Tag: closed distillery
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An empire lost
Imperial is like a poet whose work did not become appreciated until after their untimely death. In modern times a workhorse malt distillery for blends, it was mothballed in 1985, a difficult decade for the industry. Under new ownership it was running again between 1991-1998 but was then silenced, sold, and eventually scrapped in 2013…
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Trio of old grains: 39, 45, 46yo
Aah, grain whisky. Grain as in not malted barley. Not something I often try. What I somehow know, not so much by experience but through… reading? folklore?… is that grain whisky produced by continuous distillation in column still tends to lack the complexity of malt whisky distilled in copper stills. The presence of grain spirit…
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