Make it Grain!

Two new single grain Scotch whiskies from two closed distilleries in Clackmannanshire, both of which start with the letter ‘C’…

We’re talking, of course, about Carsebridge and Cambus!

Our first batch of Carsebridge, a rare and particularly well-regarded grain, is a show-stopping 52 years old! The label, meanwhile, features Tris Stephenson and Tom Aske (the folk behind the excellent Worship Street Whistling Shop) in their new whisky bar Black Rock. The place is all about "demystifying" whisky and removing any "older gentleman" stigma around it. Plus, they have an 18ft European oak tree trunk table, which has whisky and cocktails aging inside of it. Needless to say, there is nothing we don’t absolutely love here. What's more, there's a voucher on the back label for a super-special-secret off-menu cocktail at BlackRock too...

The Carsebridge and Cambus distilleries were built within a decade of one another, either side of 1800. They both had a pretty good run, but the former sadly closed in 1983 and was ultimately demolished in 1992, whilst the latter finally closed its doors in 1993.

The new Cambus is our third batch and is 27 years old. If you look carefully, has a robin and snowman illustration-bombing its label...

Illustration-bombing - that's a thing, right?

These beauties are available from fine retailers now. Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.

Two New Batches of Brilliance

Look at this - we’ve bottled two brand new batches of excellent whisky, all with age statements (because that’s how we roll now). While some people are heading off on their summer holidays to build sand castles, admire regular castles and watch episode after episode of the TV show called Castle, we refuse to rest. Don’t even try to tell us to take a break! Get those shorts and sunglasses away from us!

First up, we have our third batch of Bunnahabhain, and we’ve bottled an absolute belter - a fantastic 33 year old piece of Islay deliciousness. The label shows all the stuff you might see if you happen to be at the distillery at the right time, including caber tossing, rally cars and vintage trucks. Oh, and maybe sharks? Maybe.

We’re also proud to present our third batch of Benrinnes, once again featuring Pete McPeat and Jack Washback from whiskyfun.com, having a very interesting conversation about partial triple distillation. If, like Jack, you’re a bit more concerned with the whisky itself than how it was once distilled, you’ll be pleased to know that this one is a marvellous 18 year old Benrinnes bottled at 52.5% ABV.

That’s your lot for today. Get back to whatever you were doing before you read this blog post, though now with the thought of yummy independently bottled whisky in the back of your mind.

Boutique-y Tasting Set & Two New Releases

Teamwork is an excellent thing. Without teamwork, what would the dynamic duos of the world do with their lives? They’d just be a pair of confused though charming characters wearing un-matching costumes, tripping over each other and bumping their heads together as they try to save the day. No cats would be saved from trees. Banks would get robbed. Solo supervillains would rule the world. Teamwork is important.

With that in mind, you may have seen this little bundle of awesomeness out and about - the Drinks by the Dram That Boutique-y Whisky Company Tasting Set! Those daring chaps picked out five of our most excellent recent bottlings (all with age statements), turned them into 3cl drams and packed ‘em up into their handsome little boxes. The sticker on the box even has bricks on it, and we love our bricks almost as much as Father Jack loves his.

As is often bellowed in newsrooms across the world, “News never sleeps”. As such, there’s even more Boutique-y news to pack into this blog post - we’ve got two new bottlings! Feast your eyes on the first batch of our Islay Blended Malt #1, a 23 year old treat celebrating the feats of peat.

Yes, we put our blending hats on and created a cracking blended malt exclusively with Islay malt whiskies. As you might guess, it’s quite a peaty expression indeed, hence why the label features the timeline of peat. Sort of. It mostly just sits there for years and gets a bit taller before someone comes along, digs it up and burns it. The end. Though that story wasn’t exactly the most thrilling (apart from the “burning it” part), we’re pretty excited about this one.

We’ve also gone and bottled our sixth batch of Invergordon! We got our hands on a massively chocolatey 42 year old single grain from Invergordon for this batch, so if you’ve got a bit of a sweet tooth, this’ll be the one for you. Also, people keep telling us the diagram on the label is wrong, but we reckon that’s just people on the internet being people on the internet.

That’s all for today. As you were. The news is now allowed to sleep, but beware - the news sleeps with one eye open.