Neil Nicolson
Distiller since 2018.
"When the place was getting built and I was passing here every day to drive 47 miles to work in Portree I was thinking 'that’ll be a great wee place to work'."
NEIL NICOLSON
NEIL'S JOURNEYMAN DRAM
Base Malt : Plumage Archer
Speciality Malt : None
Yeast : Safspirit M-1
Fermentation Time : Standard (70-100 hrs)
Foreshots Run : Standard (33 max)
Spirit Run : Standard (15mins)
Spirit Cut Point : Standard (3hrs30)
Spirit Phenols : Standard (64%)
First Filling : Refill Bourbon
Re-casking : TBC
Base Malt : Plumage Archer
Speciality Malt : None
Yeast : Safspirit M-1
Fermentation Time : Standard (70-100 hrs)
Foreshots Run : Standard (33 max)
Spirit Run : Standard (15mins)
Spirit Cut Point : Standard (3hrs30)
Spirit Phenols : Standard (64%)
First Filling : Refill Bourbon
Re-casking : TBC
It’s an old malt — Plumage Archer — which they used to use back in the early days but phased out for a while. They’ve reintroduced it again, and this batch is going to be unpeated, so I’m keeping things as traditional as possible to let the malt speak for itself. Since it’s a Distiller’s Special, I wanted to go for something a bit different — something that stands apart from what the others are doing. I’m aiming to mature it in a wine barrel, which is quite unusual for a whisky, and I’m curious to see what kind of flavours that brings out.
It’s an old malt — Plumage Archer — which they used to use back in the early days but phased out for a while. They’ve reintroduced it again, and this batch is going to be unpeated, so I’m keeping things as traditional as possible to let the malt speak for itself. Since it’s a Distiller’s Special, I wanted to go for something a bit different — something that stands apart from what the others are doing. I’m aiming to mature it in a wine barrel, which is quite unusual for a whisky, and I’m curious to see what kind of flavours that brings out.
