MacDonald, Aeneas , was the pseudonym of George Malcolm Thomson, publisher of the Porpoise Press, which was at the heart of the early twentieth-century Scottish literary renaissance. His book Whisky, published in 1930, is by turns a hard-eyed look at and lyrical evocation of scotch whisky’s history, production, and methods of consumption. It is also one of the earliest paeans to single malt whisky and is widely recognized as one of the finest publications on the subject. It has been reprinted several times in recent years.
MacDonald, Aeneas. Whisky. Edited by Ian Buxton. London: Birlinn, 2016.
By: Dave Broom