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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.21 23rd December 2016
Hello and festive greetings to everyone! Since being granted our licence earlier in the month we have been mashing, running fermentations and experimental distillations on the column still. However, we have been waiting on the gas installation. This took a little longer than expected, but we are almost ready to fire up the wash still….…
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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.18 26th August 2016
He must have got in at Calais… Hello everyone, our apologies for the delay in this post. I can promise, we have been incredibly busy. Trying to start a distillery when you have a hotel and it’s the busiest time of the year is, well, let’s just say it’s been slightly stressful…. On a more…
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Update No.17 10th August 2016
The professor at work – compounding some of our botanicals… Stairway…. or ladder to heaven Busy is an understatement…. We have not ignoring our blogging duties, we have been extremely busy trying to get the Distillery up to speed as well as keeping the hotel and whisky bar ticking over during a busy July &…
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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…