THE Sunday Sipper – Scotch Whisky News
For something incredibly interesting and the outlier amongst our other Festival Rare Release single malts is the small-batch single grain, Dark ‘n’ Stormy Crème Brûlée, from distillery G16.
“G16 Dark ‘n’ Stormy Crème Brûlée has an interesting back story, with a new distillery code because it will be the 16th grain whisky that we’ve bottled at the Society,” says Euan Campbell, our Head of Whisky Creation. “It’s the result of a custom distillation that we carried out in when we did a special project to distil our own bourbon-style mash bill at distillery 156 back in April 2016.
“We took a bit of trans-Atlantic inspiration for this one, using some different grains and creating a mashbill of 58 per cent corn, 21 per cent malted barley and 21 per cent unmalted rye. It was distilled in a pot still, which is unusual for a grain whisky, and then matured in heavily charred 24-month air seasoned new oak barrels from Kelvin Cooperage in the US, with toasted heads added to the casks to create even more flavour. We bottled this at 6-years old and at 50% abv, as a nod to the “bottled in bond” strength you find in the US. It’s certainly one of a kind, a custom distillation never to be repeated, and utterly delicious.”
DON’T MISS this wonderfully unique bottling, priced at only £55 it is an experience not to be over-looked. Click over to our website now to BUY NOW along with the last few bottlings from our 2023 Festival Rare Release.
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