[8] For this reason Sanderson, together with Usher and Bell, founded a company to produce grain whisky, which still exists today as the North British Distillery.

Sanderson sourced a few malt whiskies used to blend Vat 69 from a friend, John Begg, who owned the Royal Lochnagar distillery.

[10] Enjoyed by General Frank Savage (played by Gregory Peck) in Twelve O'Clock High, a 1949 WWII film about the US Army Air Forces in England in 1943.

Captain Lewis Nixon, an American World War II army officer who is a major figure in the 1992 non-fiction book Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose and the award-winning 2001 HBO miniseries made from it, is portrayed as an enthusiastic drinker who went to great lengths to obtain supplies of Vat 69.

[11] Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, a fictional character created by pulp magazine, radio and TV writer Robert Leslie Bellem, kept a ready supply of Vat 69 in his apartment, and had remarkably good luck finding a bottle at most of the murder scenes he investigated.

In a scene of the 1976 Italian movie Febbre da cavallo, one of the main characters is involved in recording a spot for the Vat 69, despite his inability to remember the proper line.

Actors Frankie Miller (Jake McQuillen) and Ken Hutchison (Dancer Dunnichy) can be seen swigging from a bottle of VAT 69 when the latter turns up at the former's workplace to drag him away for a drink in Peter McDougall's acclaimed BBC Play for Today drama Just A Boys' Game (1979).