It all started innocently enough. A press release opened with a simple question: “How many whisky distilleries do you think you can you visit in a single day?” Now, as regular readers will be only too aware, the auld yin loves a hauf. So you can imagine the admiration, tinged with not a little jealousy, that flushed UTC’s jowls on reading that a guy called Blair Bowman was planning to attempt to visit a record-breaking 60 whisky distilleries across Scotland in a single day.
Bowman happens to be the founder of World Whisky Day and is undertaking the challenge to raise money for international water development charity Just a Drop which works with communities to deliver accessible, clean, safe water, and health and sanitation programmes to where they are needed most.
The Challenge is taking place on Monday May 15 and Bowman will set off from Balblair Distillery in Ross-shire and finish around 17 hours later at Aberfeldy Distillery in Perthshire.
The auld yin spent the rest of the day staring out the window, having no doubt realised that there was in fact such a thing as a Perfect Day after all.
