A Life in WHISKY
When Whisky Magazine first publicly announced it was releasing A Life In Whisky: The Dennis Malcolm Story (2021), a documentary film about The Glen Grant’s master distiller, to mark his 60th year working in the whisky industry, the online response from the global Scotch community was electric.
Messages began pouring into the magazine’s inbox from enthusiasts, bartenders, brand ambassadors, and members of the Speyside community – it seems that everyone has their own story to tell about how Dennis has touched their lives in some way. If anything, one correspondent remarked, it was almost incredible that no one had thought to commit the story of his remarkable life and career to film before.
Undeniably one of the Scotch whisky world’s great ‘characters’, Dennis had the unusual – or perhaps fateful – honour of being born in a ‘little house’ on the site of the distillery he would one day manage and later return to
