Macaloney’s Washington Peat Project

This might be the most intense way to introduce myself to a new brand of whisky, especially Canadian whisky!

Macaloney’s distillery has been in headlines for all of the right reasons over the past decade or so. From going toe to toe with The Scotch Whisky Association or producing domestic whiskies of numerous styles to the worlds plaudits.

Graeme Macaloney shares both Scottish and Irish heritage. It’s one of the reasons he likes to produce unpeated and peated single malt whiskies in a classic Scottish style, as well triple distilled, pot still whiskies. He and his team can produce anything you want. This ‘Peat Project’ single cask series is quite an interesting selection of peated styles. I can attest to the rest of the series, but this bottling has sourced peat from Washington state, just south of the US-Canadian border. It’s also been matured in an ex-Portuguese red wine barrique to add an additional element of fun.

You’ll have to watch the video to find out my full feelings for this very new style of sourced peat, but it certainly gets people talking. Peated whisky drinkers, we’ve tried and seen it all. So, for this to have some additional pull in the whisky industry is a very interesting point of international sales. Yes, these bottles are single cask release, but they’re remarkably interesting to those of us who enjoy things a little smokier.

Canadian whiskies across the board are in quite good demand across the UK. I wish we had some sort of international deal with Canada to source more of their regular and more interesting stocks, as this would go down a storm on this side of the Atlantic. Naturally, they’re probably well received in Canada and the US, as well as wherever else they’re sold. Let’s get more of this stuff in the UK!

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