vPub Live - Our Top 40 Distilleries

Do you remember this? Back when it was a Top 10? Well, it's time to bring it back and then immediately pass it on. Lots of reasons why...

When I presented this, I'd only collected a few days of respondents worth, and they had mostly been collected form my community. Immediately struck by how interesting it was, I realised I'd happened upon something that, as far as I'm aware, doesn't currently exist. Something that could be brutal, but very valuable, interesting but revealing.

In the end, we took the short snapshot of 707 respondents and I shared the Top 25. As soon as it had gone out I was asked: What was number 26?

One of the issues with a concept like this is that I don't think I can keep it. Believe me, I'd like it - The Aqvavitae Top 25 or whatever, but it's not the right thing to do. It doesn't work, not on the Aqvavitae channel, for reasons I'll cover. But this will go ahead and it will get life, hopefully a bigger breath of life than I can give it on the channel here.

More to share this week; my own take on why the selections are as they are - and what's missing. Let's boost it to a Top 40 and then hand it over to a capable team, rather than an individual.

I really hope it can become something. Hope to see you Thursday!

https://www.youtube.com/live/K8EXAybU...

Dramface Top 40 Vote & Results: https://www.dramface.com/dramface-top-40

Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening
2:47 - Why Dramface?
5:38 - Benromach Organic 2014 Update
6:54 - Welcoming in the lounge
13:24 - Why a Top 40?
18:30 - Why pass it to Dramface?
28:15 - 141 distilleries at launch, how to pick?
37:35 - Top 10 Distilleries (2023 data)
47:20 Bruichladdich18yo 2024 Re/Define
54:24 - Top 3 Distilleries
1:02:23 - Top 10 Takeaways
1:11:05 - Top 11 - 25 Distilleries
1:25:28 - Top 26 - 40 Distilleries
1:40:44 - Macaloney's Washington Peat
1:45:49 - Takeaways from The Top 40
1:54:00 - Those just outside the Top 40
2:05:29 - Deanston Organic 2000 21yo
2:14:10 - Quiz at the End