Episode 373: June 10, 2012

How do you spend a billion and a half dollars? Believe it or not, it’s hard to spend that much money. Diageo’s Nick Morgan and his colleagues are about to find out just how hard it can be, since the world’s largest spirits company has committed to investing that much to increase its Scotch whisky production. Nick explains the tentative plans for one new malt distillery and possibly a second, along with expansions at several existing distilleries and new warehouse facilities. In the news, Edinburgh’s North British grain whisky distillery has been closed temporarily after a Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak that has claimed at least one life.

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