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Amrut: The Great Churn (The Global Story of India’s First Single Malt)

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Publisher: Westland Books
Author Sriram Devatha
Language: English
Pages: 232 (Color Illustrations)
Cover: HARDCOVER
9x6 inch
Weight 340 gm
Edition: 2024
ISBN: 9789360458287
HBM122
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One fine day in Ooty, Bangalore-based businessman Neelakanta Rao Jagdale mixed single malt whisky with peated whisky, both crafted in his family-owned distillery. This blend would put Amrut on the world map, succeeding beyond Jagdale's wildest dreams.

He had crafted nectar fit for the gods, a whisky that would captivate connoisseurs worldwide-Amrut Fusion.

About the Book
India is a land of whisky drinkers of the sort made from molasses, yes, but also premium Scotch. For Scotch lovers, anything Indian was anathema, Jagdale, a visionary, dared to dream beyond the molasses-based whiskies that India was known for. His strategy was clear: for Indian whisky to be acceptable to Indians, it would first have to be accepted by the Scots. And thus began the journey of Amrut whisky and its many expressions, the most popular of which remains Amrut Fusion.

Business storyteller Sriram Devatha follows this exhilarating story, from Newcastle bars, where Rakshit Jagdale conducted blind whisky tastings, to UK sales head and chief distiller Ashok Chokalingam's travels across the UK trying to sell Amrut. The book covers a lot of ground-Amrut's branding strategies, alcohol regulation in India, the dynamics of a family business, the economic imperative towards premiumisation and, most importantly, the science and creativity that goes into distilling world-class whisky.

Amrut, the Great Churn: The Global Story of India's First Single Malt is the tale of how a home-grown brand attained international cult status. But it is also more than that: the story of an India that not only consumes global products, but also makes them for the world-a tale of resilience, innovation and the pursuit of excellence.

About the Author
SRIRAM DEVATHA loves telling brand stories across mediums, from an Instagram reel to a 200-page volume of narrative non-fiction. His writing is influenced by his learnings as a senior brand manager at a start-up, teaching entrepreneurs storytelling and even delivering lectures on German grammar and audio engineering. As Consulting Editor at YourStory, he probes the nuances of crafting memorable brands through conversations with founders. In his downtime, Sriram enjoys swimming with his children, teaching them to bubble and even count for their plunges into the pool. He lives in Bangalore.

Preface
was March 2020. COVID-19 had brought the world to a screeching halt, and I was an expectant father. I was forced to stay at home, and my initial routine involved taking walks with my wife and making pomegranate milkshakes to supplement her iron intake. Soon, I added writing to fill up the hours. By the time life went back to normal, I had a book of stories around the experience of the Indian diaspora, from one Gujarati's experience fleeing Uganda to the UK in the 1970s to a Tamil entrepreneur sailing to Malaysia to tap into the boom in tin mining. Apart from the stories, I also experienced what work from home meant. As a senior brand manager at a startup, the rest of my time went in making decks filled with numbers and pithy phrases. At first glance, writing fiction and making decks are as different as curry and custard. Take a closer look, and you will find that there is one thing common to both: good storytelling.

Prologue
Jim Murray leaned back in his armchair and considered the drink before him. The metal canister was reddish-brown, with white embossed letters that spelled 'Amrut Fusion'. The bottle beside it was half-drained each sip of the golden liquid had been sublime. But something did not add up. Murray read the label again. Could the whisky really be Indian?

He brought the tulip glass close to his nostrils again and breathed in deeply. A bouquet of scents tickled his olfactory system, a rich citrusy burst following fruity and spicy aromas. Warming up the glass with his palm, he took another quick whiff. There was another smell lurking in the tail-surely it was phenolic? He dipped his nose again in the Glencairn glass. Is there a hint of peat? Maybe 20-25 parts per million of phenol, he thought to himself. Murray brought it to his nose again, focusing on the tail, confirming the smoky notes.

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