Author: thedailywhisky
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Little Brown Dog whisky: the seven-bottle batch, from a 36-year-old to the last-ever Drookit Dug
Little Brown Dog whisky has released a seven-bottle batch, the Aberdeenshire bottler’s biggest single drop yet. It runs from a first-fill Oloroso Aberlour 2014 at cask strength (54.4%, 310 bottles, one per customer) to a 36-year-old teaspooned Balvenie at 47.6%, taking in single casks of Glen Elgin, Strathmill and an undisclosed Orkney malt along the…
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Sagamore High Rye Bourbon: the Baltimore rye specialist releases its first bourbon in the UK
Twelve years building a name on Maryland-style rye. Then you release a bourbon. Sagamore High Rye Bourbon is the first bourbon from Baltimore’s Sagamore Spirit to reach the UK, arriving as a straight whiskey bottled at 43% ABV in a 70cl bottle. It carries a high-rye mash bill of 60% corn, 25% rye and 15%…
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Craigellachie Whisky Hot Sauce Set: a Speyside single malt meets a Scotch bonnet sauce built on its own 13 Year Old
The Craigellachie Whisky Hot Sauce Set is a £30 release from the Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery shop that pairs a 20cl bottle of Craigellachie whisky (46% ABV) with a 150ml limited-edition hot sauce made using Craigellachie 13 Year Old. The Medium-Hot sauce is built on charred pineapple, fermented Scotch bonnet peppers and smoky chipotle, created with…
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How whisky is made: the three ingredients, and what actually happens from barley to bottle
Whisky is made from three things: water, barley and yeast. That is it. The first time we stood inside a working distillery and really understood that, it stopped us in our tracks. Something this layered, this expensive, this slow, and the raw shopping list is shorter than a loaf of bread. What turns those three…
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Amrut Kranthi: Amrut’s 53rd release is a cloudy, non-chill-filtered Indian single malt built for the long game
Amrut has never been shy about the word revolution. For its 53rd release, the Bengaluru distillery put it right on the label. Kranthi, Hindi for revolution, was unveiled on 8 August 2026 at the Four Seasons in Bengaluru by chairperson Surekha Jagdale. It is an unpeated, no-age-statement Indian single malt bottled at 40% ABV, and…
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Crown Royal x Juicy Couture: the purple bag gets a Y2K velour makeover for three flavoured whiskies
Crown Royal has taken the one piece of packaging every whisky drinker recognises, the purple drawstring bag, and handed it to Juicy Couture. The result is the Crown Royal x Juicy Couture collection: velour, rhinestones and three flavour-matched colourways wrapped around Crown Royal Regal Apple, Peach and Blackberry. The important thing to say up front…
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Whisky Week 2026: the festival that hands the city back to its bars
Most whisky festivals bring the whisky to one big room. Whisky Week does the opposite: it turns the whole city into the festival and sends you out to the bars themselves. From 20 August to 13 September 2026, more than 50 venues across Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh become outposts for individual distilleries, a £9 wristband…
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Jameson Distiller’s Batch lands in the US: a five-cask single pot still built on an 1826 recipe
Jameson Distiller’s Batch is coming to the United States. It goes on pre-sale now and rolls out nationwide in September at a suggested $49.99. If you drink whiskey in Ireland, the UK or mainland Europe, you may already know this bottle: it has been on shelves here since late 2025. The news, then, is really…
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RAER Single Malt: Jackton Distillery bottles its first whisky under one of Scotland’s youngest female managing directors
Six years ago, Jaynie Kean helped fill the first casks at her family’s farm distillery in South Lanarkshire. She was 22. Now, at 28 and one of Scotland’s youngest female managing directors, she has put the distillery’s name on a bottle for the first time. That bottle is RAER Single Malt, The Inaugural Release, the…
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Bruichladdich Greener Still: the Still Series returns after almost 20 years, and this time it’s the barley doing the talking
Bruichladdich has brought back the Still Series. That alone is news: the original opaque, colour-coded trio from the mid-2000s has a small cult following, and the distillery left the concept alone for nearly two decades. Greener Still is the fourth chapter, and it flips the whole idea on its head. Where the first three were…
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