# LegacyDram

> Whisky, told through the people who made it — and read by the engineers who drink it.

LegacyDram is a curated whisky media for engineers and the people who love a story behind a glass. Instead of yet another tasting-note dump, the site studies whisky the way a craftsperson reads their own legacy code: who made the decisions, what trade-offs they shipped, why the choice still tastes the way it does decades later.

## What LegacyDram Covers

- **People**: distillers, blenders, owners, and engineers behind the bottles. Biographies, decisions, the trade-offs they shipped.
- **Craft**: distillation chemistry, cask science, blending math, fermentation engineering — whisky-making seen through an engineer's lens.
- **Tasting**: curated bottle picks paired with the human story and the technical detail. No marketing copy.

## Audience

- Software engineers, scientists, and technical hobbyists who already drink whisky.
- Whisky drinkers who want depth — historical context, technical accuracy, person-level reasoning — instead of marketing prose.

## Editorial Stance

- People-first: every bottle has a person whose decisions shaped it.
- Engineering literacy: chemistry, process, and trade-offs explained, never hand-waved.
- No advertorials, no celebrity-distillery PR, no "best whisky" listicles without reasoning.

## Author

- Ken Imoto — software engineer, whisky enthusiast, author of the Kindle/Zenn book series on LLM engineering and whisky cost-performance analysis.
- Site: https://kenimoto.dev — primary author profile and book catalog.

## Languages

- English (primary)
- Japanese (日本語)

## Articles (English, 10 pieces, auto-generated)

### People

- https://legacydram.com/blog/bessie-williamson-laphroaig-1954-1972-inherited-distillery/ — Bessie Williamson and the Inherited Distillery: How Laphroaig Was Run by a Woman From 1954 to 1972 (and Why That Is Not the Usual Story)
- https://legacydram.com/blog/frank-mchardy-springbank-silent-years/ — Frank McHardy and the Silent Years: How Springbank's Restart Survived Itself
- https://legacydram.com/blog/welcome-to-legacydram/ — Welcome to LegacyDram

### Craft

- https://legacydram.com/blog/glen-grant-purifier-major-james-grant-dennis-malcolm/ — Bolt-On Reflux: How Major James Grant's 1872 Purifier (and Dennis Malcolm's 63 Years) Kept Glen Grant Light
- https://legacydram.com/blog/glenmorangie-still-height-reflux-bill-lumsden/ — The Reflux Equation: Why Glenmorangie's Stills Are 5.14 Metres Tall (and What Bill Lumsden Inherited)
- https://legacydram.com/blog/jim-swan-str-cask-new-world-distilleries/ — Jim Swan and the Cask That Shaved Years Off Time: How One Chemist Built Penderyn, Kavalan, and the Modern New-World Distillery
- https://legacydram.com/blog/rachel-barrie-blend-matrix-benriach-glendronach-glenglassaugh/ — The Blend as Matrix: How Dr Rachel Barrie Runs BenRiach, Glendronach, and Glenglassaugh From the Same Office

### Tasting

- https://legacydram.com/blog/cragganmore-12-john-smith-worm-tubs-speyside/ — The Speyside That Stayed Heavy: Cragganmore 12, John Smith's 1869 Choke, and Why the Worm Tubs Are Still There
- https://legacydram.com/blog/highland-park-12-gordon-motion-orkney-heather/ — The Heather Half: Highland Park 12, Hobbister Peat, and What Gordon Motion Inherited from Orkney
- https://legacydram.com/blog/talisker-10-macaskill-skye-worm-tubs/ — The Asymmetric Five: Talisker 10, the MacAskill Brothers, and What 1960 Did Not Take

## 記事（日本語、11本、自動生成）

### 人物

- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/david-stewart-balvenie-portwood-cask-finishing/ — David Stewart と Balvenie 21 PortWood ― 「二度樽熟成」という発明と、60年で2人の後継者を育てた男
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/jim-mcewan-octomore-ardnahoe/ — 樽から数字へ — Jim McEwan が Octomore で選び、Ardnahoe で選ばなかったもの
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/john-glaser-compass-box-transparency/ — John Glaser と『瓶のラベルに書けないこと』 ― Compass Box が SWA に挑んだ透明性の代償
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/welcome-to-legacydram/ — LegacyDramへようこそ

### 技術

- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/auchentoshan-springbank-hazelburn-triple-distillation-math/ — 三回蒸留の数学：Auchentoshan と Springbank Hazelburn が「蒸留 1 回追加」で何を捨て何を残したか
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/bowmore-floor-malting-eddie-macaffer-islay-phenol/ — Bowmore のフロアモルティングと Eddie MacAffer の 50 年。cresol / guaiacol / syringol / 4-vinyl guaiacol の混合比は誰が決めているのか
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/mortlach-worm-tubs-george-cowie-281-distillation/ — ワームタブと 2.81 回蒸留：Mortlach の George Cowie が 100 年捨てなかった非効率

### テイスティング

- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/aberlour-abunadh-graeme-cruickshank-sherry-cask-strength-batch/ — Aberlour A'Bunadh と Graeme Cruickshank — Batch ごとに違うのに A'Bunadh のままでいられる理由
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/glenfiddich-12-brian-kinsman-consistency/ — Glenfiddich 12 と Brian Kinsman ― 世界で一番売れているシングルモルトを「12年、同じ味」で出し続ける仕事
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/ichiros-malt-akuto-chichibu-mizunara/ — Ichiro's Malt の起点 ― 肥土伊知郎が400樽を救出してから秩父を建てるまでと、ミズナラが瓶に残したもの
- https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/lagavulin-16-iain-mcarthur-islay-phenol/ — Lagavulin 16 と Iain McArthur、50年樽番が見続けた Islay フェノールと、Caol Ila との半端な距離

## Content URLs

- Blog (EN): https://legacydram.com/blog/
- Blog (JA): https://legacydram.com/ja/blog/
- RSS (EN): https://legacydram.com/blog.xml
- RSS (JA): https://legacydram.com/ja/blog.xml
- Full text (AI citation use): https://legacydram.com/llms-full.txt

## Contact

- Website: https://legacydram.com
- Author site: https://kenimoto.dev
- Publisher: Propel-Lab LLC — info@propel-lab.co.jp