No list of Scottish drinking heroes could be complete without the man who gives his name and spirit to Scotland’s national drinking party.

Circumnavigate the world via whisky with these twelve facts

Hot Rum Cow raises a glass to the world of whisky (and invites everyone to join in)

A trip into the sweat-sodden, steam-filled, blue-collar world of the Boilermaker

Join us on an adventure into a world of ghostly apparitions, bygone distillers and blood pudding galore

The survival of the smallest: a history of the alcoholic miniature

Following in the footsteps of famous whisky-making forebears, Eden Mill brewery in St Andrews has turned its hand to the strong stuff

Hardeep Singh Kohli’s talks hard drinking Punjabi culture, Scotland’s social boozing scene and marijuana lassis

The recent renaissance of the cocktail has teased Scotch out of its shell. Hot Rum Cow oversees the transformation of four classic American cocktails into Scotchtails

In fact, we owe him a bottle. If it wasn’t for Everyday Drinking, his idiosyncratic guide to snifters, Hot Rum Cow would never have happened

Four of fiction’s best-known, but never seen, drinks are brought to life for Hot Rum Cow as imagined by illustrators.

Drenched with subversion, glistening with resistance, it’s a drink to put a fire in the belly