Whisky Advocate’s Post

Thankyou Rosemary Gallagher for your excellent piece. Producing a Scottish Rye Whisky as our first brand, RyeLaw, was a clear statement of intent. InchDairnie Distillery is all about flavour, something that I think is often lost when people talk about Scotch Whisky. Now that whisky is produced globally we need to get back to the basics, flavour and provenance. RyeLaw is a Scottish Rye Whisky which does not fit into the current legal definition and for that reason we have to put Grain Whisky on the front of the bottle. This is not very helpful when a Rye Whisky has a different flavour profile to a traditional Grain Whisky. This achieves the exact opposite of why the whisky categories were first developed. They were developed to better inform the consumer, we are now confusing the customer. InchDairnie is a Fife distillery producing a Fife Whisky from Fife cereals. InchDairnie will always be Fife and never just Lowland, another challenge for us.

Have you heard of Auchlossan Whisky? Chances are the answer is no, and the reason is that they have just launched their inaugural release! It's a wonderful dram, launched in collaboration with Lost Loch Spirits Ltd and the Whisky Teuchter. Read my review on this single cask, sherry influenced 10 Year Old from the Miltonduff Distillery. #lostloch #whisky #whiskyreview #auchlossan #singlemalt

Our 7th release is from...(drumroll please)...Westward Whiskey What a cask! Limited to just 396 bottles, it's the perfect summertime whiskey - full of juicy passion fruit notes - and is available here: https://lnkd.in/gtsJYhWQ If you’ve not seen Westward Whiskey before, it’s one to add to your radar. Hailing from the American Northwest, an area rich with barley, Westward in Portland, Oregon, crafts an incredibly fruit-forward style of whiskey, and is at the forefront of the American Single Malt Whiskey movement. We always have a bottle of their Pinot Noir cask on our home bar, so picking our Heart Cut cask alongside Miles Munroe, Master Blender, was an absolute dream. As soon as we tasted this cask we knew it was the one. A quick one on American Single Malt Whiskey. In 2016, Westward helped create the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission to establish, promote, and protect the growing category and its legacy. These guidelines are currently waiting for government ratification - in the hope that they become written into law in the not-too-distant future. It's a very exciting and pivotal moment for the category - turning history on its head, craft distillers are setting the rules, and the bigger whiskey companies are following—not the other way around. ONE TO WATCH! Have you tried Westward before? If so, we'd love to know. Cheers! 🥃 #whisky #whiskey #americansinglemaltwhiskey

These are very cool. Motion detection that turns on the NVG! And an IR signal light.

White Peak Distillery Releases Wire Works Whisky English Oak Award-winning Derbyshire Distillery White Peak is winding the clock back for its final release of the year. Award-winning Derbyshire Distillery White Peak is winding the clock back for its final release of the year. The launch of Wire Works Whisky English Oak marks the first time the Distillery will be launching a limited edition off line, asking whisky-lovers to support bricks-and-mortar and their retail partners on the challenged high street. https://lnkd.in/gfA_G4tY

Could floor-malted barley provide an edge for your beers? It has old-fashioned charm and its share of fans, even if its differences with pneumatic malt are relatively subtle. However, new research is beginning to explore what makes floor-malted barley different. https://lnkd.in/g7KBFAUq

What if your brewery brewed a movie-inspired beer? Show us your most creative beer name and style in the comments! From a The Goldblum Gose to Imperial Galactic Porter, let’s see your imagination flow! 🌊 🍻 #BrewBetter #Beer30 #BrewerySoftware

Read my newest review of Savage & Cooke Distillery! Savage & Cooke

ICYMI: Episode 130 is live! I'm joined by Rich Stabile, owner, founder, and distiller at Long Island Spirits and Field & Sound out on the North Fork. Long Island Spirits is the island's first craft distillery and first distillery (legal, at least!) since Prohibition. Their new core lineup, Field & Sound, pays homage to the local fields and the Long Island Sound that give the whiskey (and rum and brandy!) their unique flavor. Just in time for Bottled-in-Bond month, they're all BIB, too (except the bourbon finished in rum or brandy casks - those are a mouthwatering 120º). Among all the highlights I could write, here's the one that stands out: the effort put into the pre-barrel spirit. Plenty of distilleries - most of them, honestly - will make an ok to good spirit, betting on the magic of the barrel to transform it into something drinkable. Rich and the team take a different approach, relying on the local grain and fields to provide the flavor, with #2 char Kelvin Cooperage barrels maturing but not masking that hard-earned taste. The result is something truly of Long Island, never losing the character of my home region. Listen and subscribe here: https://bit.ly/WRP130