06/30/2025
New Scottish Playmobil Set Teaches Kids Vital Life Skill of Whisky Brewing & Distilling!
Move aside chemistry sets, Scotland’s next generation is about to ferment their future with the all new Playmobil Wee Whisky Distillery Starter Kit!
Aimed at bairns aged five and up, or three, if their uncle’s on babysitting duty and believes in “early career planning”, the Playmobil set comes complete with all the essential plastic components of a real working distillery. Kids can mash malted barley in a tiny mash tun, stir their sugary wort into a plastic washback, then pour it into a copper coloured pot still that lights up and makes faint bubbling noises when you press the “yeast” button. There’s even a little spirit safe for “quality control,” a working mini cooper’s bench for assembling micro barrels, and a shelf of pretend sample bottles and barrels proudly labelled “Baby’s First Batch" all triple distilled and parent supervised. Everything a wee apprentice needs to master the ancient art of dramcraft, just short of an HMRC licence.
“By age seven, I could spell fermentation and explain the difference between a wash and a wort,” said nine year old Angus MacBevvy, honorary child distiller of the year.
Now recognised as part of the new Scottish Early Years Qualification Framework, the set forms the core of the SVQ Level 1 in Wee Drams & Ethical Distillin’. Modules include Intro to Peat: Aromatic Ash or Boggy Nonsense?, The Maths of Malt: Counting to 40% ABV, and Fire Understanding: Kilt Safety Around Open Flames. Scottish parents have praised the set for being “more useful than algebra” and “a gateway toy to career stability.”
Train them young. Distill them right.
