Notes on The Casual Dram:08 - Sunday 10 September - Mean Doses Taproom
Notes on the lineup…
Blackadder English Whisky 10YO 2010 65.1%
Distilled at St George’s Distillery by the English Whisky Company situated in Norfolk. The distillery was created in 2005 and was the first distillery to be built in England in over 100 years.
Bottled by Blackadder independent bottler - founded in 1995. The company is famous for bottling with no filtration, so the whiskies contain dark sooty cask sediment.
Vintage 08.07.2010 - Bottled 2021
10 years old
Cask number - EN21-02
Number of bottles - 227
Peat 60ppm
Laphroaig 10YO Cask Strength Batch #15 - 56.5%
A brief history of Laphroaig - built in 1815 by Alexander and Donald Johnston. Donald took control in 1837 but tragically died in 1847 after falling into a vat of boiling pot ale. Ian Hunter took control in 1927 and left the distillery, upon his death, to his secretary and PA Bessie Williams. Prince Charles awarded the distillery its own Royal Warrant in 1994, and the Friends of Laphroaig was launched the same year (the first initiative of its kind and now copied by many distilleries). The distillery has traded hands many times and is now owned by Suntory.
Batch #015
Bottled 01.12.2021
Stated Age 10YO
Cask type - Ex-Bourbon Barrels
GlenAllachie 'Cask Strength' 10YO Batch #8 57.2%
GlenAllachie was built in 1967 by Scottish & Newcastle Breweries’ distilling subsidiary, Mackinlays.
Its whisky was predominantly used by past owner Chivas Brothers for blending . It is now owned by The GlenAllachie Distillers Company, operated by former BenRiach MD Billy Walker (and others) and is developing a core range of single malts. Fermentation time has been extended to make a fruitier malt style.
Bottled 08/09.10.2022
Cask type - Ex-Pedro Ximénez and ex-oloroso sherry puncheons as well as a small amount of ex-virgin oak and ex-Rioja barrels.
Springbank 10YO PX Cask Matured - 55%
Springbankdistillery runs a complex distillation regime and has three expressions - Springbank (medium peated, partially triple distilled), Longrow (heavily Peated double distilled) and Hazelburn (unpeated - triple distilled).
Springbank’s partial triple-distillation involves a direct fired wash still, which creates the low wines, the strongest portion of which is directed to the spirit still charger. The remainder is redistilled in an intermediate still (which has a worm tub) and put into the feints receiver along with the heads and tails from the spirit still distillation.
Bottling series - Sherry Wood
Vintage - 07.2012
Bottled - 07.10.2022
Casktype - 7 years in refill Bourbon Barrels, 3 years in fresh Spanish oak PX Hogsheads
Number of bottles 10800
