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20th December 2018
It’s been a while since we’ve sat down and had a proper look back. Being distillers our mindset is always looking forward to the future, to the next project, to casks maturing. On the malt side we have been experimenting with spent brewers yeast. Spent brewers yeast was commonly used in the 1960’s and…
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1st June 2018
As we’ve continued our experiments in single malt whisky we have begun to narrow down a little towards a house style… maybe less of a consistent style and more like several threads that we are running through our new make. All our spirit has a high density and texture. We reckoned this was coming from…
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28th September 2017
We are still here! Our apologies for the lack of content on the news feed over the past couple of months. We were kindly reminded to put an update on-line by world famous dentist and Ajax fan Mr Van Gils. It has been a crazy couple of months! We have been incredibly busy at Dornoch…
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Update No.22 1st March 2017
We have been busy – Honest! What a crazy few months in Dornoch! We have been pushing on with creating the ‘Experimental’ Batches of Gin. There has been a lot of experimenting, production modifications, cuts, bruises, burns and various achy bits. We would not change it for the world! Progress may seem slow, however as…
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Update No.20 6th December 2016
We are now officially a licensed distillery!! We must thank all of our friends, family and especially our crowdfunders for helping us reach this momentous stage. It has been an incredibly hard journey and we still have a long way to go…. Frosty mash mornings. We are now focusing on bedding in all of the…
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24th October 2016 – We have not run away…
Unfortunately Ripley was busy with the Caterpillar P-5000 on delivery day. Pot still bases are coming together nicely Tomorrow AM I fly back to Scotland from Japan to push on with the distillery and also to help with the Dornoch Whisky Festival this coming weekend….. Tokyo – Dornoch still life Hello everyone! For those of…
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Update No.16 23rd July 2016
An eventful week…. Things have been moving along really well on the Dornoch Distillery front line. This week we have been working hard on various insurance, health & safety and HMRC paperwork. It has been very exciting… On a more positive note, we have received our pot stills & a few other pieces of equipment!…
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Update No.15 14th July 2016
Progress. A busy couple of week. Distillery conversion has been progressing fantastically well and we have started receiving plant equipment….. THE POT STILLS ARRIVE NEXT WEEK!!! This week the builders have laid external concrete pathways, replaced cast iron gutters and finalised the electrical plans. We have also received friends from NYC and Japan who are…
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Update No.14 1st July 2016
Up’s and Downs…. This week has been particularly testing. We were massively let down by a bottle manufacturer, however we can overcome almost anything. These moments were meant to test us and we have (almost) found a good solution! On a more positive note we have overcome various issues and the builders and joiner have…