If you’re a beer lover, you won’t want to miss the Society’s latest small-batch creation, Spruce on the loose – available now. This 17-year-old blended malt is the result of a collaboration with Perthshire-based brewer Wasted Degrees and its experiment with a stout flavoured with locally sourced spruce tips.

“There is a lot in common between Wasted Degrees and the Society,” says Jack Low from Wasted Degrees. “We mainly release different, limited batches of our ales, very much like the Society would release a single cask whisky or a ‘Heresy’ small-batch release.”

This new offering features whisky matured in barrels used to create a spruce tip-flavoured stout. Expect notes of dark chocolate and old pipe tobacco box lined with crystallised spruce sap and nutmeg-infused orange peel. Pair it with Wasted Degrees Amber Ale and you’ve got the perfect hauf ‘n’ hauf whisky and beer combo.

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