The distillery became a media hot spot. Charlie did more interviews than Usain Bolt after breaking a world record. TV and radio adore a ‘hero and ‘Quick Question Charlie’ became ‘Have a Go Charlie.’ The internet caught fire and with the speed only the digital world can deliver Charlie went global. A Facebook page was [...]

The bottle was curving to the ground and Charlie had to bend to catch it before it could smash on the concrete. As he did so Number Three hit him but flew into the air as he tumbled over Charlie’s bent form.  Charlie stood up and turned round but the gang member was already getting [...]

As the man in black stood there Charlie cracked the top of the bottle in his hand and offered it up to him. ‘Fancy a taste.’ Charlie took a slug from the bottle, stepped forward and spat the whisky into the eye slit in the man’s hood. The man screamed, throwing his hands to his [...]

Over fourteen thousand six hundred days without incident. Like those signs they put up in building sites. Fifty one days since the last accident only around here fifty one days was nothing. Not in a world where some of the whisky distilled today might not touch the inside of throat for another half a century. [...]

Starting at thirty pounds a bottle, whisky in the shop rolled all the way up to a forty year old Glengoyne at three and half grand. Thousands, tens of thousands of pounds worth of whisky sat in the shop – maybe even more. Charlie didn’t know how much the Merc could take but the gang [...]