Adnams
Adnams
DISTILLERY: Adnams
ABV: 50.5%
AGE: 8 Years
CAT: Single Malt English Whisky
BATCH: #2
RRP: £49.95
A welcome return to Suffolk’s brewery/distillery for our second batch of Adnams single malt whisky.
This release has spent it’s time maturing a second fill French Oak cask, followed by an Islay Cask finish, so while not a smoky malt in itself, the ex-Islay cask brings a smoky dimension to this English malt.
Adnams is a long established brewery with a colourful history of over a century in the making. Their Copper House distillery was opened in 2010 and was the first brewery to be legally distilling spirits in the UK. Their first whisky was bottled in December 2013
Their USP? Local grains, and a self cultivated brewers yeast that's over 80 years old is used for their fermentations.
NOSE
Caramelised malt, with sweet smoke trails. Malted grains with oak and vanilla, spicy, with notes of overripe apples and an underlying charred wood note.
TASTE
Nutty chocolate with hints of coffee. There's rich malt, honey, oak spice and some stewed apple with cinnamon spice.
The Islay cask makes itself known with a smouldering smoke in the finish.
ABOUT THE LABEL
You’ve seen it before, our label plays on the ghost stories surrounding the brewery, with a modern twist through text messages.
We’ve simply added a smoke emoji to the text for this batch.
