ALEX MENNIE
Stories about drinks, places and the people who make them interesting.
Writer & editor · Founder of Mennie Drinks
SELECTED WRITING
TEQUILA & MEZCAL · 2023
A League of Their Own
Three generations of women challenging tradition in Oaxaca’s mezcal-producing heartland.
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TEQUILA & MEZCAL · 2023
What Lies Beneath
Can drinkers learn to understand mezcal’s villages, varieties and terroir as they learned to understand wine?
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WHISKY MAGAZINE· 2023
Vanishing Spirits
The artist finding galaxies — and unexpected science — in the residue of a glass of whisky.
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MORE WRITING
STRAMASH · 2026
Sailing to Fèis Ìle
A journey by sea to Islay – and into the temporary world of the Fèis Ìle festival.
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WHISKY MAGAZINE · 2024
Preserving the Fire
What does it mean to blend whiskies older than the people entrusted with preserving them?
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STRAMASH · 2025
Life Before Whisky
Gin, rum, tourism and patience: how new distilleries survive the long wait for their first whisky.
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LUXURIATE LIFE · 2022
A Scottish Staycation
Food, family and a slightly Narnian escape to a historic lodge on the Isle of Skye.
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STRAMASH · 2024
The Cask Hunters
Following Scotland’s cask hunters to discover how whisky distillers find the wine barrels that shape their spirit.
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ABOUT
Alex Mennie is a writer and editor specialising in drinks, travel and hospitality culture.
His work has taken him from Scotland’s whisky islands to the mezcal-producing communities of Oaxaca, covering the people, places and ideas that shape what we drink.
His journalism has appeared in Whisky Magazine, Stramash, Tequila & Mezcal, Luxuriate Life and elsewhere.
He is the founder and editor of Mennie Drinks, an independent print publisher producing chapbooks, zines and magazines about whisky, bars and drinking culture.
MENNIE DRINKS
Stories that deserve a physical life
Founded by Alex, Mennie Drinks is an independent publisher exploring whisky, bars and drinking culture through narrative writing, oral histories and atmospheric fiction.
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