Fraser Campbell is the kind of person who will put in the work to help the drinks industry even when he'd rather go home to his dog or play guitar. When COVID hit and the UK government scapegoated hospitality with 10pm curfews, Fraser turned around Work From Bars in 24 hours. When Melbourne bartenders couldn't find staff in 2011, he created the Melbourne Bartender Exchange. It grew into the Global Bartender Exchange in 2012, reaching 150,000 members globally. But what stuck

Picture this: It's 2019, and I'm leading a whisky tour at The Macallan. I've just finished nosing a dram and I'm describing what I'm experiencing to the group. It's vivid, it's specific, it's true to what I'm getting from the whisky. The group stares at me for a beat too long. One person laughs nervously. I second-guess myself, laugh it off, move on. Fast forward to now: I own those descriptions. They're not weird, they're not wrong, they're mine. And more importantly, they'r

*A quick note before we dive in: I haven't been professionally diagnosed with hyperphantasia or synaesthesia. What I'm about to share comes from months of research, connecting the dots between scientific literature and my own experiences, and realising that "oh, so that's why I'm like this." If you're reading this thinking "wait, that sounds like me," you might want to explore it further too. I see colours when I taste spirits, including whisky. Not just colours, actually. En