Whiskyopolis: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Campbeltown's Whisky Industry (Hardback) David Stirk

The book tells the story of a small burgh, never more than 10,000 inhabitants, that was so flooded with distilleries that it gained the nickname Whiskyopolis.

Just why were there so many distilleries in Campbeltown, and why did so many close? This new book sets out to find out the answers...

Chapters cover the start of the industrial era in the early 1800s through expansion and industry collapse, the Great War and then the demise of the Campbeltown distilleries in the 1920s. The end of the book looks at how Campbeltown clung on to its status as a whisky region through dogged determination through to its lofty status today. This has taken almost a year of research and writing and has driven me to drink... Campbeltown malt whisky naturally.