About Mennie Drinks

Atmospheric literary stories about bars, whisky and drinking culture.

Mennie Drinks is an independent literary publishing imprint focused on whisky, bars and drinking culture.

We publish atmospheric stories about the places people drink, the rituals that surround them and the identities that they perform there,

Part hospitality writing, part cultural observation, and part literary experimentation, Mennie Drinks explores drinking spaces as more than just lifestyle content.

Bar Tab | Creative non-fiction set in real bars.

Bar Tab is interested in bars not as destinations, but as stages on which people and communities perform versions of themselves. It isn’t a city guide. It doesn’t track trends, rank cocktails, or profile ‘startenders’. Instead, each piece blends atmosphere, character, and conversation into a lightly fictionalised snapshot of drinking culture.

Because the real story is who you meet at the bar.

Glenfiction | Whisky tasting notes as short stories.

Stories shaped by the atmosphere, texture and emotional logic of whisky, rather than just traditional tasting note language.

No flavour wheels, no esoteric adjectives, just atmospheric narrative fiction – best enjoyed with a dram in hand.

Our emphasis is on print – physical chapbooks, zines and small-batch publications that have never worried about keeping up with the algorithm.