, but also new whiskies, new make and even how the word ‘new’ should actually be pronounced. We cover environment and time and also wonder why Gordon can’t taste effervescence. Yet.
S3 · E29 · 26 Jul 2024 · 1 hr 25 min
Dramface Podcast Twenty Nine
The Whisky Roads Less Travelled. An eclectic discussion around trips and travels in the pursuit of whisky. Gordon shares tales of sailing to Campbeltown while Roy heads there for the festival. All the while we share takes on dog training, island life and mixing our whiskies.
S3 · E28 · 22 Jun 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
Dramface Podcast Twenty Eight
To Buy Or Not To Buy As the team find it more and more difficult to successfully find an evening where they’re all available, we’re eeking things out. We know we could do with sharing more of these, we hope you’ll accept some rather than none. We will try harder though, we really do enjoy it.. In this session we witness Roy’s red-faced inability to find the mute button as he lets his inner demon out, before venturing into chats about different kinds of sherry maturation, buying habits and palate progression. Gordon, after his record-breaking win last time, hosts the I Am A Distillery .
S3 · E27 · 25 May 2024 · 1 hr 33 min
Dramface Podcast Twenty Seven
New face and new voices. And new games. A bit late... Of course there’s a huge apology due on this one because it was recorded way back after the Easter break. This means it’s the longest to-edit Dramface podcast yet. However, that record will only stand for a week or so, since we recorded Twenty Eight at the same time and it’s still being edited now. We hope it’s worth the wait. With the help of the amazing Gus, we cover chocolate malt, blind tasting and where those lactic notes come from. Before we diverge into wood types and maturation, Gregor pulls out a new game he came up with in…
S3 · E26 · 16 Mar 2024 · 1 hr 22 min
Dramface Podcast Twenty Six
The Dramface Strikes Back. Again. Covering all the topics we didn’t get to during Podcast Twenty Five. Gregor asks the teams for some “drams of note” that we’ve encountered since we wrapped season two. From there we wander into The Jura Problem, the delightful surprises of the Dramface Top 40 and the sadness at the loss of Malt Review, before rounding off with another community-sourced IAAD. See you back in a couple of weeks! Gregor & The Team
S3 · E25 · 2 Mar 2024 · 1 hr 28 min
Dramface Podcast Twenty Five
The Dramface Strikes Back. Self indulgence. Well, a little self-indulgent. But these are mostly always just us hanging out and talking whisky and our own whisky lives, so they’re always a little indulgent. You don’t seem to mind. We finally got to grips with where all the buttons were and hit record in time to hear some impromptu McWee karaoke before getting right into an XXL version of what was in our glasses. This takes so long that we run out of time to cover our “drams of note” and “state of Dramface” segments which we push out to next time. Instead, we run through our highlights of…

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The team behind Dramface gather and discuss things happening in the whisky world as well as what's happening around Dramface itself.

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Publisher: Dramface
Language: English
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New episodes: Monthly
Typical length: 1 hr 29 min
Latest episode: 11 Oct 2026
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