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Anne and Gary Still own and operate two of Edinburgh’s most innovative whisky outlets. They kindly took time out of their busy schedules for a chat with DRAM’s Jason Caddy. Anne and Gary Still are like two peas in a pod. Not only are they 20 years married and co-owners of WHISKI on Edinburgh’s High [...]

Lynnet Leisure certainly know how to surprise you. The latest addition to its Royal Exchange Square premises is a modern, light and airy space in the eaves. What was formerly the company’s office has been turned into Apartment 29. And it is as different from the rest of the 3-storey 19th Century blonde sandstone building [...]

The Residence Inn by Marriott is an extended stay hotel that opened late last year, taking pride of place in Edinburgh’s plush new Quartermile Development. Incorporating several residential, leisure and retail outlets in a mixture of old and new buildings, this burgeoning stylish quarter of the Capital can be found on the site of the [...]

Inverarity Morton is the new company that has emerged from the merging of Inverarity Vaults and Wm Morton. The new name is the result of a full rebranding exercise. Stephen Russell headed up Wm Morton’s while Hamish Martin headed up Inverarity. Says managing director Stephen Russell, “We wanted to make a positive and deliberate statement [...]

Dakota Hotel at Eurocentral has been put up for sales. Property agents Jones Lang Lasalle have not set a price but are inviting offers. The hotel was originally owned by Ken McCulloch and racing driver David Couthard but it is not owned by a syndicate of investors. The property, which also includes an empty two-storey [...]

Glasgow licensees are being warned to be extra vigilant when setting their alarms after thieves targeted The Doublet in Park Road. The alarm scam involves burglars visiting a pub earlier in the day and jamming the alarm sensors on the door. When staff go to set the alarm a the end of the night, it [...]

Maybe we’ve always been boring. Or stable, reliable, traditional, steadfast, stalwart or any number of euphemisms that describe a people for whom change is frowned upon. Because, as a culture, we like things just the way they are. Or do we? In the beginning, there was real ale. Then came kegs, lager and smoothflow. Next [...]

Forth Wines has bought family-owned specialist drinks wholesale business J. A. Glass of Dysart for an undisclosed sum. The two companies will trade separately but J. A. Glass will move to Forth Wines’ Milnathort base. J. A. Glass is a long established family business run by Duncan Glass and cousin Donald. It acts as a [...]

Tennent Caledonian has revealed a price increase of 2.2% effective from March for Tennent’s Lager and Magners Golden Draught. There will however be no increase on the wholesale list price of Caledonia Best. This equates to a 3.5p rise per pint, which is half, that of its nearest competitor. John Gilligan, Sales Managing Director of [...]

The new UK ‘Beer Barometer’ shows pub beer sales slipped 3.4% in 2011, but off trade sales were down 3.7% The figures, published by the British Beer & Pub Association, also revealed that the fall in beer sales has slowed. The fall in pub sales of 3.4% was the slowest rate of decline since 2004. [...]