00:00My mum used to say, did you go to school today? I'd say, yep. She'd say, come here. And she'd say, no, I know, you've been in that damn distillery again. Bed, no dinner.
00:16Ancient, natural, old, pure.
00:20The blood of one small nation, absolutely.
00:23In the mid-1970s, Scotch whisky ceased to be fashionable when it became dad's drink.
00:28There was just a massive bust.
00:32I've never once met anyone who goes, and there's no emotion behind it. If you do that, God, go and drink vodka.
00:40Even though I'm a scientist, it's actually much, much more of an art.
00:48Looking at Brook Lally, I said to somebody, I would love to make whisky at that distillery.
00:53The place was falling apart. There was a sign. It sort of encompasses the whole whisky industry at the time. Exclamation.
01:03And I can remember thinking, I've got to do something about it.
01:07I got a phone call from the chairman of Brook Lally. I said, the answer is yes. He said, really?
01:13Very different people with different background and experience who all came together with the same goal of bringing this distillery back to life.
01:22The most unlikely partnership in the history of whisky.
01:25It's hysterical.
01:29Jim reveled in the freedom that he was given, sometimes a little too much.
01:33I could make virtually what I wanted.
01:37There's a Brook Lally every week, wasn't there? There's probably too many.
01:40I said, why are you doing this?
01:42He looked at me with his wild eyes and said, because we can.
01:46And because we're having fun.
01:49Woo!
01:51There aren't as many true mavericks anymore, learning quite literally from scratch.
01:56Mark and I had many battles.
02:06We detonated.
02:08Yeah, emotionally, it cost me a lot.
02:12Mark!
02:14But we did it. We touched the void.
02:19Oh, my God.
02:23How far can we go, you know?
02:26Feel free.
02:43Oh, my God.
02:44Oh, my God.
02:50Oh, my God.
02:51Oh, my God.
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