Smokehead is a word you will come across quite often in the Scottish Malt Whisky world. This is particularly true if your interest includes the Islay malts. Smokehead is used in a number of contexts including: A book – by Doug Johnston. Four friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong? Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts - with a wallet f