Dramface Podcast

A Write Off While we meander off the whisky path a little more than usual, we kept this one intact - as was your wish. Don’t judge us, you asked for less to be left on the cutting room floor. Now you can witness some of the nonsense that you’re often spared. Still, we think this is a goodie, even at two hours. A middle-aged chat over various challenges gives way to rants on brand positioning and g...

The Distillery Bracket Battle The editing of the Colonials’ lost podcasts continues unabated! Their lost-and-found episode #13 puts some drama and direct competition in play to uncover what the Colonials believe to be the best Scotch malt distillery.   Rob examined Dramface’s Top 40 list from the website, and created his own head-to-head bracket from what he gleaned to be the best thirty-two disti...

A Wider Lens. After the editing gnomes returned to their tasks, they found some more rather…er, dated…materials. Let’s call them ‘lost and found’.  And thus we have Colonials Podcast #12. This, as it turns out, is an unintended double-anniversary effort. The podcast was recorded in August 2025, which marked the one year anniversary of the first Colonials podcast recording. And, now, due to the edi...

Community Matters. In this follow up to the last podcast, we’re continuing on the theme of community, especially digging into the sample picks. Whisky discussion powers on before we’re immediately arguing about the best Brit-flick: Four Weddings or Love Actually. Order is restored with tales of gifted bottles and incredible community generosity. Order is somewhat the theme as we take a steady mean...

Finishing & finishesThe addled and distracted editing gnomes have finally ended their strike for more and better benefits. Much celebration ensued when the leader of Editing Union #89 announced the gnomes would return to the editing floor once they were guaranteed access to Blackberry Crown Royal at their desks and have the previous dress code eased to enable polyester jump suits. First out of...

The Community / food Wan. In this episode, we attempt to ‘catch up’ on so many long-lost recordings and community messages and questions, from embarrassingly long times ago. No matter, like always we get there in the end. Sort of. Because no matter how hard we try to faithfully respond to the community questions, we are continually distracted by discussions of food. From Twiglets to toasties, we c...

The State of the Collection With half the team still struggling with colds and flu after the Glasgow shenanigans, they’re able to focus on topics that don’t require much sensory function, but it does place a tax on cerebral processing: what are the flavours of all the Monster Munch variants and what to do with our inevitable over-accumulation of bottles. After an exercise to establish the tallest...

The Introspective Crossover In an effort to let everyone have a wee peek at just how messy things actually are at Dramface Towers, the Colonials request the presence of the messy clown at the helm. He’s eventually asked to explain why it takes six months from recording to release, which he fails to do.  In the end, however, this introspective pod ends up being a very genial affair, with lots of ch...

The Glasgow Wan We recorded this in summer. But our software lost half of one of the tracks.  In a huff, we tried another software. It’s proven to be a better-the-devil-you-know scenario. This isn’t as ‘clean’ as usual and we think having all four of us on screen is a little distracting, but it’s recorded and we’re not trashing another - so we go. Hopefully, it’s still worthwhile, certainly should...

Or 'The Coffee Wan' It’s inevitable that whisky folk spend their time in more than one rabbit hole; it’s our inquisitive nature, perhaps. In the Dramface team we see a huge overlap, believe it or not, with coffee. I don’t. I don’t really drink much coffee. But I get it. What really struck me is the synergies and parallels we can draw between coffee and whisky. This episode does actually ta...

The Heels In this banger of a knowledge bomb, Rob gathers Mike, Stuart, Justin and Gus to discuss collections, managing them and our individual attitudes towards keeping tabs on bottles, levels and inventories. They’re also happy to take detours to cover flavour, sulphur and the oldest whiskies they’ve tried. This one’s a cracker, Wally’s favourite to date. Gus is a gem. Our editor-in-chief is jus...

The Colonials Are Blind. All of them. As you’re all aware, we’re digging up recordings from the end of last year to catch up. With light at the end of the tunnel, we share what is the longest ever recording session from us. So long, in fact, we cut it into two episodes. Imagine this a little like a Zoom call that we recorded to share with you all, fly-on-the-wall style. At the end of 2024, seven C...

This is Part two... The Colonials Are Blind. All of them. As you’re all aware, we’re digging up recordings from the end of last year to catch up. With light at the end of the tunnel, we share what is the longest ever recording session from us. So long, in fact, we cut it into two episodes. Imagine this a little like a Zoom call that we recorded to share with you all, fly-on-the-wall style. At the...

Blend it like Beckham We’re no longer late with these. We’re now retrieving long lost files…This, like the previous release, was recorded last year. You know where the fault lies. I’ll leave it at that. He’s been berated by us and has promised that things are now moving once more. It won’t hurt for you to berate a little too. This is a session where I tried to envisage a way where we could all ble...

Collections and selections... …and bottles on life support. Rob hosts Mike, Cleon, Chuck and Justin this time around as they discuss the scale and management of their collections/selections. Some bottles are forgotten while others are nursed, to the point of being on ‘life support’. After sharing their individual attitudes and the numbers of bottles they’re dealing with, they talk about spreadshee...

What the fudge? Our personal whisky rants. This was an epic recording session by five of our Colonials: Rob, Stuart, Mike, Chuck and Gus. In what started out as personal whisky rant catharsis, they meander through so many topics we’re certain this one will go down as a re-listenable classic. With the canny insights of Gus on hand to keep things informed, the cover TAF (tired as fudge) casks, the c...

The Roads Less Travelled (This is also released as a video podcast over on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@dramfacewhisky )This is later than late. This was recorded last year. To the shame of, ahem, our editor; everything is backed up on the podcasts. Same for the Colonials recordings. Same editor bottleneck. We’d fire him and replace him, but there’s a problem in the fact that it’...

The Breakfast Episode The Colonials have the idea of gathering to discuss whiskies that pair with breakfast. Each of them prepare their own idea of a perfect breakfast and then try to pair it with whisky. Don't listen while hungry. This is the Colonials Podcast; the Splinter Cell. Do not make the mistake of calling it the 'American' podcast. This was made available to Dramface members...

[Edit: this was made as a video podcast and went out via our YouTube channel on Christmas Day. After your great feedback, we realise we should've included it here. Apologies. However, as this was edited as a video podcast - using AI no less - forgive us if it's not as 'tight' or listenable , we hope you enjoy!] Recorded at the last minute, edited by AI and cobbled together for a Christmas Day rele...

The Colonials are patient. They submitted this recording a while ago, it’s made it through the system and now, finally, it’s yours. This could be the extended version. There is some content within that has very little to do with whisky. Actually, nothing to do with whisky. Perhaps it’ll let you understand the team a little more, but we’re not sure that’s a good thing. Anyway, our members didn't ob...

Gregor asks the team to bring along their hottest drams, by ABV content before going on to ask for their ‘hot takes’ in whisky. Inevitably with these things some controversy ensues. We hope you’re enjoying these video pods, of which we have another couple in the editing room queue. We also have more Colonials podcasts coming hot on the heels of this. Your feedback - as always - very welcome! Share...

500 Reviews & 500 More (The Video One) This is not a response to The Dramface Colonials Podcast.* To celebrate Dramface reaching its 1,000 reviews milestone we thought it'd be a good idea to attempt a video edit this time around. Our editor is work-shy, so he might decide this is a one off, we'll see. If you enjoy this new format then hop on with the words of encouragement for future episodes...

The Colonials are serious. Not only have they submitted their second episode within a remarkably prompt time window, there’s another hot on the heels of this. Good news if you enjoy it, we suppose. Anyway, Gregor has suggested that, given the difficulties in scheduling, it’s acceptable to proffer the ‘B-team’ now and again. All the while he’s readied his response, and he’s promising power-ups. Of...

It’s terrifying what happens while you sleep. With the regular podcast team struggling to get time around a mic, despite genuine efforts, a vacuum has appeared. No podcast episode has been recorded or released since early August. Into this vacuum, we suppose inevitably, a group of Dramface team members have stepped, under well-meaning , auspicious intentions. Claiming it’s all about timezones and...

New Kids on the Block New is the topic for this session. New distilleries, sure, but also new whiskies, new make and even how the word ‘new’ should actually be pronounced. We cover environment and time and also wonder why Gordon can’t taste effervescence. Yet.