English whisky – beating the Scots at their own game?

Britain is positively awash with whisky. While most distilleries are located north of the border, and Wales’s Penderyn has been making waves for years, England is now rapidly filling up with whisky makers.

Back in the 19th century, there were a few whisky distillers across England – enough that Alfred Barnard’s seminal work on the country’s producers of the time is called ‘ The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom ‘ rather than just Scotland – but they had all closed by the early 1900s.

The past decade has seen a resurgence in English whisky making, with The English Whisky...