our whisky
Our whiskies are an exploration of how different yeast and barley varieties can be used to build multi-faceted flavours from the get-go. And after they have emerged from cask, well then, let’s just say that flavour is turned up to 11. It is like nothing you have ever tasted before.
All whisky is made using water, yeast and barley, undergoing a distillation process before being matured in a cask, those are the facts.
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Whilst others rely mostly on the cask for flavour, we like to consider it from the very beginning. Most distillers use standard yeast and barley as the base of their spirit, we are working with heritage and specialty malts (more often found in beer making) and we’re intertwining them with interesting yeast varieties from all over the drinks industry – think beer, wine, sake, champagne, you name it – we’ve tried it. And that means that flavour creation is happening way before we get to our casks – which are awesome too – that are sourced from interesting and highly-regarded producers worldwide.
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We are continually discovering more heritage barley varieties that were once part of Edinburgh’s rich brewing heritage and giving them a new purpose:
By introducing speciality malts into the distilling process we impart new and unique flavours to our spirits, with nearly all of them still used in brewing today:
Just like our choice of malts, yeast strains offer another avenue of flavour creation. To date, we have used brewer’s, distiller’s, wine and even sake yeast strains:
New Make is the first stage of making whisky, and comes straight off of the still. It is unaged and so cannot legally be called Scotch Whisky, but it is the spirit that is put into our barrels for maturation, to become Holyrood’s future whisky. Our New Makes offer whisky drinkers the opportunity to experience how flavour is created before any cask influence.