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The irreplaceable stages of whisky making are mashing, fermentation and distillation. No matter how big, small, industrial or traditional the distillery, you will always find these stages taking place. However, they tend to be some of the most overlooked parts of the process. Always feeling very sterile and scientific between distilleries. A lot of whisky […]
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The Batch Strength tour continues, and we’ve now hosted events in 12 out of the 20 countries we will be visiting over the 10 weeks! Stage 2 took us through Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden, let me catch you up on the adventure so far… Peter and I were on the […]
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Farming Update: 2024 Barley Varieties
06.05.2024Things are picking up on Rockside farm at the distillery with spring well underway. We have ploughed all our fields with the aim of sowing 170 acres with the barley being kept exclusively for future releases of our 100% Islay range. Spring is also a very important time of the year for our herd of […]
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Batch Strength Tour Update: The First Leg
02.05.2024Leg one of the tour complete and all smooth sailing so far! The pick-up travelled almost 2000 kilometres from Islay to Switzerland to kick things off. Ken and I started, darting all over Switzerland for a mix of in shop tasting sessions and masterclasses with a whisky food pairing added to the mix over three […]
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