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The Scotch industry, like the whole drinks sector, is facing a range of sustainability challenges, from emissions to water use.

Scotland’s distillers are also facing the issue of peat, the use of the ingredient in the majority of whiskies on offer and its impact on the environment. Peated whisky is popular but, as we report in our cover story, manufacturers, facing criticism from campaigners, are looking at how they extract the ingredient and investing in restoration.

Elsewhere, staying on ESG, we pore over the investment made in paper bottles and ask whether that form of packaging can really become mainstream.

In the new issue, we also look at the interest in nootropic drinks, a fledgling sector that has seen the benefit of rising demand for functional drinks.

The team also digs into another emerging category, examining the efforts to sell more non-alc beer on draught

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And, in our latest executive interview, we speak to Suntory Global Spirits about trends in travel retail, a channel in which the spirits giant has been upping its investment.

We also have an entire supplement dedicated to cybersecurity in this issue

We look at cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence, explain the most common types of cyber attack, look at the challenges thrown up by the increasing implementation of smart-manufacturing systems and, in another C-suite interview, speak to Sailaja Kotra-Turner, chief information security officer at Brown-Forman.

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