The Pot Still is an institution. A vast trove of whiskies and dark wood, the Glasgow pub is, perhaps more than any other, the place to connect over a dram. More than 800 bottles adorn the shelves. Conversation flows. New friends bond over unusual releases, poring over the monumental menu under low lighting, revelling in the new connections and sharing ideas. A trip to The Pot Still is a whisky lover’s pilgrimage. And it’s there where The Single Cask founder Ben Curtis struck up a conversation with two brothers which led to them bottling their own whisky.
“I told them we separated casks into smaller casks – I used to call them sisters,” he animatedly recalls. “Why don’t you do something called The Wee Brothers?” He asked the pair. The outcome? They departed The Pot Still and did indeed bottle their own whisky. “It’s those sorts of things that make me very, very proud. The people we’ve actually helped.
