Lochlea provides Stout Cask End to
Restricted Editions with Overtone Collaboration
Award-winning farm-to-cask distillery Lochlea in Ayrshire has revealed its first ever single malt whisky matured in stout beer casks: Lochlea Stout Cask End.
The UK-exclusive restricted version launch is a fruits of varied cask experiments with Glasgow-based craft brewery Overtone, famend for its vary of seasonal beers impressed by the tradition of music and totally different musical genres.
Lochlea Stout Cask End began life the identical as Lochlea’s signature whisky – Our Barley – matured in a mix of ex-bourbon, STR and oloroso sherry casks. The spirit was then positioned into casks that had beforehand been loaned to Overtone Brewery to age their stout in a for a couple of months. The casks – initially from Lochlea earlier than going to Overtone – have been delivered again to the distillery, deliciously seasoned with the brewery’s distinctive wealthy stout beer – excellent for ending Lochlea’s floral, fruity Lowland spirit.
The ultimate dram reveals the affect from the stout by a wealthy nostril with hints of all butter shortbread, tropical fruit and macadamia nuts, evolving into candy toffee notes and a scrumptious toasted barley flavour on the palate. The spirit finishes with an extended moreish fruit and cereal flavour.
Non-chill filtered and bottled at 52% ABV, Stout Cask End shall be obtainable in choose retailers throughout the UK this winter, highlighting the revolutionary distillery’s inventive native partnerships with likeminded impartial inventive producers*.
Lochlea’s Commerce Gross sales Supervisor Emma Kirk mentioned: “One of many advantages of Lochlea’s place as an impartial distillery is our potential to be experimental and collaborate with different like-minded manufacturers. Once we found Overtone – considered one of Glasgow’s finest craft breweries – have been on the hunt for whisky casks to mature their first ever double mash stout in, we couldn’t flip the chance down. Lochlea gifted the brewery the cask make up of our core expression, Our Barley. On return, our manufacturing workforce crammed every stout seasoned cask with ‘Our Barley’, for a 12 months. Our distillery workforce have chosen three casks out of the six; the result’s this scrumptious first stout cask end ever to be launched by us that we’re actually happy with.”
The workforce at Overtone mentioned: “It’s been a pleasure to have this ongoing yearly aspect challenge with a neighborhood distillery that’s persistently pushing boundaries and doing unbelievable issues. Our collaboration begins with brewing a wealthy, sturdy stout, filled with roasty goodness, which is then aged of their freshly emptied casks. After about 8 months, the barrels are emptied and refilled with their whisky, creating a captivating mix of flavours. I’m excited to see how this partnership evolves within the years to return, and I’m positive craft fanatics will benefit from the distinctive character it brings. We really worth this relationship and look ahead to what we will obtain collectively.”
Lochlea Stout Cask End shall be obtainable through specialist retailers when it launches on 3rd December, RRP: £59.99.
*Lochlea has beforehand partnered with different native producers, together with Blackthorn Salt in Ayr.
Lochlea Stout Cask End:
52% ABV
Nostril: All butter shortbread, layers of tropical fruit and macadamia nuts
Palate: Candy toffee notes and toasted barley
End: Lengthy, silky with moreish fruit, cereal and candy flavours
About Lochlea Distillery:
Lochlea was initially a 222 acre livestock farm earlier than being bought by Neil and Jen McGeoch in 2006. After a lot consideration of the way forward for the farm and a profitable trial to develop its personal barley in 2015, the couple remodeled the land and current farm buildings right into a fully-operational distillery in 2017 and began distilling the next 12 months. The farming aspect has remained a singular a part of Lochlea, with the transfer into barley manufacturing – paving the way in which for Lochlea to be one of many only a few totally grain-to-cask distilleries in Scotland. It additionally has a wealthy Scottish heritage with sturdy hyperlinks to Robbie Burns, with the bard having labored and lived on the farm a a number of years.
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