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656:"The Dr Jim Swan Award for Services to Scotch Whisky"
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208:Scotch Whisky Research Institute
867:"Dr Jim Swan on Kavalan Whisky"
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200:Inveresk Research International
171:Education and professional life
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317:Dublin Whiskey Distillery,
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967:"Jim Swan, The Whisky Man"
699:"Remembering Dr. Jim Swan"
192:Royal Society of Chemistry
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815:"A Brief History of SWRI"
412:Published academic papers
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260:The Single Malt Whisperer
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220:whisky flavour wheel
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