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FROM THE BARLIST JOURNAL
From beginner guides to bar selections and distillery stories, our editorial content helps you discover the world behind the bottle.
Cocktails
Observed each year on 19 June, National Martini Day places one of the world’s most recognisable cocktails back at the centre of bar culture. In 2026, the date falls on a Friday. The observance itself has no clearly documented founder or official institutional origin. Still, the Martini carries a history far older and more complex […]
June 19, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
Floor Maltings History: Where Whisky Began Before stainless steel vessels, automated temperature control, and industrial malt plants, a Scotch whisky distillery often began its work on a stone or concrete floor. Barley was steeped in water, spread in a shallow layer, and turned repeatedly by hand as it germinated. The process demanded time, judgement, space, […]
June 18, 2026
Community and Lifestyle
Islay is often introduced through whisky, but the island is not defined by distilleries alone. Its identity is built through weather, language, music, books, food, ferry arrivals, village halls, shoreline roads, and the steady rhythm of communities that live with whisky rather than simply present it. The island’s festivals reveal that wider structure. Across the […]
June 14, 2026
Trends and Innovations
World Gin Day is held on the second Saturday of June. In 2026, it fell on 13 June. The date is modern, but the history gathered around it reaches back through Low Countries distilling, English taxation, 18th-century social crisis, industrial production, cocktail culture, and the international revival of botanical spirits. The event began in Birmingham […]
June 13, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
Islay’s modern whisky map can appear permanent. Whitewashed distillery buildings stand beside sheltered bays, names stretch across warehouse walls, and active still houses seem inseparable from the island’s coastline. Yet the map has never been fixed. The lost distilleries of Islay reveal a far more fragmented history of establishment, closure, consolidation, and revival. Across the […]
June 12, 2026
History
There was no single room in Paris where Japanese whisky defeated Scotch in one decisive afternoon. Unlike the famous 1976 wine tasting that placed California alongside France, whisky’s shift in hierarchy unfolded over several years, through blind tastings, international competitions, specialist publications, and a gradual shift in critical opinion. For much of the 1900s, Scotch whisky […]
June 11, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
By the late 1980s, Irish whiskey carried a celebrated past but supported very little competition. An industry that had once included dozens of distilleries had contracted to two working production sites controlled by the same company. Historic distilleries had closed, regional distinctions had weakened, and the possibility of establishing an independent Irish whiskey producer appeared […]
June 10, 2026
Cocktails
Some cocktails become important because they perfect an old structure. Others matter because they bring two unlikely worlds together and make the connection feel inevitable. The Chartreuse Swizzle belongs to the second group. Its foundation is Green Chartreuse, one of the most distinctive herbal liqueurs in the world, produced by Carthusian monks from a guarded […]
June 9, 2026
History
Rye Whiskey tells one of the clearest stories in American spirits history because its rise, disappearance, and revival follow the country’s own shifts in agriculture, law, migration, industry, and bar culture. Before Bourbon became the dominant American Whiskey reference, rye stood at the center of distilling in the Northeast. It belonged to farms, river towns, […]
June 8, 2026
Discovery and Education
Islay is not a large island, but few places in the whisky world carry so much weight. Its coastline, peat bogs, warehouses, ferry routes, village halls, and distillery courtyards have shaped one of Scotland’s most recognisable spirit landscapes. Long before Fèis Ìle became a global whisky pilgrimage, it began as something more local and more […]
June 7, 2026
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