Never mind the name, is Timah even a whiskey in the first place?


Never mind the controversy over the name, is Timah even a whiskey in the first place? – Photo: MICHAEL CHEANG/The Star

By now you would have heard of the ‘award-winning Malaysian whiskey’ that has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

I’ll not speculate nor comment on the controversy surrounding the name, but I do want to raise a few questions about the spirit itself. The main one being: is Timah even a whiskey?

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