The history of whisky in ten minutes kzread.info/dash/bejne/nXyCs9OehdPYp84.html Buy me coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/ScottishBruce Upcoming live shows www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

I’m so glad I was directed here by Tasting History. I would’ve never discovered this channel without him. I love your content. It is so informative, and your narration is fantastic. I have watched so many of your videos over the last few days, and I’ve been exposed to a culture I have never really had thoughts or knowledge of.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah brilliant. Thanks Anthony

@donnabenda2682

Жыл бұрын

I too discovered this channel from Tasting History with Max Miller and I’ve been a subscriber ever since‼️😎

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

Vice versa for me. I found Tasting History here.

"There is a thin line between criminals and capitalists." - I love it.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

@karlsilcock8727

Жыл бұрын

Even thinner line between criminals and capitalist politicians

@owenmccord5078

Жыл бұрын

He has a number of sick/profound phrases throughout his video catalogue.

@thematronsmilitia

Жыл бұрын

I know here in America it is so thin as to be invisible to the naked eye. For example wage theft outweighs all other forms of theft by far

"A thin line between criminality and capitalism" ..... SO TRUE. !!!

@djonfonsteen6331

Жыл бұрын

Thin line? It's none existent, always has been. It's inevitable.

I'm originally from Cefalu, Sicilia, but I live in California. Its interesting how Sicilia still has mafioso stereotype. You have one of best YT history channels, and youre for sure best teacher/orator on YT. Grazij per il video, Salut!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

We all have national stereotypes my friend. There are some Scottish ones in there as well😎

@KingofKarnies

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours My Gran immigrated from Scotland, and when people find out all those stereotypes get asked. She was no older than 3 when she immigrated, so of course they're all true. 👁️🧻

@brianreardon159

Жыл бұрын

I am sitting in the UK as the winter creeps closer. I was in Cefalu in September. Thank you for returning me to the sunshine. Go well,stay safe and thank you. 😊

@bongdonkey

Жыл бұрын

@@brianreardon159 Salut!

@michaelharrison72

Жыл бұрын

I was in Cefalu in July. Immense it was.

This was a great story. My grandfather was a a whiskey 'exporter' in the late 1920's, it is possible he may of 'exported' some Scottish whiskeys in addition to the Canadian whiskey to the US, his main customer was Al Capone.

@shotgunshawzy

Жыл бұрын

Whisky my friend, Whiskey is the irish term, sorry.

Just bank from a short trip to Las Vegas where we visited the mob museum. In a room in the museum, they have the congressional hearing playing on a loop. The connection with the Politician was most entertaining.

As a scot who is massively interested in the cosa nostra, this video has made my day. Cheers for another banger Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I'm delighted

On our study abroad (to Edinburgh) one of my classmates did a fantastic presentation about how much of the moonshining tradition in the US was directly descended from the moonshining tradition in Scotland.

I’m imagining a scene with Sigilian Brooklyn street guys, Basten Southies, Québécois Canadians, Weegie Neds, etc…. all negotiating w/o understanding a word anyone else is saying.

Love ya Bruce!!! This Black Scot from Oklahoma, USA *ALWAYS* tunes in to watch your videos! Keep on putting out great content brother!

Ah Bruce, I'm tickled that you made an episode featuring one of the great distilleries that I was able to visit when I toured your wonderful country. I had no idea that there was such an interesting connection and history involved. Thanks so much! A shame it was closed when you filmed.

There was a gang of smugglers on Islay called themselves "The Peaty Blinders"

@djonfonsteen6331

Жыл бұрын

😂

That one made me chuckle, my mum lived in Pitlochry for 25 years and she had a job in the distillery in Pitlochry as tour guide. The number of times I went past Eradour visiting always made me chuckle cos I know what Whisky Galore was about. 😉

@anneross1021

8 ай бұрын

My favourite film

Now Bruce I know it seems a wee bit out of yer way. But there is this little city called Cairns up in the north of Queensland, You can interrupt a return journey with a wee bit of a sojourn in a town made for pleasure, and tourism and it has its own distillery and theatre. A lad on his way back from New Zealand to the UK could spend a moment in this place, see the Great Barrier Reef and watch huge saltwater crocs being fed (no, the English are gone now, so they use cearc). Is there any flexibility in your itinerary? Loved this and maybe I will see you in Adelaide.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Aye I've still left things loose, but need to find out about this wee theatre and if there's enough demand in Cairns for a fat Afro Celt

And good luck on your tour!!!👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Small point, the 1st photograph of Frank Costello was actually Charles "Lucky" Luciano

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I know, the point's been made😪

@djonfonsteen6331

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours 😂 too funny Bruce. You could have put a picture up of Super Mario. They all look the same anyway. ( btw.. for any Germans out there thats a Joke)

My favourite film "Whisky Galore" ❤

Slainte/cheers Bruce and viewers,my great grandfather stilled his own uisge/potent for his own and ggmother use ,in the bogs of County Longford in Ireland🥃🥃.

Sad to say , a lot of Scots tend to buy the abbots wine not Costellos whisky . Uisge Beatha: the water of life and many a sore heid . Thanks Bud , I’ll m off to the Lou.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I like a red wine masel... I like the whisky toooooooo much though

I was directed to this amazing channel by Tasting History. I would have never discovered Bruce's wonderful videos and channel about Scottish History. I used to live in Scotland so Bruce's videos are incredibly informative and fun!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Family legend has it that one of my great-grandfathers had trouble with his farm during the Great Depression, but managed to make enough for his large family to survive and thrive by moonshining. He wasn't arrested because the local Sheriff and his Deputies were some of his best customers, and if they put my great-grandfather out of business, they would have to buy what they considered to be an inferior moonshine. By the time Prohibition ended, his farm was doing well again, and he happily put himself out of business, since he preferred farming.

I love hearing your stories and seeing the beautiful sites of Scotland thank you

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Great storyteller. Cheers from Norway

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

That image at 3.51 is a classic. Would make a great Christmas card for my brother.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

Pitlochry and the distillery are among my favorite memories of Scotland. I have a large bottle here I use for Burns Night and other special occasions. Thank for the fun history and memory jogging scenery.

Another wonderful video, Bruce. As an another one of the many Americans with Scots-Irish ancestry, your videos have been one of my favorite recent discoveries here on KZread. I also hate to be "Slight correction" guy in the comments, but because I too have a fasciation with the American Mob, I just want to make sure everything is square. When you first started talking about Frank Costello in the video, you actually put up a picture of Charles "Lucky" Luciano. He was indeed the #1 boss in the US at the time of Prohibition and was still considered the guy who ran things even after getting deported to Sicily after WW2. The second picture was that of Frank Costello, who was the alleged inspiration for Vito Corleone of "The Godfather". He was a contemporary of Luciano at the time, so I get the confusion.

@DH.2016

Жыл бұрын

Glad someone else saw that, too. 😄

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I know, we've been inundated with the corrections

@Your_Friend_Adam

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours My apologies for adding to the pile then lol.

Loved that poem.😀

Lord Bruce! Loved this Spirited Tale!! Especially the wonderful Recitation!! As always, great visuals, editing! Footnote...I once knew a New Jersey liquor distributor who personally had to plead with Joe Kennedy to get allocation of Scotch whisky!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Now there's a claim to fame

Fantastic story - amazing how we've kept scotch whiskey and the maffia in their separate mental compartments all these years! But maybe I'm not the only one to want to say 'it was ERISKAY not Barra!!!'. The film of Whiskey Galore was done in Barra to be sure ... My grandfather (Aberdonian long-line fisherman) had a fantastic story about one of his friends who was Stornoway Harbour Master, who had ended up with the SS Politician's (very valuable, stolen) chronometer in his desk drawer when the authorities came enquiring after it. He made a great and hilarious tale of how the guy had to keep up a continuous flow of conversation so they wouldn't hear the very loud ticking sound coming from his desk. Sandy was a great raconteur, and I've no idea if he made it up ... but it was one of a treasure trove of tales we all in the family now very much regret not having written down. Slainte Sandy!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

I thoroughly enjoyed this video Bruce. I live in NJ so I’ve heard many things over the years. It was well known that Papa Joe was involved in the beverage business. Stay awesome Bruce!❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

One will do one's best on the awesomeness front😎

That was absolutely brilliant, well tied up.

That thin line quote is brilliant. Love it as always, you have a way of connecting that others don’t I get the sense it’s a natural talent rather than one that can be attained. Great stuff man.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Your style of presentation is perfectly fit for this story. Well, it’s always a match to the essence of the tale. 👏👏👏👏👏

This was an amazing story Bruce. Great work as always you kept me enthralled and entertained. Thank you

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure

All the best to you and yours Bruce 🎄 as always another fantastic story! Thank you 😊

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joanne

Another great video Bruce, always look forward taking a minute on a Saturday to sit down, have a coffee and hear stories of my history delivered by the best.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah, that gives me a lift

Aww the dug's bollox's 🤣🤣🤣

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

I love this story! Well done Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks David

That was just great. I had no idea. I mean I had heard of the providence granted to the good folks of Barra but I never realised the back story.

Awesome, just awesome. Best wishes for your tour man, they're gonna love ya down under!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Marc

Great video and insight Bruce. Thank you

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim

We visited this distillery during our trip to Scotland. Walked to it from our hotel in Pitlochery on same route☮️👍🏾

I love your channel. I just done a 10 hour drive from Ayr to Fort William and back and listened to you all the way.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. What network are you on to get a signal in Glencoe

@kprnr7140

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Not a good enough one, I posted this from a cafe in Fort William.

I noticed the signpost giving direction to braemar - got to see the queen (and the now king) at braemar when we visited. but the distillery we visited was Glen Garioch.

Such a Joyful Presentation and Production! And I never knew the backstory of "Whisky Galore!," (the 1949 version), one of the great Ealing comedies. Thanks very much!😁

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

I always love your videos... You have an excellent way of making points that most historians dont, you know like, how thin the line REALLY is between politicians & criminals, & how the actually decide what's legal & what's not...

Great storytelling!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah thanks Daniel

G'day Bruce! This is awesome. Well done as always buddy.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks!

Community reclamation...wonderful turn of phrase...

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

Great video. A weee dram of the nectar while I watch this 🤣🥃

A wonderful and very interesting video. Thank, you,Sir

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Kirk

@kirkmorrison6131

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours you're most welcome

Excellent video! 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah thanks

Thanks again!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

The picture was not of Costello, but that of Lucky Luciano.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I know

Looking forward to your Perth show thanks for the reminder!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Aye, I'll be mentioning it every video between now and then😂😂

Another good one 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Jock

Fantastic Bruce. The story of whisky galour is one of my fav and I have both the original and the gregor fisher one on a spare hard drive. I didnt know about the links to the mafia though.

Loved the fly David Jason representation of the mafioso ;-)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

A thank you to the editor 😎

This channel should be illegal for how smooth the stories go down- honey in the ear like uisge beathe in the gut! Thanks again for another great video Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah, you're so kind

Thanks for the video! caught it right as you uploaded! Great as always.

Hi, I love your channel. I’m a Scottish descendant, my grandfather was 100% Scottish, who was born in Syracuse, NY. BUT his parents are from New Zealand. I’m interested in the Scottish diaspora in New Zealand. And through Jamaica. Can you do an episode or two on that?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

🤣Now that's quite a combination. I'm not sure that the travel budget would stretch to that

My great uncle went missing in the USA in the late '20's,taking horses to New Mexico...for one,Alfonse Capone!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Oooooh

This looks good, I live in Dunedin and i’m looking forward to seeing you live.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

See you there at Fringe

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Here's the link for Dunedin life shows. I'd be really grateful if you'd help by spreading the word far and wide Let's fill this place www.dunedinfringe.nz/events/stories-of-scotland

In Lunenburgh Nova Scotia,Canada,we saw the statue dedicated to the "Rum Runners" who were transporting the bootleg british booze across the country.

I mind being told that during prohibition, there were so many ships, you could walk from one side of Campbeltown Loch to the other without getting your feet wet.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂

Good ol' Canada, always in the mix. Haven't watched the show for a while. Keep on edu-taining us..

@ScotlandHistoryTours

6 ай бұрын

@JulieAnneCorby Live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

@JulieAnneCorby

6 ай бұрын

OK @@ScotlandHistoryTours I will try to be at the Vancouver show and will promote it on my facebook page at that time. bless

I've visited Pitlochry and the Edradour distillery a few times. Love the Grampian Moutains. My favourite part of the whole UK, not just Scotland. Sorry Lancashire and Ayrshire, who receive a close 2nd and 3rd place. My dad loved Jimmy Shand and the Voice of Atholl. Made me laugh all the way up the A9. Ill watch the rest now. Nice one Bruce mate.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@shotgunshawzy

Жыл бұрын

I worked on Blair Atholl Railway nightshift, we stayed at a hotel whom the owner was the groundskeeper to Blair Atholl Castle ;)

one word brilliant

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah thanks Peter

Amazing Baard.

Lad, the pic you have for Frank Costello, is actually Lucky Luciano.

Och! What a cliffhanger! Please let us know what happened to the light-fingered and inebriated inhabitants of Barra! What a tale!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah, an SS polititian story?

@benjaminlasseter8929

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours , I'd dearly love that. By the way, one of the entry routes for whisky to America you didn't mention was Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario into Michigan (to the city of the same name). The whisky runners could literally take sleds over the frozen river there in the dead of winter. That is why the US Coast Guard's northern command is still in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. They worked overtime in the 1920s to try and stop King's Ransom from making it into the US at that place.

Fillin in the gaps in the auld stories. That;s the good stuff.

You are in my neighbourhood !..... Well nearly I'm 7 miles north of pitlochry but walk over the Moulin Moor lots, I did learn about this piece of history. Theirs a braw wee walk from that distillery down the Black Spout to the toon. I wish I'd kentvye were about, I would've liked to have a blether.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Aye, I have tae go in under the radar

@BettyDuguid

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours. Fair enough 👌

Just a quick one.. Think that's Charles Luciano's picture you showed when talking about Frank Costello initially. Great video as always.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Aye, it's been mentioned

Got tickets for next year, see yer in Perth WA

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Wohoooo!

"Am no a grass " 😁😉good man

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

In the remoter part of Glen Artney, there's a burn called the Smugglers Burn, it appears on the OS Maps of the Glen. Local legend has that there's an illicit still somewhere in the area dating back to when there were smugglers and distillers in the area. It's not that far to Stirling and Falkirk following the Drove Roads.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Maybe an episode

Bring your performance to Sydney also please. Internal travel between states is expensive in Australia. Thank you. Hope to see you in Sydney. 😀

Eriskay! The SS Politician ran aground off Eriskay. You can go to the pub there called the Am Politician and see stuff from the boat. Worth a trip!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

When I went the ferry from Barra didn’t sail🙄

Good stuff as always. 😀 I think the first picture of Frank Costello may have been Lucky Luciano instead.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I know, I know

Lol a lot of big Canadian breweries got their start that way too. And a lot of "captain's" houses in Nova Scotia were built in the 1920s on the proceeds of that export trade too.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Dodgy Canuks😜

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours almost as dodgy as us Scousers....

"..a thin line between criminal and capitalist - and that line is moved by politicians." Brilliant line of your own there, very true.

Whisky Galore!

America and Scotland, in the same video? Oh my this gonna be good.

Brilliantly done, beautifully told and downright fun. (Not that it was for the bootleggers and their business rivals....) Apparently the phrase "The Real McCoy" stemmed from whiskey being run ashore in open boats; the bottles would naturally get soaked in salt water, and experienced 'blind pig' and speakeasy operators got to prove this, by running a moistened thumb around the neck of the bottle. A lot of the hooch was run by a legger named McCoy and, if their thumb came up salty, they knew they had 'the real McCoy........

Bruce ,wit a story, barra v New York, no contest 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

Love ya, Bruce, but I'm pretty sure that picture was of Charles "Lucky" Luciano.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Indeed

I'd love to come to Scotland and hear the words 'Let me tell you a story.;. :) Couldn't see the Scottish dates yet, but I'll keep my eyes open.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Just started organising that side of things. I've booked a date for my home town of Perth

Bruce that picture was Lucky Luciano not Frank Costello

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I know

I don’t know if anyone has commented about the Frank Costello photo, but the first photo in the video you showed was Lucky Luciano 😉

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Aye loads of folk

Hiya! Love this channel, your videos & stories, and humor!! I hate to ask a question likely asked and answered many times, but what is the translation of the phrase you say at the end of each video? 😬Thanks! 😆

Omerta, the debatable lands♥️👍😎

If y'all ever come to Missouri, I'll cook for you guys!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

That's an expensive taxi for a home cooked meal

@robinsmith5442

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours So is Australia. 😁😁 I wondered if you will ever tour the USA?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I feel safe in Oz and NZ. I know lots of folk who have travelled there but I've always felt that the US presented a little more personal risk

@robinsmith5442

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Understandable!!

Newly legalized Mountain Dew. Love it

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

The tutti , frutti , caputti or whatever that was 😂😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

Bruce. Your purpose in this world is to be in the remake of 'Whiskey Galore' ♥️

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂So long as I get to sample the goods

Hey Bruce, did you just pass through Edinburgh, Hanover Street up the mound, about ten to eight? White discovery, sure it was your name on the car.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

10 ай бұрын

My Discovery is grey, and no name

Brilliant episode Bruce......I don't just throw likes around willy nilly you know.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah much appreciated

great work Bruce. I'm delighted to be back in the mix, or the blend, whichever!