Corrie resident Ron Stein is a firm believer in the health and vitality benefits of a daily whisky and ginger drink and, to his surprise, he recently discovered that his family played an instrumental role in establishing the commercial whisky industry in Scotland.
The only inkling that he had was about 65 years ago when he, aged 10, overheard a couple of aunts talking after a visit to the Fife/Kinross area when they mentioned their forebears distillery.
It was after receiving an online subscription to a family tree website that Ron started to piece together the amazing history of his ancestors and their involvement in a piece of Scottish whisky and industrial history which has gone largely unnoticed.