This is Austin. Possibly the most passionate tour guide I’ve ever met.
And understandably so, because try telling the story of Scotland, especially Glasgow, without mentioning whisky. 😉
Together with Dario Römgens and our group of entrepreneurs, we visited The Clydeside Distillery for a whisky tasting.
I came for the experience.
But what really stayed with me was the family’s entrepreneurial story.
You hear about Glasgow’s old docks, wooden barrels and crates, ships carrying whisky around the world and dockworkers doing the heavy lifting.
Listening to Austin, you can almost picture yourself standing there all those years ago.
The Morrison family’s whisky heritage goes back more than a century.
Clydeside itself, however, only opened in 2017.
Not even nine years ago.
That combination is what fascinated me:
Generations of experience behind a relatively new initiative.
Because keeping a family business alive means more than simply passing on what previous generations built.
You have to keep changing, innovating and adapting.
At the same time, you have to give the next generation room to bring their own ideas to life.
They take over the baton.
But they get to decide where to run with it.
As an entrepreneur, I think that’s a beautiful ambition.
Build something worth passing on, then give the people who follow you the space to take it further.
Thank you, Austin, for bringing that story to life.
Your passion made the whole experience.
As for whether the whisky was any good, you’ll have to ask the others.
As you know, I didn’t drink a single drop. 😉
