While most of Scotland voted against leaving the European Union, whisky makers have quietly been raising a wee dram to a side effect of the Brexit vote – a plunge in the value of the pound.

Reeman-Clark, who is also the founder of the Scottish Craft Distillers Association, said Strathearn began producing whisky three years ago, and its first 100 bottles were auctioned off on Dec. 1 .

The main markets in the first half of this year were the United States (357.4 million pounds), France (193.1 million pounds) and Singapore (99.6 million pounds), with total exports equivalent to 533 million bottles of whisky.

More than 500 million bottles worth around 1.7 billion pounds are exported from Britain every year.

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