Give Her Six: A Distillery Manager’s Son in 1960’s Bruichladdich | Graham Logie

Give Her Six: A Distillery Manager’s Son in 1960’s Bruichladdich by Graham Logie is a warm and personal book about childhood, island culture and whisky history on Islay. Logie grew up in Bruichladdich in the 1960s, as the son of a distillery manager, and describes the village and distillery from a unique perspective.

The book shows how life on a small Scottish island changed during that period. The familiar cargo, mail and steam boats were replaced by roll-on/roll-off ferries, transforming the island’s rhythm and its connection with the outside world.

Many stories focus on boats, lorries, the sea, childhood adventures and everyday life in Bruichladdich. These personal memories make the book especially appealing: it is not a technical whisky guide, but an intimate portrait of a village where the distillery played a central role.

Towards the end, Graham Logie compares distillery life in the 1960s with his return to Islay in 2006, when he came back as a distillery manager himself. This gives the book extra depth, bringing together childhood memory, family history and the whisky industry.

Give Her Six includes 29 photographs from 1960, including previously unseen family photographs. A special book for lovers of Bruichladdich, Islay, distillery history and personal stories from the world of Scotch whisky.

Book Details
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
Author: Graham Logie
ISBN / barcode: 9781839526848
Weight: 0.25 kg
Subject: Bruichladdich, Islay, distillery life, childhood memories, Scotch whisky history, island culture