‘I’VE always been brought up to think that disability is not an obstacle to doing anything. All these opportunities are still out there. You might need to find a workaround, but there’s nothing you can’t actually do. My attitude has always just been to find a way.”
With distilleries costing millions to set up, Burt was all too aware it was an expensive dream, but he has now made the first steps to reaching it with the recent launch of his own independent bottling company, Fib Whisky. It was perhaps obvious from the first moment he began delving into drams with the University of St Andrews’s Whisky Society that nothing or nobody was ever going to stop him from exploring the magic of malt.
A little perseverance certainly does go a long way, with Burt and his lifelong friend Iain Mundy – head of sales, property and production – now selling Fib’s initial range from their own website and in whisky shops across Fife.pair have enjoyed whisky together since their teens, with one of their most treasured memories being when they poured their own bottle of Bowmore straight from a cask, which is now being saved for when Scotland breaks free from the Union.
He said: “I don’t think there are many companies out there where you can try the same single cask of whisky before and after a finish. Burt said one of his favourite things about whisky is the social element of it, and he hopes the playful and creative approach Fib has taken will spark the sorts of conversations about drams he loves.
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