There's a certain douchebaggery associated with single malt - the swag, the suits, the machismo…. you get the picture. But let's face it, Don Draper was a misogynist, Harvey Specter may have been cool, if only briefly, way back in 2011, and Gordon Gekko never was. But look past this toxic masculinity that seems to have appropriated the single malt and you'll likely agree that it's also a spectacularly nerdy drink. What may seem like a harmless act of reading notes on a bottle could easily lead you down a rabbit hole of web pages about distilleries, casks and age statements.

And even though there's no end to how much you can nerd over single malt, what makes it such an immensely gratifying drink is the stories that come with it. Like that of a bunch of enthusiasts who physically rebuilt a distillery that'd been shut for a few centuries. Or, of how the 12-pointed royal stag on a Dalmore is, in fact, a crest granted by a grateful Scottish king to a chief who saved his life from a charging stag. Stories such as these keep the evening alive at Dram Club, a new single malt club that Vinayak Singh, a Bandra-based financial consultant, hosts.