The popularity of single malt is a matter of recent decades, and Scotch whisky in the traditional sense is actually a blend of malt and grain.

This is Westwood's vision of Scotch whisky that truly tests a distiller's ability to blend and bottle.

Westwood disdains to be in the company of people who have abandoned the tradition of Scotch whisky for the sake of the market.

With this in mind, while most distilleries in Scotland have chosen to launch single malt whisky to cater to the market and keep the distillery running, the Brunschweig Distillery has chosen to pay homage and uphold tradition.

So much so, for three years, not a single barrel of wine was sold.

If the market for whiskey is not squeezed from vodka.

Westwood's persistence is also unquestionable.

After all, turnip greens have their own loves.

But the wheels of the times have never given people if this option.

The single malt whisky craze was not as short-lived as Westwood had predicted.

The Brunschweig family persisted for three years, not only did not wait for the single malt whisky trend to be abandoned by the market, but also dragged the distillery to the point where it could not be sustained and could stop production and close down at any time.

In the late 70s and early 80s of the last century, marketing and advertising had become synonymous with whisky sales.

Traditional distilleries that have not survived the wave of closures have almost all been taken over by well-known whisky brands that have focused on marketing.

Being taken over by a big brand, although it can receive an objective "transfer fee", means that the distillery is gone, and it is reduced to an unknown part of the recipe of marketing whisky, losing the family history and heritage.

The Brunschweig family, with a history of 500 years of winemaking, was certainly not willing to accept the fate of the family brand.

In the struggle to refuse to be acquired, Westwood finally bowed his head to reality and decided to "cheap" sell all the malt whisky stocks in the family warehouse in exchange for enough liquidity to keep the distillery running.

When other wineries were selling at low prices, the Brunschweig distillery didn't follow suit.

Now the other wineries have survived, and it's about to see the light of day.

The Brunschweig distillery came out for a big sale again.

Such a breach of industry norms has seriously angered other members of the Scotch Whisky Association.

Westwood's insistence on going to the hospital in a hurry eventually led to his expulsion from the Scotch Whisky Association.

According to common sense, it is the freedom of the brewer to sell the sake brewed by his own brewery as he wants to sell it and at what price he wants.

As long as the buyer and the seller are willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer.

But the reality is far from being as simple as "according to reason".

The Scotch Whisky Association was originally formed to resist price reductions.

Since the turmoil of the whisky market in the seventies and eighties, the association has gradually taken control of the price of Scotch whisky.

The Scotch Whisky Association, SWA, is an extremely successful trading group, a bit like OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

OPEC is responsible for coordinating and unifying the oil policies of its member countries and maintaining oil price stability.

The SWA is responsible for a very similar regulation of Scotch whisky, giving a minimum price each year.

A bargain sale by any of the association's member distilleries could have led to price turmoil throughout Scotch that year.

The existence of this price limit is to prevent some members from "selling cheaply", and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the foundation of the association.

It's like the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which has annual quotas, and can't produce too much or too little, and see what kind of output can best maximize the interests of member countries.

Thirty-seven years ago, the struggle between Westwood and the Scotch Whisky Association was no secret.

Sold openly and openly expelled.

This struggle began vigorously and finally came to an abrupt end in the massacre of Westwood Brunschweig's family of nine.

The last master brewer and his heir are all dead, and the Brunschweig distillery, before even the last struggles can begin, goes out of business, along with the family's centuries-old winemaking heritage.

Hieron Nimis Brunschweig, who died just last month, leaving 100,000 bottles of whisky for the fifth summer, is Westwood's younger brother.

is also the only person who survived the tragedy.

As soon as he was born, he had a severe disability and never made a bottle of whiskey.

Even if he had such thoughts in his heart, his body did not allow him to engage in manual work related to winemaking.

What happened 37 years ago is not a secret, but it is too old to be forgotten by the world.

Hieronymis didn't want the Brunschweig family to waste centuries of hard work, and he couldn't find a "successor" who had a talent for brewing and was willing to help him.

In addition to the fact that the distillery was unsustainable, what was more important was that he was not able to make his own Brunschweig whisky, and he did not have anyone he could trust.

can't accept the reality that my brother's family was wiped out.

It can't change the fact that the distillery is closed.

Hieron Nimis was alone, guarding the stalled Brunschweig distillery, and spent eighteen years in a state of confusion.

Until the appearance of a mysterious Asian woman with a great talent for brewing and whose origin no one knows the origin.